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Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

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Re: Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

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Post by Pokepokalypse »

Theodores wrote: post #332
a2tech wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This 100x. I know it's extremely easy to Monday morning quarterback hospital IT but it's not as simple as people think. There's legal and, far more importantly, medical implications to updating software at a hospital. Oh you think it's ridiculous we use i.e. 7 in compatibility mode? It's because our mission critical emr only works in that (well it really works in everything but it's certified in 7) and if we use anyt…

Many years ago, early days of War on Terror, there were 'cyberstorm' exercises by the TLAs of the U.S. military allegedly on some mythical networks that were not 'the internet'. In 2006 this involved a nice virus that sent all your photos and emails off to people they were not intended to go to, there was a psychological aspect to what was going on with this payload plus a full spectrum dominance aspect - the media w…

Just wait until Congress tries to impeach Trump, people are rioting in the street, various factions fighting each other, and then the shit you just described happens. Maybe the Education Secretary's brother has some resources in contingency for such an event.

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Post by joshmn »

swetabhsuman8 wrote: post #389

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Re: Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

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Post by rorykoehler »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #387

Medical offices are notorious for having machines out of date, not properly secured, and not backed up. Just recently I wanted to get test results from a few years earlier from a previous doctor. Nope, the machine they were on runs a proprietary GE setup and it crashed. The same test a few years earlier? The hospital lost them and had no record of them being done. A different test I had done a month ago was hooked up…

I recently went to a consultancy sales meeting with a GP who wanted me to port the MS Dos Patient Record Management system used by his medical centre to the cloud. While I'm sure with a suitable budget it could have been figured out the fact that I could only find a handful of references to the database file format when searching google didn't bode well. It looked like I would have to reverse engineer the parsing and interpretation of the bytecode. In the end my advice was to hire data entry professionals to do it manually.

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Post by interfixus »

a2tech wrote: post #78
bluGill wrote: post #34

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In defense of these medical devices, that is actually a FDA requirement. The entire combination of the system is certified to work, and even one patch for a security vulnerability leaves open the possibility that the patch breaks something and people die! Of course it goes without saying that you need to ensure that a virus cannot run on this machine by some other means. If these machines can get infected they automa…

This 100x. I know it's extremely easy to Monday morning quarterback hospital IT but it's not as simple as people think. There's legal and, far more importantly, medical implications to updating software at a hospital. Oh you think it's ridiculous we use i.e. 7 in compatibility mode? It's because our mission critical emr only works in that (well it really works in everything but it's certified in 7) and if we use anyt…

Oh you think it's ridiculous we use i.e. 7 in compatibility mode?

It's certainly ridiculous if you don't keep it utterly sandboxed and limited to only required use.

Also ridiculous is anyone falling for - or being allowed to fall for - a mail based phishing attack anywhere in the organisation.

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Post by qb45 »

edkennedy wrote: post #351
AdeptusAquinas wrote: post #91

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How quickly some forget heartbleed. The solution to malware is obscurity. Have an OS that no one wants to break into, and you won't be broken into.

Quick, migrate to TempleOS!

That's rather extreme, I think but Haiku or Windows 98 with IE4 could possibly be quite safe from viruses nowadays, even if not exactly "secure".

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Post by dang »

brilliantcode wrote: post #183
tankenmate wrote: post #164

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Time of day, come back in 12 hours and check again. That said the Russian government is trying to move people to local distributions of Linux, like Astra Linux, but I don't think the uptake is enough to explain low infection rate in Russia.

Yeah definitely downvote manipulations going on again... At this point I'm not even upset or shocked. It just further supports the narrative Russia is seeking to manipulate/exploit the internet to their benefit. Considering the average Russian is poorer than an Indian, it looks like Putin is going to fuck over his country as his countrymen cheer him on and suffer in poverty and alcoholism. The West will crush the fee…

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