Looks like some of Borat’s friends got into hacking and now occupy an entire country somewhere in eastern europe - Hackistan. Software security maker Fortify came up with this and they are going to show what Hackistan is all about at next weeks RSA conference in San Francisco.
A 64 year old disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb, got caught and will spend the next 8 years in the slammer. That’s exactly the kind of attack that’s really tough to defend against. It’s a perfect example of how disgruntled employees can very easily cause major damage. In this case the guy wasn’t smart enough to cover his tracks but yet he still caused disruption to the company’s service.
How could this happen? Without knowing more about the case, I bet that he was most likely “root” on all the servers he compromised. Things like system based Role Based Access Control (RBAC) have been around for a long time but yet in most IT shops everybody is still running around with the root password. The results are story’s like the one below.
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