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What did the hackers do, call up their retired brethren?
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)The hackers infiltrated the railway system with ransomware and will provide the coding key only if President Alexander Lukashenko stopped assisting Russian troops preparing for an invasion of Ukraine.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
orwell
(7,771 posts)...even in the US are run on ancient operating systems.
I know some water treatment plants that were running on Windows 2000 here in the US.
It is like pulling teeth to get these operators to upgrade.
It has taken 2 years to get a water plant client of mine to upgrade to Windows 10 and I live in Northern California, 2 hours from Silicon Valley. They previously ran Windows Vista.
This doesn't surprise me at all. The tanks are probably running on Cobol...
TrogL
(32,822 posts)COBOL is still out there. Despite being a but wordy, it's a good reporting language.
orwell
(7,771 posts)highplainsdem
(48,971 posts)ForgedCrank
(1,779 posts)is still using Windows XP in some places.
It's outright negligence at this point.
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts)IronLionZion
(45,432 posts)many of those old systems are less vulnerable to attack
ancianita
(36,030 posts)also be a form of security when no other systems use XP.
ForgedCrank
(1,779 posts)the only way for XP to be secure in any form at this date and time is for it to be unplugged from any network, period. There are so many security flaws that are no longer being patched, an amateur would even have a field day with it.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)moondust
(19,972 posts)Fuck Lukashitbag.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)At least its not Windows Me!
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)GB_RN
(2,348 posts)Holy Shit! Windows XP was officially EOL'd by Microsoft back in 2014! Having that as your OS is criminally incompetent at this point. Jesus...🤦?♂️😂
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)OMGWTF
(3,952 posts)Remember all of those annoying CDs they blanketed us with? At one point 50% of all CDs manufactured were AOL start-up discs. I remember hearing a story about someone who was so sick of seeing those AOL discs everywhere that they collected a very large number of them and then dumped them at the front door of AOL HQ. Now, they're a collectable.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)That while you're getting that login tone, nobody's asking you about your car's extended warranty, which you know is about to expire!
packman
(16,296 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)So WERE not as vulnerable in the future.
This whole thing has been a cautionary tale for those of our leaders who choose to take a lesson from it.
As thorough and experienced as President Biden is, it wouldnt surprise me if he already assigned some people to start doing something about it.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Maybe get a VPN while you're at it?
WarGamer
(12,439 posts)COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)They were password123
Cha
(297,154 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,137 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,831 posts)It could cripple the entire country