Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Horror stories

[Caute_cautim]

Hi All

Given its Halloween and some people like to celebrate it.

When it comes to cybersecurity, the question is when, not if, an organization will suffer a cyber incident. Even the most sophisticated security tools can’t withstand the biggest threat: human behavior.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the time of year when we celebrate all things scary. So it seemed appropriate to ask cybersecurity professionals to share some of their most memorable and haunting cyber incidents. (Names and companies are anonymous to avoid any negative impact. Suffering a cyber incident is bad enough.)

https://securityintelligence.com/articles/cybersecurity-awareness-month-horror-stories/?utm_medium=O...

Regards

Caute_Cautim

[Steve-Wilme]

The Sasser worm from 2004.  We had to send entire sites of employees home, including those dealing directly with customers, so it could be cleaned up by physically visiting every XP based PC in the company.  Parts of the business were out of operation for 3 or 4 days.