Re:Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
by jeffbee on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:37PM
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I don't want them to be tech professionals. I want them to use the best in class tools they can get, which it turns out are also the easiest to use and often the cheapest. If this surgery practice had just kept their photos on Google Drive with GSuite admin policy enforcing 2FA, they would have been most of the way to gold standard infosec and also would have dramatically better real-world durability and availability. Any consultant could have set them up that way in an hour.
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Re:Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
by novok on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:00PM
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That doesn't protect against the kind of attack that compromises the end point (wait for logged in 2FA state, interact with browser in the background with exact same state in a headless mode and download), and you do not know when they set up their systems where Gsuite, 2FA & HIPPAA / UK Equivalent agreements were even available back then.
For all you know, they could have had that system too, the article does not say what it was.