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Name one big leak that would have been stopped by patching his phone, patching Windows, running AV, or locking his door at night...
by olyjohn 6y ago
Name one big leak that would have been stopped by patching his phone, patching Windows, running AV, or locking his door at night...
- coldtea 6y agoIt's enough to name hundreds of thousands of personal leaks that have happened by not doing those things... If your attitude to security is "I can run my computer with unpatched XP with a public IP and sync it to a 7 year unpatched phone because once in a blue moon some credit card company or major business can leak my account data there too", then sure...
- olyjohn 6y agoIf its enough to name hundreds of thousands of leaks that have been caused by those behaviors, then you should be able to name one.
- coldtea 6y agoSorry, you want me to name a person who had their info/data leaked because of unpatched OS/broswer/mobile? Might as well ask me to name "one" covid victim, lest they're all "actors". My uncle, for one, had a randomsware attack 3 years ago, crippling his (small, construction services) company for weeks. You are aware that there are tons of malware attacks, computers controlled as bots (doing mining, DDoS, etc.), ransomware, etc, right? Or is this some episode of the Twilight Zone? https://www.csoonline.com/article/2923557/many-ransomware-victims-plead-with-attackers.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/2923557/many-ransomware-vi... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-outing-victim-businesses-that-dont-pay-up/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-out... https://www.securityweek.com/google-sophisticated-apt-group-burned-11-zero-days-mass-spying-operation https://www.securityweek.com/google-sophisticated-apt-group-... https://www.securityweek.com/sierra-wireless-says-ransomware-disrupted-production-manufacturing-facilities https://www.securityweek.com/sierra-wireless-says-ransomware...
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe Fappening, for one.