Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows

Re:Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows by graylights on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:56PM (#7932996)

So the governments are responsible for every bug now? I'm not so quick to absolve guilt from shitty development. There are many developers that take a lot of shortcuts, with hardcoded passwords and the like.

If we were talking a handful of bugs, your argument would make sense. But we're talking about tens of thousands.

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Re:Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows by at-fates-hands on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:09PM (#7933073)

>>> There are many developers that take a lot of shortcuts, with hardcoded passwords and the like.

This.

Last year worked at a huge, multinational,privately held company. After being at my job less than two days, I found out they store all of their server passwords in plaintext, on the server, together, in one file.

It took me about an hour to compose myself. It was like having a dream where you come to work and you suddenly realize you left your pants at home.

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