About a year ago, the U.S. security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals.
  • NineEnglish
    35•1 year ago

    I think as more gen z enters the workforce we’re going to start seeing more breaches because they’re not going to give a shit when they see someone in the csuite making 1000x what an average person makes. Especially when they can barely afford to eat and need 5 roommates.

    If these places want to stop that from happening the best way is to pay your staff EXTREMELY well and setup things like pensions and profit sharing.

    • @[email protected]English
      -5•1 year ago

      I guess you didn’t read the article or think about what you’re saying?

      They aren’t phishing low tier workers. They’re getting executives and people high up in companies to the data they’re after. They aren’t getting in by using an hourly employees info.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 year ago

        It’s the low tier employees that usually monitor for breaches and anomalies and they just won’t give a shit.

        • @[email protected]English
          6•1 year ago

          And “tech debt” (which I’m sure said execs would lump refactoring infrastructural security under) isn’t a new feature that generates money, so it’ll get consistently deprioritized.

          Source: am software+devops engineer

          • @thesmokingmanEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            Cyber gets paid but help desk folks, ops managers, general help staff, and the little people with too much least privilege who actually get shit done usually aren’t.

            Source: am executive with compliance history

              • @thesmokingmanEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                The article explicitly talks about social engineering. If you’ve solved social engineering for the positions I listed, you have effectively ended the need for most security solutions. Yes, we can mitigate its effects, but no, watching doesn’t prevent it which was the context of this thread.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    Are we going to pretend like hackers didn’t do this in the 80s as well? Literal teenagers? How many stories just didn’t get exposed because it was hush hush?

    • P03 LockeEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      No shit. I thought everybody saw the totally-accurate documentary Hackers.