News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack. Parent comment

Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by jordwest on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:09PM (#14325200)
It's so easy to throw up a veil of security while doing absolutely nothing at all.

Just today I was helping somebody retrieve an export of older transactions from PayPal, and they were forced to go through a series of steps to sign up for "secure" access to a special account in order to download a "secure" zip file that PayPal had uploaded containing the transactions.

The password on the zip file? PayPal123.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by wordupmaking on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:32PM (#14325414)
Which doesn't just mean that file had a crap password; I'd be willing to bet it means a whole bucket or type of files has the same password. So at least there's that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by sorokod on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:57PM (#14327881)
Doesn't​ sound that this password is frequently changed
[ Parent | on HN ]