Simple solution

http://asecuritygroup.com/page2/file...ge-14133d6.jpg

In all seriousness I think that this is a fight that cannot be won. There is an overwhelming mass of users who have little or not awareness of internet security, or even care about it. They have, and will live their lives with credit cards, facebook, and all the other things which terrify some, and yes, their information will be brought and sold to the highest bidder, and they will essentially become a commodity in a new trading market. But, ultimately they will still get up, go to work, come home from work, eat, drink, sleep, go out with friends, surf the net, connect with friends, and do all the things that 60-70% of the internet user base does with only a cursory regard for security and the use of the information that they broadcast.
Will this lead to the downfall of mankind?
I doubt it, I imagine that more of the same will continue, internet attacks will get bigger and more powerful, there will be more disruption in our lives because of it, but just as people design bigger mice, others will design bigger mouse-traps, equipment and updates that are designed to counter the vulnerabilities in older software, but of course these fixes will likely introduce new vulnerabilities which will then need to be patched and so on and so forth.
You cannot escape this, you cannot live a life without this unless you want to create further hardship for yourself. If you wish to do this, then it is your decision, but eventually you will come into some contact with the interconnected world that you cannot escape from. Short of taking yourself into Alaska or Siberia, living off whatever food you can scavenge or kill, and either only generating electricity through renewables or not having any electricity at all. Of course, if you get ill then you'll have to hope that you have a herb or something nearby that will work with your illness otherwise you're screwed, but you'll have that true 'off the grid' experience.
There's something to be said for that lifestyle, and not just that it is brutal, but there is perhaps a certain reward to taking what nature can throw at you and not dying.
The rest of the world, though, will keep on ticking, keep on connecting, keep on transmitting. You think things are vulnerable now, wait until we start connecting people directly to the internet. Wait until the increased automation makes a whole section of society unemployed. There are much bigger battles ahead, and no-one in the upper echelons of power seems to be even thinking about them. When you couple that with the entry into a new climatic norm, the potential for global sea level rises effecting dozens of major cities which are nearly all by the sea or rivers, and we've got a big battle on our hands and we really need to start preparing for it now. But we won't. Will it end us all? No, but it's going to make things very unstable, and I think that there will be some dark, and some light times ahead. Some nations will possibly become shining beacons of hope and change, others will collapse into anarchy. There may be another major war which will put humanity back a few centuries but it won't kill us all off. We're a stubborn lot.
Ultimately though, there's sod all we can do about it, just get on with our lives and try to make the best of it, look after each other, and just bring a bit of happiness to others wherever we can, because it's a pretty depressing world at times, and if we want to get through it then we need some reason to continue to do so, if there's no future to live for then we need to find another reason to live. :yep:

And for a timely example of what I mean about a losing battle, take a look at the UK and the 'Snoopers charter' which will get royal assent on Thursday. Now for a year, ISPs will have to keep a record of every website and messaging service you visit on any device.
There has been rebellion on this from every corner, from ISPs themselves down to figures like Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In the end though it was for naught, and it was railroaded through parliament.
That being said, there will be attempts to repeal it, but I doubt that they will succeed, although I hope that they do, and we'll probably be stuck with it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38134560

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https://www.amazon.de/Die-Stunde-Dil...chel+dilletant

You are German. Very recommended. Sophisticated in language. Devastating in content.

"Der Dilettant reduziert alles auf das Maß seines Vorstellungsvermögens."

More good news.

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/11/3...ched-gooligan/

Its the biggest Google database breach ever so far, they say.

Breaching account databases of companies has become an ordinary hobby these days. Nothing to see here, no worries wanted, move on and enjoy life.

P.S. Check their list of infested apps down the article, there are a few really known names amongst them.

Breach caused by the users themselves for installing crap and clicking on links without giving it a second thought.

Nothing really knew there.

Not really. Breach is caused by software from Google's "secure" Playstore. Its not all just garbage code from some obscure Android website in Romania or Russia.

That is as if the official download repository for Linux would get corrupted. Infection of the brain itself and the central nervous system strain along the backspine.

Playstore just 2-3 years ago was said to be "safe". :haha:And Android was said to be not needing any protection or anti virus. :har: In the over two years I used Android tablets now, the damage rate and infestation of software in Google'S store has dramatically exploded. If you still think you need no security software for Android like you need for Windows, then nobody can help you. Problem is: they do not work as reliable under Android than they did under Windows in its better years. I now no longer consider to ever update my hardware depending on Android. Its history for me, like Windows. No more newer Android tablets for me. Thank God I do not need such things urgently anyway.

From the article you posted:
You do read the articles you post, right?

I read them for sure, but this time ooopsed up the memorizing. I stored the related passage with exactly the opposite meaning into some corner of my memory.

Which is forgivable because nevertheless it is a fatc that the number of infested apps in Google Playstore has constantly grown rapidly over the past 30 months since I use Android tabs. Myself, I got hit twice already, with a Backgammon app and an - at that time quite popular - security app (ironically). and I do not even use a smartphone, only WLAN tab, which was a fact to my rescue, probably.

And an upodate on the currently running Mirai attack. The attack still goes on, says Telekom and German Federal Office for IT Security BSI. While some routers refused to accept the code trying to infest them, and broke down due to that, many other routers have accepted it, as well as webcams, heating control circuits and various gadgets from households. Its not over and most likely will run on for more days to come. It still is growing, despite the apparently working patches that were fed into the router networks by Telekom.

Its possible though yet undetermined, that the number of attacked targets was/is several times as biog as just those close to 1 million routers that stopped working recently. And this to the already existing size of the Mirai botnet.

Heck i've found just getting older makes things a lot worse. :)

I can't speak for anyone else, but I suspect the next few decades are going to get a lot better for me. Or at least a lot simpler.

Taking into account the state of your memory, I suspect a great deal 'simpler' :O:

Update for Dowly:

Some German media today reported that Gooligan malware indeed gets spread via apps bought in the Google Playstore as well as via apps bought form other appstores.

Google Playstore is fully affected by this. Which does not surprise me. As I dsaid, Playstore is not the totally safe repository that many take it for. Its only better than others.

Just saying. ;)

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On the positive side: German police has after four years and in cooperaiton with Europol cracked down hard on the Avalanche botnet, consisting of over half a million of infested machines and having caused financial damages of "several hundred million" in the past two years, with 6 million losses alone in Germany". During arrests in various European cities, in Kiew a firefight of some kind took place, with a suspect attackling police with his assault rifle. Nobody was injured thoiughht, the suspect got overwhelmed.

Its the biggest success of law enforcement against this kind of crime, accordingly wide the grin was that the Germans were showing today. :D

What they do not say is that while it is the biggest single success, in the total picture it is just a drop on the hot stone. Usually police and law enforcement trail behind, with criminals setting the pace from a comfortable lead. Total global damages from cybercrime and virtual bank robberies are in the billions.

A Botnet Takes Down Nearly a Million German Routers

I really did not like reading this article, especially the part about :timeout: