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Beware where you go in cyberspace
http://newzsentinel.com/massive-ransomware-attack-goes-global-this-is-huge/
It is not yet clear whether the attacks are all connected. One cyber-security researcher tweeted that he had detected 36,000 instances of the ransomware, called WannaCry and variants of that name
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Looking at news right now, they spend most of the time on this hacker attack, which is the television station's breaking news story. While I was watching, I came to think of the programs I've seen over the years around our modern society have become vulnerable, because almost everything is connected to the internet or other computer-controlled devices.
Now it becomes a bit conspiratory-Come to think of an article in which a man claimed that the world would end on May 13th.
Will this person be right in his claims ?
The world can also be translated into society-The world in which we live can also be written to the society in which we live.
Nothing but some thoughts about the situation about this Ransomware attack and our vulnerability.
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Rockin Robbins
05-12-17, 07:17 PM
I sit here on my Linux computer and don't have to worry about all that silliness.
Back up your Windows computers with disk image software Free Veeam Endpoint Backup is your friend.. Disconnect the drives with the backups from your system. No ransomware can touch you then. You can laugh right with me on my superior Linux machine.
It seems its attacking the older Win XP version according to the news here.
Rockin Robbins
05-13-17, 07:05 AM
Darn! I took my Windows XP guinea pig laptop down awhile ago when I replaced it with an HP All in One I acquired from a disgruntled owner, and now it won't be tested. Installed Ubuntu on the new machine and have been running XP in a VirtualBox lately when I need it. Would have been fun to see if it attracted the ransomeware.
Microsoft patches Windows XP to fight the WannaCrypt ransomware attackshttps://betanews.com/2017/05/13/microsoft-patches-windows-xp-to-fight-wannacrypt-ransomware-attacks/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/wannacrypt-ransomware-microsoft-issues-patch-for-windows-xp-and-other-old-systems/
Skybird
05-13-17, 08:52 AM
Go digital, its all safe! :yeah: Nothing to watch here! Governmental databases or private networks, password protected areas, biometric data pools, patients' health files, your private money savings - it all must go digital, its all protected, its all safe! Di-gi-tal! Di-gi-tal!
I really hope for some really serious and painfully hurting hacker strike that destroys some national pension fonds and exposes one or two nation's nation-wide patient file databses and have the ordinary Peter or Paul really suffering form the blow - it seems pain, losses and suffering are the only way to make people stop following like Lemmings the constant and notorious privacy breaching policies of Google and Microsoft and to start yelling down politicians wanting as much digital databases and cashless payment as possible. Only when the sting from the tghreats get felt and make people yell, they will start to maybe question their Lemming habits.
The fully digital world may look shiny and tempting - but before anything else it is a dangerously fragile, risk-exposed and depending world. None of that shoud be voluntarily wanted. Its no fun - its dangerous.
Skybird
05-13-17, 09:11 AM
"Lock in" - the term for a huge and dangerous problem illustrating the dependency of nations and governmental offices on the monopolist Microsoft, and the ruthlessness by which the Americans defend with all fangs and claws their powerpolitical priviliges that comes with such a monopoly in IT access. China, but also American key companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook know it better and run their IT infrastructure with open source solutions. Putin has made it a state policy to get Windows out of the Russian state'S IT infrastructure. But European states and their adminstrations and offices allow to get lobbied into the ground, to allow Microsoft the yearly cashing of 60 billions in licensing fees and accepting according threats and risks, since this always also includes American access to foreign IT systems and official services. At the same time Microsoft distributes its toxic software for free at schools and amongst juveniles, like drug dealers fish for new victims by distributing free pills first - and create lifelong addicts that then pay and pay on. The author of the following insightful article about "lock in" thereful correctly calls Microsoft'S business model that of a drug dealer indeed.
Unfortunately, this very good piece of information about the enormous and dangerous problem is in GERMAN.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/cyber-attacken-auf-staatliche-it-europas-fatale-abhaengigkeit-von-microsoft/19628246-all.html
On a sidenote, a nice anecdote told in that article, and I have read about this in more detail some months ago already: the French police in Paris has switched to Linux years ago, all by itself and by private effort. Since Microsoft started to massively lobby against that like it always does when somebody dares to reject Microsoft, it ended with the French higher ranks to order the police to return to Windows, although the Paris police demonstrated beyond doubt their Linux and open source software for its IT works better, more reliable and is more safe, than Windows. You have to give it to those Paris flics: they refuse until today the minister' order and refuse to switch back their IT infrastructure that they moved to Linux all by themselves, by own initiave and by investing private time.
And they refuse it since years. :D The ministers and the mayors came and left, some fuming. But the police in Paris just does not do it. LOL
In Munich, they want to switch back from Linux to Microsoft, too, and cannot give any explanation for that, for the city saves several millions per year in licensing fees, and has a more secure and stable IT network since 12 or 14 years with all offices beign used to, and things working fine. Its just that parts of the coalition parties are in bed with Microsoft lobbyists.
Go digital, its all safe! :yeah: Nothing to watch here! Governmental databases or private networks, password protected areas, biometric data pools, patients' health files, your private money savings - it all must go digital, its all protected, its all safe! Di-gi-tal! Di-gi-tal!
He types on a discussion forum, a digital media.
Rockin Robbins
05-13-17, 10:17 AM
Go digital, its all safe! :yeah: Nothing to watch here! Governmental databases or private networks, password protected areas, biometric data pools, patients' health files, your private money savings - it all must go digital, its all protected, its all safe! Di-gi-tal! Di-gi-tal!
I really hope for some really serious and painfully hurting hacker strike that destroys some national pension fonds and exposes one or two nation's nation-wide patient file databses and have the ordinary Peter or Paul really suffering form the blow - it seems pain, losses and suffering are the only way to make people stop following like Lemmings the constant and notorious privacy breaching policies of Google and Microsoft and to start yelling down politicians wanting as much digital databases and cashless payment as possible. Only when the sting from the tghreats get felt and make people yell, they will start to maybe question their Lemming habits.
The fully digital world may look shiny and tempting - but before anything else it is a dangerously fragile, risk-exposed and depending world. None of that shoud be voluntarily wanted. Its no fun - its dangerous.
Please note that Skybird forgot to invoke the [IRONY] flag before his first paragraph.:D:D:D
Rockin Robbins
05-13-17, 10:25 AM
He types on a discussion forum, a digital media.
It is one thing to consider yourself safe enough to type useless and valueless information on a digital forum. It is quite another to run an entire Walmart, which when Internet service is lost, cannot sell a single item until Internet is restored. It is entirely different from leaving your life savings exposed to vulnerable system, or thousands of people's life savings in a pension fund fully exposed to an Internet hack attack.
I think what Skybird said is actually understating the potential harm of completely trusting a system which is already broken, but we use it for things we cannot afford to lose.
It's really appalling that my credit card is much less secure than my Google account. If I log into my Google account, they send a freshly minted six digit PIN to my cell phone. I must enter that six digit number into the logon screen, thereby affirming that I am not an imposter.
With my credit card company, they merely decline to honor the transaction if it doesn't comply with my "usual pattern of purchases." I call the number on the back of my card and voila! They release the cash to the imposter. All he needs is a bit (not much!) personal information. If he gets one wrong they helpfully give him another chance with another question so he can steal my money.
But equating trust in posting to Subsim with pension funds is just silly. One will never be a target (well, maybe to small time spammers). The other is a big, juicy target for every criminal in their underwear with a computer and idle time.
em2nought
05-13-17, 11:13 AM
Just like we have the option to freeze our credit, we should have the option to not have our bank accounts available over the internet. :yeah:
ikalugin
05-13-17, 11:17 AM
The story is overblown.
The ransomware in question uses a known and patched vulnerability meaning that if you are a sensible person who patches his OS on time you are safe.
The dependency argument against say Microsoft would work only if this was a zero-day or some other kind of serious stuff.
This is not the first time this (ie a malware that uses a known and patched for vulnerability gets released) and it would not be the last one, as it exploits human laziness and stupidity (not patching on time).
ikalugin
05-13-17, 11:25 AM
Putin has made it a state policy to get Windows out of the Russian state'S IT infrastructure.In this specific case there would be no difference between Windows or Lunix (or any other OS for that matter) because the attack was through a known vulnerability and the reason why it worked was because people did not patch on time.
It's really appalling that my credit card is much less secure than my Google account. If I log into my Google account, they send a freshly minted six digit PIN to my cell phone. I must enter that six digit number into the logon screen, thereby affirming that I am not an imposter.
With my credit card company, they merely decline to honor the transaction if it doesn't comply with my "usual pattern of purchases." I call the number on the back of my card and voila! They release the cash to the imposter. All he needs is a bit (not much!) personal information. If he gets one wrong they helpfully give him another chance with another question so he can steal my money.Strange, but I guess it depends on bank to bank. The bank I use has 2 factor identification as standard for majority of activities, especially on the internet, as well as an effective anti-fraud system (which catches 99.5 percent of fraud attempts if I remember it correctly). For phone banking you need to know full personal data and the password for phone banking (which you can set to anything).
But equating trust in posting to Subsim with pension funds is just silly. One will never be a target (well, maybe to small time spammers). The other is a big, juicy target for every criminal in their underwear with a computer and idle time.
You underestimate the effort ones has to make to be an effective cyber criminal and in any case - pension funds just like banks would be bailed out with printed money (another event Skybird would hate to see happening I guess).
The story is overblown.
The ransomware in question uses a known and patched vulnerability meaning that if you are a sensible person who patches his OS on time you are safe.
The dependency argument against say Microsoft would work only if this was a zero-day or some other kind of serious stuff.
This is not the first time this (ie a malware that uses a known and patched for vulnerability gets released) and it would not be the last one, as it exploits human laziness and stupidity (not patching on time).
That's true-If you install the patches that comes from Microsoft or other companies like your antivirus-provider you are almost safe.
The problem is most of the computers or software that runs a countries supplies like electricity and water, are old. Remember a news program from 2010 or something showing that a majority of the Swedish computers that make sure 80-90 % of the Swedish people had electricity was old XP and most of them wasn't patched.
Late last night and throughout the day the Swedish news paper aftonbladet, wrote-Our supply lines of electricity is in danger-And that's true, ´cause the computers that run this is old.
Then you have to add incompetent people that just can't figure out not to open files that looks not correct or click on a link in a mail. These two factors can make a country go black.
Edit
In the lower part of the TV screen, a text scrolls with a constant text.
Center for Cyber Security, urges owners and administrators to upgrade / patch their windows based systems as soon as possible
Most if not all of our system in Denmark are running on window based systems-Electricity, water etc etc.
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Skybird
05-13-17, 01:30 PM
Microsoft is a company falling under US laws and thus cannot resist demands by the US giovenrment to build backdoors into the software that can be used by US services to gain access to said systems - may it be for business espionage, political spionage, crime fighting or preparing an act of cyberwarfare via the public and private sector. Evertyhing is possible. The NSA has confirmed officially that it is its policy to gain the ability to access any existing comoputer system in the world,. no matter hwere and no matter by whom it is owned and used, and for what. US companies are prohibited by US laws to make knownj to the poublic that the government may have approached them and ordered them to assist in surveillance or infiltration of comnpouters and networks in the Us and internatiuonally. The legal threats for violating this law and breaking the silence, start with 5 years in prison. This means whenever some CEO of Apple or Microsoft proudly explains to the mikes that his company refused to cooperate with the giovenrment, this staement you muist rate as "worth nothing", because if he would tell something else, and it is true, he/she would be in serious troubles already. Such statements thus are meaningless.
The biggest security risk in all this thus is having Microsoft software (or Google or Apple) running on your hardware, no matter whether you are private, official, business, public sector and service or whatever.
Again: the biggest problem, the biggest security problem here is Microsoft and using Microsoft software - of any kind. The advise is to not use software and service and IT structures of ANY US company, or any international company having offices in the US territories.
Robbins got what I am pointing at. But the naivety of all you others is breathtaking. Its the year 2017 - have you all stopped living 15 years ago already, have you frozen your look on the world and things back then...??? The digital world is a warzone, and the war is hot. And organised crime is one of the smaller worries you should be concerned about. States and their services and secret policies and laws are far more dangerous.
Stockmarket insiders since years say that they take it for granted that stockmarket'S IT structures get attacked and used for manipulation since long, not so much for stelaing money, but for hurting certain hostile nations or hostile parties, actors, companies. This can and I am certain is beign done on behalf of stabilizing the dysfunctional internatiponbal money order and ecponoimic order, too. You can destabulise hostile natiosn by attacking it s social seucrity system when damaging them by stockmarket manipulation. You can manipulate powergrids and energy consummation levels to inbcrease the costs a nation has to pay for prodividng energy, you can unsettle the poublic by manipoulating it, the economic framework in which it lives, the costs the private man has to pay for everyday needs of life. You can give your own companies advanatges by telliung them info on what the companies on other coutnries are up to in negotiations and stratgeic polanning. And so forth. You can bring down traffic systems, delay information distribution for suzpporting of preparing other hostile action asnd to derlay the target naiton'S reaction. You can erode public trust and chnage the general climate in a nation ba attacking healthcare systenms. And so on and on and on. The possibilities are endless.
Becasue the big thing is: if all and evertyhing is digital, then all and evertyhing is available as a taregt from everywhere int rhe world and for anyone in the world. If oyu have your money in a safe in your flat, somebody may break into your house and try to steal it. But if you are forced to have it on your bankign account as digital currency, then you are available not just for thieves in your local vicitnity, but for ever yhacker ion the whole damn globe. Everybody becomes a target for everbody else, from anywhere and for just any purpose. You can even be turned into a wepaon to damage others, woith9out your knowledge, or with you knopwing and just not being able to prevent it.
That is why I am against this totally naive optimism and wanted opportunistic laissez-faire attitude regarding unlimited, undiscriminatory digitalization. The way it is done now and gets propagated by interest businesses, is not cool. It simply is stupid, and ignorrant. Tinfoil hat conspiration theories have nothing to do with it. Do not call me paranoid when you have jumped out of the window in 10th floor becasue you saw your friend grinning and doing it right before you, and then hear me yelling you better should try to get a hold before impacting on the ground. That is no conspiration theory and no paranoia - that is sound advice against the odds.
As mentioned in this thread Microsoft has released some updates to their older version of windows from WIN7 or was it WIN8 down to WIN XP.
Some expert said on TV that they expect millions and millions of operating system who is upholding important systems like our electricity,water and other things very vulnerable and we have only seen top of the iceberg we can expect an huge increase when we hit Monday morning.
Later I heard that Renault had been hit by this ransomware and even German Rail(DB) had this ransomware, they can't send information their station about when or where a train arrives or goes and so on.
I'm waiting for the first news about some electrical supply company have gone down due to this ransomware and that 10000 or more people is without electricity.
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Markus
Occam's Razor! Yours for the low, low price of $10.69!:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/with-11-domain-purchase-uk-techie-arms-for-battle-vs-wannacry-ransomware-2017-05-13
https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-18-2015/F30FgK.gif
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Rockin Robbins
05-15-17, 05:39 AM
Occam's Razor! Yours for the low, low price of $10.69!:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/with-11-domain-purchase-uk-techie-arms-for-battle-vs-wannacry-ransomware-2017-05-13
https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-18-2015/F30FgK.gif
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But this particular Occam's Razor dulls quickly as the malware mutates to avoid and the malware automatically updates itself without your knowledge or consent (a tactic duly adopted by Microsoft, by the way). Then it's back to the races, in progress.....
The real Occam's Razor is absolutely free and is called Linux. The majority of web servers, probably including the one that hosts Subsim, are now Linux because Linux really is that superior to Microsoft products.
As Microsoft Windows continues to degenerate and devolve from an operating system which serves its customers to a piece of malware which serves primarily to serve advertising to paying customers and harvest their personal information for database marketing purposes, you will eventually be forced to move to Linux. Why not start learning about it and using it now, while you have a choice?
It looks like it has gone politics in this Ransomware-gate
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15643226/wannacry-ransomware-north-korea-attribution-wannacrypt
Will not speculate about reaction from the world leaders, if they find evidence that NK is behind this
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Skybird
05-15-17, 08:05 PM
It seems the attack was and is abusing a weakness not in XP, but W7 and higher. I took the opportunity to - manually - install my first Windows update since two years on my Windows game-launching machine. :D
Meanwhile it got reported that the latest nVidia drivers have several kernel-level vulnerabilities. :haha:
Digital infrastructure is safe. We need cashless society. We need digital biometric data pools. We need all our vital stuff and codes on our smartphones. We need digitalization everywhere, and on all levels where it so far has worked well without it. Because we can trust it. Digital infrastructure is safe. And it becomes the safer the more experts guard and protect it. :har:
We may need a Butlerian Jihad. LINK :hmmm: :yep: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad)
Murphy's law - give it long enough time, and just anythign that can happen, will happen.
It seems the attack was and is abusing a weakness not in XP, but W7 and higher. I took the opportunity to - manually - install my first Windows update since two years on my Windows game-launching machine. :D
Lemme guess, kb4012212x64, I did too.... manually : )
Murphy's law - give it long enough time, and just anythign that can happen, will happen.
Trying to catch-up on what's new abut this ongoing ransomware story
Earlier in a Danis radio program called Aflytter=wiretapped it was said that Microsoft already in February had patches to XP and up against this Wannacry.
I don't know if this is true-if it is true it makes one wonder.
Markus
Shadow Brokers threaten to release even more NSA-sourced malware
The hacking group claims it will launch in June a subscription-based monthly dump of compromised datahttp://www.infoworld.com/article/3196836/malware/shadow-brokers-threaten-to-release-even-more-nsa-sourced-malware.html
Well there you go..
ikalugin
05-18-17, 03:32 AM
Isn't it quite amusing how while west is talking all the time about Russian cyber it is NSA and CIA who are leaking cyber weapons all over the place?
Not quite right: the NSA and the CIA are not "leaking cyber weapons all over the place". The cyber weapons weapons were stolen (possibly by, oh, say, someone like the FSB? :03: :D) from the NSA and CIA and released by "hacktivists"...
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Moonlight
05-18-17, 04:49 AM
There's a possibility that even more malware is infecting peoples computers.
New reports suggest a larger scale ‘Adylkuzz’ cyber attack is underway, silently mines infected computers for virtual currency https://www.onmsft.com/news/new-reports-suggest-a-larger-scale-adylkuzz-cyber-attack-is-underway-silently-mines-infected-computers-for-virtual-currency
Skybird
05-18-17, 04:56 AM
Not quite right: the NSA and the CIA are not "leaking cyber weapons all over the place". The cyber weapons weapons were stolen (possibly by, oh, say, someone like the FSB? :03: :D) from the NSA and CIA and released by "hacktivists"...
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I thought theft is forbidden...?
And aren't the NSA's and CIA's cyber vaults said to be "safe"? I mean its all holy digital - praised might be the divinity of this term - so it must be soooper-doooper-secure!
Skybird
05-18-17, 05:00 AM
Lemme guess, kb4012212x64, I did too.... manually : )
Yep.
Temporarily all quiet on the front. I doubt the silence will last.
I like in all this that Linux market shares have not risen. Indeed I read soemwhere a short whole ago that they have dropped a little bit, from 1.8 to 1.7% or something like that. That means it will remain to be unattractive for hackers to attack. If it would climb to lets say 10% or more, this would chnage, and then it goes the Android's way which also once was claimed to be secure, but is no more.
Popularity is a curse. Lets stop recommendign Linux.
The current problem with Linux is the OS is not all that user friendly and by that , I mean for the average, casual user, Linux is not as 'plug and play' as they would like. What made MS and Apple OS popular early on and, more recently, Android, is the ease of use and 'relateability'; Linux just requires a bit too much tech knowledge for the vast majority of users who just want to turn it on, point, click and go without too much muss or fuss of having to deal with compatibility issues (drivers, software, etc.); Linux isn't a bad OS, its just a bit too 'high maintenance'...
And, yes, the 'immunity' of Linux to hack attacks is largely due to Linux representing such a small portion of the market; if Linux ever got to, say, 25%+ of the market, it will attract the hackers...
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Linux is easy , my kids used slax live cd when they were six years old , now 16 ,[ no problems ].
I installed LXLE and Zorin on so many peoples computers ,moving them away from windows, [easy ].
I am writing this on PCLINUXOS full monty on a 2004 intel machine ,[ o it is my internet machine that is on 24/7 ]
3 laptops
1= old as with puppy Linux
2= mild life hp with LXLE , Zorin & vista
3= late with LXLE, Zorin , Ubuntu mate & Kali linux
O but I use windows off line for games
:salute:
Skybird
05-18-17, 07:12 AM
I am writing this on PCLINUXOS full monty on a 2004 intel machine ,[ o it is my internet machine that is on 24/7 ]
3 laptops
1= old as with puppy Linux
2= mild life hp with LXLE , Zorin & vista
3= late with LXLE, Zorin , Ubuntu mate & Kali linux
O but I use windows off line for games
:salute:
Sounds poretty much like how I do it since two years. W7 only as a game launcher, though online (Steam).
Even if the machine fecthes some malwarem, what coukld happen moe than compromising by Steam account? No data loss or privacy corruption is to be feared, I simply kill the HD and install W7 and games new and thats it. All work, email, browsing, data, photos, documents, are on a linux laptop.
For simmers and gamers, dual hardware really is the option to choose these times. While you can get some games to run under Linux, it is neither ideal (additonal controlle rhardware all too pften cause problems or lack drivers), nor are all games available for WINE or in Linux variants (though more than some people think). Especially study sims and hardcore sims are problematic under Linux. I stopped trying to get the stuff I am interestd in to run under Linux.
Maybe I one day end up with abandonign some games, and have my Assetto Corsa running on PS4.
Not ideal compared to PC, but better than nothing.
Chess on Linux is a sad thing, however. Nothing that comes even close to the Chessbase products and interfaces, or Arena. Even Android has better stuff for chessers. You cna play chess, yes, but advanced stuff for really serious chessers is not available fo Linux.
Chess on Linux is a sad thing, however. Nothing that comes even close to the Chessbase products and interfaces, or Arena. Even Android has better stuff for chessers. You cna play chess, yes, but advanced stuff for really serious chessers is not available fo Linux.
That's a bummer, I like Arena to review game pgn files but prefer OTB. Online has too many cheaters in non bullet chess (I don't do bullet).
ikalugin
05-18-17, 03:31 PM
Not quite right: the NSA and the CIA are not "leaking cyber weapons all over the place". The cyber weapons weapons were stolen (possibly by, oh, say, someone like the FSB? :03: :D) from the NSA and CIA and released by "hacktivists"...<O>
Compared to CIA/NSA and other US based actors actors allegedly affiliated with FSB/SVR/GRU are small time amatuers.
I mean that is the core reason why we dont leak big way (and those are leaks - Vault-7 was the CIA wiki dump that was going around CIA related civilian contractors) the way US actors are. We just dont have that kind of arsenal or big organised organisations working on that kind of stuff.
Skybird
05-19-17, 05:41 AM
That's a bummer, I like Arena to review game pgn files but prefer OTB. Online has too many cheaters in non bullet chess (I don't do bullet).
If you have a smartphone or tablet with Android, I could help with some recommendations.
If you have a smartphone or tablet with Android, I could help with some recommendations.
Thanks but I don't have a smartphone or tablet - yes I know, I'm behind the technology times :) I don't even have a flip-phone! ha!
Skybird
05-19-17, 06:05 PM
Thanks but I don't have a smartphone or tablet - yes I know, I'm behind the technology times :) I don't even have a flip-phone! ha!
Nothing wrong there. I have my smartphone only since 4 months - and it is my first one. :) And a WLAN tab since 2.5 years. I do not like getting called or telephoning when not being at home.
Skybird
05-21-17, 04:47 PM
I cannot help it, but something smells fishy there. I had a suspicion from beginning on, since I read the first time that WannaCry only seems to attack W7, but not W10 or XP. Could it be that this shock and awe show has been somehow staged by Microsoft to discredit the biggest rival to its W10 - which would be W7? XP is not relevant anymore, but W7 still has the biggest marketshare, roughly one half of the Windows market.
https://www.askwoody.com/2017/windows-10-anniversary-update-ok/
Their tactics have been so underhanded in past two years and they have overstepped so many red lines, that this scenario is absolutely not beyond their limit.
Note that I say this, not Woody. Woody just links to the numbers. Do not hold him responsible for what I think about loud.
Rockin Robbins
05-25-17, 01:54 PM
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Onkel Neal
06-27-17, 03:21 PM
It's back
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19I1TD
I wonder if this is the reason why Microsoft issued "urgent" update and patches, even to XP, a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2491153&postcount=1
Could these be the "state-sponsored" attacks MS was concerned about?... :hmmm:
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It's back
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19I1TD
Dallas? :)
Oh wait you mean..naughty malware.
It is 23:20 and using Win 7 32 bits and IE 11, and all is well!!:D Oh wait what this button do?
http://i.imgur.com/0TvQFev.jpg
Skybird
06-28-17, 05:14 AM
Its a safe world. Digitze your life, your precious, your money,, everything - its safe! These digital things have inbuilt security, you know, it all was built to be trusted. :up:
If you happen to still read Woody's blog you can see that recently things have turned from bad to worse in the Windows world. Its a mess. His DEFCON indicator since almost a week is at level 1 now, defintely not recommended to patch anything (i Wndows 10). Since the two years I read him, i have not seen things slide for the messy side for such a long, unbroken period of time.
Oh, since I am supposed to say it anyway: Windows is dead. Many of you just still refuse to see it. You are operating an infectous zombie. And it bites. Best advice is to no longe rinvest in peripheral hardware you can operate only under Windows. My latest race wheel for exmaple is also console compatible.
Seems some of the culprits behind last weeks cyber attacks may have been caught:
Police seize servers of Ukrainian software firm after cyber attack --
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-ukraine-police-idUSKBN19P1YF
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