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The museum Louvre in France was recently the victim of a heist worth over €88 million. In broad daylight.
A previous security audit revealed the following weaknesses with their security system:
1. Their password was “louvre”
2. Their security system was running on Windows 2000
Ouch.
#Louvre #France #Heist #Museum #OpSec #Security #Password123
@markwyner many major retail companies here in the US are still running on XP.
@bebadefabo this would not surprise me. I don’t think many folks take security seriously. It’s like batteries in smoke alarms.
@markwyner I was an IT engineer for the one with the big yellow tag for many years. The short term calculus on costs versus benefit ALWAYS overran the conversation. They will not change the system until it is exploited and used against them in a very public way.
Even basic PCI compliance is smoke and mirrors when your system is built on an infrastructure that's full of holes. Not a single one of these retailers should be allowed to process customer data or credit cards. Security is a joke
@markwyner Both of those stories date back to 2014 according to the French press. Can't guarantee their security practices changed in the meantime tho :)
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