This is part of life, computers get hacked and any major company, institution, government, insurance, banks, credit cards, oil companies, social media, news networks, Facebook, Tweeter, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, AVS, ABC, CNN, ...everyone.
Yesterday for example, there was a major cyber attack across the US and overseas. We all read the news and many of us were directly affected by it. I, personally was aware of something strange on my PC @ around 10:00 AM Pacific Time. And not only that but for the last month or more there is some slowness and underground activity going on and there is not much @ all I can do about it unless getting a new PC and start fresh all over again.
Like most people I don't know anything about how people can access private information from our computers. But some people are experts on that task, like Edward Snowden and many more computer nerds like him...in Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
• Yesterday ? http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/...complex-stunning-breach-of-internet-stability
• Big one ? http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/technology/aramco-hack/
I was surprised that no one mentioned it here @ WBF. So I waited a full day and here she is the thread about hacking as a way of life, and it's going to get worse as we move forward. We'll get info that is classified, we'll learn more, and we'll experience some major inconveniences too...economic, social and universal.
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Some companies that have been hacked, with their customer's private info...passwords, credit card numbers, bank statements, deals, personal social security numbers, etc., wait years sometimes to let their customers know! This is no fun for for all the people doing business on the Internet. Spies can see you through your video cameras on your laptops and PCs and they can hear you through the microphones. They can invade your life and manipulate it by emptying your savings and personal files. They can steal your identity and juggle with it.
I think it's important to discuss on the ways to protect ourselves against the invaders, the hackers. And the FBI and the CIA don't seem to be prepared against those type of attacks. And even less so all the Internet companies, corporations, conglomerations, social media, all websites and forums.
Technology is great, informatique of the Internet highway is great, but security is totally lacking. Every single day there are more and more victims with their lives destroyed.
Anyway, this is the general "hacking" thread. Who knows, tomorrow someone might hack your music collection stored in your PC's files!?! And steal it from you!
What are you going to do, start to buy LPs and CDs again? That's one way to protect your music investment.
Another one is to own nothing, and just streaming. But how many members @ WBF are part of that group?
Ok, if you feel that you were violated from hacking on your PC, this is the place to reveal your tumults.
Yesterday I was certainly annoyed by the extreme slowness from some websites and news media. And it's not getting more speed from my Internet service provider that is going to help, because even them are tracking my activities (data), and my web browsers love to harass me with selling products adds. Those adds are so powerful that they slow down simple normal activities like reading. This is another form of hacking and infringing on people's privacy by bombardments of adds and bad links and dangerous links and ...
Is this the new revolution that is going to break our system of corruptions by exposing them? Yes I know; it's a strange way to put it but a true reality nonetheless.
We have to protect our interests by a secret system of strong securities. And that is exactly where companies invest the less. Everything is about profits @ the expense of breaches from our most precious sources of information. It's like the wild west. If we want to protect ourselves we have to build fortresses that are impenetrable. We need big sets of eyes in the sky...telescopes, drones, ...that are constantly monitoring every suspicious activities from suspicious people.
It's almost like that each person needs his own guardian angel, his own judge.
Did some of you were directly affected by yesterday's major cyber attack?
Yesterday for example, there was a major cyber attack across the US and overseas. We all read the news and many of us were directly affected by it. I, personally was aware of something strange on my PC @ around 10:00 AM Pacific Time. And not only that but for the last month or more there is some slowness and underground activity going on and there is not much @ all I can do about it unless getting a new PC and start fresh all over again.
Like most people I don't know anything about how people can access private information from our computers. But some people are experts on that task, like Edward Snowden and many more computer nerds like him...in Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
• Yesterday ? http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/...complex-stunning-breach-of-internet-stability
• Big one ? http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/technology/aramco-hack/
I was surprised that no one mentioned it here @ WBF. So I waited a full day and here she is the thread about hacking as a way of life, and it's going to get worse as we move forward. We'll get info that is classified, we'll learn more, and we'll experience some major inconveniences too...economic, social and universal.
______
Some companies that have been hacked, with their customer's private info...passwords, credit card numbers, bank statements, deals, personal social security numbers, etc., wait years sometimes to let their customers know! This is no fun for for all the people doing business on the Internet. Spies can see you through your video cameras on your laptops and PCs and they can hear you through the microphones. They can invade your life and manipulate it by emptying your savings and personal files. They can steal your identity and juggle with it.
I think it's important to discuss on the ways to protect ourselves against the invaders, the hackers. And the FBI and the CIA don't seem to be prepared against those type of attacks. And even less so all the Internet companies, corporations, conglomerations, social media, all websites and forums.
Technology is great, informatique of the Internet highway is great, but security is totally lacking. Every single day there are more and more victims with their lives destroyed.
Anyway, this is the general "hacking" thread. Who knows, tomorrow someone might hack your music collection stored in your PC's files!?! And steal it from you!
What are you going to do, start to buy LPs and CDs again? That's one way to protect your music investment.
Another one is to own nothing, and just streaming. But how many members @ WBF are part of that group?
Ok, if you feel that you were violated from hacking on your PC, this is the place to reveal your tumults.
Yesterday I was certainly annoyed by the extreme slowness from some websites and news media. And it's not getting more speed from my Internet service provider that is going to help, because even them are tracking my activities (data), and my web browsers love to harass me with selling products adds. Those adds are so powerful that they slow down simple normal activities like reading. This is another form of hacking and infringing on people's privacy by bombardments of adds and bad links and dangerous links and ...
Is this the new revolution that is going to break our system of corruptions by exposing them? Yes I know; it's a strange way to put it but a true reality nonetheless.
We have to protect our interests by a secret system of strong securities. And that is exactly where companies invest the less. Everything is about profits @ the expense of breaches from our most precious sources of information. It's like the wild west. If we want to protect ourselves we have to build fortresses that are impenetrable. We need big sets of eyes in the sky...telescopes, drones, ...that are constantly monitoring every suspicious activities from suspicious people.
It's almost like that each person needs his own guardian angel, his own judge.
Did some of you were directly affected by yesterday's major cyber attack?