Tremble in fear, America, as Daesh-bags scrawl cyber-graffiti on .gov webpages no one visits A crew of useful idiots called Team System Dz defaced US government and business websites over the weekend in the name of medieval terror bastards Daesh (aka the Islamic State). Sites that fell to the gang include .gov webpages in Ohio, such as the pages for governor John Kasich and his wife, and the Ohio Department of …
Was this really an "Islamic terrorist attack"? As stated in the article, all it takes is clueless/skilless Sys Admins (possibly outsourced to India or perhaps not) misconfiguring something they should have properly configured, to make it easy for some script kiddy to do this. Having taken numerous calls from Server Sys Admins claiming hardware failure, when Server Logs proved it was in fact misconfiguration that caused the problem, many of the Sys Admins getting hired (Both domestic and foreign/outsourced) have credentials but actually lack the skills to do the job. When you feel the need to call Server Hardware Support about Configuration or Software issue, then admit you don't know how to configure something and ask for help from Tech Support (WHO DOES NOT WORK FOR YOUR COMPANY AND SHOULD NEVER BE ASKED HOW TO CONFIGURE ANYTHING ON YOUR COMPANY NETWORK), that = CLUELESS...
In my days as a telephone guy, a colleague used to dial a trunk prefix on a line from his local unmanned electromechanical sub-exchange, and then rapidly dial "1" many times. In the sub-exchange, the mechanical trunk dial repeater would get incoming digits faster than it was sending them until its simple mechanical "memory" (A disk with holes and pins) was full. It then brought up an alarm and my colleague would get a call-out on his pager. He would then stop dialling, the repeater would catch up and clear the alarm, he logged the fault as fixed and got a nice bit of overtime pay without leaving the pub.
Yeah, and banks should be designed so the can't be robbed. Period. Ever.
And locks should be designed so the can't be picked. Period. Ever.
And cars should be designed so the can't be stolen. Period. Ever.
And... And...
It sounds lovely, but there is not way to protect everything from a *very* determined idiot.
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