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And Equifax linking to a fake phishing site by mistake, was that also "state sponsored"? Give me a break... The Equifax hack has the hallmarks of Equifax's com
by gtrubetskoy 9y ago
And Equifax linking to a fake phishing site by mistake, was that also "state sponsored"? Give me a break...
The Equifax hack has the hallmarks of Equifax's complete incompetence when it comes to security, and that is all.
- rdtsc 9y ago> And Equifax linking to a fake phishing site by mistake, was that also "state sponsored"? Give me a break... They did say "...sophisticated team of hackers..." so who knows, right.
- mythrwy 9y agoJust because Equifax is incompetent doesn't exclude the possibility of state sponsored action though.
- lagadu 9y agoIndeed but it does exclude accepting that as an excurse/justification.
- mythrwy 9y agoAgreed. It's no excuse. The fact that they were a somewhat critical component of the Western financial system and didn't recognize their vulnerability to nation state attacks (if that's what this was) makes the behavior even worse. Hopefully someone is taking stock of weak points to the system global system and making some sort of corrective plans but I sort of doubt it. Which is alarming. We all like to think adults somewhere are in control but it looks like maybe not.
- 24gttghh 9y agoMy version of Hanlon's Razor: Be cautious when declaring an event as being born from malice, when the event is adequately explained by incompetence.
- foxyv 9y agoMy version is: Never attribute to malice what could be attributed to profit motive.
- mrguyorama 9y agoProfit at the expense of anything else IS malice
- QAPereo 9y agoAt some point, does systemic incompetence become indistinguishable from malice to the victim?