So, those of you who follow SANS Storm Center know they come up with things all the time on new hacking techniques. Today, they have a RAT, which gives the developer access to another computer, that was embedded in spam. The RAT links back to a host in Poland. That has me thinking about the wisdom of keeping all those spam files in my spam folder. Maybe I should just delete them when they come in. There are so many of these things - spam, bogus emails, messaging, et al, that I can’t keep up. Not surprising, since it is the favored weapon for gettting access to other computers.
I have long ago given up on the tech giants protecting me from being hacked. I just act as if it has already happened. Verizon , COMCAST, and AT&T could do a lot better at filtering this stuff out. Just like Facebook, Twitter, Google it is time for them to take notice of their responsibility to protect us from threats that use their medium to get onto our systems. We have a reasonable expectation that hackers will not operate with impunity on networks we pay to use. They could do a lot better at it, and they will surely find out when the hearings start.
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