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store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
This massive outbreak is so widespread that at this stage it appears that it either was a very recent 0day or something which only recently was fixed by a patch.
Instead of having loads of countries hoarding security problems I highly encourage a focus on security instead. Seems much better for the economy overall.
store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
That's not enough anymore: good ransomware will look for backup systems and wipe those out before proceeding. You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
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That's not enough anymore: good ransomware will look for backup systems and wipe those out before proceeding. You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
That doesn't help for targeted attacks, which corrupt the backups as they are being written. Not sure how to protect against that though.
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That's not enough anymore: good ransomware will look for backup systems and wipe those out before proceeding. You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
That doesn't help for targeted attacks, which corrupt the backups as they are being written. Not sure how to protect against that though.
The Netherlands and various other countries have created laws where either their version of the NSA and/or police can hoard 0days to be used for hacking. This massive outbreak is so widespread that at this stage it appears that it either was a very recent 0day or something which only recently was fixed by a patch. Instead of having loads of countries hoarding security problems I highly encourage a focus on security i…
Even if this weren't the case somehow, I could imagine intelligence chiefs and the like defending their 0days as necessary on public safety or national security grounds.
Edit: just to clarify, I believe 0days should be reported and patched to make everybody safer.
store important stuff on external hard drives never download suspicious stuff specially from emails
External hard drives do come handy though.
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That doesn't help for targeted attacks, which corrupt the backups as they are being written. Not sure how to protect against that though.
Use a filesystem that lets you take regular snapshots, like zfs.
[EDIT] Now 3230$
Source: https://blockchain.info/address/1Mz7153HMuxXTuR2R1t78mGSdzaA...