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I remember this kind of thing happening all the time in the 90s and part of the 00s... It's just 10 to 1000 times worse now days since EVERYTHING is online now.

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Practice. All those folks are still alive and now there’s more of them. They’ve all been practicing too.

Former US CISO Chris Krebs says this is a bigger deal than what's been reported so far.

This is a crazy huge hack. The numbers I've heard dwarf what's reported here & by my brother from another mother (@briankrebs).

https://twitter.com/C_C_Krebs/status/1368004401705717768

Chris Kerbs was definitely not the US CISO. He was the director of CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISO of the US is usually a meaningless figurehead, Krebs actually did things.

His last name is "Krebs".

Feel free to read the last sentence in my post.

Yeah I just had an awkward conversation with a relative who works for a company that has a on site email server running exchange. When I asked him had he patched or upgraded it he said no Microsoft does all that. Grim.

How is it worse now? It looks to me that it's better now since SAAS companies today just patch their products on their end, and even this situation is better than needing physical media as in the past if the patch is too big.

He told you. Everything is online.

I believe my argument addresses that everything being online doesn't necessarily worsen security from hacking.

Isn't that scenario an extreme contingency?

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