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I got an abnormally high number of robocalls today - could this be related?
I awoke in the middle of the night and heard a crow caw. Not a normal caw but more like “caw, caw”. And then I stepped on a Lego. Ow! It went right in the heel. Could this be related?
Honestly, I think this should be the death knell of these "remote monitoring and management" tools that have extreme low-level access to networks and systems, but just like the SolarWinds attack, it feels like these are run by companies with extremely poor security culture. I mean, I'd be willing to trust security to Microsoft or Apple (I mean, at some level, you've got to trust the OS). But giving the keys to the ca…
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No, RMM is the magic beans someone wants you to trade your cows for. All OS and networking vendors have better tools, but people pay for RMMs because they make a lot of promises and charge less money. People who use them will invariably get burned.
This is... laughably and demonstrably false. Neither Microsoft nor Apple tools even pass muster for large-scale IT management. Generally speaking, you'll pay more for a worse product direct from the OS developers. In most cases, your Microsoft-based solutions are less secure (RDP) than pretty much anything else. Apple is pretty much going to give you the minimum glue necessary to use a third party tool (see Apple Bus…
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I feel like this is a bold claim. I understand this to mean that you assume without crypto there would be less of a way to get payed for attacks like these? Or am I missing something here. Also, Do you have an evidence to support the argument: Crypto has increased cyber crime? (I hope that is an acceptable parse of your sentiment)
That's an accurate interpretation of what I'm saying. I don't think it's particularly bold. I don't have any hard evidence but I'm sure you could find some. I certainly don't remember ransomware attacks being very prevalent prior to last decade. They all seem to request cryptocurrencies (I can tell you're a coin head because you refer to them simply as crypto). Without cryptocurrencies ransomeware would largely go aw…
Judge me how you will, however, I do think I see your point that crypto might be contributing to this new form of extorsion. I was only trying to get more detail. Which has now been provided.