On Thu 7-May-2020 21:04 , August Abolins@2:221/1.58 said to Mike Powell:

** On Thursday 07.05.20 - 16:58, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

Eg. People at work don't need to access Facebook or expose company
computers to malicious site

Well... where I work, we have people whose job it is to locate

persons.

One of the sources they use is Facebook. For whatever reason, a lot

of

less than intelligent crooks will try to send us false contact data

but

then post all about themselves on social media. :)

OK.. I see the relevance for collection agencies especially when needing

One reason why I do not use social sites because they seem to be getting hacked. Take a look this https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51424352#:~:text=Facebook%27s%20social%20m Twiter got hacked.

to locate persons. But even then, it would be wise to isolate work terminals for internet searches from the internal network used for accessing company accounts.

Where I work you can only got to sites on the internet if it's for official business.

But I was thinking of places like hospitals and medical centers. In October last year a large medical center with offices all over the province/country was struck with a security breach. Then, a month later it was announced that is was ransomware. This was clearly activated by clicking on a false link.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/lifelabs-data-breach-the- largest-ever-in-canada-may-cost-the-company-over-1-billion-in-class- action-lawsuit/

To bad they do not have a methode to check the site to see if it's a security risk and block it before the user connects to it. Where I work they have security software that does it.


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Hello Phil Taylor!

** On Tuesday 09.02.21 - 21:18, Phil Taylor wrote to August Abolins:

On Thu 7-May-2020 21:04 , August Abolins@2:221/1.58 said to Mike Powell:

Eg. People at work don't need to access Facebook or
expose company computers to malicious site

One reason why I do not use social sites because they seem
to be getting hacked. Take a look this https://www.bbc.com/ news/technology-51424352#:~: text=Facebook%27s%20social%20m
Twiter got hacked.

Wow.. That's just a few days ago. Interesting.

There is a place called ogusers.com that seems to be dedicated
on selling hacked Twitter accounts - or something like that -
and ironically, that site has been hacked too!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/account-hijacking-site- ogusers-hacked-again/

To bad they do not have a methode to check the site to see
if it's a security risk and block it before the user
connects to it. Where I work they have security software
that does it.

It's laziness. The hacked offices were medical facilities where
people's private info is used. They should have blocked all
IP's except the ones they need to connect with their own network
- that would be an inexpensive no-brainer start. There are
several simple (and free) ways to do that - no high paid
resources required. Employees of such a facility don't need to
visit Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.
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