[AusNOG] CryptoLocker Virus

[Jake Anderson]

I have been meaning to roll application whitelisting out for my customers.
I think I'll be moving up its priority.

On 24/10/13 12:05, Peter Tiggerdine wrote:
> When you think about it, just about all file extension are insecure 
> and have being compromised in one way or another. It's almost at the 
> stage where sending/receiving any attachment is high risk.
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com 
> <mailto:hudrob at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 24 October 2013 11:27, Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)
>     <Eric.Pinkerton at baesystemsdetica.com
>     <mailto:Eric.Pinkerton at baesystemsdetica.com>> wrote:
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>         IMHO, The 'best' policy is a combination of many things
>         starting with training your end users to spot dodgy looking
>         links, filtering egress traffic, patching patching and more
>         patching, not using XP with IE6, monitoring your logs,
>         changing your default password from 'password' and giving
>         people permissions in line with their requirements (ie not
>         making everyone a domain admin) etc etc.
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>     Unfortunately, much of that relies on educating users, and if
>     educating users was going to work, it'd have done so already. :(
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