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12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
(May 12, 2017 at 5:13 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Wasn't me.

Ok, I confess. I used my nearly godlike hacking abilities to pull this off. I am now the master of the internext.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
Some ex-colleagues and I have some experience with NHS networks and this didn't surprise us in the slightest.
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#13
RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
I see they hacked your avatar here . . .

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Nah... Exian ain't a hacker Big Grin
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
(May 12, 2017 at 8:26 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Some ex-colleagues and I have some experience with NHS networks and this didn't surprise us in the slightest.

This is why good network security is a thing.. something that the U.S. should really invest in as well.
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
(May 13, 2017 at 10:24 am)dyresand Wrote:
(May 12, 2017 at 8:26 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Some ex-colleagues and I have some experience with NHS networks and this didn't surprise us in the slightest.

This is why good network security is a thing.. something that the U.S. should really invest in as well.

Its something everyone should invest in, to be honest. When it comes to security breaches there are multiple people who share the blame, from the people who wrote the code (and introduced the bug) to the people who maintain the network.

At my company we work with developers to find security flaws as well as doing testing of products that are already live.
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
There's honestly little we can do about existing insecure deployments on grounds there are no "teeth" in law to ensure hardware and software companies who sell products to the general public take even cursory security measures.

The Mirai botnet relied on mass produced IoT devices with hardcoded root passwords to enslave.

Just let that sink in - enough hardware manufacturers released hardware and software with hard coded (as in cannot be changed to a more secure form) passwords for years. I could not think of better resources for cyber criminals.

And they will only suffer at most brand damage, which is only a name change away to recover from.

Without any form of penalties and enforcement, obviously and trivially vulnerable devices and services will continually put anyone at risk.
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RE: 12 Nations Targeted In Massive Cyber Attack
(May 13, 2017 at 4:47 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(May 13, 2017 at 10:24 am)dyresand Wrote: This is why good network security is a thing.. something that the U.S. should really invest in as well.

Its something everyone should invest in, to be honest. When it comes to security breaches there are multiple people who share the blame, from the people who wrote the code (and introduced the bug) to the people who maintain the network.

At my company we work with developers to find security flaws as well as doing testing of products that are already live.

This puts the NSA into question is a organization like them doing any good really. 
Their secrets and programs not to mention source code was leaked by a third party which means 
said third party has access to their servers and data. And not to mention the NSA itself is a large security risk to the nation as it stands even for most our allied countries as well.
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