Re:250M Microsoft customer service and support records expos...
by keithnz on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:57PM
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same with NZ, which has pretty strict codes as we are sitting at the junction of 3 tectonic plates. Regulation including inspection is great, and generally works great, but until you get an earthquake, you really don't know if all the checks and ticking of boxes actually did its job. Microsoft and others likely catch multiple problems through checks, but occassionally a perfect storm happens and things break down. You then adjust your "regulations" to cover any short comings (hopefully). The entire planet you are missing through the forest is that all buildings aren't constantly "penetration" tested to find where they have problems. A quick search shows that USA suffers from many live deployed buildings that have been shown that they don't meet compliance. By Engineers that should've known better....
the forest I might be missing through the trees is that maybe there is an industry agreed upon standard within the Tech industry. My understanding is almost all of these breaches happen because comically silly mistakes (pw = password), not super high sophisticated attacks.