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Ransomware infections reported worldwide

#1
RainbowUnicorn Offline
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39901382

Crikey !

surely the sale & collection of bitcoins can be traced, so why bitcoins ?(maybe it cant im not up on such technology)
global dependance on a single brand ...
global market monopoly domination to excise money...(is this a timely wake-up call about global monopolys?)


freedom to choose...

have you ever read the waivers you have to agree to when you purchase a service contract from an ISP(ISP stands for internet service provider and you agree to these waivers regardles of you being th ename on the contract or if you connect to a wifi network) ? (buy internet time/an account) ?
.. or a software product for that matter...

if this has infected nuclear power plants or majour hydro electric damns threatening thousands of lives down stream
would we the public be told about it ?

should governments be held to account for such lacks in security ?

...BUMP...
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#2
stryder Offline
(May 12, 2017 07:52 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39901382

Crikey !

surely the sale & collection of bitcoins can be traced, so why bitcoins ?(maybe it cant im not up on such technology)
global dependance on a single brand ...
global market monopoly domination to excise money...(is this a timely wake-up call about global monopolys?)


freedom to choose...

have you ever read the waivers you have to agree to when you purchase a service contract from an ISP(ISP stands for internet service provider and you agree to these waivers regardles of you being th ename on the contract or if you connect to a wifi network) ? (buy internet time/an account) ?
.. or a software product for that matter...

if this has infected nuclear power plants or majour hydro electric damns threatening thousands of lives down stream
would we the public be told about it ?

should governments be held to account for such lacks in security ?

...BUMP...

Ransomware requires encrypting particular files/folders to be effective.  This means you should be able to detect an increase in CPU/Harddrive activity (and even network activity if your connected to a network drive) as strong encryption would take time to apply.

The only real things that can be done currently is to make sure you have a recovery disk for your OS and backup any personal files to other external devices that you can remove from the computer when they aren't being used.

Most of the Virus/Trojan outbreaks seem to really be about anti-virus firms making money. As some methods of detection and removal are actually patented, which means it appears only certain companies can remove certain viruses. (In essence it's one big rip off)
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#3
RainbowUnicorn Offline
they are just warming up so ready your best trousers for this coming monday says UK cyber specialist who accidentally found an accidential kill switch in the code.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39907049

[(my dictation)Quote from audio file interview]

{Cyber specialist}

Quote:it's very important people patch their systems now because there will be another one coming it will not be stoppable by us.

{interviewer}
Quote:Q: why do you say with such certainty there will be another one

{Cyber specialist}

Quote:..there is a lot of money in this
there is no reason for them to stop
it's not really much effort for them to change the code and start over
so there is a good chance they are going to do it .. Maybe not this weekend but quite likely on monday morning...

YIKES !
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#4
C C Offline
Quote:Microsoft said on Friday it would roll out the update to users of older operating systems "that no longer receive mainstream support", such Windows XP (which the NHS still largely uses), Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003.


Yeah, a fix for the vulnerability was supposedly otherwise issued in an update back in March or April for the later operating systems (Win8.1 included, but apparently not the original Win8).

Windows was criticized prior to and after its 2014 shutdown of continued security updates to XP that it was a mistake to do so, since there were so many organizations and parts of the world that would still be clinging to that dinosaur for years afterwards. China and Russia were particularly phobic about upgrading, because of fears that the NSA had planted backdoors into post-XP operating systems (especially Win8 and Win10). (Some later accounts suggest that administrative departments in China migrated to assorted versions of Linux, as well as developing their own OS).
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#5
RainbowUnicorn Offline
(May 13, 2017 07:25 PM)C C Wrote:
Quote:Microsoft said on Friday it would roll out the update to users of older operating systems "that no longer receive mainstream support", such Windows XP (which the NHS still largely uses), Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003.


Yeah, a fix for the vulnerability was supposedly otherwise issued in an update back in March or April for the later operating systems (Win8.1 included, but apparently not the original Win8).

Windows was criticized prior to and after its 2014 shutdown of continued security updates to XP that it was a mistake to do so, since there were so many organizations and parts of the world that would still be clinging to that dinosaur for years afterwards. China and Russia were particularly phobic about upgrading, because of fears that the NSA had planted backdoors into post-XP operating systems (especially Win8 and Win10). (Some later accounts suggest that administrative departments in China migrated to assorted versions of Linux, as well as developing their own OS).

stirring the murky waters sometimes you get moments of clarity of depth.

now here is a thing... who is to blame for buying the product in the first place ?
i find the idea of comparing the environment to that of purchasing a motor vehicle interesting.
there would be no limit to damages claimable against a vehicle manufacturer of a faulty motor vehicle design flaw...
however when you purchase  a software product you sign away your rights to sue the company.
why ... for commercial law students(intellectual curiosity)... why is there any difference between being able to sign away your rights on purchase of a physical product different to that of a software product ?
ipso facto how can one copywrite a software product yet have no comparible liability like a physical product ?
is the nature of the software a physical product or an intellectual product ?

is the purchase of the product simply a licence process and if so why is that licence process not explained properly to consumers as a license agreement rather than a product purchase ?

what murky waters indeed.

p.s and on point why is the product price to these government critical infastructures not reflected in the cost to make the system safe once it becomes unsafe at the end of that 5 years and why is there no ongoing security process to secure the product environment by all the supposed highly paid government officials.
who is responsible for costing the budgets of data security or system security ?

was it made perfectly clear that after around 5 years the software product would become un secure and a liability ? (who was paid to manage that and neglected their duty?)
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#6
C C Offline
(May 14, 2017 05:10 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [...] p.s and on point why is the product price to these government critical infastructures not reflected in the cost to make the system safe once it becomes unsafe at the end of that 5 years and why is there no ongoing security process to secure the product environment by all the supposed highly paid government officials. who is responsible for costing the budgets of data security or system security ? was it made perfectly clear that after around 5 years the software product would become un secure and a liability ? (who was paid to manage that and neglected their duty?)


Yah, Windows does (or used to, anyway) offer "delay for pay" so as to continue some updates after the "expiration" date of an OS (especially for businesses, institutions, etc).

Microsoft usually issues free updates for circa a decade to any particular OS, reduced to only security and technical fixes after the first five years or so. But the latter for XP was extended two or three years due to next-released Vista's unpopularity with consumers.

The need of donations put aside, in this era it seems as bizarre for a company to still be charging for an operating system as it would be for web browsers. Apparently Microsoft has little confidence in the rest of their licensed-fee software supporting them if they crawled out of their late '80s / '90s mindset.
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#7
RainbowUnicorn Offline
(May 14, 2017 07:19 PM)C C Wrote:
(May 14, 2017 05:10 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [...] p.s and on point why is the product price to these government critical infastructures not reflected in the cost to make the system safe once it becomes unsafe at the end of that 5 years and why is there no ongoing security process to secure the product environment by all the supposed highly paid government officials. who is responsible for costing the budgets of data security or system security ? was it made perfectly clear that after around 5 years the software product would become un secure and a liability ? (who was paid to manage that and neglected their duty?)


Yah, Windows does (or used to, anyway) offer "delay for pay" so as to continue some updates after the "expiration" date of an OS (especially for businesses, institutions, etc).

Microsoft usually issues free updates for circa a decade to any particular OS, reduced to only security and technical fixes after the first five years or so. But the latter for XP was extended two or three years due to next-released Vista's unpopularity with consumers.

The need of donations put aside, in this era it seems as bizarre for a company to still be charging for an operating system as it would be for web browsers. Apparently Microsoft has little confidence in the rest of their licensed-fee software supporting them if they crawled out of their late '80s / '90s mindset.

i doubt microsoft 1980's believed such distribution of individual devices would be possible.
had they been able to fully quantify the device distribution ratio & rate they probably would have put out their own devices with free OS a few years before... and not bothered with Vista
lol
what a total fail that was. too much greed i think matched with a foriegn name that americans do not understand & sounds forced like a pretend attempt at diversity politics.

probably should not be too surprised this type of thing has not happened sooner and far more widely considering the imputus of the vast majority of infastructure is post remedial back-filling to manage a sinking lid under supply to pander to private profit manipulation of tax income.

Given the generic state of upper/middle management being sales managers(on 1 year contracts) looking to outsource everything they cant do any better than a mildly directed fall to the inevitable collapse which they sell as the primary manipulator of funding...
and that fall must come to validate their sales pitch and satisfy the market education stratergy.
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#8
C C Offline
Forgot about the millions of duplicated / pirated versions of Windows out there which thereby have never received updates and patches at all. That's the key reason Russia was hit so hard. When you think about it, this ransomware potentially allows Microsoft to the knock those illegal operating systems around the world off the map (inadvertently by the worm's creators?).
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