Malware & other nasty IT / cyber things

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Cited in part:

Talking to a couple cyber security SMEs recently it would appear one of the biggest threats are high volume, low cost IoT devices like IP security cameras that have very short product development and sales life cycles(measured in months rather than years).

This IMHO is one of the most serious points of internet security that urgently needs an answer as it is virtually impossible to constantly update all the various built-in firmware issues for literally thousands of IoTs...down to your for IoT enabled refrigerator.....or TV or baby monitoring device....

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South Korean hosting co. pays $1m ransom to end eight-day outage
Criminals were talked down from 4.4M USDs...


https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...a_pays_ransom/

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Honda halts Japan car plant after WannaCry virus hits computer network
http://reut.rs/2sU6jvK

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Nuclear war fears had a public component of "duck and cover".

Cyber war fears should have a public component of "patch and update".

Here in NZ, due to our recent and serious seismic activity, we've had a national resilience campaign for personal preparation in case of a future disaster.

I believe strongly that we are well past the point where we should be conducting national continuous "patch and update" campaigns, to the point of aggressive nudging behaviour in perpetual pursuit of herd device immunity.

"Loose lips sink ships" for the age of interconnectivity.

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Quantum entanglement as a means of potential cyber/coms resilience:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ntum-internet/

I knew quantum computing would be an eventual game changer with even recent 1024 bit encryption, but was unaware of quantum entanglement being used as a potential tool to defend against hacking and cracking.

It's way over my head, but Moore's Law continues on its 52 year relentless journey.

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A cyber attack the world isn't ready for

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/t...erweapons.html

Wannacry is the focus, but Doublepulsar backdoor may be a bigger threat

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BTW...while the US Congress approved 200M USDs to fight Russian info warfare BUT US social media FB, Twitter, Instagram and others seem to be unable to control hate, violence and propaganda being posted minute by minute EVEN though they admit they could....

BTW...the Trump government has promised a propaganda pushback but not spent a single cent of the 200M USD...

BTW...the Germans have effectively told the US social media companies to either control what they know they can actually control and if not then 50K Euros per violation.....ACTUALLY not a problem for them to pay the fines as they make billions.....

At least the Germans are doing something compared to the apparent inaction of Trump who has 200M USDs to spend in this effort....

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Snapchat launches new feature that lets people know where you are at any moment

Not good for your own personal safety....