Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Yep, thats corporate monitoring software for you. Everyones got it, if you dont see it, assume its there. If the PC is not yours and or built with your own hands, assume its bugged or key logged. This goes for school PCs as well for the youngins, this is not to make people paranoid, just manage expectations on privacy. If you didnt make it, assume its recorded.

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Sorta like north korea then. Understandable why they got the job… Must have felt like home.

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• Templar238@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Worked at Google and can confirm if you typed your password into a non org website you were flagged and asked to reset your PW. The problem is some of the training websites Google used and were Google branded were apparently non org websites. But it shows they are looking for “certain key strokes”

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My employer does the same over a proxy. Luckily it can't breach HTTPS, but it was annoying to set all my APs and router and switches and other network nodes to HTTPS just because the damn thing would block the site the moment I sent my password in cleartext to a local device...

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    • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      set all my APs and router and switches and other network nodes to HTTPS

      What does that mean? HTTPS is a client-server thing, your APS and switches don’t really have anything to do with that.

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      • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Web control panel. All my network runs OpenWrt and I prefer to manage it from the web UI instead of terminal tinkering.

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      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Setting their management interfaces to be accessed via https because the VPN blocks (after snooping on) http only access would be my guess

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re sure they aren’t decrypting your traffic? Check the root cert of any site and see if it’s their own root.

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      • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Yep, they're not decrypting HTTPS, I've triple checked. But we do have an MDM forced proxy service that does check any non-encrypted traffic...

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Larger companies that monitor for corporate passwords being entered on third-party sites usually use a browser extension that’s force-installed using Chrome Enterprise.

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      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is definitely a thing.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Annoying, but ideally it would have been the initial configuration

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• Leather@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is the real story.

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• Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, more like does and has been, but I guess that’s just semantics. Evil gon be evil.

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• sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It wasn’t the lag from the employee’s computer to Amazon which was being monitored.

  It was the lag from the hacker to the employee. Amazon could not have monitored the hacker’s computer.

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