03-07-2021, 11:39 AM
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Re: A vulnerable society
Originally Posted by UkGameCoder
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Yes, this happens, and I've even heard of some employees with enough access privileges creating new 'ghost' accounts before they leave the company. This enables them to continue accessing the company system after they've left the company, and even after the company has deleted their old account.There are all kinds of ways to penetrate software systems.
One of the most versatile and insidious enables the programmer to enter computer language code into a form meant for conveying input to the program, and have the victim's programs execute it! This is one of the most frightening in my opinion.
WOW!!...I’m starting to process this information you are providing,U GC...it’s very interesting..also very scary...
03-07-2021, 04:42 PM
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Re: A vulnerable society
Originally Posted by Ullabi
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An example of how vulnerable our modern society is. Coop in Sweden was subjected to a cyber attack yesterday that knocked out their entire cash register system, both manual tills and self scanning. As a result all Coop stores in Sweden are closed until further notice.
It seems the business world generally is very vulnerable, and most companies use new technology. So do all our really important organisations like the utility companies. OK so we can do without some organisations for a while but others we need to just survive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57703836
04-07-2021, 07:45 AM
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Re: A vulnerable society
Another example of our vulnerability occurred on December 27th 1983. There was a fire in an electric transformer station about five miles from where we live that caused a power cut that plunged the whole of southern and central Sweden into darkness. Paradoxically, the area nearest the transformer station ie us didn't get our power back until the following day.The kids thought it was lovely, candlelight, snuggling up in blankets etc but the costs to society were enormous.
Knocking out one or two strategically placed facilities can create total havoc.
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