@jerry I believe this is an #InheritRisk working in the #EnterpriseSpace, especially the #FediSpace (regardless of which country you work in). While this sucks generally, it appears on the surface that this could have been avoided by simply installing AV updates? That's #Security101. Especially after they were already attacked. #ShouldHaveKnownBetter.

Not too comfortable with a 7-year jail sentence, but without knowing their local laws around this topic I can't really speak to that in depth.

It is another hard example of why regular #Patching and #SystemUpdates are essential - at work and especially at home. Even if they are manually applied! It's not just good #CyberHygiene, in many instances it is a regulatory or #LegalRequirement.

#HugYourInfosecTeam 😬

#CyberSecurity

I did something pretty dumb last night but learned some valuable lessons.

It was late and I had noticed that on my Windows 11 home laptop, the Core Isolation - Memory Integrity was disabled. There was a yellow warning around it so I looked it up (briefly) and saw it is usually enabled by default.

I turned it on, restarted my laptop and BSOD. WTF.

-Restarted in Safe Mode - couldn't access Windows Security/Core Isolation.
-Tried messing with the command line to find setting and failed
-regedit because I saw that I could possibly disable in DeviceGuard...but that wasn't on my profile somehow? Failed
-Restored from backup (luckily there was a back up recently, so no lost data) and success.

Lessons learned:
-Don't mess around with settings when you're sleepy. It did keep me up late however 😂​
-Do proper research on settings and not just Wild Wild West it. I have an AMD Ryzen processor and that setting is disabled because AMD and Memory Integrity don't play well.
-Revisit my backup frequency settings; saved me this time
-Don't do dumb things?

#AMDRyzen #Windows11 #ShouldHaveKnownBetter
#TestInProd

I stopped counting how many Linux installations I killed that way but I can not resist. Need. To. Run. The. Latest. Software. Version. >Click<
#shouldhaveknownbetter #distupgrade