Friday, September 9, 2016

Cyber attack survival guide: FT special report

by Maija Palmer

Sometimes a hack is obvious. When Sony Pictures employees arrived at work on the morning of November 24 2014 they found their computers were inoperable and the screens displayed a creepy-looking red skull with the message: “Hacked by #GOP”.

More often, attacks are harder to recognise. For TalkTalk, the UK telecoms company that discovered on October 21 2015 that it had been hacked, the truth sank in much more gradually. Dido Harding, the chief executive, explained in a television interview two days later that by “lunchtime all we knew was that our website was running slowly and that we had the indications of a hacker trying to attack us”.

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