Fake hackers beat Homeland Security
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Miestro_jerry
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I am still honked off with the actions of the VA and the secured information that leaves the building in the form of a lap top. Then the VA uses the IRS to locate people.
Hackers have been able to get information from the government for a good while, so why does the government do something about the situation. Like big rewards of 10 million dollars or have a "last ditch" shoot out between the hackers and the agents of Homeland Security.
Jerry
Hackers have been able to get information from the government for a good while, so why does the government do something about the situation. Like big rewards of 10 million dollars or have a "last ditch" shoot out between the hackers and the agents of Homeland Security.
Jerry
Professur
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The big problem is that .... the hackers are better than anyone HS employs. Security companies have known that for decades. Anyone they catch hacking usually gets two options. Work for us ... or else.
The recording industry spent billions of dollars on a copy protection scheme and challenged the hackers to defeat it. It took 45 minutes ... including communication time ... and a Sharpie.
Computer security was one thing back when people like me were the only ones with the ability to work a machine. When you needed intimate knowledge of machine code, and electronic fundamentals. Today a kid downloads a software pack and starts attacks. Some twit manager installs a wireless router that he paid Altron $50 for and leaves a security hole in a million dollar secure network that you could drive a semi through. Instead of a skilled tech building up a computer's software pack from limitted, discreet programs so that only the needed programs are installed, you get massive, do it all suites, and operating systems that are a suite all on their own. Adding millions of useless lines of code who's only purpose is to provide potential conflicts, bugs and holes.
As you say .... laptops walking out of building. Even if they're not carrying an unsecured database, they are carrying cache files ... and they're outside the secured environment. Joe Q. Manager plugs it into his home network for web access and *poof* Mr. hacker just got himself a backdoor into any secure net that laptop has access to thereafter.
The biggest security problem in the world is ..... the user.
The recording industry spent billions of dollars on a copy protection scheme and challenged the hackers to defeat it. It took 45 minutes ... including communication time ... and a Sharpie.
Computer security was one thing back when people like me were the only ones with the ability to work a machine. When you needed intimate knowledge of machine code, and electronic fundamentals. Today a kid downloads a software pack and starts attacks. Some twit manager installs a wireless router that he paid Altron $50 for and leaves a security hole in a million dollar secure network that you could drive a semi through. Instead of a skilled tech building up a computer's software pack from limitted, discreet programs so that only the needed programs are installed, you get massive, do it all suites, and operating systems that are a suite all on their own. Adding millions of useless lines of code who's only purpose is to provide potential conflicts, bugs and holes.
As you say .... laptops walking out of building. Even if they're not carrying an unsecured database, they are carrying cache files ... and they're outside the secured environment. Joe Q. Manager plugs it into his home network for web access and *poof* Mr. hacker just got himself a backdoor into any secure net that laptop has access to thereafter.
The biggest security problem in the world is ..... the user.
MrBishop
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Better yet...watch him on Dancing with the Stars. I almost fell off my chair watching him dance the other night.