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   On Thu  7-May-2020 21:04 , August Abolins@2:221/1.58 said to Mike Powell:   
      
   AA> ** On Thursday 07.05.20 - 16:58, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:   
      
   AA>  >> Eg. People at work don't need to access Facebook or expose company   
   AA>  >> computers to malicious site   
      
   AA>  MP> Well... where I work, we have people whose job it is to locate   
   AA> persons.   
   AA>  MP> One of the sources they use is Facebook.  For whatever reason, a lot   
   AA> of   
   AA>  MP> less than intelligent crooks will try to send us false contact data   
   AA> but   
   AA>  MP> then post all about themselves on social media.  :)   
      
   AA> OK..  I see the relevance for collection agencies especially when needing    
      
   One reason why I do not use social sites because they seem to be getting   
   hacked. Take a look this https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-514   
   4352#:~:text=Facebook%27s%20social%20m Twiter got hacked.   
      
   AA> to locate persons.  But even then, it would be wise to isolate work     
   AA> terminals for internet searches from the internal network used for     
   AA> accessing company accounts.   
      
   Where I work you can only got to sites on the internet if it's for official   
   business.    
      
   AA> But I was thinking of places like hospitals and medical centers. In     
   AA> October last year a large medical center with offices all over the     
   AA> province/country was struck with a security breach.  Then, a month later     
   AA> it was announced that is was ransomware.  This was clearly activated by     
   AA> clicking on a false link.   
      
   AA> https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/lifelabs-data-breach-the-    
   AA> largest-ever-in-canada-may-cost-the-company-over-1-billion-in-class-    
   AA> action-lawsuit/   
      
   To bad they do not have a methode to check the site to see if it's a security   
   risk and block it before the user connects to it. Where I work they have   
   security software that does it.   
       
       
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