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Tenpoundbass
2020 Oct 30, 8:08am
Tenpoundbass
2020 Oct 30, 8:08am
How did they resurrect your computer? It's damn near impossible.
We got hit at work earlier in the year, and it wiped out our whole network. The attack started on Friday late evening, by time we got to the office on Monday. It wiped out everything, every server, every work station, and all of the on site backups. Luckily they keep off site backups, and were able to rebuild all of our servers. But they didn't include any of my development code.
Thankfully it didn't encrypt any DLL's or Exes. I was able pull all of the DLL's out of the bin folders of the production code. And then Refactor by decompiling them.
I think had to rebuild all of my projects, and the decompiled code is horrendous, verbose and ugly. I then had to spend a few months, cleaning up the code, and renaming variables from things like "String1" to something more meaning in the context of my code.
We got hit at work earlier in the year, and it wiped out our whole network. The attack started on Friday late evening, by time we got to the office on Monday. It wiped out everything, every server, every work station, and all of the on site backups. Luckily they keep off site backups, and were able to rebuild all of our servers. But they didn't include any of my development code.
Thankfully it didn't encrypt any DLL's or Exes. I was able pull all of the DLL's out of the bin folders of the production code. And then Refactor by decompiling them.
I think had to rebuild all of my projects, and the decompiled code is horrendous, verbose and ugly. I then had to spend a few months, cleaning up the code, and renaming variables from things like "String1" to something more meaning in the context of my code.
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Automan Empire
2020 Oct 30, 8:30am
Automan Empire
2020 Oct 30, 8:30am
ohomen171 says
Reads like, "I took my stunning 10/10 date to McDonalds!"
Cyberattack hitting US hospital systems and a few schools according to local news.
I took my computer to The Geek Squad.
Reads like, "I took my stunning 10/10 date to McDonalds!"
Cyberattack hitting US hospital systems and a few schools according to local news.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Oct 30, 12:10pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Oct 30, 12:10pm
In Lefty land, there are no Chinese hackers and no Chinese subversion.
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BoomAndBustCycle
2020 Oct 30, 12:11pm
You guys don’t use macs? That’s the whole reason I’m in the iPhone and Apple ecosystem so I rarely have to worry about that shit.
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Oct 30, 12:16pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Oct 30, 12:16pm
Lustyslutfinder.com has guaranteed that they will keep my CC and SS# info completely secure, but I have been receiving collection notices for loans to a Hector Gonzalez-Gonzalez for some reason.
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Onvacation
2020 Oct 30, 12:23pm
Onvacation
2020 Oct 30, 12:23pm
TrumpingTits says
I made sure I was not the first one to click it this time.
Kind of like with Heyyou's old posts. I would always wait for someone else to make a comment before I opened the post.
I take that advice every time I see one of your posts, ohomen
I made sure I was not the first one to click it this time.
Kind of like with Heyyou's old posts. I would always wait for someone else to make a comment before I opened the post.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Oct 30, 1:01pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Oct 30, 1:01pm
BoomAndBustCycle says
Make sure you do your internet shopping on a Linux or Win machine. Algos redirect Apple uses to more expensive products and offer fewer deals to them.
You guys don’t use macs? That’s the whole reason I’m in the iPhone and Apple ecosystem so I rarely have to worry about that shit.
Make sure you do your internet shopping on a Linux or Win machine. Algos redirect Apple uses to more expensive products and offer fewer deals to them.
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richwicks
2020 Oct 30, 2:15pm
richwicks
2020 Oct 30, 2:15pm
ohomen171 says
Haha, I don't believe it. You got a sinister voice, and that's it.
The way ransomware works is that it encrypts all your files and to decrypt it, you have to get the key from them - otherwise it's trivial to get around it.
This is really the fault of Microsoft. It's actually easy to prevent viruses. The way the XBox and PlayStation works is that executables are checked for a signed signature. If it's not properly signed, it doesn't run. It would be trivial to have all executables be signed, even if signed by the user themselves, and if a program is causing havoc, just disable all programs signed with that signature.
You would have to manually OK (just once) a new signature, or, have a 3rd party sign off on the executable taking liability for the program.
This problem was solved 20 years ago, and it's not implemented because there's no interest in actually securing your machines and devices - at least from the point of view of the government.
Early last year, I got hit with ransomware. A sinister machine voice came on my computer and warned me to pay $5,000 in Bitcoins to get my computer back. I do not bow down to black mailers. I took my computer to The Geek Squad. It took them a week, but they got control of my computer back to me. The bill was $250.00.
Haha, I don't believe it. You got a sinister voice, and that's it.
The way ransomware works is that it encrypts all your files and to decrypt it, you have to get the key from them - otherwise it's trivial to get around it.
This is really the fault of Microsoft. It's actually easy to prevent viruses. The way the XBox and PlayStation works is that executables are checked for a signed signature. If it's not properly signed, it doesn't run. It would be trivial to have all executables be signed, even if signed by the user themselves, and if a program is causing havoc, just disable all programs signed with that signature.
You would have to manually OK (just once) a new signature, or, have a 3rd party sign off on the executable taking liability for the program.
This problem was solved 20 years ago, and it's not implemented because there's no interest in actually securing your machines and devices - at least from the point of view of the government.
The hackers struck back. They took over the computers of two hospital systems and a small town in Georgia (Voting). They have warned that they have 400 other hospitals as targets. They have demanded big payments in cryptocurrencies to give an encryption key to allow the owners of the computer systems to get their computers back. (People who pay the ransom sometimes do not get their computers back.)
Early last year, I got hit with ransomware. A sinister machine voice came on my computer and warned me to pay $5,000 in Bitcoins to get my computer back. I do not bow down to black mailers. I took my computer to The Geek Squad. It took them a week, but they got control of my computer back to me. The bill was $250.00.
Everyone hackers use a trick to get into computers. They send out a very convincing email with an innocent-looking link. Some hapless person clicks on the link. The hackers are now inside the computer and can look at data, steal data, destroy data, or lock up the computer and demand a ransom to give it back.
Elena's employer puts every employee who uses the computer system through intense training in computer awareness and security. The moral of this story is that you should be super careful before you click on any link.