HEISENBERG to [email protected]English • 10 months agoRansomware infection wipes all CloudNordic serverswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down11
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•10 months agoI’m not a cybersecurity expert. Did they make a foolish decision that would warrant a lack of trust, or were they just unlucky?
minus-squareHEISENBERGOPlinkfedilinkEnglish31•edit-210 months agoThey were moving the servers to another location and connected them all seemingly without any kind of firewall between them. Some servers were infected with malware which then spread out and infected the other ones, including the backup-servers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•10 months agoYeah I read that but I don’t have the knowledge to say “what a rookie mistake” or “in hindsight that was a bad idea”. I take it, it’s the former?
minus-squareKerrigorlinkfedilink28•10 months agoNo, it’s firmly into “utter incompetence” and “Jesus Christ these people are ignoring basic practices”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•10 months agoIn order for a ransomware attack to do this level of damage there are several layers of problems They were not properly prepared to prevent the ransomware attack They lacked either the experience or expertise to mitigate it and contain it once the attack started They don’t have an existing backup of any of the data lost
I’m not a cybersecurity expert. Did they make a foolish decision that would warrant a lack of trust, or were they just unlucky?
They were moving the servers to another location and connected them all seemingly without any kind of firewall between them. Some servers were infected with malware which then spread out and infected the other ones, including the backup-servers.
Yeah I read that but I don’t have the knowledge to say “what a rookie mistake” or “in hindsight that was a bad idea”. I take it, it’s the former?
No, it’s firmly into “utter incompetence” and “Jesus Christ these people are ignoring basic practices”
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In order for a ransomware attack to do this level of damage there are several layers of problems