Security tomorrow?
"Hoping to get the site up and running as quickly as possible, but obviously we will not do so until we are confident that all aspects are as secure as possible."
Don't hold your breath.
Twelfth of Never, perhaps?
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"An article published in the Harvard Business Review earlier this year claimed that data breaches "don't hurt stock prices" due to shareholders lacking "good metrics, tools, and approaches to measure the impact of cyber attacks on businesses and translate that into a dollar value."
Sometimes, shit happens.
"To make things worse the scammers talk much better English than the paid staff......"
I did point this out as an obvious pointer to being scammed in the previous talk-talk online fail :
"My brother was with them and it was next to impossible to get through to anyone that spoke any sort of sense. So any intelligent authorative sounding person on the phone is obviously a scam imho."
"The problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic"
The problem with these older-generation guys is that they won’t be told anything about cybersecurity, they're too important to be told anything by underlings or clever-arsed college guys who haven't seen action,and, as you can see, it can be problematic.
Fixed, continue with the narrative.
Paris, knows how to take precautions.
Your windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 box can be pwned by Microshaft. I thought I had gotten rid of all the win10 shit on my daughters laptop until she complained that when she went to update it win10 tried to download. It seems there's a new update for 8.1 -KB2976978 which does this, and the win10 update is in the optional updates section which Microsoft had helpfully ticked for her! Sorry, but these people are getting totally out of hand, it needs a class action against them from people who have automatic updates and whose computer(s) have been subsequently bricked.
The person in charge has been upgraded through the ranks because his/her brother knows someone who can repair computers/ipads/mobile phones and has done few for the staff in HR. Get a life, this person is holding down a responsible position, responsibly, and can't be expected to know the ins and outs of every little app. that comes their way : If they do something and look pretty surely, that's enough? ( Err, the app. not the employee. Err, I think...) We can't spend any more money on this sort of thing, we have outsourced management consultants to look after.
The lady of the house was given a leaflet for "immobilise" by a police person in town the other week inviting people to register their valuables on their "secure website" so that any stolen items could be returned if recovered etc. "All this means", I said, "is that when (not if) their database is compromised the crooks will have a nationwide shopping list at their disposal".
https://www.immobilise.com/
Have uninstalled the following, one by one, from my win7 system as per the list on Wilder security. The ones with an asterix required a system restart after uninstall. I then checked for updates and windows wanted to re-install 9 essentials. I hid them last night then restored them this morning. Checking again for updates I find I now have no "essential" updates but have 18 optional ones - including those 9 that were essential last night.
Has something changed?
I tried stopping Diagtrack but it doesn't exist on my system, it says.
KB2923545 RDP
KB2970228 *
KB3035583
KB2990214
KB3021917 *
KB3068708 Telemetry *
KB2592687 *
KB2660075 *
KB2506928
KB2952664 x2
KB3050265
KB2726535 *
KB2994023
KB3022345 Replaced by KB3068708 Telemetry KB3022345 Caused false sfc result
KB2545698 (IE9) *
KB3065987
These not found on my system. (didn't expect to find the win8 one)
KB2876229 SKYPE, If you want Skype then install it.
KB 3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points
KB 3050265 - Windows Update service updated to accept upgrade to W10
KB 2977759 - W10 Diagnostics Compatibility telemetry
KB 3044374 - W8,8.1 Nagware for W10
KB 3075429
KB 3080149
The reason the average user won't swap to Linux is the difficulty of finding drivers for their peripherals. Printers for example - most printers currently available for the home market are winprinters and finding a linux driver that works is very difficult. As for virtual enviroments, did I mention average user?
If you ever type the keyboard
I make sure we know you man
J'script log and make you mine
Guarantee you good fine time
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
I can see what's in your buffer
Both motherboard and usb port
Searchin' for the inkey$
................................................................'Tis a rudimentary tune.