Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked::Other failures along the way included a signing key improperly appearing in a crash dump.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Man, I’d hate to be that guy.

    I wonder if there are repercussions for them? Like, eventually corporate hacking is going to be so sophisticated that even the most tech savvy will be vulnerable.

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      1 year ago

      Successful credential theft can really never be blamed on a single individual unless it can be proved to be malice. It’s always a systemic failure, even in cases where the user didn’t follow a process because of X. The issue was the X in the process and another user would have done the same thing eventually.

      And in this case we’re talking about technologically savvy person, an engineer (systems or software idk)

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        1 year ago

        Well… we can’t always assume the engineers are technologically savvy, I’ve met some pretty bad ones.

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      1 year ago

      Why would corporate hacking get sophisticated when the most efficient way to get access is still a simple phishing email?

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ideally your company follows the swiss cheese model of incidents. It’s not the people, but the processes in place that brought us there.

      The only company I worked where that model didn’t follow was run by a moron who micromanaged, blamed people and was a Big fucking baby. That company went bankrupt after 3 years.

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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      1 year ago

      Probably only if he was found to be grossly negligent. Otherwise, it’s really more of a methodology/procedural failing on the company’s part