Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

[goontron]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Are you saying you've used Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Hosting thing to hide your IP or they used it? I'm afraid if I try using something like that, if the Amazon servers are in my country, my government could get it and prosecute (if they cared). When I was 14 or 15, I was exploring a Unix type of machine. I didn't mean any harm or anything, but the owner detected my exploration and thought I was a hacker from Cornell (we live maybe 50 miles away or so). Needless to say, she reported me to C.E.R.T. (Computer Emergency Response Team). I believe they were part of the FBI. I got in a lot of trouble but when she found out my age and everything, she dropped all the charges. My parents wouldn't let me use a PC for a full year after that. It really sucked. She was real nice and said next time I want to explore, I might want to contact the owner first and let them know so my actions weren't considered malicious.

they had proxies through them.

[diif]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

a number of ISP's run deep-packet inspection on all traffic.
unfortunatly they are only interested in gathering data for the government about everybody.
Virgin runs atleast 2 NARUS units in the fucked-up u.k.

that's the joke here, the governments are the real terrorists or they could use all the shit we pay for to fix things.
for example the ISP's could pinpoint and stop most viruses and port attacks.
they could also provide the courts with a copy of hillary's emails in and out of her server(s)

Most governments are broke and pretty clueless about security. The US military servers as Spork points out have been open and compromised for many years. Its why Garry McKinnon was just running default passwords against the servers. When Virgin can't even secure a webpage it sure isn't them doing the hoovering, that would be GCHQ and the NSA. Virgin just use block lists just like Sky and Talk Talk as mandated by the government. Pointless when there are vpns and proxies but I guess it stops the clueless ones.
Most cyber attacks are from different countries. ISPs care about their bottom line not stopping viruses. And what about those counties that support and even employ hackers ?

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Most governments are broke and pretty clueless about security. The US military servers as Spork points out have been open and compromised for many years. Its why Garry McKinnon was just running default passwords against the servers. When Virgin can't even secure a webpage it sure isn't them doing the hoovering, that would be GCHQ and the NSA. Virgin just use block lists just like Sky and Talk Talk as mandated by the government. Pointless when there are vpns and proxies but I guess it stops the clueless ones.
Most cyber attacks are from different countries. ISPs care about their bottom line not stopping viruses. And what about those counties that support and even employ hackers ?

Good point on the countries that support and even employ hackers. Wasn't it Kaspersky that found that massive malware / virus? Installed on government officials PCs, mostly in Afghanistan / Iraq? Only a very few percentage of officials in the USA had it on their PC (something like 3). Kaspersky said it would take years to fully understand what it could do, but turning on the webcam, the microphone, capturing live screen shots / videos, giving the hacker full control of the PC was just some of the things. They said to date, they had never seen such a complex piece of software and was almost certain some government hired hackers to write the code...

[diif]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame I think have all been state sponsored.

[stj]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

not just state sponsored, assisted by the company's behind the infected prooducts.
(microsoft / siemens)

it would be interesting to see those company's prosecuted.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame I think have all been state sponsored.

Are they the names of malware / viruses / trojans / whatever?

[diif]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Are they the names of malware / viruses / trojans / whatever?

Yes

[Spork Schivago]

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Sneaky governments. One time I found some IP address that belongs to the FBI. I just randomly ran a whois query on some random IP address. It was a low number, if I remember correctly, something like 4.4.4.4 (but it wasn't 4.4.4.4). Said something weird, like FBI Database or something in one of the fields. I could probably find the IP address again if anyone's interested.

[diif]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Stuxnet was designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Wasn't there some hackers that turned off some fans somewhere to get something to overheat, trying to show that the governments computer security was lacking? Nothing deadly was done, but I thought I remember seeing something like that. Maybe it was in a movie...

[stj]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

Stuxnet was designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

there is evidence that it may have been in play at fukushima.
the engineers said they couldnt get automated generators to start and guages where showing bs.

[stj]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

lol - here you go!
http://fossforce.com/2015/10/microso...ising-malware/

[diif]

Re: Ex-Brother-in-Laws infected PC and possible trouble

there is evidence that it may have been in play at fukushima.
the engineers said they couldnt get automated generators to start and guages where showing bs.

More likely due to the flood waters, or as is usual when back up whatevers fail to start the fact they had not been tested.