Hi jared.
Well for the first article, hackers and hacking will be used for everything including elections, its human nature.
Will it be a problem, not more so than usual, ie, people still rob banks and cause murders no matter what we do it will never ever die.
Will this hacking hospitals be a problem, probably if we don’t get our a into g and move it where it needs to be.
In the long term it will be another procedure we will have to deal with sometimes we get lucky, but we probably won’t be lucky, will people get hurt, my question is when people rob a bank there is a chance someone will get hurt this is no different its the curse on tech.
2. the school thing.
I am unsure what to think but at university, my brother and several in his class got a major virus, it was easy to kill but the dammage it did required another hijack tool to be run to get rid of the program that was trying to install all the time, and with this done, there was dammage to some drive locations and I had to get something to fix that.
Universities are a prime way to get infected people leave and loose their usb flash drives all the time so my brother tells me.
While setting up for some classes I got to talk to one of their tech admins.
They were certainly all over security, mostly prevention not removal.
I asked so what if you get a virus, his responce, was, well every summester we reformat all computers.
And every year we refresh ane reformat older backups to.
Why I asked.
He then said that with so many computers if ever a virus got in and it often does, tracking it is impossible because to much ground to cover.
I don’t see much we can do about this.
With the cloud being used, the only thing I can think of is making sure no one can take usb sticks or drives into university and bann their use.
This includes the teachers and admins unless allowed by request or something.
Certainly if students stopped bringing them in they would never get lost.
Universities and school are always big target though thats never changed and has been round since before the net.
What is interesting is you got an email about it.
If I was a hacker that is one way I’d deliver ransomware at someone.
I mean send an email as admin and say, that we have been hacked and to open a page explaining it.
Load the ransomware in the background.
And once loaded do whatever.
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Enter your comment here…Hello Shaun,
Interesting comments. Yes, I would assume that this is going to be the way it is, and the E-mail in question was careful. THE PDF doesn’t say much more than what I had stated already. I’m thinking its time for a change somehow, and my new thought provoking posts may spark some discussion. Thanks for reading.