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  • bushvin@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I find this to be most accurate with Debian
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    8 months ago

    There is nothing more important than security patches on a system.

    I used to work at an FMI, which’s motto was “keep things stable”. Even the ciso department bought that crap. Until we hired a white hat hacker. The only thing given was the name of the company. He managed to get into the building, access an employee’s workstation and install a root kit on one of the most important financial message tracking systems (you know, the one that instructs other systems to transfer money), using a security bug, which would have been patched if they kept a regular (security) update cycle. After shit hit the fan, many people were fired and an update cycle was introduced.

    No system is important enough to not patch. And if you believe it is, you’re wrong.

  • bushvin@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•When do I actually need a firewall?
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    9 months ago

    You may also want to check up on regulations and laws of your country.

    In Belgium, for instance, I am responsible for any and all attacks originating from my PC. If you were hacked and said hackers used your computer to stage an attack, the burden of proof is upon you. So instead of hiring very expensive people to trace the real source of an attack originating from your own PC, enabling a firewall just makes sense, besides making it harder on hackers…