Home Depot going Apple Mac Ping!
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I have been in Home Depot very recently and have seen their CRT monitors and dot matrix printers on their counters. I’m pretty sure they were not investing much to keep current. I’m not a computer guy but they are not even in the last decade with their hardware so maybe their software isn’t the main culprit.
Seems like more of an excuse and then using Microsoft and Apple as foils.
Fact is that any system has vulnerabilities, even the military systems are constantly compromised.
Having an Apple as the layer one device isn’t going to mitigate against the OSI model devices from being attacked.
No doubt if more Mac’s were in the workplace, more resources would be used to hack them and more exploits would occur.
I don’t know where or how these exec’s got infected but if these yoyo’s had the discipline to use their business laptop for business this wouldn’t have happened.
Not sure how this thread turned into Apple vs. Microsoft nonsense...
... but Home Depot (or this article) is BSing. The plain fact, as reported by nearly every tech site I can think of, is that they *elected* to stay with an old version of embedded Windows despite being warned repeatedly of the risk. In short, Home Depot weighed our financial integrity vs. the cost to upgrade, and decided poorly.
Might be for security or it might be that Home Depot wants to reward the guy whose greatest gift from God is that he’s a homo...
HD sent me a email two days ago warning me that, with the recent breach, the bad guys had accessed a file that contained my email address...and to be careful of nefarious offers from strangers.
I replied...”You guys are really on the ball. The breach occurred over two months ago and you’re just now sending me an email. Thanks a lot.”
Forget Apple or Windows, the only way to secure a network from a careless employee (appears to be someone in executive in this case) is to take away their computer and replace it with an etch-a-sketch.
Remember, (Manning, Snowden, etc.) were guys who passed and were awarded security clearances, who were already in a connected facility, already inside the firewall, already on the network with authorized, elevated privilege user accounts, who had full access to the data they stole and any manager who casually glanced at them would likely be able to spot what they were doing.
Due to the need for some acceptable level of productivity, security technology will only take you so far. At some point you have to expose your data to humans, which is when you start rolling the data-spillage dice despite the best efforts of the info-assurance security-nazi’s. Regardless of the platform, some human will usually — intentionally or accidentally — open a door or forget to lock-up when they are done.
My point of view is that systems can’t be hardened beyond a certain point if you still want to use the systems to “get work done”. I.T. security needs to focus more on the human side of the equation, than the technical side.
This seems to be a little beside the point. The hackers would have gained access through cracking Windows SERVERS on the network, not somebody’s personal PC.
I always pay in CASH wherever I shop,including Home Depot, Costco,Lowes....No electronic Transactions, Pay bills by writing checks.
Am I worried?? NOPE
Abstinence works every time it is tried!!!
It’s not clear to me why getting Apples for the executives is going to help anything. Was the breach due to an executive’s laptop??? Was my email address on someone’s personal machine?
This is so full of poop as to be insulting. Their security breach has nothing to do with operating systems, and anyone that knows security knows this is an outright lie.