4w ago

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company

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Never in the article is the novel idea of "backups" ever mentioned. If you treat your IT as an afterthought, your company will run into trouble eventually.
- The company said its IT complied with industry standards and it had taken out insurance against cyber-attack.
  Backups and the 3-2-1 strategy have been industry standard for decades. What a load of crap.
  
  Plot twist: they operated by the 3-2-1 strategy but never tested if their backups could also be recovered.
  
  Welp, the insurance apparently didn't do much to save them, either.
I wonder what the company's password policy was.
James Babbage, Director General (Threats) at the NCA, says it is the characteristic of a younger generation of hackers, who now are "getting into cybercrime probably through gaming".
Probably the only solution is to ban video games

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