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ISIS hacking Albuquerque newspaper?

Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago to News
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They are here and doing their evil in NM ... !
SOURCE URL: http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/isis-hacks-u-s-news-site-we-are-already-here/

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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 10 months ago
    Hmm, so, I manage a cyber division of a fed/military contractor, and have some highly educated comments in this:

    1. An Albuquerque mobile website was probably the low hanging fruit

    2. American business is a soft target, they simply don't do anything to defend against this in a meaningful way, thinking a $1500 firewall and they are good to go or something, ask Target if their HVAC vendor really should have had VPN access into their point of sale systems (and why were HVAC and cash registers on the same network to begin with)

    3. CEOs don't want to touch spending on something that may never happen and if they spend a lot and prohibit the possibility entirely, now they feel even more silly. Unfortunately they need to understand the need to be right 100% of the time, while the clown brigade will always find a low hanging fruit somewhere.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 10 months ago
    Thanks johnpe and scojohnson et al -

    I have just sent an email to our dev group titled, "Not low hanging fruit". I will see if we can keep our company out of that classification.

    Jan
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    • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago
      and Jan, as a retired person I look at my computer
      with its 5 fans running to keep it down to an internal
      temp of 76F (ambient 69F) and wonder::: what could
      someone do to make it overheat and burn down
      our home? . am I vulnerable beyond data? -- j

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      • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 10 months ago
        John-

        For the nonce, if you are using the PC, then there is scant chance of it catching fire and burning down your house. If you are going to be away for a time, then you can power it down. The margins are what are uncertain: when you go out to look at the garden one morning and end up working outside for the next 3 hours, repairing the fence. That is the time your PC could burst into flame and burn down your house.

        I have 3 German Shepherds in my yard. This does not make me invulnerable, but it does make potential robbers 'go somewhere else'. So, what can one do to at least make the margins of the computer vulnerability sufficiently like '3 GSD' to make a hacker choose a different target?

        Jan
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        • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago
          and all we have is one friendly aussie -- he might
          lick you to death....... -- j

          p.s. we do have adt and that kind of thing,
          plus other interesting stuff.

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          • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 10 months ago
            My GSD's are what I call 'grab and pets'...if I am out walking with them, a stranger can walk up and start petting them without introduction. But - what evildoer would want to tackle a lady with 3 GSD? If I did get attacked, two of them would take a while to catch on; the third one, while very sweet, was a street dog for a while and understands that not all humans are nice - she might actually react. Now, once they all did understand that someone was actually trying to hurt me...

            My first dog was an aussie mix. She was the best dog that ever lived. I still have a warm spot for aussies.

            If I can make my computer as foreboding and secure as a house guarded by a GSD, but as friendly to me, I will be in great shape.

            Jan
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 10 months ago
    Something to ponder. Do you suppose this is who hacked Sony? Then shut down North Korea's internet. I could not think of a better way to keep the idiots in DC preoccupied than stirring up trouble to weaken the US. Another diversion?? Hmmm

    I certainly have no faith that our corrupt, incompetent government knows exactly what happened and don't believe they would tell us the truth if they did.
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    • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 10 months ago
      Lol, it's not the government, they hire contractors to fix these issues... Booz Hamilton, GDIT, Lockheed, etc. the same companies that build smart bombs and stealth destroyers that make a ship look like a banana on radar are the same ones that defend the targets that we really need to defend... MilNet/SIPRNet, CIA, NSA, DoE... The clown brigade going after a mobile website in Albuquerque is about 100 years behind what we can do. Look up StuxNet.... The North Korean problems were most definitely us. We have tools that will go through basically any security or network device like it wasn't even there.
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