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[dannyboys]

Cyber attack against U.S. IT provider forces Swedish chain to close 800 stores

USA-CYBER/KASEYA-SWEDEN (PIX):Cyber attack against U.S. IT provider forces Swedish chain to close 800 stores

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How many members here believe there are major global company CEO's and government leaders calling old acquaintances from the old days to talk about some work that needs to be taken care of right away?

These assholes have a reservation with a big old farmhouse vegetable cellar somewhere in the rolling hills of Belarus. They think they are invisible. They are fooling themselves.

 

[candycorn]

Cyber attack against U.S. IT provider forces Swedish chain to close 800 stores

USA-CYBER/KASEYA-SWEDEN (PIX):Cyber attack against U.S. IT provider forces Swedish chain to close 800 stores

news.trust.org

How many members here believe there are major global company CEO's and government leaders calling old acquaintances from the old days to talk about some work that needs to be taken care of right away?

These assholes have a reservation with a big old farmhouse vegetable cellar somewhere in the rolling hills of Belarus. They think they are invisible. They are fooling themselves.

Not sure what any of that means above. Belarus...government and CEO's? Whatever.

That being said....

We've had hackers since like what; the 1980's? Then the Norton/McAfee folks and MIS folks reacted. Hackers got more sophisticated...and they reacted. The see-saw never stopped.

While it's true that more people today are on the Internet than ever--the targets are not people getting onto the 'net and getting into areas that they don't understand--some random dot-com swiping their credit card information--these are attacks on corporate and commercial interests. And not particularly new start-ups that may be doing things on the cheap as a necessity of keeping the lights on...

Why hasn't the see-saw swung back to the favor of anti-virus and MIS folks?

Since it isn't an outlandish conspiracy involving power people in the public eye, the weirdos in the conspiracy forum won't touch it but I think there may be more to meets the eye with these ransomware attacks. The attack on SolarWinds may have given some hackers an entree into corporate America but, again, you'd think that access would have been exploited and patched. These attacks seem new.