RANSOMEWARE HIT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Satish Babu <sb.inapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a advocate of FOSS for over two decades, I would say that the real
> culprit is the lack of diversity on the Desktop.
>
> Having said that, I'd recommend that whoever can do so should move into
> FOSS, which I find is inherently more secure (I was an MS-DOS and Windows
> programmer from the late 80s, and moved to Linux in the late 90s). I
> realize that my statement is contentious, but certainly not new (we gave
> been arguing this for the last 20 years).
>
> Having over 80% of systems in a single OS makes the enterprise very
> vulnerable, considering that *all* software contains inadvertent or
> deliberate bugs/features such as backdoors (in this case, apparently put
> there by MS for NSA).
>
> While backups are a great idea, pls note that backups on infected systems
> may themselves be infected and/or encrypted.
>
> I don't see any way to 'eliminate' these kind of threats, but we can
> perhaps learn to manage them.
>
>
+1 Satish .

Most interesting part in current news reports is many media houses naming
just Shadow brokers as Vulnerability origin(instead of pointing fingers at
NSA & MS), which is exploited now by this Ransomware

This incident clearly demonstrates the after effects of weakening digital
security practices for Law enforcement agencies.  Any such weakening/back
doors impacts human rights and digital security in a increasingly
digitalized world. There is an urgency to have a honest global discussions
on impacts of security weakening/ backdoors for govts .

Anivar
https://anivar.net
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