Another Day, Another Vendor Screws the Pooch

So Marquis Software Development—presumably staffed by people who actually know which end of a USB stick goes where—is suing SonicWall, those firewall-peddling wankers, because SonicWall’s “secure” cloud backup service got royally reamed in 2021 by what I can only assume were script-kiddies with a grudge and too much time on their hands.

Apparently, these absolute fucking muppets at SonicWall left their backup infrastructure wide open, allowing any bastard with a pulse and a Tor browser to waltz in and help themselves to customer data. Then, because apparently that wasn’t enough of a clusterfuck, the attackers used said data to launch ransomware attacks on Marquis and other customers. Genius move, that. It’s like handing the keys to your house to a burglar and then acting surprised when your telly goes missing.

SonicWall, in their infinite wisdom, initially tried to blame the victims—classy—claiming customers hadn’t secured their own networks properly. But then, lo and behold, they finally admitted “oh yeah, actually it was our shitty security that let the bastards in.” No shit, Sherlock. A vendor taking responsibility? I nearly fell off my chair, which would have been inconvenient as I’d have spilled my coffee over the server racks.

Marquis is now suing for negligence, breach of contract, and probably emotional damages for the trauma of having to deal with SonicWall’s “support” team. The lawsuit claims SonicWall failed to implement basic security measures like, I don’t know, ACTUAL FUCKING ENCRYPTION and access controls that a five-year-old couldn’t bypass with a cereal box decoder ring.

The moral of this sorry saga? Don’t trust cloud backups from vendors who couldn’t secure a paper bag with a padlock, let alone your mission-critical data. And maybe, just maybe, keep your backups air-gapped away from these incompetent bastards before they hand your data over to every Tom, Dick, and Ransomware Harry on the internet.

Read the full miserable tale here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marquis-sues-sonicwall-over-backup-breach-that-led-to-ransomware-attack/

Reminds me of the time I “accidentally” deleted the entire marketing department’s shared drive because they kept storing their cat memes on the production server. When they cried about ransomware, I pointed out that stupidity isn’t a virus—though in SonicWall’s case, I’m not so sure. I restored it eventually, but only after they bought me a bottle of whiskey and promised to never speak to me before 10 AM again.

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