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The latest anti-Russian crap

  • 28-06-2020 10:52pm
    #1
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭


    On NBC nightly news, I know, a joke of a source, they have reported that those working at home as a result of COVID could now be the targets of Russian hackers.


    No substance to the claim. No proof. No motive. Nothing, just that working from home means that your security is not as strict as in the workplace :rolleyes:


    Don't they understand what a VPN is?


    And why would 10 people working remotely 6 months ago be ok but 100 now is a huge security risk to the spooky Russians?


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  • #2
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,101 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Stop watching Yank news.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Its a distraction from the news russia used pay taliban to kill yanks

    Which was found out at same time,they were negociating peace with taliban


  • #4
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    If there’s nothing worse than the Black and Tans it’s them Russians !


  • #5
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Millionaire only not wrote: »
    If there’s nothing worse than the Black and Tans it’s them Russians !

    The Ruskies would have sent us all off to Siberia and carpet bombed anything left.


  • #6
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    In soviet Russia crap is the latest


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  • #7
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Somebody should be keeping a close eye on those Eskimos, nevermind the russkies. The minute the eskimos train the polar bears to fly the worlds in trouble.


  • #8
    Biafranlivemat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭Biafranlivemat


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Stop watching Yank news.
    I live in the US and don't watch Yank news. It's unbelievably bad.


  • #9
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    There are lots of Russian hackers and scammers its nothing against Russia to say that.

    There are a lot of Nigerian scammers....

    Russia is a HUGE country with a lot of organized crime and very little opportunity for even very educated people.

    The Russian black market is a massive part of their GDP.

    I mean normal good russian people get a lot of their medicines from the black market. If you have HIV or cancer you get your drugs off the black market. That business is ALL over the dark web. Its huge. And these gangs need techies to deal with it.


    Its just a fact of life.


  • #10
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    On NBC nightly news, I know, a joke of a source, they have reported that those working at home as a result of COVID could now be the targets of Russian hackers.


    No substance to the claim. No proof. No motive. Nothing, just that working from home means that your security is not as strict as in the workplace :rolleyes:


    Don't they understand what a VPN is?


    And why would 10 people working remotely 6 months ago be ok but 100 now is a huge security risk to the spooky Russians?

    No, they don't. Which is what makes people more vulnerable. Your average user's technical skill doesn't extend beyond using Instagram and Snapchat. You ask most Americans what a VPN is and they will draw a blank.


  • #11
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    In soviet Russia crap is the latest

    In Soviet Russia hackers.....wait never mind


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  • #12
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    "Russian Hackers" was the "WMD" of the 2010s.


  • #13
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its a distraction from the news russia used pay taliban to kill yanks

    Which was found out at same time,they were negociating peace with taliban

    other way around , americans used to pay afghans to kill russians


  • #14
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 36,993 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    On NBC nightly news, I know, a joke of a source...

    I got this far. No thanks.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



  • #15
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    You know with the Covid outbreak, the Chemical Spill in Siberia, the forest fires, the alleged radiation leaks around St Petersburg, the constitutional vote, keeping Chechnya and Dagestan in their box, it's amazing that Vlad has any time in his day to be doing this too.


  • #16
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,326 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    It's not entirely unreasonable to suggest that Russiona hackers will target home workers in the hopes of gaining access to remote workers whose employer rushed the remote working set up and doesn't have adequate security. But it's doubtfull that these hackers work for the Russian government but instead will do the usual thing of encrypting data in the hopes of getting a bitcoin pay-off.


  • #17
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Any of my scam phone calls would appear to come from either India or Nigeria (which I entertain with great gusto).
    Guess the Ruskautobots don't have the accent for "this is your Windows 10 lottery bank call centre calling", without sounding all Dolph Lundgren Rocky IV.

    The rest of the tinternet scams (old linkedin bulk hacked pwd teasers) emanate out of the likes of Czech Republic, Estonia and Ukraine.
    N'Kor are perhaps the king of bitcoin harddrive lockdowns, bigKim has to import fine cheese and wine at great expense afterall.


  • #18
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,752 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Kylta wrote: »
    Somebody should be keeping a close eye on those Eskimos, nevermind the russkies. The minute the eskimos train the polar bears to fly the worlds in trouble.

    You do need to watch those Eskimo people, polar bear corrupters they have resources to cause much trouble, they are minted too.


  • #19
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    One thing is for sure this dude's (Nigerian in Dubai) interweb global cyber scam party, is all over with now:
    AN INSTAGRAM star who lived the high life in Dubai while conning millions of people has been brought crashing down by the FBI.
    Nigerian influencer Raymond Abbas, 38, was nicked for his alleged major role in a £350million cyber-scam while asleep in his luxury home in Dubai.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11982860/instagram-hushpuppi-billionaire-lifestyle-arrested-dubai-350m-cyber-scam/

    $30m in cash was also discovered earlier this month, what ever internet scam he was doing (CCards likely), sure must have been lucrative.

    Local media reports that the FBI will push to extradite Mr Abbas to America, as many of the alleged victims were US citizens.


  • #20
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    A lot of incel sorts seem to be attracted to the idea of Putin and his strong man persona.


  • #21
    I Am Nobody
    Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭I Am Nobody


    Americans have always thought the Russians,Chinese,Arabs,and Cubans are out to get them.Has been going on since the Cold War.


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  • #22
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    A lot of incel sorts seem to be attracted to the idea of Putin and his strong man persona.


    Including Trump, if John Bolton's new book is to be believed.


  • #23
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Politics in after hours, is this allowed today Mods, it wasn't allowed the other day.

    Be that as it may, Russia is an arbitrary dictatorship. We shouldn't be surprised what they get up to.

    Arbitrary arrest
    Intimidation and murder of journalists
    Eclusion of any political opposition
    Over flights over Irish air space
    Salisbury poisonings


  • #24
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    The US is the greatest threat to World peace, this is just lazy deflection from a horrible country.


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