NVIDIA has Allegedly Been Hacked, Internal Systems Compromised

[mama]

Russians?

 

[lexluthermiester]

"NVIDIA has hacked us back".

The amount of BS in this statement is just staggering. Could have been written by a 10 yo.

You say that like you're surprised... Really?

I will not worship the man

I will never worship a man, period...

the man who removed our dreams of Half life 3.

...let alone that jerk.

 

[Chrispy_]

Forgive my lack of sympathy for a money-grabbing company that has plagued the industry with anti-consumer, closed-source, proprietary bullshit for the last 25 years.

 

[720p low]

Don't know if this happened in their relatively new HQ at Santa Clara but, if so, maybe they should have had the R&D areas constructed so that they are totally isolated from the internet. I'm thinking R&D, since the article mentions that the "business and commercial" portions of the company were "uninterrupted."

"Our efforts to prevent and overcome these and similar challenges could increase our expenses..."

Sounds like somebody should expect a price increase as a result.

 

[Space Lynx]

You say that like you're surprised... Really?


I will never worship a man, period...

...let alone that jerk.

has nothing to with worshipping, just is fun to say Lord Gaben. to be fair, 95% of my friends I have made that became IRL friends, were through steam. so i do have to give some respect to Gaben, that community factor is a strong one.

also one reason why I respect jayz2cents way more than LTT or any of the other major players. cause jayz2cents donated/ hand built awesome gaming LAN setup for a community center last year, that place will create friendships for decades to come, ripple effects, bonds created. community is so important. respect to gabe for giving the platform, regardless of the other stuff, and mad respect to jayz2cents.

I will not worship the man who removed our dreams of Half life 3.

i think his reasoning from what I remember is that he knew it would never live up to the hype. so would you prefer he still make it knowing that?

 

[Icon Charlie]

IDK, if only they were putting more effort on developing secure solutions instead of telemetry and ways to scam buyers?

One of my friends used to do contract security for the government. So I KNOW NGREEDIA CAN harden their systems. But it comes down to money and corporations like NGREEDIA that will only put as much money to meet their minimum requirements of security.

 

[Space Lynx]

One of my friends used to do contract security for the government. So I KNOW NGREEDIA CAN harden their systems. But it comes down to money and corporations like NGREEDIA that will only put as much money to meet their minimum requirements of security.

I find this so bizarre, considering they are trying to win over contracts for healthcare companies etc - who require the most hardened security possible.

 

[zlobby]

has nothing to with worshipping, just is fun to say Lord Gaben. to be fair, 95% of my friends I have made that became IRL friends, were through steam. so i do have to give some respect to Gaben, that community factor is a strong one.

also one reason why I respect jayz2cents way more than LTT or any of the other major players. cause jayz2cents donated/ hand built awesome gaming LAN setup for a community center last year, that place will create friendships for decades to come, ripple effects, bonds created. community is so important. respect to gabe for giving the platform, regardless of the other stuff, and mad respect to jayz2cents.



i think his reasoning from what I remember is that he knew it would never live up to the hype. so would you prefer he still make it knowing that?

Unpopular opinion here - both j2c, ltt are way overrated. I find thier content to be peak cringe and zero value whatsoever, yet they are so entitled. SMH.

Hi,
Clearly not using win-11 and defender/ microsoft security

Defender and the VM-based security in 11 are a decent threat shield. Windows firewall on other hand is pure BS. Why can't we just have iptables on Windows?!?!

 

[Space Lynx]

Unpopular opinion here - both j2c, ltt are way overrated. I find thier content to be peak cringe and zero value whatsoever, yet they are so entitled. SMH.


Defender and the VM-based security in 11 are a decent threat shield. Windows firewall on other hand is pure BS. Why can't we just have iptables on Windows?!?!

your opinion is fine, but I wish I had a community center when I was younger like the one j2c helped support/create, I would have made some lifetime friends and had many great memories even outside of gaming with them as the years went by. not many people in this world bringing community together anymore.

 

[Jism]

I'd have thought NVIDIA would have been more bulletproof than that. At least they've figured out who did and did it back to them, so that's something.

It's unthinkable that NVIDIA don't have a backup of the data that was taken from them.

Social engineering.

Lets say for 20 years you do business with company Y. Company Y sends an invoice every month from adress somecompany@servicepoint.com. I as a skilled hacker register servicep0int.com and send you a simular invoice. An employee opens the attachment thinking it's a legitimate one and voila first steps made into installing a tool that would bring nvidia's internal network on the map. From there on ill continue untill i get access to it's main and most important stuff.

Lets say on a friday evening after 20:00 ill start my backup with a script with low load so it wont be noticed, upload this somewhere and voila. Now i have nvidia's most critical files.

Thats how basicly this went down.

 

[bobsled]

Thats how basicly this went down.

Tell us more!

 

[Jism]

Tell us more!

Well, it's how most of the hacks these days succeed anyway. Unaware employee's are pretty much the weakest link in large company's.

I mean from a software standpoint most systems are secured; that is at the front. However if you get inside of it the security is completely different. All you need to obtain is find a way "out" to push large data and your good.

Ive used to hack years ago. In my time it was mostly bad configured webservers. With that i was able to gain entrace to parts that where not visible for the outside world normally.

If anyone remembers Napster or Kazaa era; some folks would share their complete C drive. I was just thinking now what would be most universal benefit from a C drive ? It would be things like Inbox.pst or common saved documents or text files. It was so easy back then.

Also; nobody knew about shredding disks or data years either; i'd just buy large sets of used HDD"s on ebay for that matter and was able to recover all it's data on these disks. Some disks of even lawyers with full information stored still.

 

[R-T-B]

Now we'll see if there was anything real to Biden's "we'll take cyber attacks on US companies seriously" or if it was just empty posturing, again. Place your bets!

As long as we aren't consulting Rudy for cyber security, it's already progress.

I will never worship a man, period...

Good. Worship frog.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

As long as we aren't consulting Rudy for cyber security, it's already progress.


Good. Worship frog.

Russians are red
Froggies are green
Norton lets everyone hack you.

 

[Solaris17]

healthcare companies etc - who require the most hardened security possible.

Pro tip from the industry, gov and health have the biggest tech debt imaginable. bigger centers and branches spending millions to hundreds of $K to maintain server 2008, cent5 and shit. It's wild and 100% believable.

I'm an engineer in private sector again and much happier.

Honorable mentions:

Public K12 school systems
Lawyers (actual garbage)


Remember experian? to some of these industries IT is a cost center not a money maker. They receive the bare minimum of any kind of internal funding for which the majority goes to security for the systems they previously veto'd to upgrade. Now they are stuck so far behind with no upgrade path that its literally cheaper to pay for the ATTEMPT at securing them than to actually rebuild entire sections of infra.

 

[qubit]

@Jism yes, that's certainly a possible scenario. It doesn't take much for someone to slip up in a large company like NVIDIA.

 

[Jism]

@Jism yes, that's certainly a possible scenario. It doesn't take much for someone to slip up in a large company like NVIDIA.

"Proper" malware is able to go undetected and obtain new packages. All you need is a mapping of the company and its structure and you work from there.

 

[thesmokingman]

The hackers were trying to find the manufacturer of Jensen's Lucky Leather Jacket.

You mean that's not Members Only??

 

[lexluthermiester]

Unpopular opinion here - both j2c, ltt are way overrated.

Jay overrated? Maybe a little, but he knows his craft. He's human and owns his mistakes on the rare occasion when he makes them. Jay has earned the respect he has in the community and doesn't let it go to his head.

LTT though, yeah, overrated. Linus is constantly screwing up and does both without owning his mistakes. He constantly shares deeply flawed opinions and gives bad advice... Can't respect the guy.

to some of these industries IT is a cost center not a money maker.

Exactly, which is a retarded and bass-ackwards way of thinking. IT is an investment in business foundation, not an annoying expense...

 

[Space Lynx]

@Jism
I remember when I was a teenager, I wanted to work in computer networking. I remember sitting in class, and the professor going over 'If statements', and after about 2 hrs (I made a 'clickable ok box' my eyes started hurting, and I just felt horrible. I remember thinking to myself, do I really want to do this for the rest of my life (staring at a computer in general)? This short time span I am floating on this blue marble that is rotating gigantic oceans in front of a giant sun... I'll never understand hackers (good, bad, or neutral)... though to be fair I don't understand hardly anyone these days. I just love reading ancient history and thinking about a lot of great thinkers back then. I'll never be rich, in fact, I doubt I will ever be able to ever buy a house. I find great pleasure in knowledge for knowledges' sake, and discovering how much we have lost in modernity to our baser instincts. On the same hand, you only need a lot of money if you have a lot of expenses and also... ones perception of reality. but I digress.

I think regardless of job, a lot of people get lost in their own little worlds, and forget to look at the stars as the ancients did, to be more connected to nature and the Cosmos in general my main goal in life. It's also possible I am a fool, I am not sure which.


edit: I changed my major after 2-3 months in computer stuff, just couldn't stand it. no regrets though, even though financially I'd be more stable right now I admit

 

[sith'ari]

Well, it's how most of the hacks these days succeed anyway. Unaware employee's are pretty much the weakest link in large company's.

I mean from a software standpoint most systems are secured; that is at the front. However if you get inside of it the security is completely different. All you need to obtain is find a way "out" to push large data and your good.

Ive used to hack years ago. In my time it was mostly bad configured webservers. With that i was able to gain entrace to parts that where not visible for the outside world normally.

If anyone remembers Napster or Kazaa era; some folks would share their complete C drive. I was just thinking now what would be most universal benefit from a C drive ? It would be things like Inbox.pst or common saved documents or text files. It was so easy back then.

Also; nobody knew about shredding disks or data years either; i'd just buy large sets of used HDD"s on ebay for that matter and was able to recover all it's data on these disks. Some disks of even lawyers with full information stored still.

That's might be the common practice , but this doesn't mean that such common practices can apply with nVIDIA as well.
Don't forget that nVIDIA has developed the Morpheus system ( https://developer.nvidia.com/morpheus-cybersecurity ) which is created for spotting any anomalies inside a network.
That's why i'm confident that whatever leaks those hackers may achieved won't be something of severe strategic importance for nVIDIA structure

 

[Fluffmeister]

I guess this means AMD's DLSS rival will be arriving quicker than expected.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

In the United States, it is not required by law for a corporation to disclose if they have been hacked or not. I would bet money there have been loads of hacks.

Personally, I think the world needs to slow down, and go back to mailing paper checks and nothing online, greed needs to take a backseat, Mother Earth can't take it anymore anyway, as the Great Pacific Plastic pouches can attest.

A shame humans refuse to change, and instead plow forth at full speed ahead regardless of the consequences.

Ban crypto/NFT's and move some systems back to a LAN or paper system (but not all, but majority, especially critical infrastructure)

True, the world would move a little slower, but the world worked this way just fine not that long ago.

My thoughts matter not, for humanity has already chosen its fate. Endwalker Planet Archives #7429

Nice to know somebody thinks like me on here.... My only question is this: can we REALLY look at the reality around us of the entire world and truly claim technology has a been a NET benefit for the individuals of our species? For the world as a whole? Technology and civilization can be likened to a factory farm, yes, the livestock in them are more plentiful then ever, but the quality of their life is abysmal.

*ad hominem replies need not be made

@Jism
I remember when I was a teenager, I wanted to work in computer networking. I remember sitting in class, and the professor going over 'If statements', and after about 2 hrs (I made a 'clickable ok box' my eyes started hurting, and I just felt horrible. I remember thinking to myself, do I really want to do this for the rest of my life (staring at a computer in general)? This short time span I am floating on this blue marble that is rotating gigantic oceans in front of a giant sun... I'll never understand hackers (good, bad, or neutral)... though to be fair I don't understand hardly anyone these days. I just love reading ancient history and thinking about a lot of great thinkers back then. I'll never be rich, in fact, I doubt I will ever be able to ever buy a house. I find great pleasure in knowledge for knowledges' sake, and discovering how much we have lost in modernity to our baser instincts. On the same hand, you only need a lot of money if you have a lot of expenses and also... ones perception of reality. but I digress.

I think regardless of job, a lot of people get lost in their own little worlds, and forget to look at the stars as the ancients did, to be more connected to nature and the Cosmos in general my main goal in life. It's also possible I am a fool, I am not sure which.


edit: I changed my major after 2-3 months in computer stuff, just couldn't stand it. no regrets though, even though financially I'd be more stable right now I admit

I truly identify with this statement

 

[stimpy88]

Couldn't happen to a nicer company.

 

[dyonoctis]

I love how they are offended that Nvidia tried to defend themselves haha.

To the people who have "nostalgia" of a time when technology wasn't a thing, I would just say "what if" kind of debates are always going to be fruitless. "What if the Europeans didn't invade America, what if gunpowder was never invented...". Technologie reached the current point as a natural evolution of us trying make life easier. There wasn't really a time where life was "better in every way", the problems were just different. In the current state of the world, "plugging out the internet" would be disastrous, and not just for big companies.