The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    422·
    9 months ago

    They’d be morons if they didn’t back up important data off site.

    • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
      43·
      9 months ago

      Have you ever seen any academic IT systems? They are all underfunded ans run by grad students.

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        9 months ago

        Even worse, they are often a case of accretion by generations of grad students and undergrads.

        E.g. a university was redoing how it hosted student club websites. When it eventually killed the old hosting, 1 site stayed working. It was eventually tracked down to a little mini pc mounted above the false ceiling. It had been plodding away for 20 odd years, most of that without any maintenance at all.

      • 50gp@kbin.social
        71·
        9 months ago

        and here we have underfunded science with lots of russian corruption on top

        real chance of backup system money disappearing in pockets…

      • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        You’re insulting grad students. ;) But yea, I imagine it is very underfunded!