It may not be a smart move to tell how that guy was caught, it may help others to avoid to make the same mistake.
Anyway, I fear the vacancy will (if not already) be filled by another thug.
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aircraft started off as "toys" for the super-rich, who then put lots of money into their development.
Not true.
Aviation started with enthusiast engineers who wanted to fly. The industrial success of the first aircraft companies was because of the military use and was propelled by WW1.
Estimations say that automatic systems can avoid 1/3 of the incidents. Avoiding the other ones is users' job. They are the first line of defence.
Even if they think they have other things to do than mastering their IT tools, they are wrong. It's now part of everybody's job as long as you have to deal with a computer. If you disagree, then don't approach those boxes, they can be nefarious.
If the personnel hasn't the time to think about cybersecurity and basic precautions, then these attacks will succeed again and again. It learned to use medical devices to avoid accidents, it has to do the same with computers if those are now part of the medical chain.
It seems that email phishing is the main reason for successful ransomware attacks, doesn't it?
There are many technical answers at different levels (firewall, mail server, client) to mitigate, but the most efficient one is users education. And by education I mean repeat the information again and again.
I've got the totally opposite experience with Teams and Webex.
Teams also use a lot of bandwidth, a problem not present with Webex.
When we do a meeting/conference with 50+ people, there's never a problem with Webex. With Teams it's often a hassle.
I also hate in Teams the inability to delete messages, you can just 'mask' them. It gives the feeling to be constantly tracked and under surveillance.
I've got a new anthem for you Mr Dabbs ^^
We've got the world-beating coders, the world-beating scientists, the ground-breaking innovators. And at the same time, we've also got GCHQ, the NCSC, the National Cyber force, the capacity to defend our liberties at home, and to protect the world's online freedoms from those who would poison the well. And that's our mission as global Britain to flourish as a tech superpower and to serve as an even stronger force for good in the world.
And don't forget world-beating modesty!
alongside French-built Mirage 2000s in the late 1980s.
India also bought 36 Rafales in 2019. Its Air Force has an impressive mix of aircrafts in term of origins. There's clearly a political choice to have an equilibrium and not choosing a side against the other.
“In the wake of the disruption, it is necessary to thoroughly examine whether cybersecurity preparations and countermeasures for our energy-related infrastructure are properly in place,”
I'm guessing the answer: No.
You get what you pay for, and if like (quite) anywhere money was the first criteria when building and maintaining the system, cybersecurity was sacrificed.
That's insensitive, but efficient. But insensitive. A good manager has to take into account he/she's dealing with human beings, and has to take care of their feelings.
If that company had a little clever management, it would have given the bonus afterwards to everybody, explaining the people that registering to get one is not a standard policy, and educating on phishing. Giving a extra-bonus for the ones who didn't fell in the trap could be a good idea, but i guess the ones who missed the test would have protested anyway.
In 2020, Amazon invested over $700m and employed more than 10,000 people to protect our store from fraud and abuse
So I guess the ones I contacted were the lazy ones.
I ordered a screen guard for a smartphone. When I received it, its dimensions were inaccurate, several millimetres short in length and width. I posted then a negative comment. A couple of weeks later, I received a mail from the vendor asking me to remove my comment, giving money in exchange. the vendor contacted me three times, despite my constant rebukes. I don't like bribery, so I contacted Amazon, asking them if it was a standard policy to allow vendors to try to corrupt people to get positive feedbacks. I contacted the support twice, and contacting the support is not an easy task. The only answers I got were automated ones who were totally irrelevant. Nowadays, the crappy screen guard is still on sale on Amazon.
Airgap
Agreed, but making myself the devil's advocate, how do you update your systems with an airgap? Upload new configuration files? Backup when you have no backup infrastructure?
For a real airgap, you require a lot of hardware for two environments, development and production. I see many companies whose beancounters don't like to invest in the IT part we can kick.
Everything can be labelled politics as soon as two people interact. If your concept of being an employee is being a mindless robot executing his/her task without any social interaction, I'll be happy never to work for you.
Being open-minded is a strength, especially in IT. And happy people are more productive at work
Some are worst than others.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
China's government killed and continues to kill a whole part of its own population: the Great Leap Forward (between 23 to 55 millions deaths), the Cultural Revolution (20 millions deaths), persecution of uygurs....
There's no Laogai in western democracies.