To: Digital Man
Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS in the future?

$ The Millionaire $
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To: The Millionaire
Re: Ransomware
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Wed Jun 02 2021 09:14 am

> Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS in the
> future?

Ransomware is usually installed via known vulnerabilities in system software (e.g. operating systems). I don't think SBBS is a big enough target (not a large enough installed base) to attract such evildoers, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. It's much more likely that any Ransomware would be installed via some other well-known vulnerability in the system hosting the BBS.
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To: The Millionaire
Re: Ransomware
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Wed Jun 02 2021 09:14 am

TM> Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS in the
TM> future?

It happends to corps with million dollar infosec bugets, it can happen to a bbs ;)

Make encrypted backups (7zip + aes/256 perhaps?) and ship them to the cloud. Onedrive is a good option as they have a personal vault that keeps access closed until you MFA in. I'm sure *nix has even better automated options.

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To: The Millionaire
On 6/2/2021 12:14 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
> Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS in the future?
>
> $ The Millionaire $
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If you Google how most ransomware works, your question will mostly
answer itself.

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To: dragon
-=> dragon wrote to The Millionaire <=-

dr> On 6/2/2021 12:14 PM, The Millionaire wrote:

> Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS
> in the future?

dr> If you Google how most ransomware works, your question will
dr> mostly answer itself.

The millionaire can't be bothered to google anything.

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To: Digital Man
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-files-ransomware-tips/

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To: The Millionaire
Re: Ransomware
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jun 06 2021 08:06 am

> https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-files-ransomware-tips/

I don't see any specific applicability to BBSes or Synchronet, but I'm glad you read that article (?).
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To: Digital Man

> Re: Ransomware
> By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jun 06 2021 08:06 am

> I don't see any specific applicability to BBSes or Synchronet, but I'm glad
> you read that article (?).
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> digital man

> Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #23:
> DOS = Disk Operating System (as in PC-DOS and MS-DOS)
> Norco, CA WX: 73.1°F, 56.0% humidity, 3 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops running a BBS.
But if we tell them that we have triple protection ransomware features I think
they will stay away for good.
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To: The Millionaire
Re: Ransomware
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jun 06 2021 07:18 pm

> > Re: Ransomware
> > By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jun 06 2021 08:06 am
>
> > I don't see any specific applicability to BBSes or Synchronet, but I'm
> > glad you read that article (?).
> > --
> > digital man
>
> > Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #23:
> > DOS = Disk Operating System (as in PC-DOS and MS-DOS)
> > Norco, CA WX: 73.1¡F, 56.0% humidity, 3 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches
> > rain/24hrs
>
>
> They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops running a BBS.
> But if we tell them that we have triple protection ransomware features I
> think they will stay away for good.
>
> $ The Millionaire $

jesus fucking christ you're still at it
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To: The Millionaire
-=> The Millionaire wrote to Digital Man <=-

> I don't see any specific applicability to BBSes or Synchronet, but I'm glad
> you read that article (?).

TM> They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops
TM> running a BBS.

What BBS are you the Sysop of?

TM> But if we tell them that we have triple protection
TM> ransomware features I think they will stay away for good.

Who is/are "them"?

Can you describe the "triple protection ransomware features" that "we"
have?

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To: xbit
On 6/2/2021 2:42 PM, xbit wrote:
>> Has anyone ever experienced this or can this ever happen to SBBS
>> in the future?
>
> It happends to corps with million dollar infosec bugets, it can
> happen to a bbs ;)
>
> Make encrypted backups (7zip + aes/256 perhaps?) and ship them to
> the cloud. Onedrive is a good option as they have a personal vault
> that keeps access closed until you MFA in. I'm sure *nix has even
> better automated options.

NOTE: when systems are breached for ransomware, backups are often
corrupted as well... best to push to a resource, and have another
separate system pull backups, then sort/store by date-time.

By having a disconnected system pulling backups from a common source,
corrupted archives will not break existing pulled archives on the
separate system. It also helps to do these things across providers.

FWIW...
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To: The Millionaire
On 6/6/2021 7:18 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
>
> They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops running
> a BBS. But if we tell them that we have triple protection ransomware
> features I think they will stay away for good.

ROFLMAO... talk about painting a target on your back. LOL.
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To: Tracker1
Re: Re: Ransomware
By: Tracker1 to The Millionaire on Sun Jun 27 2021 13:16:38

> On 6/6/2021 7:18 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
>
> > They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops running
> > a BBS. But if we tell them that we have triple protection ransomware features I think they will stay away for good.
>
> ROFLMAO... talk about painting a target on your back. LOL.

No protection is guaranteed. Do you think your security is better then the Whitehouse. They got hacked.

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To: Plt
Re: Re: Ransomware
By: Plt to Tracker1 on Mon Jun 28 2021 08:21 am

> Re: Re: Ransomware
> By: Tracker1 to The Millionaire on Sun Jun 27 2021 13:16:38
>
> > On 6/6/2021 7:18 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
>
> > > They talk about individuals. We are individual user as Sysops running
> > > a BBS. But if we tell them that we have triple protection ransomware
> > > features I think they will stay away for good.
>
> > ROFLMAO... talk about painting a target on your back. LOL.
>
> No protection is guaranteed. Do you think your security is better then the
> Whitehouse. They got hacked.

i run templeOS.

security through schizophrenia.
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