Comment Re:Security is expensive (Score 1) 136
I agree with Neokushan. In reading about just how bad this attack hit DigiNotar, I'm of the opinion that they fully deserved to go bankrupt. They don't need to ever be in business again.
It's a security company, and they were running no anti-virus solution, had a simple LAN with a single username & simple password, and they didn't keep their web servers up to date. Nobody in their right mind would do that to a company, but for a firm that worked in the security field? CA, no less. That's dangerously negligent.
I'm going to guess that there are a lot of IT people here, and that their heads are close to exploding from the stupidity involved at DigiNotar.
How this could happen I could only guess. No sys admin would ever let this fly. This almost had to be policy from the top, deliberately blocking any money being spent to secure their system.
Somewhere a sys admin is on the floor laughing, both from having been driven insane at the company, and at the relief of their new found freedom.