Keep not investing in security, there’s literally no downsides for the business! /s
AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached.
Submitted 9 months ago by Zen@biglemmowski.win to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.thestack.technology/anydesk-hacked/
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FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 months ago
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Any desk, you say?
- Hackers
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Right?
For 2 decades now we’ve been told “use web services instead of in-house, it’ll be more secure since you don’t have security expertise”.
Know what? My home servers have never once been hacked, even when I did dumb shit like expose ports directly to the internet.
Oh, I got a zillion port scans, and people hammering the service login, but never hacked.
Today, with VPS, Reverse Proxy, Wireguard/Tailscale, I feel I can self-host with greater security assurances than any of these idiots.
filister@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s very lame to say. The incentives of hackers to hack you and compromise your system is very very low. You don’t represent any interest to them.
On the other hand commercial services have very high profile hacking targets and the attack vectors are a lot more sophisticated. Plus if you have a company, you need also to allow your employees to be able to work and you need to give them certain privileges to access the data they need. And guess what, not everyone is super careful.
Plus once you start building stuff, you inevitably introduce bugs and dependencies, the bigger the project, the bigger the dependencies and patching all of them becomes harder and more time consuming.
Big corporations like MS, Google, Apple, etc. are having extremely strict and restrictive policies, including a huge cyber security engineers teams, and this is extremely expensive, especially for smaller companies, who are more focused on their product.
So please don’t think that these companies are run by idiots but a single human mistake can lead to this compromise.
cm0002@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh, I got a zillion port scans, and people hammering the service login, but never hacked.
Port scans drop to practically 0 once you start blocking all out of country IPs lmfao, I figure if the day ever comes where I might want to access shit from a foreign country (without a VPN) or whatever I can just whitelist
guyrocket@kbin.social 9 months ago
Anydesk spokeswoman stated "It's all this fucking cat's fault! This is one major son of a bitch cat, folks...don't get too close!"
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It all makes sense now /s
realitista@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Upvoted for the cat
Davel23@kbin.social 9 months ago
Lol, I thought it was the usual Kbin caching glitch, but no, the cat is in the actual article.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 months ago
Security cat is watching you hax...
Guru_Insights99@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Pretty lame reason to upvote a post tbh. Upvote my comment if you agree 👆
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
One of the few times I downvote
funkajunk@lemm.ee 9 months ago
To the bottom with you!