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This is what happens when you outsource to 'Incredible' India, the super brains of the IT world - allegedly - but totally inept when it comes to IT services.
The best thing the IT industry can do is move out of India. The cult will infiltrate data, hold companies to ransom, and have the power to bring down any Indian led IT service.
To top it off, India and quality do not go hand in hand, the latest Iphone 17 Pro's manufactured in India are already showing defects!
It's time to dismantle the India and IT synergy myth.
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An Indian IT and outsourcing giant is facing questions over whether its helpdesks are being targeted.
“The dragon wants to speak to you,” said the ominous message to Stuart Machin, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer (M&S).
“We have mercilessly raped your company and encrypted all the servers.”
The note, sent from an employee’s email address by hackers, came as a devastating cyber attack locked down M&S’s systems and forced it to halt online sales at a cost of £300m.
Since then, hackers from a gang calling themselves Scattered Spider have unleashed a wave of attacks across Britain, most recently bringing carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to a standstill. The attackers have also been linked to a breach of customer data at the Co-op and a hack of Australian airline Qantas.
The string of attacks on major companies has led to questions about just how hackers were able to gain access.
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of GCHQ, warned in May that IT helpdesk teams – which can reset passwords or solve common computer gripes – were being targeted by hackers seeking to trick their way into businesses.
Some cyber experts now claim that one company – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an Indian IT and outsourcing giant – is being targeted and could be a weak link in the system.
On Friday, Liam Byrne, the chairman of the business and trade committee, wrote to Krithi Krithivasan, the chief executive of TCS, demanding details of TCS’s work with M&S, Co-op and JLR and asking whether it had launched an internal investigation into the cyber attack on the carmaker.
In a sign of concerns about how reliant the UK has become on the outsourcer, Byrne also called on Krithivasan to reveal the extent of TCS’s involvement with Britain’s critical national infrastructure.
In a blog post last week, Kevin Beaumont, a cyber security consultant, wrote that it is “well known in the cyber industry” that hackers were “phoning helpdesks and asking for access and getting it with ease”.
He added: “TCS provided this helpdesk service, shared across customers.”
DT
The best thing the IT industry can do is move out of India. The cult will infiltrate data, hold companies to ransom, and have the power to bring down any Indian led IT service.
To top it off, India and quality do not go hand in hand, the latest Iphone 17 Pro's manufactured in India are already showing defects!
It's time to dismantle the India and IT synergy myth.
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An Indian IT and outsourcing giant is facing questions over whether its helpdesks are being targeted.
“The dragon wants to speak to you,” said the ominous message to Stuart Machin, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer (M&S).
“We have mercilessly raped your company and encrypted all the servers.”
The note, sent from an employee’s email address by hackers, came as a devastating cyber attack locked down M&S’s systems and forced it to halt online sales at a cost of £300m.
Since then, hackers from a gang calling themselves Scattered Spider have unleashed a wave of attacks across Britain, most recently bringing carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to a standstill. The attackers have also been linked to a breach of customer data at the Co-op and a hack of Australian airline Qantas.
The string of attacks on major companies has led to questions about just how hackers were able to gain access.
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of GCHQ, warned in May that IT helpdesk teams – which can reset passwords or solve common computer gripes – were being targeted by hackers seeking to trick their way into businesses.
Some cyber experts now claim that one company – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an Indian IT and outsourcing giant – is being targeted and could be a weak link in the system.
On Friday, Liam Byrne, the chairman of the business and trade committee, wrote to Krithi Krithivasan, the chief executive of TCS, demanding details of TCS’s work with M&S, Co-op and JLR and asking whether it had launched an internal investigation into the cyber attack on the carmaker.
In a sign of concerns about how reliant the UK has become on the outsourcer, Byrne also called on Krithivasan to reveal the extent of TCS’s involvement with Britain’s critical national infrastructure.
In a blog post last week, Kevin Beaumont, a cyber security consultant, wrote that it is “well known in the cyber industry” that hackers were “phoning helpdesks and asking for access and getting it with ease”.
He added: “TCS provided this helpdesk service, shared across customers.”
DT
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