Impatient LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data it stole from Boeing late last month, after the passenger jet giant apparently refused to pay the ransom demand. The gang dumped the files online early Friday morning. This latest leak includes about 50GB of data in the form of compressed archives and backup files for …
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What is MSM? I know it as Methylsulfonylmethane. Or do you mean Mobile Station Modem from Qualcomm? Master of Science in Music? Meritorious Service Medal? Middle School Math? Must be a USA term, and you assume "the whole world has to know all current USA slang abbreviations, since USA is the whole world". Get out of your bubble and live in another country for a half year, preferably another continent. And when you return you will get your reverse culture shock, like every normal person does, recognizing a lot of not-so-good things.
Well, I had to collect a few downvotes from the western side of the pond again :D - else my statistic gets messed up with too many upvotes.
That's a pretty hefty arse-umption you have there; did my use of multisyllabic words and lack of spelling or grammatical mistakes not give me away as a non-Septic?
"MSM" is known throughout the world (yes, even outside of the anglosphere) as the acronym for "mainstream media;" if the news sources where you live don't refer to this acronym, you're likely getting your news from the wrong sources.
"MSM" is known throughout the world (yes, even outside of the anglosphere) as the acronym for "mainstream media;"
That may well be the case, but the definition of "mainstream media" seems to be one of those Humpty Dumpty phrases that means "whatever I want it to mean, no more and no less", depending on who is speaking and what their own personal agenda may be". In other words, a nonsense phrase.
"Must be a USA term, and you assume 'the whole world has to know all current USA slang abbreviations, since USA is the whole world'"
Woah there, I can assure ye the Ulster Scots Agency are just trying to keep a bit o' auld culture alive. Naught so lofty as becoming the whol' world
Wikileaks showed it had a political agenda. Therefore it is not trustworthy anymore. Support Wikileaks and you indirectly support Trump and Russia (among others).
From Wikipedia
In November 2017, it was revealed that the WikiLeaks Twitter account secretly corresponded with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election.[173][174] The correspondence shows how WikiLeaks actively solicited the co-operation of Trump Jr., a campaign surrogate and advisor in the campaign of his father. WikiLeaks urged the Trump campaign to reject the results of the 2016 presidential election at a time when it looked as if the Trump campaign would lose.[173] WikiLeaks suggested the Trump campaign leak Trump's taxes to them.[173][174][175] WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr. to share a WikiLeaks tweet with the made-up[176] quote "Can't we just drone this guy?" which True Pundit said Hillary Clinton made about Assange.[173][177] WikiLeaks also shared a link to a site that would help people to search through WikiLeaks documents.[173] Trump Jr. shared both. After the election, WikiLeaks also requested that the president-elect push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US. Trump Jr. provided this correspondence to congressional investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election.[173] Assange repeated his offer of being ambassador to the US after the messages became public, publicly tweeting to Donald Trump Jr. that "I could open a hotel style embassy in DC with luxury immunity suites for whistleblowers. The public will get a turbo-charged flow of intel about the latest CIA plots to undermine democracy. DM me".[178][179]
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The American justice system doesn't work like that. They'll bust him for something even if its merely "looking at me in a funny way". What they usually do is overcharge -- they pile on the charges with the penalties mounting up consecutively until the miscreant (victim?) is looking at huge amounts of jail time. This is used as leverage to get the person to plead guilty in a plea deal. Assange will get busted for something -- anything -- because if he's not then a whole bunch of prosecutors need to justify the time and resources spent on this person.
Corporations will pay to hide their own criminality and corruption. They don't care that much about their customers.
Journalists need to trawl through leaked data as with Wikileaks and the Paradise Papers.
It will be interesting if they start releasing government e-mails. A better level of transparency than having to pay millions in public money to fund an inquiry, years later, to discover their incompetence.
Ransoming hospital and school data makes them unpopular. Improving transparency in government would make them hugely popular.
I'm sure there must be some vitally important data in that trove but LockBit's about to discover that the best place to hide a tree is in a forest. Based on my own experience with corporate data most of it is pretty useless -- there's the stuff you have to archive for legal reasons (of course) but beyond that there's endless copies of meaningless emails, out of date or erroneous plans and endless, meaningless, software backups.
If they'd released 5MByte of critical data -- yes, that could be a problem. But this firehose is going to take a lot of time to sort through. So much so I'd guess that it will be obsolete by the time anyone's found anything interesting. (.....and corporate malfeasance? Possible, but unlikely, IMHO. Good luck in finding it.)
These kind of breaches are always quantity over quality. It's not like robbing a house where you can quickly eyeball things to determine what's valuable and what isn't, they're really just gambling that they managed to break into a part of the network containing data sensitive enough that the company wouldn't want to risk it being exposed, most likely something related to financials or suppliers.
The latter would probably be the most valuable to other data thieves since it's not really time-sensitive data and can lead them to other companies who are worth compromising, as I imagine anyone who is or previously was selling parts to Boeing would also be doing business with other big industry names as well.
Few companies have clean hands, or would not be ashamed of something. Many companies try to charge different prices for the same item is different countries. Like car parts, the prices can verge on blackmail levels. I suggest China will have a good look, so it stops overpaying, and concentrates where the margins are fattest. Airbus is free to employ some researchers to do a deep dive. Some lame countries say it is 'illegal to read this leaked info' on the darkweb or whatever. Another way of gagging investigative journalists. These shocking leaks will continue well into the future, until the ICT area is allowed to apply patches ASAP. One week, two weeks is an eternity and a FAIL. ICT is usually outsourced, and on a budget, and not all vendors email the actual person likely to do the change. And most vendors do not get the BOOT for having tokens in memory unprotected. Try paying your vendors X, and less per >8 CVE, and a formula for patches. I tried looking up .gov evaluated products list, and it was not public. This ensures private companies will be caught with their pants down, and with defective risk plans. Combine this with shadow IT purchases, it is great the govt is supporting blackmailers, and making some security people very rich indeed. Yes, embarrassment is need to get the herd fit.
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