It seems as though we are supposed to stop business it is preposterous for many offices to be told not to open any word files. I know that there are other word processing programs and notepad, but ask yourself this: "does your company respond fast to technological changes?". Its simple there are some people in the company who will not be able to make a drastic change very quickly.
You can however send an email to a friend call to confirm that the email is legit and not a bot sent version. But that removes the conveniences of email in itself. I wrote a blog post (http://www.iwantmyess.com/) about how you can circumvent the calling in confirmation.
Michael
It is so depressing and scary to see these types of stories popping up everyday. I mean this exploit was running for over a year before it was discovered. Every time I read one of these stories I undoubtedly hear the same line or two that provides me with little to know condolence; It doesn't appear the information was misused or there is no reason to believe there is intent to use any of the information.
At least in this case UCLA did not do something that drastically contributed to loss of the information like http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=134 Kaiser Permanente. Who have had laptops packed with patient records stolen when they are bringing them home from work. Hopefully companies will start to step up their security so that we won't have to live in fear of getting that "oops we lost your private info" letter in the mail.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems as though we are supposed to stop business it is preposterous for many offices to be told not to open any word files. I know that there are other word processing programs and notepad, but ask yourself this: "does your company respond fast to technological changes?". Its simple there are some people in the company who will not be able to make a drastic change very quickly. You can however send an email to a friend call to confirm that the email is legit and not a bot sent version. But that removes the conveniences of email in itself. I wrote a blog post (http://www.iwantmyess.com/) about how you can circumvent the calling in confirmation. Michael
It is so depressing and scary to see these types of stories popping up everyday. I mean this exploit was running for over a year before it was discovered. Every time I read one of these stories I undoubtedly hear the same line or two that provides me with little to know condolence; It doesn't appear the information was misused or there is no reason to believe there is intent to use any of the information. At least in this case UCLA did not do something that drastically contributed to loss of the information like http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=134 Kaiser Permanente. Who have had laptops packed with patient records stolen when they are bringing them home from work. Hopefully companies will start to step up their security so that we won't have to live in fear of getting that "oops we lost your private info" letter in the mail.