This reads like a radio newscast you’d hear while driving in a GTA game.
Looks like they attacked a vulnerability in the HR system to gain access to social security, addresses, and names of the people who worked in the system.
In the long term, it means the people working there will have to freeze their social for a bit, I don’t think anyone is going to bother with the addresses except to sign up for stuff on amazon, pins and password resets, and a whole security analysis.
That being said the effects of this won’t hit as hard as people think, however I do think it brings up a very important problem in the industry that is now being exploited.
In that HR does not have the proper tools to confirm/deny someone’s identity.
This is the third time this year that we have seen this kind of attack used, it is also the third time it has cost the company dearly.
All the firewalls in the world will not help, if one human with window access is constantly able to break the system.
HR might have to become a human solution again rather then a telephonic one. In order to fix this problem
Social engineering is an attack older than computers and will always be the biggest vulnerability in any organization. Training helps, but there’s always going to be someone that fucks up and clicks the thing they shouldn’t.
We send out fake phishing emails, i.e. they’re not really phishing emails but they are designed to look like them to see which people in our organization click them.
Often we will just copy and paste a real one so they look exactly like the real thing and there’s always some pillock that clicks them and enters their password or something into an obviously fake form. Then when you challenge them on why they were fooled by such an obvious ploy they always say something like “oh I don’t really do computers” as if that’s an excuse.
And it’s always the people you think it’s going to be. The ones that call up to tell you that their computer is running slow and invariably it’s because they have 945 Chrome tabs open.
And it’s always the people you think it’s going to be.
The thing is, in my org it’s not; they get people from every team on the reg. One of the senior admins (OS admins, not office admins) on my team has gotten hit because our infosec team is mean and will send out emails from ‘hr’ when he is sending them too. They’ve almost gotten me a couple of times, and I’m basically the liaison to their team from mine.
My cito was laughing about it the other day because his name gets dragged through the dirt when it’s his 2nd who does shit like send that stuff to new hires an hour after they start day one. Tends to keep people in their toes.
When South Park comes to life…
Makes a lot more sense when you click through one of the links in the article and get to a Know Your Meme page, the first entry of which is an old 4chan screencap.
It feels like a miss to not demand Blunkie, the three eyed fish.
