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Re:FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack by DiffEq on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:22PM (#25354966)
...and a binary at all should not be able to be downloaded from the internet or pass through and email server. Additionally the only binary files running on any system should be known binaries. Least Privileged systems with tight change control don’t get hacked.
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Re:FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack by alasdair_ on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:38PM (#25355419)
> Least Privileged systems with tight change control don’t get hacked.

As often.

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Re:FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack by AlotOfReading on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:57AM (#25355777)
Senior leadership would take an incredibly dim view when this inevitably shuts down accounting and purchasing after they can't use their PDFs and other executable-code documents anymore.
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Re:FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack by DiffEq on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:39AM (#25357592)
I was the CISO for a major bank for 16 years...year two of my tenure we completed the Least Privilege model and ran without a hitch...to this day.
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