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Germany Says Cyber Threat Greater Than Expected, More Firms Affected (reuters.com)
From a Reuters report, shared by a few readers on Twitter: Germany's BSI federal cyber agency said on Friday that the threat posed to German firms by recent cyber attacks launched via a Ukrainian auditing software was greater than expected, and some German firms had seen production halted for over a week. Analyses by computer experts showed that waves of attacks had been launched via software updates of the M.E.Doc accounting software since April, the BSI said in a statement.
This is why I always disable all automatic updates. Any automatic update is a backdoor in essence. By automatic updating you are allowing someone else to execute any code on your system.
What makes you think that what you see is real?
Go fish:
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~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
Good for funding, over time, a new budget and working with the private sector.
New private sector jobs and an expanded bureaucracy protecting nations from all that new spam and unexpected malware in 2017.
Great for that digital resume social media site and becoming a contractor or finding more gov work.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
There's just so much bullshit anymore it's nearly impossible to accept anything as fact unless it's witnessed first hand.
Quite the opposite. What you witness first hand is a tiny sliver of information that you, as an involved observer, are likely to misinterpret or misunderstand; a mere anecdote that is unlikely to represent any large trend capable of enlightening you much about reality, especially in regard to societal issues. In fact, refusing information other than that directly seen is likely to turn you into an ignorant narrow-minded and yet easily-fooled individual. Ironically, it is for people like you that journalists now focus on serving short videos of “first-hand witness news” (really, unimportant anecdotes) rather than going into detailed, balanced, well-reasoned and well-contextualised explanations based on a large body of observations.
Anything any governmental body says is garbage, and anything the entertainment media says about it is even more garbage just decorated with spin.
Such generalisation and hyperbole is entirely gratuitous and deserves about as much scorn as you are displaying toward governmental institutions and the press at large.
I understood the attack came through a Ukrainian accounting software. How German companies are impacted? Did they also used that software?
Time to let any world leader take down the Internet before the hackers do it for us.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire