All cryptomalware authors need to be repatriated to Mos Eisley permanently.
The Guardian ransomware attack hits week two as staff told to work from home
Long-standing British newspaper The Guardian has told staff to continue working from home and notified the UK's data privacy watchdog about the security breach following a suspected ransomware attack before Christmas. The publication broke the news about the "serious IT incident" on its systems on December 21, and said the …
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Thursday 5th January 2023 16:06 GMT JimboSmith
It was probably the Russians in retaliation for outing Sergei Roldugin the Cellist who holds and looks after Putin’s embezzled money for him. Or the two largest Five Eyes countries for the Snowden leaks etc. They do seem to have made quite a few enemies with their fearless and often misspelled investigative reporting.
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Thursday 5th January 2023 10:10 GMT tip pc
Anyone notice?
So the guardian are enduring a cyberattack but on the outside it’s business as usual.
For a tech rag we should be seeing detail on how they’ve done that.
I assume they are cloud heavy, but what about all that confidential whistleblowing documentation they hopefully have securely stored?
Is that data safe?
Are whistle blowers past and future safe against hackers or nation states who want to reveal their identities?
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Thursday 5th January 2023 12:01 GMT andy gibson
Glad its not affected output as I rely on them for quality articles like this
'Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist?"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity
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Thursday 5th January 2023 13:11 GMT captain veg
So you had to go back two and a half years and into the obscure "art and design" section for a piece by a non-staff non-journalist to find something to fit your prejudices? Pretty desperate.
By the standards of these things the Graun is one of the better general news sources, but far from perfect. See this for a recent example of stick-extremity confusion: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/09/twitter-mastodon-parler-elon-musk
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Thursday 5th January 2023 12:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
What was the attack vector?
I am going to assume email phishing because that seems to be the most popular. Most email clients fail at showing the from address and instead just show display name, this has always bothered me.
Masquerading as an existing employee is relatively simple, because people just see the display name.
The “this email is external source” pre header warning some companies might deploy isn’t something that happens automatically, someone has to set that up.
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Sunday 8th January 2023 18:00 GMT Twanky
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
OK. Who's job was it to guard the Guardian?
Yes, yes, rather more than fashionably late to the party.
"We have been able to keep publishing our journalism digitally and in print, but a number of key IT systems have been affected."
So the finance (sub-)system is down? What else should a newspaper* need?
*showing my age here.