Originally published at: FBI Warns That Casino Hackers Are Now Targeting Airlines - AVweb
‘Scattered Spider’ group reportedly plant ransomware.
Don’t be worry, everybody happy, give us your money.
[snort] The last time corporate computer systems were “secure” was in the 1950’s when a dedicated piece of coax directly connected a computer to a terminal in a locked room. As soon as the dial-up ASR teletype came on the scene, there was really no way to ensure that access was secure (Passwords? Hah.)
I have an old and dear colleague who makes a handsome living teaching SANS security courses to computer professionals around the globe. He says that there is no such thing as a “secure computer system”, just a slew of people like his students doing the Hans Brinker “Boy and Dike” scramble.
You want to stop this? Catch a few of them and sentence them to 25 years without parole. Publicize it. Everywhere.
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