MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing

MIS 5212 - Section 001 - Wade Mackey

Fox School of Business

Ian Riley

[FINAL] If you’re having trouble connecting to the Google Cloud

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IF you’re getting this error when you try to open a web browser SSH into a google cloud instance for this class:
“You do not have sufficient permissions to SSH into this instance. You need one of compute.instances.setMetadata, compute.projects.setCommonInstanceMetadata or compute.instances.osLogin (with OsLogin enabled) and iam.serviceAccounts.actAs.”
It seems like we all are. Wade knows and is looking into it
-Ian

Indiana Hospital Pays $55k Ransomware Ransom, Even Though They Had Backups

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hospital-pays-55k-ransomware-demand-despite-having-backups/

Pretty simple story here- the hospital determined that they’d rather not have the downtime while they restored their backups, so they just paid the ransom. While the decision makes sense, it’s definitely interesting to consider where the line is for many businesses. For a hospital where lives are on the line, speed will probably beat cost as long as it’s reasonable.

It’s also interesting to think about how much your personal and work backups would be worth… It’s easy to put a number on a work backup where you know the amount of time/cost which went into the files, but how much would your personal data be worth to you?