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Equifax CIO, CSO “Retire” in Wake of Huge Security Breach

posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 18 2017, @09:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the retired-or-fired dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow5743

On Friday, Equifax announced that two top executives would be retiring in the aftermath of the company's massive security breach that affected 143 million Americans.

According to a press release, the company said that its Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and Chief Security Officer, Susan Mauldin, would be leaving the company immediately and were being replaced by internal staff. Mark Rohrwasser, who has lead Equifax's international IT operations, is the company's new interim CIO. Russ Ayres, who had been a vice president for IT at Equifax, has been named as the company's new interim CSO.

The notorious breach was accomplished by exploiting a Web application vulnerability that had been patched in early March 2017.

However, the company's Friday statement also noted for the first time that Equifax did not actually apply the patch to address the Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) until after the breach was discovered on July 29, 2017.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/equifax-cio-cso-retire-in-wake-of-huge-security-breach/

Also at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/equifax-releases-new-information-about-security-breach-as-top-execs-step-down/

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:13AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:13AM (#570058) Homepage
    If she was unable to evaluate whether her underlings were capable of doing their job properly, then she's a chocolate teapot.
    Whoever hired her for her position is equally useless. Simply noticing that she has claimed "data center" as a skill is not diligent recruiting. (What does she do - act as a rack?)
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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by frojack on Wednesday September 20 2017, @07:11PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 20 2017, @07:11PM (#570797) Journal

    So your problem here seems to be that she is a she. You never mentioned the He who was also fired.

    perfunctory face-saving firing is perfunctory.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:22PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:22PM (#570853) Homepage
      Wow, now you're really clutching at straws. At no point was anything I said predecated upon anyone's gender.

      I dare you do prove me wrong, and by so doing prove once and for all the widely held belief that deep down you're a bullshit artist (albeit only a grade C one).
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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:27PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:27PM (#570855) Homepage
      Oh, the he in the story is neither a superior nor a subordinate to the she in the story even if their responsibilities overlap, and therefore his case is independent of her case. He may well be just as unqualified for his role, that's independent of a discussion about her suitability.

      Do I bring up eth-fueled's traits when criticising your illogic? No, because you are different, and special, individuals.
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