So long, and thanks for all the fish
Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users straight to smut site
Miscreants have hijacked the systems of Angling Direct, diverting traffic from its websites to Pornhub and threatening to wipe its internal data. The London Stock Exchange listed retailer of fishing tackle products and equipment said it is "currently managing a cyber security incident after detecting unauthorised activity on …
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Monday 8th November 2021 19:56 GMT Throatwarbler Mangrove
Their fault
Since I see all the bad puns have already been spoken for, I will jump in and say that this is clearly the fault of the company. If a medium-sized fishing supply company does not have expert information security staff, the company deserves to go out of business, and the board and employees, from the chairman down to the lowliest shop clerk, should be driven naked through the streets to public ridicule, then they should all be banned from ever using any sort of electronic device as a lesson to them and to others that failure is never tolerated. That'll learn 'em!
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Tuesday 9th November 2021 11:55 GMT Cuddles
Re: Their fault
"Since I see all the bad puns have already been spoken for, I will jump in and say that this is clearly the fault of the company. If a medium-sized fishing supply company does not have expert information security staff"
While I sense some sarcasm in this post, this is actually entirely correct. This isn't some little corner shop with only a couple of employees, it's a decent size chain with over 40 physical stores in multiple countries, millions of customers, tens of millions in revenue, millions in profit, and listing on a major stock exchange. So yes, they absolutely should have expert IT security staff. If you want to run an online shop serving millions of people, that's just part of the cost of doing business. Obviously punishing lowly shop staff wouldn't be appropriate, but chair and board? Absolutely. It's their responsibility to run things properly, and they clearly have not done so. You can make some allowances for why something like a local church group run by a couple of octogenarians might not have the greatest IT security, but Angling Direct is well past the size where those kinds of excuses hold water.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
