SwordStruck
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Using data size as a metric for comparing two breaches is pointless and pretty unprofessional of THR. Especially since we have no idea what file types were even taken. If it was all 4K video files then there's not much there.
Indeed.Is that so?
Somebody get me those juicy Confederate emails.
This is dumb. The Sony hack brought down hellfire because of all the goofy shit in the emails
This hbo one seems to be just videos and episodes. After this season is over, no one will care
Mmmh thanks. Is it a common loophole in cybersecurity measures or is it that no one can detect when data is being exfiltered to an outside source if it's done relatively " slow " ?
Yes and yes. Once an attacker is on the inside and has sufficiently compromised their victim, there's little you can do against data exfilitration since they have numerous channels to get the data out, and most of these channels probably wouldn't have protections in place to alert on something like this regardless of the rate at which data was exfiltrated. If the attacker were to spread the exfilitration out over the course of days or weeks, or to multiple destinations, it would be almost impossible to detect.
There is always going to be a rate that is sufficiently slow enough to slip under the radar and get lost in the noise. There are ways to protect web applications against this kind of thing however, but that's assuming they don't just circumvent those kinds of protections altogether.
I'm kicking myself for not going the cyber security route when I was younger. Let's concentrate on coding like everyone else, fuck.
Using data size as a metric for comparing two breaches is pointless and pretty unprofessional of THR. Especially since we have no idea what file types were even taken. If it was all 4K video files then there's not much there.
If I subscribe to HBO via my cable company and not using Now, I should be safe, right?
Dammit it is fairly unique, but same email as everything else.I would at leas change your cable company log in to be safe. Is it unique?
How do these things generally happen? An inside job? Or is it like a malware thing that some employee accidentally messes with?
Sorry.Not Sorry..
How the hell do you steal that much data?!
That's like a fourth of my porn folder
How does HBO have that much data to steal in relation to a movie studio?
Already happend months ago.
I shouldn't be surprised.On July 30, hackers going by the name of little.finger66
The spoilers for season 7 of Game of Thrones have been out for a long time so unless they got season 8 scripts that part of it was pointless.
Yes and yes. Once an attacker is on the inside and has sufficiently compromised their victim, there's little you can do against data exfilitration since they have numerous channels to get the data out, and most of these channels probably wouldn't have protections in place to alert on something like this regardless of the rate at which data was exfiltrated. If the attacker were to spread the exfilitration out over the course of days or weeks, or to multiple destinations, it would be almost impossible to detect.
There is always going to be a rate that is sufficiently slow enough to slip under the radar and get lost in the noise. There are ways to protect web applications against this kind of thing however, but that's assuming they don't just circumvent those kinds of protections altogether.
Over months otherwise it would trigger things normally but this doesn't seem normalHow the hell do you steal that much data?!
Yup. And that leak has been dead on so far.The spoilers for season 7 of Game of Thrones have been out for a long time so unless they got season 8 scripts that part of it was pointless.
Wow ... Scary stuff.
So basically if the pirate hadn't disclosed his " accomplishment " HBO might have never known that they had been attacked? Like he could have just kept all the data to himself and never made it public and no one would have known?
Most attacks are known 6 to 8 months or even later by the company being compromised. And most of the time, these companies only know when an external organisation inform them.Wow ... Scary stuff.
So basically if the pirate hadn't disclosed his " accomplishment " HBO might have never known that they had been attacked? Like he could have just kept all the data to himself and never made it public and no one would have known?
I wonder if this came as retaliation to HBO stating they were going to hunt down and punish people who pirate Game of Thrones? The time frames are tight, but the hack happened a couple of days after HBO went to press about how they're gong to "declare war" and aggressively target people they believe have downloaded GoT.
That's par for the course when it comes to cyber attacks. The average time to detecting a cyber incident is over 6 months, and the detection most commonly comes from an outside source; like the FBI calling you because they arrested someone for something unrelated and discovered they were in possession of your stolen data/property.
Most attacks are known 6 to 8 months or even later by the company being compromised. And most of the time, these companies only know when an external organisation inform them.
Basically, not enough budget are allocated to it security when everything is digital now lol.
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Shit too slow.
Valkyr Junkie explained it better but a lot of the time, companies was informed not by the government but by it security vendors hoping to sell their products too.
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Got a Sans SG ad on the page. Lol.
My account information I just signed up for go 😩
Also people keep saying room 104 and ballers got leaked but I checked the usual suspects and haven't seen them. I'm not doubting they're out there but this, so far, isn't the big deal it's been made out to be
Yep, and I don't regret reading the script!