ROK Drop Open Thread – March 23, 2019

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setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

As part of my own retooling efforts, I finished a Certified Ethical Hacker class yesterday.

Without being too dramatic, it is important to keep your systems patched, turn off services you don’t need, have up-to-date antivirus/antimalware software, and complex passwords over 11 characters in length. You also need a good, offline, backup.

But only on the stuff you don’t want compromised…

Mcgeehee
Mcgeehee
5 years ago

I would add…move to a Mac.

This guy I knew was on DISA’s Red Team for years and would always say, “Give me enough time and I can break into anything.” Secured networks, encrypted, didn’t matter, just took a little more time. “Enough time” for him was usually two weeks.

This is the only guy I knew that I could honestly refer to as a genius. Dude knew everything (and I don’t mean in an arrogant egotistical manner; he was very polite). He also moon-lighted as a computer security professional from home.

The one thing he would always repeat about online privacy and online security…

They are both a facade, as they both exist mostly in the marketing material.

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

McG, you and your friend are right.

The trick, as it were, is twofold:

1. Present as little hack value as possible.
2. Protect what you can from the amateurs.

Think of the guy who stopped running from the bear long enough to change into sneakers, so he could outrun his friend..

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

“How much would you pay for this? Fifty cents?
But wait! There’s more!!!”

https://threatpost.com/asus-pc-backdoors-shadowhammer/143129/

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
5 years ago

Looks like Fatty will be feeling a pinch in his wallet:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-and-russia-claim-thousands-of-north-korean-workers-sent-home/ar-BBVgHEC?ocid=ientp

China and Russia have sent home more than half of their North Korean workers, likely tens of thousands of people, according to reports submitted to the UN North Korean Security Council sanctions committee.
Russia’s report said that the number of North Korean workers with valid work permits decreased from 30,023 to 11,490 persons.
In its report, China, the strongest ally of North Korea, said more of half of its income-earning North Korean nationals had been repatriated.

Without his slave army out earning money for him, but demanding to be fed, more pressure may be on Kim to play nice.

I noticed he sent his on-site staff back to work at Kaesong. Normally, he pulls his people back and begins yet another round of saber rattling, expecting to have his ass properly kissed by Jimmy Carter or something. This time he just said to get back to work.

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