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In September, a hack caused panic at Uber. And for good reason, the hacker managed to compromise the company’s systems by obtaining a simple password from an employee.
The hacker would even have had access to data from the source code of Uber, to the company’s Google Drive storage space, as well as to other systems linked to Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, but also potentially to the customer data. Even more serious, the hacker was also able to access the Hacker One system, a program of bug bounty where the vulnerabilities discovered by cybersecurity experts are listed and detailed. A time bomb for the firm if the latter were to be exploited.
Consequently, this hacking fuels fears around the security of the American application, but also that of all the others developed by both technological giants and start-ups. “Uber lives thanks to its application. If it stops, the business stops”summarizes Matthieu Dierick, cybersecurity expert for the company F5 Networks. “The source code is their intellectual property”, he adds. Rockstar Games can also testify to this after suffering one of the biggest hacks in the history of video games in September with gigas of data concerning GTA VIincluding source code and game images, which have been distributed on the web by a malicious hacker.
In this context, what are the lessons of such hacks? What are the levers to guard against it? How can small start-ups be helped to protect their applications? So many questions discussed with Matthieu Dierick during the Cybersecurity Conference in Monaco. He answers it in CyberAlertthe podcast of Digital which analyzes the cybersecurity sector from every angle.