Developing: Major Hacking Operation Taking Place Across Globe. Wikileaks NSA-derived worm leaks used

[BaggerofTea]

Our firm was running around like chickens with their head cut off because of this shyt

 

[ill]

There is nothing wrong with the IC having 0-days, it's part of cyber warfare.

The onus should be on the corporations to run active bug bounty programs and running active red and blue teams internally.

The burden is certainly mostly on the corporations themselves but if the NSA can exploit holes, there's a good chance a foreign intelligence service can as well. Close the exploit and no one can get in, friend or foe.

 

[Pressure]

As somebody who works in IT, the problem is that half the time Microsoft patches break something so we don't like deploying them right away.

If I patch a bunch of computers and it breaks something I get shyt, if I hold off for a while to test the patch and there's a security issue I also get shyt...sometimes you just can't win.

sometimes patches have unforeseen issues, but a good dev/test environment should allow you to see any issue before they hit production. If they cause issues Microsoft will listen and work with you to get patched. Especially for security updates.

Thats what Microsoft wants to happen. It keeps them in business. Once you use their systems your locked into them and you have to keep up with the patches to fix the errors of the previous ones

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

"I'm a libertarian businessman, but the government should do my IT work for me."

 

[levitate]

At least they provided a comprehensive readme/how-to guide for recollecting one's files.

That was very thoughtful of them.

 

[acri1]

Trust me, I understand your pain.

We've had so many internal arguments about patch cycles and how they should be promoted through Dev, QA and Prod.

Consider yourself lucky you have all that.

For me it's basically "Acri1 you're in charge of making sure desktops get patched. We better not get hacked because you didn't apply a patch but you also better make sure patches don't break anything . "


Only testing I can really do is to install patches on VMs and the PCs of other IT staff and hope somebody notices if it breaks something.

 

[newworldafro]

FBI Gives Hollywood Hacking Victims Surprising Advice: "Pay the Ransom"

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[ORDER_66]

fukking NSA...

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

pandora's box.

 

[newarkhiphop]

This is big.

 

[semtex]

So scary

 

[re'up]

You really believed that

It was a long flight, and we got to know each other after, and have kept contact, I do believe her, though I think I understand your suspicion, lol.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Lol, as poorly as it was received, "Blackhat", was a pretty prophetic movie, though I loved it.....

I met a beautiful girl on a plane last year, who was a counter cyber security expert, pretty fascinating, from Khazikstan. She did this for a living, international travel, going up against hackers and their programs.

It was a long flight, and we got to know each other after, and have kept contact, I do believe her, though I think I understand your suspicion, lol.

Hi Michael Flynn

 

[88m3]

The burden is certainly mostly on the corporations themselves but if the NSA can exploit holes, there's a good chance a foreign intelligence service can as well. Close the exploit and no one can get in, friend or foe.

Now those are people I feel bad for and can relate to.

 

[QuintessentialMan]

Could be independent hackers could be rogue US alphabet operatives with access, could be foreign state sponsored hackers . In today's world we have no clue. We just react to what happens and what we're told.