Roast Grumpy Old Thread II - the grumpiness continues

[Groucho]

Forgive me but what’s aMoyle

Ask Harry Sheezel

 

[ferball]

And sunburn?

Aloe Vera.

And its good for ant bites. I planted one in Woodlands Park once for that reason. Whole place was one big jack jumper nest.

 

[Samsquanch]

Forgive me but what’s aMoyle

I have formally apologised to Sheez.

I meant Mohel

I admit to the mistake.

 

[Lomas]

I have formally apologised to Sheez.

I meant Mohel

I admit to the mistake.

So he's not balding?

 

[koshari]

Aloe Vera.

And its good for ant bites. I planted one in Woodlands Park once for that reason. Whole place was one big jack jumper nest.

Been bitten by jack jumpers on a few ovcasions . The missus thought it was quite humorous. Of course the she didnt thing it was as funny when she got bitten a few months back .

 

[ferball]

Been bitten by jack jumpers on a few ovcasions . The missus thought it was quite humorous. Of course the she didnt thing it was as funny when she got bitten a few months back .

Pricks of things.

Jumping ants up here are okay. My missus picks them up, pats them and puts them down again.

 

[see see]

Forgive me but what’s aMoyle

Ask Harry Sheezel

Apparently they work for tips.

I'll get my coat.

 

[Dodecahedron]

Medibank hacker and related criminals - what a pack of smartarse, arrogant, pathetic, heartless cnuts. Need to be caught and publicly castrated.

Side question: in the history of the world, has Interpol, the AFP or any equivalent police force ever caught a single cyber criminal?

 

[Samsquanch]

Medibank hacker and related criminals - what a pack of smartarse, arrogant, pathetic, heartless cnuts. Need to be caught and publicly castrated.

Side question: in the history of the world, has Interpol, the AFP or any equivalent police force ever caught a single cyber criminal?

Is it true that Medibank Private is to be renamed as Medibank Pubic?

I'm not a security person but I did spend some time in Canberra on behalf of the industry that I worked in, with the Australian Signals Directorate a couple of years back, along with Optus people and others. The purpose was to ensure that all essential service industries (private and government) were properly prepared, vigilant against all possible attack vectors and ready to respond in case of a successful penetration, intrusion or other form of attack.

I've just been having a conversation with my old boss about a certain health insurance and health industry company, specifically about the attack you mentioned. Companies like MPL and Optus plus every corporate in this country and around the world are under almost constant attack. I'm actually surprised that their defences have stood up so well for as long as they have to be honest. Most of the attacks are DDoS and these occur daily. The corporates occasionally succumb, but often that's when Microsoft Directory Services authentication takes a hit. Actual intrusions seem to be fairly rare, but occur often because somebody forgot to secure a port or an account was compromised (according to the Guardian, that's what happened to MPL). The Russian mafia are persistent attackers, as I imagine are the CCP and for all I know, the government of the US&A, Iran, North Korea and plenty of others (Australia???).

About 1x years ago, a place where I worked copped a hammering from a foreign actor on a Good Friday. I got the call to manage it and we engaged the Government as part of the standard protocols although at the time, we made most of the decisions ourselves, such as to shut down almost everything in our data centres. We worked with xxxx-redacted-xxxxx as well, and it turned out that the attackers had penetrated their servers in the Philippines - a soft target on Good Friday. The government people in our conference told us that the attacks originated from within the geographic area of western Russia and they attributed it to a mafia organisation. It took our security guys around 24 or so hours to do whatever they did to be confident enough for us to start bringing systems back online. Part of the attack was to use our servers as relays for more widespread attacks so stacks of our public IP addresses were blacklisted which caused all sorts of knock on problems, so of course we made the news over that.

As far as I know, the Medibank problem will be manifested mostly on politically exposed people, such as public figures, politicians, corporate high flyers and Big Footy moderators who may be touched for cash or bitcoin ransoms under threat of their medical procedures being made public. For some that could be quite damaging.

The Australian Signals Directorate, AFP and VicPol Cyber Crime units have never mentioned whether they've caught any cyber criminals in any of the meetings that I ever had with them although you'd have to think that some do get caught. The problem is, the major cyber criminals are parts of large organisations themselves so even if some get caught or their servers get shut down the way they do business over the dark web and using tools and encryption that are equal to or better than the tools available to the authorities means that they can easily bounce back and kick off new operations against new and unsuspecting targets.

The are some stories that get published with happy endings such as...

AFP and FBI sting used encrypted app to intercept crims' comms

Provided intelligence for three years.

www.itnews.com.au

PS: I am not sure but I think you can find the Medibank claim code for castration on the dark web if you open a session in TOR

 

[Nate7]

Medibank hacker and related criminals - what a pack of smartarse, arrogant, pathetic, heartless cnuts. Need to be caught and publicly castrated.

Side question: in the history of the world, has Interpol, the AFP or any equivalent police force ever caught a single cyber criminal?

I'll tell you now, the second acronym govt organisation you mentioned are as pathetic as most state based "authorities".
Which includes their field raids and interrogation.

 

[Samsquanch]

Here's a thought.

The Medibank system that was hacked also has all of the provider details with procedure and payment details.

That hasn't been mentioned in the media.

 

[Nate7]

Here's a thought.

The Medibank system that was hacked also has all of the provider details with procedure and payment details.

That hasn't been mentioned in the media.

I thought it had, along with it's subsidiaries.

Beyond that, all these hacks prove what a backwater Australia is in many respects.

 

[Samsquanch]

I thought it had, along with it's subsidiaries.

Beyond that, all these hacks prove what a backwater Australia is in many respects.

Australian corporates will all be using the gamut of the cyber protection industry products - most would be protected pretty well, except from mistakes and errors, from the incompetence / complacency of staff or third party providers.

I don't see Australia being considered a backwater so much as there are some rather juicy targets. There would be attempted hacks taking place on hundreds of companies even now as we speak. Not that many succeed luckily.

More and more companies will probably migrate IT systems to cloud based providers like AWS and MS to take advantage of the protection they offer - in the meantime I'm betting a lot of company directors and management teams will be shiitting bricks in case they are next to be successfully hit.

The bottom line is, all the products in the world won't protect you if you aren't properly prepared, if you aren't closely monitoring gateway traffic volumes and alerting against other abnormal traffic in networks, systems and databases and then constantly performing penetration testing and triggering alerts to prove that monitoring is capable of detecting anomalies.

PS: all further conversations need to be on my WhatsApp or Telegram ok...

 

[koshari]

Medibank hacker and related criminals - what a pack of smartarse, arrogant, pathetic, heartless cnuts. Need to be caught and publicly castrated.

Side question: in the history of the world, has Interpol, the AFP or any equivalent police force ever caught a single cyber criminal?

Asange?

 

[Chief]

Medibank hacker and related criminals - what a pack of smartarse, arrogant, pathetic, heartless cnuts. Need to be caught and publicly castrated.

Side question: in the history of the world, has Interpol, the AFP or any equivalent police force ever caught a single cyber criminal?

Heaps. Probably never will catch anyone from China, but a while ago the US actually had help from Russia to bag a cyber gang. Don't like their chances these days as Putin has co-opted the big gangs to work for him in the war.

Check out:

 

[blackshadow]

PS: all further conversations need to be on my WhatsApp or Telegram ok...

Signal FTW

 

[Samsquanch]

Signal FTW

Facebook Messenger

 

[koshari]

sheesh, what a crap day, raining sideways....

water gushing through paddocks acros road even before latest storm.

 

[krakouers]

 

[Hojuman]

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[krakouers]

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See, I couldn’t post that on any old page Hojuman
The kids wouldn’t understand

 

[ferball]

Asange?

The Feds got him in 1994.

 

[Hojuman]

One of the great hell raisin', hard drinkin', 7 times married originators of the music we all enjoy still to this day. Good night Jerry age 87.

 

[Samsquanch]

One of the great hell raisin', hard drinkin', 7 times married originators of the music we all enjoy still to this day. Good night Jerry age 87.

From an article I saw yesterday, Jerry reckons he is still kicking.

It appears he was wrong though.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

One of the great hell raisin', hard drinkin', 7 times married originators of the music we all enjoy still to this day. Good night Jerry age 87.

And in keeping with one of the other threads, also married his 13 year old cousin.