US, UK cyber cops warn Russians are rooting around in your routers American and British crimefighters have launched another round of pin-the-tail-on-the-Russians – with a warning that Moscow-backed hackers are trying to subvert the world's network devices. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security …
Gosh..... Just 6 months ago it used to be the NORKs...
Before mr. FattymcFat started, more or less successfully, detonating nukes it used to be the Chinese..
When the Establishment figured out Asia in general had caught up and could and *would* outcompete them it was the Yellow Menace...
We've covered about 30+ years of global development in those 3 sentences, and *only* if you look at them through PrUSAian propaganda.
Anyone else see a pattern, or am I getting Old?
My avatar on lots of sites is a picture of me, a dumbo octopus. I of course get my internet by tapping into the USN's deep water listening system. Just for lols I'm quite good at making noises like a Russian nuclear sub.
I've been hanging about off the Norwegian coast near an optical cable doing my act, you may have noticed. The Admiralty certainly has. It's great fun.
-> icon because those of us in the Deep will be just fine when you have all nuked yourselves into oblivion. I expect a bit of marine snow from post apocalypse cockroaches shoved into the briny by their fellows. Yum!
"Crikey! I hope you're allowing some ventilation for that"
If I really was down in an Anderson shelter awaiting Armageddon I think the fumes from a few ccs of burning meths would be low on my list of things to worry about. But in fact early in my experiments with Mamod engines I discovered that a small butane torch worked a lot better than those meths burners.
I do, in reality, possess a Dometic alcohol fuelled marine stove for use in emergency, but it gets used in the garage.
Of course we are. Also we are doing it to any and every entity that has a router, regardless of laws and countries the router is in.
Why do you think the Internet is actually so slow? It is not any DoS, it is our own government filling the Internet up with data sucking traffic.
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The PFY got warned one night
By "national authorities" concerning a blight
Possibly setting up shop in his router
Behaving like a malevolent looter
A peril not yellow
And neither of Mossad
Not Turkish, not Mobster
And no NSA wombat
With smooth voices they told him what exactly to fear:
"There's Putin rummaging in your Cisco gear"
>Has any of those morons heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?
Doesn't matter, they seem to be winning over public opinion despite their hypocrisy.
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Hermann Göring
FBI has high confidence
How about FBI has EVIDENCE - to satisfy a prosecutor that a prosecution in a court of law may succeed. Real court. Anywhere in the developed world (preferably not USA).
If they really have it - then, we are talking.
Until then it is not even kettle paging pot. It is black hole calling a pot black. The best thing to do is not to listen to either one of them.
At the least, they should be able to check the programming that is on networking devices against the programming that should be on networking devices. That would not necessarily prove who put any additional programming on those devices but could, at least, inform one as to whether there was programming on those devices that shouldn't be on them. I would think that's a fairly standard check, but I've been wrong, many times, before.
It would be so much safer if everyone and his brother didn't assume the internet was safe and decided to all their proprietary, sensitive, and confidential on that bunch of holes held together by string.
But, wouldn't that kind of thinking not only crash the likes of Amazon & PayPal, but, also pretty much every other Bank as well?
"There's a simple test; just start watching FailArmy videos - if you hear a faint "blyat!" after each gag from your router, it's probably compromised"
And if it's in Moscow you can be fined for letting it swear in public.
Typical bureaucratic mentality: just about everybody says "whore!" when something annoying happens, some people don't like it so make it illegal. That instantly causes people to stop swearing. So yob tvoiu mat, rude people!
If home routers are as buggy as hell, even if they are updated and enterprise-grade routers are expensive and possibly more dangerous if configured by someone who is not an expert in them, what should the lay person do?
Just update the firmware often and hope for the best?
Turn off the router when it's not being used?
Treat it like a car — pay a professional many thousands to recommend a good router and have it serviced once or twice a year?
Problem is that most home routers are supplied by the ISP and updated by the ISP.
When I was a Sky customer, i attempted to replace the rebadged netgear router with something a bit more secure. I asked for my ADSL usename/password and was told that they did give that information to the customers as their service would only work with their routers. A few days later there was a report about all the security issues with sky routers.
Well I have had two firmware updates from BT* this year, last one on the 7th April, now whether that is a good thing or not I have no idea.
If the router updates are as good as this, then I think I'd be saying "bad thing"
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