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Putin has made it a state policy to get Windows out of the Russian state'S IT infrastructure.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).