That's why people working in tech demand big money.
It's very clear many of these companies don't take security seriously (proof all through the reddit thread). You got think the amount of software people write and all the experimenting they do while trying to fix/implement something - they're finding and fixing a lot of the most subtle bugs along the way. They definitely know how to break shyt.
It's also why you shouldn't piss people off with massive layoffs: people know the system so well that thousands of other people don't understand. I myself have left shyt in thinking someone else will fix it because it's simple, left the team (different team, same company) only to find out the problem still isn't fixed years later when somebody from team I used to be on talked about it casually one day.
Like they say: don't fukk with people who handle your food, car, mail, etc. Well I wouldn't want to fukk with people who are critical to how a company operates either.
Only cell phone companies were hit/experiencing problems today, but so many companies are at risk for a catastrophic event other people will feel that they keep playing with fire with.
Working in security - nothing, anywhere is very well secured. At best companies have processes in place to triage and respond to the incidents that can cause the most fallout, at worst companies have security protocols in place that check boxes during audits but don't actually do anything in practice.
Anonymous data isn't always anonymous
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Most companies really don't know what they're doing, especially in terms of privacy/security
Being in FinTech for a while it's amazing how little engineers tend to know about proper ways to store sensitive data.
Not even security, but just straight up collecting a large amount of risk and brittle software:
There's currently one senior dev who understands the system for 15,000 doctors in Canada. There's lots of people to install and support it, but understanding the 1.5 million line code base... it's down to one - Yay corporate mergers!
AWS is held together with duct tape and glue. Literally no time spent on refactor/cleanup because we are overworked and there's always a new feature or bug to get to.
Not to mention even ordinary people above the engineering level can't do shyt and are inompetent:
The American economy basically runs off excel and inadequate tools because everyone labels themselves as “not tech savvy”. Literally just go to this website and there is a couple of buttons for you to click, you can handle it.
Way too many exploitable weaknesses and attack surface areas surrounding millions of companies around the world.
There were estimated to be approximately 333.34 million companies worldwide in 2021, slightly more than in 2019 and 2020 when there were around 328 million companies.
haven't heard anything
If this leads to the hacker I told my wife about ridding folks of Student Loans......
