Everyone breaks

The vulnerability of the Internet is compensated by computer security costs. Where there is money and where power is not the main cracker

Hacking Aeroflot Airlines once again showed the vulnerability of critical infrastructure during import substitution. There is a version that it was the transition to Russian software that created a whole zoo of poorly interconnected services, which led to the emergence of a large number of vulnerabilities. And this is not the only event. Something falls every day, millions of personal data are flowing. Or just turn off the connection. One gets the impression that the Internet began to break more often. Is this so and what is behind these breakdowns?

There is no need to go for the examples for a long time, there was enough news. Here, for example, data leaks in Russia: Black Star Wear, “pizzas”, “children's world”. And these are only the brightest and most famous companies. Last year, Russia became a leader in the number of personal data leaks. There are no reasons that the rating will change this year is. At least somewhere-ahead of the planet.

Under the sight - and the state. Perhaps the brightest scandal is the hacking of Rosreestr. The consequences of leakage will be expressed in constant journalistic investigations. Mid and Roskomnadzor had hard - the departments are at the borders of the fight and are logically obtained first. The hacking of VGTRK is not forgotten - the state television company can be attributed to the authorities.

In reality, the scale of the tragedy is greater. Everyone suffers, so the examples do not end there. Beeline, Lanit is one of the largest system integrators in the country. "Lukoil." And this is only what has thundered well in the news. How many attacks are unnoticed - a good question. And this is all against the backdrop of disconnects and infrastructure accidents.

And so - every day. In reality - every second. Traffic, the task of which is to disable certain systems, rushes through a variety of networks. The main cyberwoman is between the USA and China. But on the current scale, this does not mean anything. To evaluate the scale of the tragedy, the Cyberatak map from Check Point is perfect. It helps to understand - this is not only a Russian problem.

Data leaks - Adidas, Ticketmaster, Allianz Insurance Company. US government agencies suffered from vulnerabilities in Microsoft Sharepoint. Yes, and everything fell not only because of hackers or the desire of specific departments: last summer, due to the unsuccessful update of Microsoft Windows, the largest information disaster with damage to billions occurred. All of the above - only in the last year. Further - more.

You can state: virtual life has become, to put it mildly, more saturated in recent years. As in its infrastructure part-some kind of satellite Internet Starlink or Boston Dynamics robot-already familiar phenomena, and in the area of ​​applications. It is enough to pronounce the magical “artificial intelligence” - and you can continue to continue. Movement to the noosphere is gaining speed.

Cybercrime, attacks, hacks and other unpleasant things grow in appropriate pace. Like the price of human mistakes.

As in the case of a programmer from Crowdstrike, according to whose fault, the same last year's failure with Windows occurred.

If you do not plunge into details, including so as not to disgrace to real information security specialists, then what is happening can be divided into groups:

• Background crime

To become a victim of cybercriminals, just do something on the Internet. Try to open the site. Any. Some spam will fly to you immediately. And if you are some kind of real business, this is not just spam, but big attacks. Which, however, are compensated by safety costs. Surprisingly, there is nothing personal. There is a door - just in case, you need to kick with your foot, and suddenly it opens. On the Internet you can kick thousands of such doors.

• Business disability

Put an IT infrastructure of a competitor, indulge in the joys of industrial espionage, simply to encourage, in the end. Usually this is an expensive entertainment for adults.

• Cyber ​​policy

All countries where there is the Internet are fighting among themselves. Without exception. All departments are every minutely experiencing attacks: those who want to steal valuable documents or simply disable some state institution-there is a queue. It is clear that there is its own story on the edge of Europe. The legendary “Russian hackers”, units, relatively speaking, the SVR or groups working in the interests of the FSB. Against them - “cyber partisans”, the Belarusian association, which took responsibility for the last attack on Aeroflot.

• The human factor

“I was hacked” - the best excuse for yesterday's inappropriate behavior. But sometimes certain virtual incidents are the work of human hands. Coffee was spilled onto the keyboard - it happens. But I do not want to admit. The causes of accidents, leaks and other virtual incidents may well be prosaic. In Russia, for example, sometimes the Internet is specially disconnected. Everything in the world happens. There may be a lot of options.

How scary to live in these Internet. In any case, it may seem at first glance. Endless DDOS attacks seem to be invincible phishing. No, no, but a letter is caught in the mail, almost indistinguishable from the original. Hackers - with the support of the government. Vulnerability of the devices themselves. Data leaks. And most importantly - our total dependence on all this business. Life without a network seems no longer possible.

But if you exclude politics, then cybercrime and, accordingly, her sister, cybersecurity has long become routine processes. This is a large industry, which now, with the beginning of the spread of artificial intelligence, solves new problems. For example, Cloudflare, which helps, inter alia, is also fighting against attacks, now fights with AI-Bots. Everything goes to a new level. And requires new solutions.

By and large, the solution to most problems is the issue of investment in information security. And the rest are inevitable. Somewhere people live calmly.

But the Russian sovereign Internet has its local problems. Sanctions. The iron has risen in price, it is harder to import, their own - it was changed in a Chinese sticker. Import substitution of software is an illusion.

The transition of Aeroflot from SAP to 1C is martyrdom with its consequences. We will enjoy the results of leaks for a long time.

General economic situation: in order to hack and nothing falls - we must constantly spend money. And here ITishnikov is not enough - so much so that they have left for any rugs beg to return. To learn new ones is also money. And they are not. Well, and so on, what is it here - and so everything understands everything. If some game occurs in the real world, then this will certainly affect the virtual space.

It is difficult to assess damage, but in the case of the same Aeroflot we are talking about tens of millions of dollars. Plus - long political consequences. This is the price of progress in a particular situation. If the overall degradation of the Russian IT infrastructure is multiplied by the current situation, then we can draw a logical conclusion: it will be worse, sovereign Internet, may be bastard, but very vulnerable. Yesterday VGTRK, today Aeroflot. Who is tomorrow?