"... numerous people apparently clicked on the file, releasing the virus into the police department’s computer system, said Bachar. “Closing off the department’s computers to the Internet is a complicated matter, and police would have done so only if they felt that there as an acute need to go offline.” Among the measures police have reportedly taken to prevent future attacks is to ban any outside media — USB drives, CDs, etc.– from connecting with systems."
Does it make sense to anyone to ban physical media but not connecting to the Internet?
Probably not, I'd like to know how many of them have Dropbox now :).
But at lest they can try to filter aggressively all the internet traffic (probably it is not possible to do right, and probably the people will complain because the filter block many innocent sites). It's (almost) impossible to put some guard at the door and force everyone to scan all the physical drives they have (and remember to scan the mp3, and smartphones, and ...).
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"... numerous people apparently clicked on the file, releasing the virus into the police department’s computer system, said Bachar. “Closing off the department’s computers to the Internet is a complicated matter, and police would have done so only if they felt that there as an acute need to go offline.” Among the measures police have reportedly taken to prevent future attacks is to ban any outside media — USB drives, CDs, etc.– from connecting with systems."
Does it make sense to anyone to ban physical media but not connecting to the Internet?
Probably not, I'd like to know how many of them have Dropbox now :).
But at lest they can try to filter aggressively all the internet traffic (probably it is not possible to do right, and probably the people will complain because the filter block many innocent sites). It's (almost) impossible to put some guard at the door and force everyone to scan all the physical drives they have (and remember to scan the mp3, and smartphones, and ...).