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by balentio 1380 days ago
>> 2) There was no large scale data breach

Says who? The FBI? Says Ubiquiti? I bet BOTH of those places have a reason to say that, and it is green and smells of dead presidents.

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Get caught in a lie in front of a jury for a white-collar criminal prosecution with any sort of competent lawyer, and you never regain credibility. Regardless, the other points still stand.

It's incredibly hard to defend yourself if your head of security decides to extort you. They are the ones that design the protections to keep insider attacks from working. Luckily for Ubiquiti - the attacker screwed up his network configuration (VPN leak failure) which is also somewhat ironic.

>> Get caught in a lie in front of a jury for a white-collar criminal prosecution with any sort of competent lawyer, and you never regain credibility.

Which is great for mega corporations who are always innocent of any robber-baroning or impulse to make security a secondary consideration to profit.

>>Regardless, the other points still stand.

On feeble legs.

>>It's incredibly hard to defend yourself if your head of security decides to extort you. They are the ones that design the protections to keep insider attacks from working. Luckily for Ubiquiti - the attacker screwed up his network configuration (VPN leak failure) which is also somewhat ironic.

I tend to think if you have that problem, you are probably hiring people that are much like your company. To put it differently, a known liar telling a story doesn't automatically make it a lie. I suspect we will soon be seeing later how much Ubiquiti cares about its customer base. When that time happens, I will return to this post and ask you some follow up questions.

Sounds good. I would not double down on Krebs right now. Or on the tinfoil theory that the FBI and Ubiquiti are lying about this.