Fired NY credit union employee nukes data in revenge
bleepingcomputer.comMeanwhile the Dallas municipal IT technician who deleted 15TB is saying “pfft, amateur.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/08/31/dallas-it-worker-...
Accidentally, if someone can accidentally delete police files then that's a problem beyond that employee.
"Her petty revenge not only created a huge security risk for the bank,"
The security risk was created by the bank.Sysadmin 101: access control and backup. She had access to board messages ? I guess she was trustworty. They shall have made her CIO. It's sad that after 70 years of computing it is still hard to manage some basic tasks in some organizations.
I feel like this shouldn’t be a problem for most enterprises. File storage solutions can easily be purchased or set up with automated snapshotting mechanisms.
Even if she were to wipe all the data and the bank just held a once a week or once a day snapshot on a Qumulo or Isilon or Netapp, that shit is reversible within 48 hours max.
Said they had backups, I wonder to what extent, and the costs of maintaining those backups