Does anyone notice the sudden spike in major cyber crime against big companies occuring? I've just had the 3rd email in immediate memory from a company admitting that they were just hacked.
Is this suddenly being reported, or has there been some sudden influx of hacking? What are your thoughts?
Same with scams. Less taboo now being scammed, now it is just how long and how much they got off you.
More reporting, and probably more internal awareness when systems have been compromised too.
Companies likely also see the consequences and PR backlash being less significant after half the Australian adult population have been affected by a single event in recent memory.
Always been reported, the stories are just being promoted more on news websites and you're taking more notice of them.
It's a bit of both, but the sudden influx of emails is definitely to do with reporting. Now is not the time to hide a cyber breach and get sprung later not reporting it.
it's because of the war
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Look, we already lost the Great Emu War years ago, no need to rub it in
Wars*
There's no supply chain shortage with other peoples data.
But it's just because of Optus that data breaches are the focus du jour.
Next month it'll be gypsy roof/driveway repairers.
Just another World Economic Forum fear campaign where their stakeholders can use the opportunity it presents for more power / control:
https://www.weforum.org/videos/a-cyber-attack-with-covid-lik…
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072029936/cyber-risks-add-to…
WEF: Oh, look at all these data breaches, it wouldn't happen if we had a WEF one world ID and social credit system
Worried Global Citizen: <voice shaking> oh, ok, please enroll me in this safe cyber program please elite sirs
The Optus "hack" was 99% facilitated by the incompetence of Optus' developers - an API endpoint requiring no authentication. Imagine a security guard who gave out one customer's details every time you talked to them, without asking for your ID, why you were doing this or why you've done this 10,000 times now and you'll get the idea of how dumb this was.
Now that all the hackers and script kiddies have found out such a glaring oversight existed (for who knows how long) on one of Australia's biggest telcos, its natural that they'd want to poke at other big companies too to see if similarly stupid security holes exist. Happens every time with any big vulnerability that gets public attention (PrintNightmare, Log4J, etc).
When it rains, it pours!
Where is the poll?
I’m gonna guess more frequent.
Seems to be way more today than in the 1970’s
Probably this. More and more being reported and owning up to the issue rather than trying to hide it.
And in most cases, its probably not as bad as the Optus hack, so owning up isn't a huge issue.