Sophisticated computer hacking organisations ??

[Pilatus]

I see that computer hackers have recently held an Oil Pipeline company to ransom and today they have managed to hack into the largest meat products producer . How on earth do they manage to do this ,presumably they can overide all the computer security systems that these huge companies have in place ,which is extremely concerning.
I don't fancy the thought of an airliner having its computer systems being taken over by some clever nutters and diving the airliner into the sea.

 

[Hard Graft]

Do not worry they have already hacked an air line computer soft ware

 

[Pilatus]

Do not worry they have already hacked an air line computer soft ware

Thats very comforting to know !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hard Graft]

They got one off the Indian airline booking data etc

Air India passenger data breach reveals SITA hack worse than first thought | TechCrunch

4.5 million passenger customer records were taken in the incident.

techcrunch.com

 

[Highland Mule]

They got one off the Indian airline booking data etc

Air India passenger data breach reveals SITA hack worse than first thought | TechCrunch

4.5 million passenger customer records were taken in the incident.

techcrunch.com

Bit of a difference between an airline and an airliner though.

 

[yorkie]

I see that computer hackers have recently held an Oil Pipeline company to ransom and today they have managed to hack into the largest meat products producer . How on earth do they manage to do this ,presumably they can overide all the computer security systems that these huge companies have in place ,which is extremely concerning.
I don't fancy the thought of an airliner having its computer systems being taken over by some clever nutters and diving the airliner into the sea.

hada lad working with us one harvest computer wis kid , got in to the White House security computer , he was arrested and let off , could trace him , but not prove how he did it , there are more crooks in top computer jobs than any thing , he said you can get round any security soft ware if you know how , he showed us things he could do on a phone you wouldn't think where possible

 

[Kidds]

he showed us things he could do on a phone you wouldn't think where possible

My mate used to show me things like that.

 

[Av Gorritt]

I can make a phone call on a good day !

 

[deleted user 837354]

The software and security used in an airline system will be dirt-level sophistication.

Companies being held to ransom is often because ransomware has been used. This is pretty low level stuff and relies more on users of a system or software downloading things or running software they should not. Emails are a classic way of getting malicious software to spread, as is accessing dodgy websites.

Mind you I managed to bork my PC the other day by crashing my video card driver and opted for a simple reinstall of Windows which was long overdue anyway.

Back up all important data and files on the cloud or on mass media/USB etc. Do not store anything vital on your own PC hard drive. I can't exaggerate how important this is.

 

[Storeman]

The software and security used in an airline system will be dirt-level sophistication.

Companies being held to ransom is often because ransomware has been used. This is pretty low level stuff and relies more on users of a system or software downloading things or running software they should not. Emails are a classic way of getting malicious software to spread, as is accessing dodgy websites.

Mind you I managed to bork my PC the other day by crashing my video card driver and opted for a simple reinstall of Windows which was long overdue anyway.

Back up all important data and files on the cloud or on mass media/USB etc. Do not store anything vital on your own PC hard drive. I can't exaggerate how important this is.

What utter rubbish.
What you should be saying is as well as storing on your pc/laptop hard drive, always have another copy elsewhere.
To do it properly, you should follow the 3, 2,1 rule. 3 different copies, stored on 2 different media types and stored in more than one location.
Although for most that is a bit overkill.

 

[deleted user 837354]

What utter rubbish.
What you should be saying is as well as storing on your pc/laptop hard drive, always have another copy elsewhere.
To do it properly, you should follow the 3, 2,1 rule. 3 different copies, stored on 2 different media types and stored in more than one location.
Although for most that is a bit overkill.

I don't store anything important on my own PC. Never have. Everything of any importance is on OneDrive and the rest is games I can redownload at my leisure. I have a USB stick of my everyday apps but to be honest all of these can be downloaded again anyway for free.

The ability to clean install your OS in the event of a serious PC issue is invaluable IMO.

The threat of malware or ransomware to the average PC user is very high and I know several companies that got hit by them. I don't bother keeping backups of much myself now, with the speed of the internet I have it makes the cloud a no-brainer and I've relegated my external HDD to recording duties for my telly.

 

[Storeman]

I don't store anything important on my own PC. Never have. Everything of any importance is on OneDrive and the rest is games I can redownload at my leisure. I have a USB stick of my everyday apps but to be honest all of these can be downloaded again anyway for free.

The ability to clean install your OS in the event of a serious PC issue is invaluable IMO.

The threat of malware or ransomware to the average PC user is very high and I know several companies that got hit by them. I don't bother keeping backups of much myself now, with the speed of the internet I have it makes the cloud a no-brainer and I've relegated my external HDD to recording duties for my telly.

You can still reinstall windows with your own data stored locally. Just fit a second drive and move all user data storage to that.
It's how I have all my machines setup. 2 or 3 drives for different operating systems in a multi boot setup. On my main machine I then have a drive for audio, another for video, Premiere Pro likes it's own storage drive. Any other data is stored on another separate drive.
I don't really trust 'cloud' storage. Cloud is just another way of saying 'someone elses hardware'.

 

[deleted user 837354]

You can still reinstall windows with your own data stored locally. Just fit a second drive and move all user data storage to that.
It's how I have all my machines setup. 2 or 3 drives for different operating systems in a multi boot setup. On my main machine I then have a drive for audio, another for video, Premiere Pro likes it's own storage drive. Any other data is stored on another separate drive.
I don't really trust 'cloud' storage. Cloud is just another way of saying 'someone elses hardware'.

Absolutely; I already have multiple drives in my PC but as one of my acquaintances became painfully aware of, ransomware is more than capable of borking the lot of them.

Having had a play with the latest linux distro the other day it is getting close to being a workable OS for me but I like MS office too much at the moment. Maybe in a few years.

 

[Kidds]

I don't really trust 'cloud' storage. Cloud is just another way of saying 'someone elses hardware'.

and just as vulnerable as any other method of storage imo.

 

[Storeman]

Absolutely; I already have multiple drives in my PC but as one of my acquaintances became painfully aware of, ransomware is more than capable of borking the lot of them.

Having had a play with the latest linux distro the other day it is getting close to being a workable OS for me but I like MS office too much at the moment. Maybe in a few years.

The majority of ransomware attacks, like other nasties, is down to the user, as you mentioned above.

Yeah, I also run Linux Mint, love it. In many ways better than Windows but I have software that needs to run in native Windows and, unfortunately, won't work properly in a virtual machine.

 

[steveR]

Thats very comforting to know !!!!!!!!!!!

And the Irish health service has been hacked...!!

 

[J B]

You can still reinstall windows with your own data stored locally. Just fit a second drive and move all user data storage to that.
It's how I have all my machines setup. 2 or 3 drives for different operating systems in a multi boot setup. On my main machine I then have a drive for audio, another for video, Premiere Pro likes it's own storage drive. Any other data is stored on another separate drive.
I don't really trust 'cloud' storage. Cloud is just another way of saying 'someone elses hardware'.

What if one of these drives fails?

 

[Storeman]

What if one of these drives fails?

Then I'll buy a replacement and reinstate the data from a backup.

 

[deleted user 837354]

and just as vulnerable as any other method of storage imo.

How do you figure that out?

OneDrive- each file is encrypted when in transit and stored in an encrypted format as well. Anyone accessing OneDrive through malicious means would only have access to one file at a time also.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

Good podcast on bbc soundcloud ds just now about the biggest computer hacks.

Carried out by North Korea.