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Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by mc32 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:59PM (#20299751)
Unsurprisingly Yandex say that this was detected early, no damage was done and no user data was accessed via the hacking.

Obviously that rings hollow... but, I wonder, what kind of security protocol do high gov officials in RU use, do they follow better security hygiene than the West?

This release coincides with G20 meetings. Intentional or happenstance?

Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by ajross on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:10PM (#20299837)
No one follows good security hygiene anywhere. It's certainly not a cultural thing.
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by derefr on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:02PM (#20300188)
Almost sounds like a sci-fi thing. A species that has evolved to experience physiological disgust at the idea of doing insecure things.
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by roywiggins on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:08PM (#20300607)
Battlestar Galactica, more or less
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by subcosmos on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:14PM (#20301187)
We're all safe if none of us get seduced by sleezy suspicious sexy cylons

Avoid Tinder

Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by perfmode on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:36PM (#20301279)
wasn’t it the case that only one ship survived the cylons? and it was because the ship was ancient and lacked computerized management?
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by samirm on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:08AM (#20304403)
It wasn't so much the lack of computerized management as it was the lack of connections to the rest of the outside world.
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by roywiggins on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:17PM (#20315132)
My recollection is that even the individual areas of the ship were not networked with each other at all, so the whole ship relies on humans to relay commands around. The whole ship was designed this way to fight Cylons, and indeed had beat them. The Cylons were thought extinct, so the new generation of ships were all networked and thoroughly pwned as soon as the Cylons reappeared.

https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Galactica

Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by gbuk2013 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:02PM (#20299771)
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by knicholes on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:19PM (#20299914)
I could swear there was something recent I've read about determining which keys are being pushed by hearing the sound of the keyboard...
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by Reelin on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:52PM (#20301084)
Are you thinking of this recent paper about acoustic side channel attacks on smartphones?

Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones (http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11137)

Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by knicholes on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:13AM (#20362639)
Oh wow! This wasn't the one I was talking about, but very cool nonetheless. It's similar, but with keyboards. I hate posting this without evidence, but I think there was also something having to do with watching a plant or a pane of glass vibrate to know what is being said inside a room. The keyboard noise and the vibrations may also be unrelated. If I can find these articles, I'll come back and post them here.
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by jmkni on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:44AM (#20302543)
I have a bad habit of mumbling to myself what I am typing, when there is nobody around, sometimes I will even read aloud what I just typed back to make sure it makes sense.

If I was to use a Typewriter, you could probably put a recording device inside it and work out what I was writing about that way.

Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by secfirstmd on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:27PM (#20300711)
Yeh it was used many times during the Cold War by both sides.
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by mc32 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:03PM (#20299775)
Heh. But do they stay true to that protocol?
Re:Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts by codedokode on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:16AM (#20303473)
As far as I know, Putin says that he doesn't use mobile phones and computers. Can it be considered a security measure? Other officials, like PM Medvedev, are better with technology and had their devices hacked: [1]

Regarding Yandex, they have good talents there so what they say might be true.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/dmitry-medvede...