How a barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike mess in a flash
But what if there was a way around this? At the risk of mixing movie franchises, what if there was someone you could call? (I had gone with the Ghostbusters theme in an early edit, bear with me). A theoretical “Mr. Wolf Inc” who come to the rescue of people who have been hacked in the first few hours/day when the situation is frantic.
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 1
One of the problems with a rescue operation of this magnitude is that the existing systems are untrustworthy. Nobody wants to reactivate malware and allow it to destroy data that has already been restored. So, Maersk wiped all the data on all of their laptops. Next, they proceeded to update the operating system on all workstations.
Mikko Hyppönen • If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable
For the most part, the gangs operate like corporations, with human-resources departments and complex bureaucracies. Prominent groups issue press releases (“We are pleased to announce that we have successfully encrypted Henry Schein’s network and extracted 35 Terabytes of sensitive data”) and have user-friendly homepages on the dark web, where victi... See more