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Do you pay a "wu mao" or two? Two upvotes for that looks very much like sock-puppetry, given that the person you replied to didn't get an upvote for actually saying what you only gave a thumbs-up to.
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I've been wondering about those upvotes myself? I've had nothing to do with it. It's not the first time I see phantom upvotes.
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... Aaaand even that gets an upvote.
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This is getting ridiculous!
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You can have an upvote too - don't want you to feel left out
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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How DARE you upvote the kind of garbage that I spout!
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Here, have another upvote
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Very humorous!
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Oh stoppit!
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Why? Do you open e-mail from people you don't know?
Did you miss the 27,000 memos, too?
99% of good security boils down to not doing stupid things.
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Sounds like you fall into the second category. Good luck!
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Kidding, right? My back-up routine falls under the military category "Mutual Support", with files flying in every direction, from every machine to every machine, in perfectly-timed relays.
It's better planned than the bus services in most cities.
I could lose two-thirds of the machines on my network without losing a file, and would only lose any important files if all the devices failed at the same time as the Internet was switched off forever.
But I'm still not so stupid as to open e-mails from people I don't know, and will only open attachments to e-mails if the person has told me in advance (through a medium other than e-mail) that he's sending me an e-mail with an attachment.
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Seems you have backups under control. The problem is not emails from scumbag entities, but more: Infected websites. I NEVER EVER open emails from untrusted sources, especially if it says it has an invoice attached. However, when browsing for info on the Internet: How do you know in advance that a particular link that came up in Google is infected? I refuse to cower in a safe little corner of the Internet for fear of infection. Because of a disciplined backup regime, I can recover from an infection in a minimum of time. (So far this year I had to do it three times!)
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Well, my Interwebs use is pretty dull, compared to most people's. I haven't done much surfing for years (mainly because 85% of what you find by surfing is better left unfound), and I never click links that have emphatic adjectives in them.
"This could cause me to have to do work that I don't want to do" is always in the back of my mind, so I always think twice before clicking almost anything.
I think I'll get a T-shirt printed with "Curiosity Killed the Computer!" (and "No, I won't Fix it for You!" on the back).
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Some of the Rasnsomware also encrypts connected and network devices too.
Like Cloud Backups.
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Oh Golly! Do you mean that I'm going to have to stop opening attachments in e-mails from people I don't know, and stop clicking every link I see?!?
How awful!
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You can also get hit in a "watering hole attack"
Just by going to a site you normally do and trust "If" it gets compromised.
You don't have to do anything but display the page.
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*IF* the ransomware can encrypt foreign drives ... you could lose everything at once. The biggest danger of this situation is believing we are safe. Better to be extra paranoid.
I have burned backups of personal files to DVD-R as a failsafe. Better safe than sorry ...
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Better make sure it's on an m-disc. Normal dvd-r's have a very finite life before the ink layer seperates from the protective layer (I've been caught before thinking my backup dvds were good). In a high humidity environment of warmer than normal temps, the avg life could be about 2 years.
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Thanks for the tip.
I know DVD/CD media has a finite lifespan. I'm doing regular daily, weekly, and monthly backups onto secondary HD and external HD. I've been doing DVD about every 6 months (as a fail safe) but now shifting to every 3 months. Storage is room temperature (60 F to 76 F) at low humidity. Life span in this situation should not be a problem.
Given my care in dealing with the internet I *think* I'm a low risk for infection. But not no-risk, hence my paranoid backups.
The real problem is not any of us, it's everyone else who can touch our personal and professional networks.
I keep in mind that every time someone makes something idiot proof, someone else creates a "better" idiot.
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Well, uh, all I have to do is not give the program that's doing the nasty permission to cross the network.
There's paranoid, and then there's cautious and knowing what you're doing. Do a bit of research, before going crazy with a DVD burner -- Hell, a better solution would be to back-up once a day, then air-gap the backup discs.
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In an attempt to become the most secure IT company a local IT company shut down all their computers, fired all the employees, then the CEO resigned
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Well, that is one alternative to maintaining sensible backups!
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