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Android catches up with the year before last! [Chet Chat Podcast 235]

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Sophos Security Chet Chat – Episode 235 – Mar 10, 2016

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I have a question about backups to USB drives. On my network I use a hybrid cloud backup system since the agency work for is required by law to have an off site backup. But I also do local backups to external USB hard drive. If I eject the drive but do not physically disconnect the drive from the server, are the drives still susceptible to ransomware? Can the malware remount the drive? Thank you.

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I’d disconnect the drive physically, just because an air gap is safer than a software switch :-) If malware has the right privileges it can mount and unmount drives that are known the operating system, e.g. on Mac OS X by using diskutil mountDisk command…

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Your mention so many Androids being behind on versions, here’s another reason.
I have a note 3 that I use as a laptop/tablet, (paid in full for it) since I don’t have a SIM google blocks updates. Just makes me not want anything to do with google.

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I’ve never had any trouble updating my Nexus 7 2012 over Wi-Fi. Well, I didn’t until Google quietly stopped producing updates for it at all about a year ago. I then swtiched to Cyanogenmod until the battery discharged itself for the last time. It’s a paperweight now.

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I dont know if you guys will like this or not, but I have just bought a brand new surface pro and I love it. Just wanted to see what you guys thought of it?

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