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From www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/a3460256.html
Rapidly becoming more important than even the 24/7 hairdresser, the social media manager and the "paleo genius" personal chef, top cyber-security consultants are the most in-demand for the super-rich, business tycoons and the A-list as they look to keep their embarrassing secrets, naked photos and diva-ish demands out of the hands of hackers.
After Beckileaks, those consultants might just be ramping up their rates because, for brand-reliant celebrities, the financial damage, reputational risk and sheer embarrassment of such revelations are one of the most serious threats to their careers.
[...] Benjamin Arnold, whose SORTED personal management firm acts as a fixer for London's super-rich, says "There's been a definite increase in concern about cyber-protection among high-net-worth [HNW] and celebrity clients, especially following hacking incidents such as the [Lawrence] iCloud hack which exposed — quite literally — a number of high-profile celebrities. We are all exposed to the same risk but high-profile or HNW individuals are at a much bigger threat, as the value of their assets make them more of a target."
His clients will pay "anything from £2,500 up to £15,000 for a security sweep" and another £5,000 for training, "putting in best practice for the family, just as you would for locking up the house". It's small cash for some celebs, who believe that a brutal data-hack could cost them their career.
[...] Consultants say one-off "cyber-hygiene" sessions, costing as much as £3,000, are increasingly popular: tech sleuths will comb through clients' smartphones, laptops, tablets, external hard drives and cloud accounts, set up two-factor authentication (where logging into, say, a Gmail or Twitter account involves filling in a unique code that's sent to a smartphone), work on complex passwords (and insist on clients using different ones for every account), set up encrypted email services and install cyber-security software onto their home and work networks.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:29PM
The hottest jobs are hairdresser and telephone sanitiser. This story is familiar.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:43PM
Take your upmod you dirty geek!
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 16 2017, @08:50PM
Opening more land to logging and fracking, as well as defunding the EPA, are necessary steps before adopting the leaf as our currency.
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Friday February 17 2017, @02:08AM
Now that we have all become extremely rich, we have a slight problem with inflation due to the availability of leaves. So we are going reduce the monetary supply by burning down the forests. That will work well.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:35AM
It's blindingly obvious: let's pack them all into Australia and launch it towards Mars.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:53PM
Here's an idea: Instead of spending thousands on trying to keep your secrets, how about doing your best to not being a selfish jerk? That will do much more than hiring a high-priced security firm.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by butthurt on Thursday February 16 2017, @03:23PM
Are you saying that if one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to fear?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @04:15PM
Jerks tend to react like jerks when critizing other jerks. Its a regular jerk-o-thon! Why don't the grand parent just keep his mind on his/her own business, it would do all of us a favor.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday February 16 2017, @04:22PM
There are several aspects of this that make this substantially different:
1. The consequences of the things we're talking about here are public embarrassment, not imprisonment or something like that. And not even that much public embarrassment, at this point, because very few people really care.
2. The risk is from private individuals, not the government. Arguments about what the government should or shouldn't be able to do are irrelevant here.
3. The people in question chose to become celebrities, well aware of the consequences of that choice.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday February 16 2017, @05:49PM
The article says "personal photos of Prince George and Princess Charlotte" were among the pilfered data. Those people are children.
They didn't choose to be celebrities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_of_Cambridge [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Charlotte_of_Cambridge [wikipedia.org]
Governments can certainly engage in the same sorts of attacks, as highlighted in yesterday's story about Microsoft calling for a "digital Geneva Convention."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by WillR on Thursday February 16 2017, @06:11PM
Oh, and a bunch of 4chan weirdos will make up an elaborate conspiracy theory about one's favorite restaurant being a front for a satanic NWO pedo cult.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @05:05PM
Sounds better than rich clients?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:14AM
alternative working class folks
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 16 2017, @05:08PM
It sounds like hacking has become a booming business. Maybe that means the tax returns will be made public at some point.
Hackers have all sorts of different motives. Money. Fame. Politics. Sex. As an escape from having to venture forth from the basement to take the trash out.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday February 17 2017, @05:24AM
And the most fearsome of all hacks... the revenge hack.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday February 17 2017, @05:35AM
The USA's tax agency acknowledged that criminals had gotten "data from more than 700,000 taxpayer accounts."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/02/26/cyber-hack-gained-access-more-than-700000-irs-accounts/80992822/ [usatoday.com]