> Mr. Cooper said in its regulatory filing that the cyberattack will cost the company at least $25 million, up from an estimated $5 to 10 million, largely due to paying for identity protection to its current and former customers for two years.
For a company that makes ~$2.9 billion revenue, $25 million is a drop in the bucket. Why aren't there more repercussions for companies that can't protect their customers' data?
There have been so many breaches that result in "free identity protection services". Maybe these "identity protection service" companies are paying the hackers?
> Mr. Cooper said the hackers stole customer names, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers, as well as customer Social Security numbers and bank account numbers.
I don't understand how credit monitoring is supposed to help with a breach of bank account numbers. If my checking gets drained are they liable?
Hello. I am QA that writes tests for engineering. Technically, my title is a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). Not only do I write "test plans", I work on the test framework, infrastructure and the automation of those test plans.
Every company is different on how they implement the QA function. Whether it be left to customer, developers, customer support, manual only QA, or SDET. It really comes down to how much leadership values quality or how leadership perceives QA.
If a company has a QA team, I think the most success comes when QA get involved early in the process. If it is a good QA team, they should be finding bugs before any code is written. The later they are involved, the later you find bugs (whether the bugs are just "noise" or not) and then the tighter they get squeezed between "code complete" and release. I think that the QA team should have automation skills so more time is spent on new test cases instead of re-executing manual test cases.
Anyways, from my vantage point, the article really hits hard. QA are sometimes treated as second class citizens and left out of many discussions that can give them the context to actually do their job well. And it gets worse as the good ones leave for development or product management. So the downward spiral is real.
Oh wow I read “The Shadow of the Wind” and enjoyed it. I didn’t know that there was a series. Thank you for the comment. I now have a few more books to search for in my local used book store.
I’ve been driving my Toyota Tacoma for 22 years now and currently at 245k miles (with some off-roading thrown in there). With regular upkeep, it’s amazing how much abuse these can take and still run fine. I haven’t had any major problems. My next car will definitely be a Toyota.
I'll be disappointed if I don't get half-a-million miles out of my '01 Tacoma. The major-est piece of equipment I've had to replace was the power steering pump, and the biggest PITA was the timing belt, which didn't need to be replaced at the time, but I did it for preventative maintenance. 326k miles.
Anecdotally, my wife has owned her Toyota Celica since new in 2002. In that time, other than oil changes / tires / brake pads, the only thing that has failed is an air conditioning relay, twice. The second time around there was a new improved replacement part number, which has worked fine for 10 years now.
I also have an Audi A4 and S4. Something is always breaking on them, but they are very enjoyable to drive compared to the Celica. It has such terrible torque steer that we avoid driving it in any kind of rain. With an open diff, it's essentially a one wheel drive vehicle on any kind of low traction surface. Specifically, the front left wheel.
Yes! I learned about the library state park pass program recently and it truly is wonderful. Some state parks don’t accept the pass but the vast majority of them do. It has propelled my wife and I to explore outside of our normal park options.
From my own experience, I think this can be part of it.
My wife and I lived in an apartment several years ago. While there my wife had sleep issues and seemed to get sick more often. Close to the end of our lease, after a little rain, we found mold on the carpet and on some of our stuff in our bedroom closet.
We reported the mold to the landlords. They quickly denied it was mold, calling it “mildew” then had contractors tear open the wall and redo the insulation, carpet and walls. They offered to pay us money if we didn’t write a review regarding the incident.
We moved out as soon as we could. Now that we are lucky enough to live in our own home, we both feel a lot better in terms of sleep and health.
I can’t prove the mold was the cause of bad sleep or prove how long the mold was even there. But I don’t think I can go back to renting where I don’t have control or insight into how things are maintained.
I agree with this. Driving into the office to be stuck on Zoom is not fun. My team is spread across three geographic regions plus people that are WFH that day. No matter what, we have to be on Zoom to collaborate. I’m not sure how this makes us more productive…
