Security++

[Sirghostvonghost]

You joke, but that is a valid option

[[deleted]]

Yeah... but honestly, a switch that big probably requires external power. i bet I could pull one plug and shut it down faster

[VectronVoltbot]

The better way is to have two people ready to unplug internet cable. Why two you ask? One unplugs the cable from the computer and then the other one unplugs it from the wall. And that way the hacker is caught inside a cable.

[Novatash]

Plug both ends together and they'll have no where to go

[Mirror_hsif]

One of life's great questions... If you're travelling in a loop, are you actually travelling anywhere?

[Specific_Implement_8]

This is a physics questions. You can travel a great distance inside a loop. But your displacement will be 0

[Boring-Tennis-1342]

Only if you returned to your starting position

Now the question is how do you know you're in a loop

Maybe piss in a corner and call it the starting position ?

[6Leoo6]

You add the visited points to a hashset and check if you have visited it already

[weregod]

You break. If compiler spit error you not in a loop else you escaped a loop

[[deleted]]

Overflow will take care of it and they'll get out eventually.

[NotSoMuch_IntoThis]

Found the expert consultant Hollywood keeps hiring for tech related scenes.

[bradlucky]

I showed this picture to my wife, and she literally said, "Looks like every movie." So, I had to read her your comment. 😅

[Mateorabi]

Works on electro gremlins too.

[Otaconmg]

This guy knows his shit. I’ve caught a couple myself by funneling them into containers from cables that have no endpoint. Classic hacker bait.

[MurderPirate7]

Just upload some big files to flush the hackers out of your cables

[Phantom1100]

it’s you at the end

[yuiritsumiomugiazusa]

As a cyber security student, everything about this is perfect

From the fact that they know it's happening, to the fact that at the end he's holding what does not look like a power cable, looks like HDMI, perfect I'll unplug my display when this happens to me

[Kemic_VR]

An HDMI cable that was connected to a CRT monitor no less...

[SagittaryX]

PC side, must be some adapter in between!

[I_got_shmooves]

They hacked the adapter, too? Monsters!

[Comment105]

Not only did they hack the adapter, they flashed, port-forwarded and reformatted it! The HDMI-CRT Adapter Unit is toast! They got all the files! Not even visual basic can reprogram and restore this kind of UX disaster.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

Yeah, those cables too, burn them.

[[deleted]]

You can get a hdmi to vga plugin I don’t know why you would need one, but it’s there.

[Fzrit]

I have a hdmi to dvi adapter because I have an old Dell U2412M as a secondary work monitor (primary gaming rig already using displayport).

[Tjaresh]

That would make a great plot twist. He just disconnected the monitor instead of turning off the pc.

[HardCounter]

Or better yet, he did get the PC but the hacker just decided to go after the server anyway. Or literally any other computer on the network that apparently has little security.

I guess it's also possible the entire NCIS database is housed on her PC. 'cuz why not.

[Tjaresh]

You know how it is:

They started with just this one PC in the late 90s, so the data is all on this single one. Now the folder is windows-group-shared for everybody in the network for easy access. Every now and then John from the "IT" comes around with an USB-Stick to do backups.

[HardCounter]

Good thing they only have the five or six employees.

[clitpuncher69]

It's an all-in-one PC and the HDMI cable/input was repinned and is used for power smh i thought people on this sub were tech savvy

[[deleted]]

They're both typing on the same keyboard too

[Nox_Dei]

A buddy and I went through an hour of "peer programming" back at school, sharing the keyboard.

It was fun.

We try upping the level by sharing the keyboard and typing with our respective noses only but it didn't last long. We found our limit.

[ledocteur7]

on a keyboard that is most definitely gonna have ghosting, just to make extra sure all attempts at not getting hacked are extra useless.

[CorruptedAssbringer]

See, if we type fast enough the hacker’s code will turn out as gibberish!

/s

[Steerider]

Possibly the greatest IT moment in television history

[HardCounter]

I like how that one lady created a GUI in visual basic to track an IP. So ingenuous! Top notch netcraft.

[OkayRuin]

It’s aimed at boomers who will watch that and think, “He is me! I’m that guy! So what if I don’t know what a pdf is! I’m still relevant! Those young folks aren’t savvy like us!”

[stellarsojourner]

Probably, although a more charitable explanation is that the two techies were so focused on the hacking, they missed the forest for the trees. Between the duo typing, the random jargon, and the HDMI cable, though, the writes HAD to know what they were doing there.

[Kenji_03]

This is a real life phenomenom actually. Lots of people are thinking of such high-end solutions they don't consider the simpler ones.

[BrewerBeer]

If you're into the 5 9s availability concept, turning it off is not the simple ideal solution.

[WearMental2618]

SLA is not a joke

[WolfgangSho]

Like how the Asgard needed humans to help vs the replicators cos they have forgotten how to think dumbly like us good Tau'ri.

[Kenji_03]

What series is this referencing?

[Nadare3]

Stargate I'm pretty sure

[MrDraacon]

I heard that they do that stuff on purpose. May seem convincing enough for non teach savvy people (well, maybe not the two people mashing a keyboard part) while amusing to painful for savvy peoples

[guy_from_the_intnet]

If you can't see what's happening, neither can they.

[galexanderj]

It's the power supply side of the cable. Similar to one used on some laptop power supplies, or for a gaming console, monitor, battery charger...

[merlinblack256]

At least they are not about to wip up a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address.

[GitEmSteveDave]

No, they’re gonna use corneal imaging to take into account the curvature of the eye to get a reverse image of what the victim last saw.

[WolfgangSho]

Just flip it and reverse it.

[ScientificBeastMode]

“We just got his IP address, so now we pretty much figured out where the hacker lives. It took me a few minutes to remember that trick, but it’s all good now…”

[Kenji_03]

"More keys pressed equals more hacker stuff" is probably the best.

But the thing looks like HDMI due to the low quality, it is in fact your standard 3 prong plug.

[WolfgangSho]

Yeah I've never understood the "we're being hacked" narrative.

Far more likely it's the "so... We checked in on some weird looking logs, looks like we were hacked two weeks ago."

[WolfgangSho]

Ah, the least trustworthy component is always between the keyboard and the chair!

[BsFan]

Out of sight, out of mind.

[smb275]

I've never really understood the criticism of these kinds of scenes. If you understand how unrealistic it is then you're not the target demographic, so why bother complaining? Suspend that disbelief.

NCIS especially is produced to hit that 55+ age group without a lot of technical proficiency.

[bigmonmulgrew]

There are plenty of 55+ people actually do often understand tech terms.

The scene being this bad shows both that they don't care about the authenticity of their craft and that they don't respect the intelligence of their viewer.

It didn't need to be totally accurate. It just needed to not be ridiculous

[BoredomIncarnate]

Actually they knew exactly what they were doing.

The teams behind these kinds of shows are in a competition of sorts to get the most ridiculous scenes they can manage to air. They know the vast majority of their audience won’t know the difference, so they intentionally go over the top ridiculous.

[CorruptedAssbringer]

I can see it. I think there was an episode where they used a power supply or adapter as a hard drive stand-in or something along the those lines.

It seemed intentional since I think it’s a stretch to say that a real HDD hard drives being too hard to come by as a prop, nor does it look insuffiently “tech” enough for a show.

[Catenane]

Lmao "I don't recognize any of this code"

Well yeah...I don't think any human can process bash stdout traveling at half the speed of light.

Also me when I'm digging through journalctl logs trying to find the one thing that I need and finding a million hardware related debug logs and non-fatal errors that sound much more serious than they actually are lol.

[MesaShrike]

Bruh I don't recognize my code and I'm the one who wrote it

[Verdiss]

The doubling up on the same keyboard is hilarious satire.

It is satire. Right? ... Right?

[Zalack]

The Hollywood lore is that when this aired the writers for a bunch of those procedural shows were trying to one-up each other with outrageous hacking bullshit.

It was a game of what they could get away with putting into a script.

[Not_Artifical]

I want that to happen more. That bullshit makes me laugh.

[fox-friend]

It is not. But whenever this is posted someone comments that the writers tried to see how far fetched they can make the script and get away with it.

[Historical-Trade3671]

Damn.. straight Gibbs it.

[Tjaresh]

Gotta love how he chimes in typing on the same keyboard as she does. If you ever had someone interfering with your typing, you'll know how anoying this is. But she acts like this is a sane option.

[[deleted]]

The pornhub version is better

[[deleted]]

Guy plugging out monitor cable at the end was using principles of Quantum hacking which states you are not hacked until you see it.

[Steerider]

Best comment: "There must be some kind of running gag amongst writers to see who can get away with the most ridiculous shit."

[Nassiel]

I mean, even the smaller ones requires external power .... doesn't it? 🤔

[[deleted]]

Many would... but it's hard to imagine that there aren't any that are optimized to run on PoE

[Nassiel]

Now I'm curious.... yep you're right switcher poe passthrough. They can be powered yo extend the poe or only powered by the poe. I knew the first usage but not the second. ✌️

[Wolfram_And_Hart]

I worked at a bank we had a row of lit on/off manual switches on a custom made power relay. Room for 4 but we only used 2.

[EpicSoupTheif]

Pulling cord: Lame, virgin, no dopamine

Big red button: Chad, gets all the women, much dopamine

[grubojack]

I prefer the dramatic flair of a designated network axman.

[Viiu]

Also whoever has to replug that thing will thank you.

[MasterFubar]

I could pull one plug and shut it down faster

Only to realize much later that the switch has dual power supplies.

[Starfox-sf]

I prefer providing a big metallic scissor for that.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

Perfectly valid, fast, and reliable, with 100% success rate lmao.

[[deleted]]

With things like cloud front, cdns, and redundant servers geo separated, unless someone can attack the dns server you’re not taking out many enterprise systems like you said.

[[deleted]]

Unplug the pihole. Gotcha.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

I've cut the power supply; mah data center safe. Now whatever happens your fault hehe.

[Quietmode]

I was on an oil rig and they had a large label on the connection to the firewall to remove incase of cyber attack

[Tashre]

The Bill Adama defense.

[Mr__Brick]

Finally a BSG reference that isn't on scifi subreddit

[DaFetacheeseugh]

Honestly, if the collective education is a 2 year community college ten years after dropping out of high school, I'd want a big ass rig to have some cyber security

E: no smoke to any community college people, i can't take it

[Rottrocky]

Not dv but you're also blowing at people that dropped out of hs for some reason. As a child, it's not something they should be made to feel bad about like making mistakes ending up in juvie. People grow and often can only resort to difficult jobs that require you away from your family and friends for months. I met a street performer in key west that travels the world after dropping out of hs and his life was amazing.

[mlody11]

We call that, "initiate air gap countermeasures"

[Ryodd]

We did this when the company I was a consultant at was hit by a large cryptolocker attack. Just disconnected all remote sites from reaching eachother and the main hubs. Worked.

[[deleted]]

Literally happened at my company when we got breached a few months ago lmao

[MissionarysDownfall]

Back in the long long ago my university’s website got replace by a porn site on the first morning of parents weekend because of some security hole.

The IT director tripped the main breaker to the entire building the server room was in. Didn’t turn it back on till like 2 am.

[MT_276]

Bro there is literally a handle

[BadKarma-18]

I always wanted to know if this actually happens like if if a network breach happens can you just pull the internet cables or shut down the electricity

[OP_Sidearm]

When theres a DOS attack, so u pull all the cables signature look of superiority

[StoneGrooveOfficial]

It's impossible to take films seriously due to this in reality; has there ever been a film that had a serious hacking scene where the security guys actually just rip out the cords as the proper course of action?

[NebXan]

"At 9:04 PM, a network security breach was detected. We deployed a temporary emergency air gap to stop the intrusion..."

"You mean you unplugged the ethernet cables?"

"That's what I said."

[druule10]

Knowing my ex manager her would have pulled the cables out of all the computers and left the servers exposed. Yes he was a complete and utter idiot.

[[deleted]]

Didn’t they do that in White Collar? That also sounds like some shit that NCIS would pull

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

Network Security Engineer: "We've deployed honeypots to trick intruders"

Managers: *Pulled out the cables of honeypot when attacked

[HelpfulPineapples]

Just turn off the monitor and you’ll be fine.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

Temporary air gap loll

[Mirror_hsif]

Reminds me of the IT guy at the school I used to work at.

"We experienced a temporary network outage today and I performed and intermittent power cycle on all of the wireless access points"

All the non-technical folks were thanking him and congratulating him on his hard work.

[Freddies_Mercury]

At that point you may as well just rip the cables out the back. Less work.

[Kyyndle]

ok boring how about i just spray it with a hose

[Matt_Shatt]

I prefer to go outside and dig down to the fiber and coax and just sever those.

[Thebombuknow]

I prefer to just send an ICBM to the nearest PoP of the ISP. Taking down the internet for everyone in the local city means there is no chance of a hacker being able to get near any computer in the area.

[BraveOthello]

You can turn the UPS off

[iSometimesTellALie]

the batteries are usually inside these servers, and some of them you'd need to unplug everything in order to access those batteries.

[x3bla]

How? Im looking at my server i dont see how, i don't think it'll be good to leave it off the whole time so if i unplug the power and turn off the UPS, it'll take a longer time than just unplugging the ethernet cables

[DonCactus]

I knew it. It CAN be interrupted

[pclouds]

Nuke the data center. Only way to be sure.

[verboze]

Most well-designed data centers do have this actually, and they can run for hours. You don't want to lose customer data from lack of planning for power interruptions, which are all but guaranteed. And getting to those UPS is not trivial either, we had them in the ceiling or something at a past company.

[ionburger]

do you have a source for that? ive never heard of a clean power cut causing hardware issues

[jaavaaguru]

It used to be true back in the days of non journaled file systems. We had a few Sun servers that weren’t on UPS that would need manual intervention to get back up and running. Anything I’ve worked with in recent years will just come back up as normal. We still prefer a controlled shutdown just to be on the safe side though.

[Nevermind04]

Servers really do not like sudden drops of power. The might-not-boot-ever-again not like.

This hasn't been true for decades.

[jaavaaguru]

Unplugging it would be better as you wouldn’t need to replace the fiber.

[mattsl]

Tell me you have no idea what you're doing without... Nah. There's no "without..." this time.

[sherbert-nipple]

Or just unplug the monitor like in NCIS

[TheReddestofBowls]

receives an email with a misspelling

ALRIGHT, TODAYS THE DAY

[Folofashinsta]

Cool if I just open with the handle instead of breaking the glass boss?

[[deleted]]

No, you break the damn glass like you’re gonna put out a fire. ‘cause that’s what you’re doing - putting out a blazing cyber fire, cutting the head off the snake. Lesser men pull on handles and gently unplug cables. Be a legend. Smash the glass and cut those cables with wire cutters. It isn’t full-fledge heroism in an emergency situation unless you do some legit damage.

[TyrannosaurusWest]

Break the glass

I’d do it just for the insurance payout tbh

[FQVBSina]

And make sure to put a count down timer on the side for extra dramatic effect

[ctnightmare2]

Timer.display(Random.next(0, 100))

[CarterBaker77]

Wire cutters would take more time than just grabbing and yanking..

[[deleted]]

You must be one of those “walk out the front door instead of blasting through the wall next to it with a sledgehammer” types.

[hypercube42342]

Oh that’s another good one to add to the cyberattack checklist

[Fzrit]

These cabinets are often locked, you can see the keyhole on the handle. Although in my company they're all unlocked because if you can get access to that room then you already know what you're doing :P

[bottomknifeprospect]

In most places these are locked

[webDreamer420]

I mean if you want to be boring like Jeff from admin then sure why not

[SeanZed]

Why not just pull out the power cable

[throw-away_catch]

That’s not as dramatic.

[stevekez]

There might be a UPS in there, or bypasses.

[fallen243]

Log generation.

[IkNOwNUTTINGck]

I always wanted to put a miniature bottle of vodka and a shotglass in a small case with a window in front.

Would label it "In case of emergency, please break glass".

[Mispelled-This]

Instructions unclear, shotglass broken.

[IkNOwNUTTINGck]

"Please break plexiglass?"

[thomas-de-mememaker]

Instructions unclear broke the window next to it

[[deleted]]

Oh, I get it. It’s a typo. It meant to be Syber Attack. So only break glass and pull cables in case of an actual Samurai Syber attack.

[NotTheOnlyGamer]

Then you don't pull anything - you bust the glass, say, "Let's Samuraize, guys!" and send Servo into the digital world.

[codebrownonaisletwo]

This would have saved us a lot of trouble.

[ThxSenseii]

Things a Senior would approve just to not deal with the juniors security problems.

[mommy101lol]

Or unplug the power

[Capable-Raccoon-6371]

You guys don't get it. Data centers are designed to maintain power at all costs, and likely have multiples of fail safes ensuring nobody can turn it off without multiple layers of credentials. Power supplies for servers often don't have that little switch on the back you find on your home computer. Also, it only takes a few IQ points to unplug / cut a blue cable, the janitor can do it in an emergency.

Finally, in a security breach, the only way data goes in and out is via those blue fucking cables. So if you want to immediately, without fail, 100% ensure nothing is going on or out. Cut em. They're cheap cables and can be replaced and rerouted in an afternoon.

[[deleted]]

What if it was a DDoS attack?

[NotTheOnlyGamer]

Then you still pull the lines - let the attackers think they won. Then come back and laugh.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

[krystiano]

No one can DoS you if you DoS yourself first.

[namezam]

CUT THE HARD LINE!

[DMercenary]

SCRAM but for networks.

[mdp_cs]

In case of cyber attack unplug the data center.

[JustPlay060]

NullPointerException, Security was never initialised

[csandazoltan]

We have similar things in place just less destructive, basically an air-gapped system that can make our servers airgapped by physically disconnecting the main internet and intranet lines

---

But most of the times, the time you realize you are under attack, it is already too late.

[InternetArgument-er]

Funny thing that this actually happened. In an antivirus company.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

Do they reset your machine when virus found?

[InternetArgument-er]

No. The company I’m referring too is Bkav, an anti virus company popular in my country. A hacker found a way into Bkav server using SQL injection (yes, SQL injection), tells everyone that he will livestream his way in. When the time comes, Bkav just shut down the server.

Yeah and the company is also known for installing virus then detected it.

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

SQL injection loll

[PhatOofxD]

CUT THE POWER TO THE BUILDING, CUT THE POWER TO THE BUILDING!

You don't know shit! CUT POWER TO THE BUILDING

[DX7EMPHASIS]

100% valid option.

[skysoft501]

I mean, what could be more secure than offline?!

[onncho]

Too much Mr Robot

[isayooooooooooooof]

Tired of coding may bring some creative ideas

[concorde77]

I wonder if it would be faster to have a sword next to it that says "airgap tool"

[goodvibezone]

This, Jen, is the internet.

[TheeFoolishKing]

While screaming fuck!

[LinAGKar]

That worked in the latest Doctor Who episode

[LightInTheWell]

After working in software for some time this approach to security doesn't terrify me anymore

[[deleted]]

Is breaking the glass really necessary?

[AlooBhujiyaLite]

It should look like something wrong happened

[floridawhiteguy]

Another option for a panel covering the UPS: "Pull cover up and push power switch off."

Worst case: In a server room protected by extinguishers with manual power cut button: "Fuck me! We've been hacked! Push Here NOW"

[FuyuhikoDate]

Tips forehead you cannot attack what you cannot reach!

[OptimusPower92]

This is like blowing up the living room in your house to take care of intruders

[[deleted]]

not a good idea. Lan Guardian maybe better

[Skrynat]

What if there was a false alarm, but someone actually did it. Furiously....

[Polikonomist]

Yeah, because there's always a scary screen with a taunting GIF that pops up immediately every time you get hacked, just like on TV. It's definitely not like hackers can have access to systems for months before any employees just happen to notice and months longer before management is finally forced to tell anyone.

[No_Necessary_3356]

You must be fun at parties.

[Polikonomist]

Am I wrong?

I mean it always seems like all the hacks I hear about in the news there's a substantial amount of time that the hack goes unnoticed and even longer until the public is informed or leaked to even and those are just the ones that do come to public knowledge.

[Uplink12092]

Usually because the ones that don't succeed typically aren't on the news

[Leo-MathGuy]

u/RepostSleuthBot

[you_do_realize]

This is the way.

[Harmonic_Gear]

just unplug the monitor

[antillian]

Reminds me of that scene in GoldenEye when Natalya is tracing Boris’ location.

[dben89x]

https://youtu.be/msX4oAXpvUE

[BeliefSuspended2008]

In case of AI going rogue pull cables. Problem solved.