Nametag's Aaron Painter talks about the MGM Grand Casino chain, an attack that lead to a week of tech failure, downtime and over a hundred million dollars in lost revenue. The attackers were able to get in via a common point of failure: the request for a password and credential reset from the helpdesk, and the ever-frustrating “security questions” approach to making sure you are who you are. This hack shut their system down for a week and cost a hundred million dollars in lost revenue. How did the hackers get in? What should MGM have done differently? It’s all here.
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8 июл 2024
