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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: http://semiengineering.com/the-evolv...omware-threat/ https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...is/threat-repo rts/roundup complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includesyou.
On 10/03/2017 20:14, nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens wrote: http://semiengineering.com/the-evolv...omware-threat/ https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...is/threat-repo rts/roundup complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. I seem to recall reading that simply using Time Machine, which is physically connected to my iMac, will be inadequate protection against a ransomware attack. Is that right? |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
In article , David B.
wrote: complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. I seem to recall reading that simply using Time Machine, which is physically connected to my iMac, will be inadequate protection against a ransomware attack. Is that right? no it's not, but if you want to be safer, put it on the network. |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:47:49 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , David B. wrote: complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. I seem to recall reading that simply using Time Machine, which is physically connected to my iMac, will be inadequate protection against a ransomware attack. Is that right? no it's not, but if you want to be safer, put it on the network. As you know, I'm not a Mac user and I know almost nothing about how time machine works. But can you tell me how in its normal installation Time Machine is protected from and protects from Denial of Service attacks? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. I seem to recall reading that simply using Time Machine, which is physically connected to my iMac, will be inadequate protection against a ransomware attack. Is that right? no it's not, but if you want to be safer, put it on the network. As you know, I'm not a Mac user and I know almost nothing about how time machine works. then why did you start a thread about mac ransomware? But can you tell me how in its normal installation Time Machine is protected from and protects from Denial of Service attacks? dos attacks aren't the issue. time machine can use a directly attached drive or a network drive. for the former, the drive can be unmounted when not needed even if it remains physically connected. for the latter, it's only mounted when a backup is taking place. in the unlikely event malware hits, the malware would need to know there is an unmounted time machine drive, find it, mount it and then attack it. while it's theoretically possible for that to happen, the chances are for all intents, zero. it's also possible a meteor will hit your house, and the chances for that too is for all intents, zero. malware authors are not going to bother with edge cases such as that when what they're doing already has billions of potential targets, most of whom do not have any backup at all. it's far too much work for very little gain. it's much more likely that the hard drive itself will fail or a buggy app corrupts the data or some other data loss, versus ransomware to occur, yet for some reason, people get all freaked out about ransomware and don't do *anything* to cover for the rest. |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
On 2017-03-11 21:08:57 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:47:49 -0500, nospam wrote: In article , David B. wrote: complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. I seem to recall reading that simply using Time Machine, which is physically connected to my iMac, will be inadequate protection against a ransomware attack. Is that right? no it's not, but if you want to be safer, put it on the network. As you know, I'm not a Mac user and I know almost nothing about how time machine works. But can you tell me how in its normal installation Time Machine is protected from and protects from Denial of Service attacks? The first clue as to how "Time Machine" works to backup all, or selected files and folders on a Mac lies in its name. After set up and initial back up, it will run at selected time intervals to run a back-up/file update which is accessible for various levels of recovery in date and time slices. These "time slices" can be weekly, daily, but most commonly hourly, and occasionally a back-up on demand. "Time Machine" keeps hourly backups of files for the previous 24 hours, then a single daily backup of your files for each of the last 30 days, and then weekly backups until such point as the backup disk becomes full and TimeMachine needs to remove the oldest backups to make space for new ones. If you don't care to make hourly back-ups and prefer to isolate your back-up drive between back-ups, you can always connect the drive to the computer and make an on demand back-up, and then disconnect. This needs a good amount of discipline to keep up, as doing things that way can be a royal PIA, and is subject to lapses. Using this method limits an hourly back-up to a few Mb to multiple GB. This means that once the damage or contamination event is identified, recovery of files, damaged or otherwise contaminated can be easily located. So each recovery can be made back to a known clean back-up which is going to be isolated from a contamination event. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includesyou.
On 2017-03-10 15:14, nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens wrote: http://semiengineering.com/the-evolv...omware-threat/ https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...is/threat-repo rts/roundup complete non-issue for those with a good backup strategy, regardless of platform. +1 -- "If war is God's way of teaching Americans geography, then recession is His way of teaching everyone a little economics." ..Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing. |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
On 2017-03-10 20:08:20 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
http://semiengineering.com/the-evolv...omware-threat/ https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...eports/roundup The solution is simple; DON'T USE TORRENTS! -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT Ransomware for everybody and, yes, Mac users, that includes you.
In article 2017031012423045495-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
Savageduck wrote: http://semiengineering.com/the-evolv...omware-threat/ https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...ysis/threat-re ports/roundup The solution is simple; DON'T USE TORRENTS! torrents isn't the only vector for ransomware or malware. people get freaked out about ransomware for some reason, even though a hard drive failure is more likely to occur or a user ****-up, such as deleting the wrong document by mistake. the proper solution is have up to date backups, which will cover *any* disaster if ransomware does hit, there's also a bit of a thrill in telling the scumbags to **** off and that you won't be paying *anything*. |
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