Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chinese Spying

Re:Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chine... by 3pt14159 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:59PM (#17973263)

I've normally heard it that they pay current insiders rather than try to get outsiders to join. Though I'd appreciate links to well documented cases to the contrary.

Also, really, none of this matters for 99.99% of the companies out there. The weak point is far from hiring practices. The weak point is almost always cybersec or social engineering.

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Re:Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chine... by kryogen1c on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:07PM (#17973332)

Not an hour ago, I talked to a client who thought an employees email was hacked because they got this email:

From: employee name ([email protected]) Subject: direct deposit

Boss, I have a new account, please change my direct deposit info.

Yours, Employee name

They changed the direct deposit info. Need a wetware version update.

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Re:Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chine... by buckminster on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:19PM (#17975123)

I'm being thick. If they thought it was a hack why did they change the deposit info?

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Re:Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chine... by phyller on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:29PM (#17975178)

Also, I'm really into cryptocurrencies now. Please pay me in bitcoin.

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