Lazy Day Reading:

[Chuckiechan]

Double post cause by hackers in the "cloud"...

Go here instead:

http://www.techimo.com/forum/debatei...c-hacking.html

[Chuckiechan]

I was a Victim of Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Careful of "the cloud"..it might be poison gas! LOL!

[pickel]

DumnAsses !!!!

Anyone who puts their DATA on an internet connected computer deserves to lose it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's one reason I XP Pro W/ Sygate firewall and Proximitron.


"From my wife’s phone, I called my bank and completely changed my logins."

There's no way , in Hell, I have my financial info on my computer.

I May be Old Fashioned, buy I still pay by check through the mail.......

[brandon184]

We were targeted at work by a hacker from Russia earlier this year. He brought the business to its knees for a couple of weeks while we dealt with the aftermath. I had dealt with "hacking" incidents prior to this, but they were always one off situations; a hacker would gain entry somewhere to a weak system, leave a "note" for us and you wouldn't see him again. But this case lasted for a couple weeks. It seemed like this guy was dedicating hours per day just to screw with our business.

At the end of it, he sent us an e-mail with a list of vulnerabilities that had allowed him to gain entry and cause problems and then let us know that he would stop doing it because his vacation was over and he had to return to his real job. Some hobby, huh? The whole thing was a fun game to him, and it was frustrating for us due to the problems it caused for the business.

After our hacking incident at work, one thing I did was set up two-factor authentication on my e-mail. Though I've been tempted to turn it off. It's not a panacea and it's a pain in the ass when I am at home, go to sign into my e-mail, and realize my phone is in another room, which I now need to access my e-mail. One feature I wish that Gmail had was the ability to limit access by IP address or IP/hostname ranges.

I use Dropbox to store and sync important documents. At home, I also use BackBlaze. It's cheap $5/mo per computer) and unobtrusive. In other words, my important documents exist in 3+ places (on my devices + dropbox + backblaze) and my other important stuff like photos and music exist in 2 places (device + backblaze).

[SoloCamo]

DumnAsses !!!!

Anyone who puts their DATA on an internet connected computer deserves to lose it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's one reason I XP Pro W/ Sygate firewall and Proximitron.


"From my wife’s phone, I called my bank and completely changed my logins."

There's no way , in Hell, I have my financial info on my computer.

I May be Old Fashioned, buy I still pay by check through the mail.......

LOL... don't mean to be rude but that is naive.

You may not have put your info on there, but your bank sure did.

[brandon184]

We were targeted at work by a hacker from Russia earlier this year. He brought the business to its knees for a couple of weeks while we dealt with the aftermath. I had dealt with "hacking" incidents prior to this, but they were always one off situations; a hacker would gain entry somewhere to a weak system, leave a "note" for us and you wouldn't see him again. But this case lasted for a couple weeks. It seemed like this guy was dedicating hours per day just to screw with our business.

At the end of it, he sent us an e-mail with a list of vulnerabilities that had allowed him to gain entry and cause problems and then let us know that he would stop doing it because his vacation was over and he had to return to his real job. Some hobby, huh? The whole thing was a fun game to him, and it was frustrating for us due to the problems it caused for the business.

After our hacking incident at work, one thing I did was set up two-factor authentication on my e-mail. Though I've been tempted to turn it off. It's not a panacea and it's a pain in the ass when I am at home, go to sign into my e-mail, and realize my phone is in another room, which I now need to access my e-mail. One feature I wish that Gmail had was the ability to limit access by IP address or IP/hostname ranges.

I use Dropbox to store and sync important documents. At home, I also use BackBlaze. It's cheap $5/mo per computer) and unobtrusive. In other words, my important documents exist in 3+ places (on my devices + dropbox + backblaze) and my other important stuff like photos and music exist in 2 places (device + backblaze).

[Chuckiechan]

Hmmm... I don't know how the second identical post popped up... damn hackers!

[tony_j15]

I May be Old Fashioned, buy I still pay by check through the mail.......

You know how easy it is to take a check out of a mailbox, alter it, and get it cashed? When I worked at a bank we'd get weekly reports of such activity from the local fraud group. Paying with a check is just as much a "dumbass" thing as having financial info on a PC. Neither is definitely more secure than the other.
Most victims are either chosen at random or in some way have made themselves to be targets of opportunity.

[brandon184]

I would think putting a check in the mail would be orders of magnitude more "risky" than an online transaction. The check spends a lot of time "en route" in God only knows whose hands, both before and after it reaches its intended recipient. Your wife pays for her hairdo with a check? The hair stylist puts it in her purse to take to the bank, but maybe not before she stops at the bar for a drink on her way home.

You're trusting a lot of people when you send a check.

[Chuckiechan]

I think the key is how willing (contractually) your various credit card, bank, mortgage companies, etc., are willing to protect and reimburse you for fraud.

As long as they are willing to make me whole, I'm cool.