[Heathkit] (no subject) well.. really, there is a subject. The subject is no subject.

[Walt dabell]

Too late...
That happened recently when someone exploited a Juniper router
weakness and shut down the internet (most of it anyway) for
several hours.

There have also been regular (constant?) denial of service
attacks against gov. organizations in the DC area for years.

I think Cyberwarefare is a reality has been for a while.

The banner ads, the slick phishing emails, the infected web
sites, the hard-headed users that cant help themselves when
some email asks them to give away their password... Yup, sure
does make IT fun :-)

If you keep Java, Flash, Adobe, and your computer patched and
up to date, and keep a good virus protection software package
and firewall running, and resist the temptation to click, you
can stay pretty clean. It's tough though. Those that say they've
never been infected probably haven't looked hard enough. A lot
of infections sit idle waiting for some remote command to tell
them to do something. If your computer is running slow or is
acting funny, get Malwarebytes or something and have a scan.
It's easy and the trial is free. (no commercial connection)


HK-232 huh? I didn't think they were still in business in
the late 80's. I have the original PK-232 and was surprised to
see that I could still upgrade it to the latest revision. Hard
to justify the expense, when most of the services the HK/PK-232
get you are available with software now. If you can keep the
computer running that is :-)


    Walt Dabell - W3WMD

On 6/14/2012 11:30 AM, Bill Kuhn wrote:
> We are getting very close to open cyberwarfare IMHO.
>
> Stuxnet was just a shot across the bow. At least it attempted to be targeted at specific hardware.
>
> At some point someone will let something really nasty out to try to crush internet traffic completely, and then all bets are off.
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