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Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker

Posted by Unknown on from the they're-after-our-tubes dept.

Velcroman1 writes "The House Intelligence Committee is warning that 'time is running out' before the next major cyberattack: The Russians, Iranians, Chinese, and others are likely already on your computer. 'You have criminal organizations trying to get into your personal computer and steal your personal stuff. And by the way, the Chinese are probably on your computer, the Russians are probably on your personal computer, the Iranians are already there,' House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R.-MI) said. 'They're trying to steal things that they think are valuable or use your computer to help them steal from someone else,' he said. 'That's a real problem.'"

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  1. big brother anti virus incoming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Effective immediately: government mandated state controlled anti-virus. Fuck off lawmakers, my PC is clean I don't need your help.

  2. republican shill by nimbius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    banging his wardrum. this is the same asshole who thought iraq was trying to kill us all. how'd that turn out for ya mike? http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17707705/39591107

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  3. ISP Egress Filtering... by sillivalley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How much of the crap we put up with would go away if ISPs instituted egress filtering?

    Oh, that's not a panacea; it's not going to cure all the interweb's problems overnight, but it would sure as hell eliminate a lot of the low-level crap that goes on.

    (grumble grumble grumble)

  4. Re:lol by yurtinus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh 1999, how I miss you. Back then I was working at the local CompUSA and had a lady come in looking for security software:

    her: "I have a hacker in my computer"
    me: "Oh, you mean a virus?"
    her: "No, it's my neighbor. He's gotten in there and I need a program to get him out"
    me: (head explode)

    I do wish I had recorded the entire conversation, but I couldn't convince her that if the her modem wasn't connected to the internet, nobody could do anything with her computer from the outside. She'd gone as far as turning off and unplugging the computer. He was coming through the power lines, through the TV, he was already *in there* hacking away even with the power turned off... I eventually gave up and sent her off with some firewall software. These are the kinds of people we need to get some rational thought into, Gods help us.

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