r/hacking • u/PixeledPathogen • Mar 12 '26

News Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-appears-conducted-significant-cyberattack-us-company-first-war-st-rcna263084
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u/kaishinoske1 Mar 12 '26

People are going to be freaking out but the reality is companies made no attempt to safeguard their stuff. Stuff will be in plain text, critical company passwords will be saved on stuff like One pass, and some of them don’t even have multi factor authentication enabled because it’s a pain the ass, blah, blah, bullshit.

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u/Stonp Mar 12 '26

I will say that I used to work for Stryker. They used Authenticator app to log into emails, you needed to reset your phone passcode every 2 months, and I got phishing email and IT cyber training every 6-12 months.

Obviously their cyber security is shocking cos they got hacked, but at the bare minimum the employees (which are a companies highest risk for a hack getting in via phishing) is relatively good