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A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
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And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?
Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.
Peter Thiel probably has a backup copy now from doge unfortunately.
Oh for something important like that we have backups.
Wasn’t that a premise in Mr Robot?
Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.
I’m not gonna say there were signs that these two weren’t the most law abiding of citizens to begin with, buuuuut…
Muneeb Akhter asked Sohaib Akhter for the plaintext password
The more scary part in this story is that the government stores your passwords in plain text!
So basically ANYONE with access to the database can steal your credentials, including employees, the government and any authorities.
Never re-use passwords.
Every place I have worked, most of HR and like half of finance/accounting has access to your social security number, full address and phone number. Sometimes even the password and security questions you used for whatever BS portal they made you setup an account in.
To be fair, what else could they do with that keyboard.
That’s like a huge key at least with 2.5x the size of a normal using USB C to estimate the ratio.
It’s not what that image is, but keychron released a single giant key keyboard a little while back. Similar idea at least. Sold out immediately.
“Eh, they can recover from yesterday,” he said, referring to daily database backups.
But did they recover from backups? Don’t leave the most juicy intrigue out of the story.
No one ever tested the backups so they don’t know if they will work!
Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, now both 34, had been in trouble before. Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.
They had a track record and found employment in government IT
HR should’ve been fired for that fuckup.
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
No. A case study against employing known criminals.
Both conclusions are correct, but step 1 was a background check
Don’t know how it works in US, but in most of EU you’re obligated to notify the employee about termination of work agreement like a month in adavnce. In case of IT revoking access that early would mean effectively month of paid leave.
Sounds nice.
Sounds nice.
That’s why it doesn’t happen
Commits hundreds of crimes then starts bringing up god. Class act.
Redundant twin brothers to handle the redundant twin backups.
Call me sexist but that guy has really girly handwriting
Just needs to dot his "i"s with hearts.
