TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland

Post by louthy » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #5

Zikes wrote: post #2

> TalkTalk said it would only let customers leave without penalty in the “unlikely event that money is stolen from a customer’s bank account as a direct result of the cyber-attack”. Man, I would hate to get stuck with the carrier that got breached for "bank details and personal information of its four million customers" by a 15 year old kid. That sort of lack of security should in and of itself constitute a severe br…

Not sure that 15-year-old kids are any less competent at hacking than adults. What they may lack in experience, they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose. We've seen this picture many times before. I'd suggest that TalkTalk would be less competent if the hacker had been a greybeard rather than a kid, because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against, un…

Post by dominicgs » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

paublyrne wrote: post #4

I immediately thought of Jonny Lee Miller's character in Hackers, who is caught in a major hack as a child and banned from using computers until he is over 18. Of course it is now many times more difficult to avoid computers than it was in in the early 1990s.

Post by knodi123 » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 8:36 PM UTC

louthy wrote: post #11

vegabook wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that 15-year-old kids are any less competent at hacking than adults. What they may lack in experience, they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose. We've seen this picture many times before. I'd suggest that TalkTalk would be less competent if the hacker had been a greybeard rather than a kid, because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against, un…

> they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose And time.

Post by SixSigma » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 8:42 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #5

Zikes wrote: post #2

> TalkTalk said it would only let customers leave without penalty in the “unlikely event that money is stolen from a customer’s bank account as a direct result of the cyber-attack”. Man, I would hate to get stuck with the carrier that got breached for "bank details and personal information of its four million customers" by a 15 year old kid. That sort of lack of security should in and of itself constitute a severe br…

Not sure that 15-year-old kids are any less competent at hacking than adults. What they may lack in experience, they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose. We've seen this picture many times before. I'd suggest that TalkTalk would be less competent if the hacker had been a greybeard rather than a kid, because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against, un…

Post by vegabook » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 8:46 PM UTC

SixSigma wrote: post #17

vegabook wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that 15-year-old kids are any less competent at hacking than adults. What they may lack in experience, they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose. We've seen this picture many times before. I'd suggest that TalkTalk would be less competent if the hacker had been a greybeard rather than a kid, because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against, un…

> because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against this is utterly ridiculous