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Tuesday’s massive ransomware outbreak was, in fact, something much worse
ArsTechnica ^
| 6/29/2017
| DAN GOODIN
Posted on 06/28/2017 9:51:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Hillary Clinton on line 2....
To: TigerLikesRooster
Can they just target Mueller and his minions?
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posted on
06/29/2017 12:03:44 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I swear, for decades it’s always those darn DO Looops that allow one to Bigly enhance one’s ability to make mistakes.
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posted on
06/29/2017 12:09:43 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/29/2017 12:13:10 AM PDT
by
TChad
To: Paladin2
Nearly impossible to write a program with no loops, though.
New generation of object-oriented languages turned simple loop tasks into methods attached to an object. Still you eventually need your own user-defined loops.
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posted on
06/29/2017 12:22:49 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TChad
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posted on
06/29/2017 1:37:38 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: 867V309
If you use Firefox (mine’s Linux version, Iceweasel) there is a plugin called No Script. I’ve used it for several years.
That and task manager is how I combat Java script attacks. I commonly get them. I only enable the minimum number of Java scripts for a specific site. It has helped.
It may not be protection from this attack.
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posted on
06/29/2017 2:58:11 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: 867V309
But all of what you said is true and valid advice.
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posted on
06/29/2017 2:59:00 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: TChad
So how does one know this is safe?
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:13:32 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
To: dr_lew
Fie on the cloud! Why anyone would want ANY of their stuff “out there” in cyberspace is beyond me.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:21:02 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
To: TigerLikesRooster
From the article:
In almost all other aspects, Tuesday's malware was impressive. It used two exploits developed by and later stolen from the National Security Agency. It combined those exploits with custom code that stole network credentials so the malware could infect fully patched Windows computers. And it was seeded by compromising the update mechanism for M.E.Doc, a tax-filing application that is almost mandatory for companies that do business in Ukraine.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:21:04 AM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: MayflowerMadam
You may dodge cloud onslaught for now, but all big IT companies will force people to use cloud. A growing number of companies offer cloud-only service.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:26:37 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: Strac6
FOUR TB FOR $129, Incredible!I remember looking in awe at a 1GB drive.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:36:36 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: TigerLikesRooster
“You may dodge cloud onslaught for now, but all big IT companies will force people to use cloud.”
That’s fine, I guess. I’m almost 70 and retired, and I don’t really have/do anything important. I’ll just continue to use my 2T external for now.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:38:37 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
To: Strac6
Actually, I think it was a 2.1GB drive. Might have been a Seagate drive.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:43:22 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: MayflowerMadam
Keep all your program installation CD’s and offline installation files. That will come handy someday. They may not even allow offline program installation soon.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:45:06 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: fso301
I paid nearly $800 for a 20 MB SCSI hard drive. Hard to believe...
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:47:18 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Clinton Foundation has a lot of cash to help pay for such work around the globe to meet their ends.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:52:26 AM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
To: fso301
Seagate drives are not really reliable. Might have some convenient features, but they tend to die sooner than I expected.
If you want them for purely backup purpose, Japanese drives could be better choices. They are purely external storage devices, not trying to be close substitutes for internal hard drives, which have to handle constant data transfer. My experience shows that they are more durable. I used to use Seagate but switched to Toshiba. So far they are doing well.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:53:23 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: Strac6
I have a hard drive dock and several hard drives in a box in my closet. At least once a week I take the oldest backup and overwrite it with a new full image backup. I also have a program that views all email in non-HTML mode so I can delete anything questionable before loading my mail program.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:54:20 AM PDT
by
AMiller
(Almiller)
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