• eddanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Did the hackers lower in by cable from the ceiling vent into a vault, hovering above a sensor-covered floor without setting off the alarms?

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    A “friend” of mine got 200,000 NASA employees data including SSNs, pay accounts, etc. from an entirely unguarded Telnet door in 2002.

    You’d be surprised how many doors there are the larger a building gets that never bothers to upgrade security until an incident happens.

    Pretty sure it was very much a “We forgot we even had that door still” situation.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      NASA has no where that number of employees. How many years of data are we talking about?

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 days

        Dunno. Was just a big open text dataset. All with hire dates. It’s possible it was archival which explains the telnetting being so easy, but every col was filled with plenty of young DOBs.

        In my friends defence, this was performed by receiving the instructions from their US friend in their IRC “hacker clan” who discovered the hack. My friend doubted it but then got in and very quickly left. Despite being performed at their university’s lab on their network, the friend still got a visit from federal officers from their country who said, quote, “You’re not in trouble, but the path you’re on leads to a bad life.”

        Friend now works in cyberfraud. Whatever whitehatting for a living is called these days… The same simple slip ups, routes, and tricks leading to breaching have not changed, just the protocols in which they’re done with.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 days

    It‘s okay the hackers can just say AI did it somehow and no charges will be pressed. Source: The entire AI bubble right now.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 days

    lol yikes, that’s like… really egregiously bad.

    If only we had a functioning and competent government agency devoted almost entirely to InfoSec that isn’t staffed by imbecilic political hacks…

  • Malica@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 days

    This is what happens when you gut every cybercrime watchdog.

  • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
    11 days

    So we were all worried about securing the border but uh maybe we should be doing more to secure “the most powerful military in the world”?

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10 days

    They just need to make a few more cuts to funding and budgets. That’ll fix it. … /s