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Police in Ukraine have seized the servers of one of the largest accounting software firms in the country, after it was suspected that a malware virus which hit dozens of global enterprises last week had spread via its malicious update.
As part of an investigation into one of the largest recent cyber attacks, the servers of Ukraine's most popular accounting software, M.E.Doc were seized by Ukrainian police Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing the head of Ukraine's Cyber Police, Sergey Demedyuk.
Cyber Police spokeswoman Yulia Kvitko confirmed an ongoing investigation into M.E.Doc's offices.
Ukrainian intelligence officials and security firms experts believe initial infections, which affected thousands of computers worldwide, might have been spread via the accounting firm's updates, Reuters reports.
While it is still unclear who inserted a vulnerability into the M.E.Doc program, the Kiev-based firm whose software is used by around 80 percent of companies in Ukraine is under investigation itself and will face criminal charges, AP reported citing Demedyuk.
M.E.Doc's employees had dismissed repeated warnings about the security of their information technology infrastructure, Demedyuk said in an interview with the news agency.
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395305-ukrainian-firm-servers-seized-cyber-attack/
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:04PM (1 child)
To that end, given that Soylent doesn't generally post "breaking news" as it's actually breaking, it might be worthwhile doing a quick search before posting and adding one or more alternative sources with differing points of view if the original submission only includes one that might be suspected being likely to exhibit bias with the topic at hand. In the specific case of RT that goes far beyond your earlier "everything involving Russia" - RT are quite consistent in portraying the US' global political maneouvering as "warmongering", regardless of whether it involves Russia and/or if it's justified, for instance. Of course, that means more work for the editors, so perhaps a better approach would be to suggest that submissions ideally include a couple of alternative sources to provide a counter point. That's actually a potential win-win regardless of whether the original submitter or an editor provides the additional links - not only might it remove some of the noise, but by providing differing points of view in TFS might also provoke additional on-topic debate.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:57PM
The Eds actually do that quite often if they can find another credible source. RT, however, is not Breitbart or one of gewg_'s socialist rags. They are one of the best international news organizations out there as long as you know they're going to have a pro-Russia slant.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.