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 Message 1735 
 August Abolins to Phil Taylor 
 hackers targeting hospitals 
 09 Feb 21 23:01:00 
 
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Hello Phil Taylor!

** On Tuesday 09.02.21 - 21:18, Phil Taylor wrote to August Abolins:

 PT> On Thu  7-May-2020 21:04 , August Abolins@2:221/1.58 said to Mike Powell:

 AA>>>> Eg. People at work don't need to access Facebook or
 AA>>>> expose company computers to malicious site

 PT> One reason why I do not use social sites because they seem
 PT> to be getting hacked. Take a look this https://www.bbc.com/
 PT> news/technology-51424352#:~: text=Facebook%27s%20social%20m
 PT> Twiter got hacked.

Wow..  That's just a few days ago.  Interesting.

There is a place called ogusers.com that seems to be dedicated  
on selling hacked Twitter accounts - or something like that -  
and ironically, that site has been hacked too!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/account-hijacking-site- 
ogusers-hacked-again/

 PT> To bad they do not have a methode to check the site to see
 PT> if it's a security risk and block it before the user
 PT> connects to it. Where I work they have security software
 PT> that does it.

It's laziness.  The hacked offices were medical facilities where  
people's private info is used.  They should have blocked all  
IP's except the ones they need to connect with their own network  
- that would be an inexpensive no-brainer start. There are  
several simple (and free) ways to do that - no high paid  
resources required.  Employees of such a facility don't need to  
visit Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.
--
  ../|ug

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