PPS hit by hackers

[Jamie McKane]

PPS hit by hackers

PPS, a South African insurance and investment advisory company, has suffered a cyber attack at the hands of unknown hackers.

The company notified clients in a statement today that their services may be disrupted as it attempts to restore functionality to its IT infrastructure.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Ouch

 

[borro]

Advice for your hacking needs.

 

[newklear]

PPS was using Cisco Systems catalogs, hope that is not what they mean.

 

[Cage Rattler]

Since Tuesday.

 

[HavocXphere]

MS exchange?

 

[Peon]

MS exchange?

I suspect this.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

came for the cement

 

[|tera|]

came for the cement

That's PPC though

 

[Herr der Verboten]

That's PPC though

You are too smart for this place

 

[|tera|]

You are too smart for this place

Sarcasm won't rescue you now

 

[ActivateD]

I suspect this.

So many SA corps still haven't updated their exchanges.

 

[Peon]

So many SA corps still haven't updated their exchanges.

It is scary because personally I feel they don't understand the magnitude of damage their stupidity will cause.

Its all tears and sadness after the fact.

 

[r00igev@@r]

What firewall were they using? Obviously its broken.

 

[ActivateD]

What firewall were they using? Obviously its broken.

Firewalls wont work if for example you expose SMB port 445 to the internet and it is vulnerable to MS17-087 or MS08-067.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Firewalls wont work if for example you expose SMB port 445 to the internet and it is vulnerable to MS17-087 or MS08-067.

Most people have firewalls as their security and nothing else. They are sold on the false premise that it protects them.

 

[Peon]

Firewalls wont work if for example you expose SMB port 445 to the internet and it is vulnerable to MS17-087 or MS08-067.

This is where I normally lose my sh|t.

 

[ActivateD]

It is scary because personally I feel they don't understand the magnitude of damage their stupidity will cause.

Its all tears and sadness after the fact.

One thing that I have noticed in IT and specifically IT security is that they downplay cyber risks because we are in "South Africa no one will target us we are small".

Another thing which is unfortunate is that IT security is seen as a "cost to company" and doesn't generate wealth for the business therefore sometimes they cut budgets and only increase budgets again when they get popped.

 

[Peon]

One thing that I have noticed in IT and specifically IT security is that they downplay cyber risks because we are in "South Africa no one will target us we are small".

Another thing which is unfortunate is that IT security is seen as a "cost to company" and doesn't generate wealth for the business therefore sometimes they cut budgets and only increase budgets again when they get popped.

Its kuk, its always after the fact. I feel they increase budgets ONLY because they need to save face that they doing something about it.

 

[r00igev@@r]

This is where I normally lose my sh|t.

Some warm body get behind the firewall GUI and decides to to this (and gets paid for it)!