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Hackers Target French Government Computers For G20
An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "IT staff spent the weekend in a massive cleaning effort to remove traces of a 'spectacular' attack on computers at Bercy, the head office of the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, a government minister said Monday."
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I think I see the problem. Too many ministers, not enough IT people.
This begs the question of why these systems were connected to the internet directly in the first place. "cyber" attacks like this aren't effective if there's no way to make a connection back to the outside world. In laymen's terms (and horribly abusing grammar in the process) -- bring the internet home, but don't trust him alone with the wine!
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"French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry.
What are we going to do with all of these ministries? Are IT staff going to spend the weekend in a massive cleaning to remove traces of 'spectacular' redundancy, too?"
My preferred one is :
"Secretaire d'Etat aupres de la ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, charge du Commerce, de l'Artisanat, des Petites et Moyennes entreprises, du Tourisme, des Services, des Professions liberales et de la Consommation"
That's ONE guy (no need to translate, most of the words are english-ready, apart from 'small and middle sized companies'). And they *really* call him like that *everytime* it appears in the senate (often).
I am always very disappointed by the level of IT illiteracy of our political class (ministers, deputy, president, ...).
They all know the minimum needed to use blogs and social networks for propaganda, and this gives them the illusion that they understand enough to legiferate about all the problems of internet.
All the french political discourse about internet contain so many mistakes (except when it comes to lobby support), that the conclusions are always illogival and incoherent.
When the bigger problem is in front of the screen, anything becomes an easy target for hackers.
For me, the main problem is not the attack, but the effect it will have on their poor understanding of internet ?
When will they learn something or get more stupid certitudes ?
Most like what *really* happened was that a default or weak password was left in place. That, and the servers weren't patched with security updates. By claiming "Spectacular", it makes it sound like their IT group wasn't so incompetent and that it could have happened to anyone. Ya well, well just have to see as the story continues to unfold, if at all.
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Why the hell are they attacking a damn grocery store? Granted the whole supremarché idea is subversive to French culture, but still, why not pick on Franprix? Is G20 more evil in some way that escapes me? Granted their bread and cheese suck, but they have an excellent selection of € 2.00 wines.
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"All of these ministries"? I only see one named. Sure, you copy & pasted it 3.25 times, but it's the same name each time.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
Why does it have, in small text just under the title "ADDED JAN 6, 2010, UNDER: TECH NEWS". Has this actually been scraped from somewhere else and only just been put up on that site?
Just wondering if these were mac, solaris, linux or windows servers that were cracked. Anyone know?
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that was a good one.. I almost choked on my baked beans.
Anyway I think this is beautiful - maybe I'm being naive but if an important ministry gets attacked (either by smart black hats or just through tedious social engineering or whatever in between) then I would expect political pressure to eventually apply (through public opinion) to make sure this sort of embarrassment does not happen repeatedly, or not too often. So I think this is one step in the right direction, even if it might take a few catastrophes to actually get there.
Not quite—when the article was posted, we had the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry Ministry.
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Not quite—when the article was posted, we had the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry Ministry. Standard complaints about breathtaking Slashdot editing. It was also originally "evidence of 'spectacular' attack", not "evidence of a 'spectacular attack".
But feel free to retro-nitpick as if it makes sense!
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Nice. I award you full marx for that one. :)
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