• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    How do people still get viruses? Nobody I know has legitimately gotten one in like 10 years

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      22 minutes ago

      In the old days the viruses would just put a skull up on your screen or some other nonsense.

      Now the virus hides and they track everything you do and steal all your passwords and banking information.

      It’s better for them to not go loud. Otherwise they’ll be discovered. And the point is to stay hidden as long as possible to collect as much data as possible.

      Most people don’t know their computers are infected.

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      58 minutes ago

      Most malware exist to steal your data. Most people are infected with such malware today. They’re called apps.

      Most free mobile apps today are malware

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    11 hours ago

    Ars doesn’t let me say what I think should happen to all these DOGE traitors anymore, but man they are the fucking worst in every sense.

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      10 hours ago

      Well, when all is said and done, they’re gonna be “loose ends”. Not that that really helps much.

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    14 hours ago

    Foreign governments are feasting on the once secure data. I can’t imagine the self inflicted damage America has done to itself. I really can’t imagine what America’s enemies will do with this.

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      What could they possibly need to do? Osama Bin Laden illustrated very effectively that all you need to do is give Americans a little bloody nose- the US will happily spend the next 30 years trying to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart.

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      I think you’re joking, but the most likely way the government will fix this is an AI powered threat detector, like Falcon from CrowdStrike.

      Its cancer but they have a lot of federal contracts for their endpoint EDR

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    user names and passwords for logging in to various accounts belonging to Schutt have been published at least four times since 2023 in logs from stealer malware.

    Oof. That’s embarrassing. He’s been oblviously leaking his credentials for months due to an earlier infection by malware.

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    5 hours ago

    the onion, idc if the community is based on this premisse.

    THIS IS CLEARLY SATIRE hahahaahah

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        56 minutes ago

        I believe they’re saying that they want to put their head in the sand and pretend that this article is fake satire.

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        1 hour ago

        I was sarcastic, sorry

        Cant believe that this is actually happening, therefore rhetorical “this is clearly satire”

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      3 hours ago

      The opposite of the morning routine of a porter in the moving industry:

      Break fast and move things

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      14 hours ago

      Well, I read it as just a description of Fred Durst in the late 90s/Early 00’s.

      He’s rollin rollin rollin rollin, and if his day keeps goin’ this way, he’s gonna break something tonight!