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Access To Major Airport's Security System Offered on Dark Web for $10 (axios.com)
Researchers at McAfee found remote access to a major airport's security system available on the dark web for $10. From a report: The hacked access came from an online market for remote desktop protocol (RDP) accounts, which sell access to hacked accounts in all kinds of systems. "There's a lot of discussion about sophisticated nation-state attacks, but this was a really cheap way anyone could get access to something," Raj Samani, chief scientist at McAfee, told Axios. The RDP market isn't typically about purchasing access to systems to actually use the systems. Instead, buyers pay between $3 and $19 for access to machines based on bandwidth. Those systems are often used for their resources rather than their information.
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Fire up a tor browser and trawl through the deep dark scary "dark web" junglewoodlands and write press releases full of scary scarewords from that. There's bogeymen in them thar dark webbert00bz! Oh noez teh cyber it are totes dangerously!
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$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there systems.
Call me "not surprised" after passing umpteen machines in the security line with unprotected USB slots. One good boot and...
$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there systems.
$10? For $5 I can tell about updating their systems.
WTH!! FTFY!
Hello,
Consulting for several large companies, I'd always done my work on Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its btrfs file system), all in all the process went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as clang - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tough to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 10.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
Thank you for your time.
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very good post. good explanation
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You dummy! You could have charged him $5 for fixing his post!
For 5 dollars can we buy you spelling and grammar lessons?
Here's what interests me. If this data is available for $10, then we're given a feel for how many customers are needed to buy it to make any serious cash.
Presuming that all the state actors buy the data (and I do so presume... if they don't, they're being really, really stupid), that's a couple hundred right there. Then there are corporations, perhaps... can't imagine there would be many taking the risk, but... and the individual crazies.
Doesn't seem all that economically beneficial to the seller.
Someone else have a different take?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Do I really need to explain this at this point?
FTW!
Idiot.
They're, they're. Calm down, know knead too charge. The Internet provides these services four free.
$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there systems.
$10? For $5 I can tell about updating their systems.
WTH!! FTFY!
Don't be too proud of yourself either. Tell may occur without an overt (visible) indirect object only with wh-noun clauses or phrases. Tell must have an overt indirect object in all other contexts.
Update of a simple typo is annoying and boring. "FTFY" is useful only when the meaning of the sentence is changed by the typo! Develop courtesy toward others. Lack of spelling is common to many genius brains, as well as non-native english writers.
Sheesh, people trying to increase their post count...
I do mean on effective security, not all that worthless "compliance" bullshit.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
For about $3.50 I can tell about selling grammar correction services.
The headline should read: "Airports leave remote desktop open so people can remotely log in and control air planes"
This has absolutely nothing to do with "scary hackers"