hacker scum and cyber security (even in chess)
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:09 pm
now CTF is gone (never to bother to post there coz
politics is a no go for me in combination with chess)
about hackers in computer (correspondence) chess:
when i won the semifinals of the worldcup21 tourn,
with a simple win7 system, no external firewall,
and -apparently - a vulnerable dropbox, i got hacked
about 1.5 yrs ago. no big deal, i saw them copy and
then delete (the original)files, and unpulled the plug.
Damage was bigger than i suspected, the thugs
left a virus, and my win7 system got a blue screen.
Now i'm not an idiot, and managed to save the content
of the disk (not the working programs) after
re-installing a new windoze. After inspection i
also discovered some big books (eg chessbase.ctg
had been deleted but i had a backup on an external disk._
Now my question is, who could be such scum ?
(that they try to steal my book, ok, not legal,
but in some way i can have some understanding
for such (already criminal) minds; but then going
to ****** my computer with a bad virus, of which i
only (but many others not) could recover with a new
windoze install, is simply psycho behaviour; yes this
thus exists in the compchess world and you be warned
btw the world cup21 final only had prize money 1000 dlr,
and while i didn't get into the top 3, i also did not
lose a single game, when i had come back into
my systems again; yet some annoyance of such
a security breach remained. i still have win7 (and
backups), and a little extra firewall
politics is a no go for me in combination with chess)
about hackers in computer (correspondence) chess:
when i won the semifinals of the worldcup21 tourn,
with a simple win7 system, no external firewall,
and -apparently - a vulnerable dropbox, i got hacked
about 1.5 yrs ago. no big deal, i saw them copy and
then delete (the original)files, and unpulled the plug.
Damage was bigger than i suspected, the thugs
left a virus, and my win7 system got a blue screen.
Now i'm not an idiot, and managed to save the content
of the disk (not the working programs) after
re-installing a new windoze. After inspection i
also discovered some big books (eg chessbase.ctg
had been deleted but i had a backup on an external disk._
Now my question is, who could be such scum ?
(that they try to steal my book, ok, not legal,
but in some way i can have some understanding
for such (already criminal) minds; but then going
to ****** my computer with a bad virus, of which i
only (but many others not) could recover with a new
windoze install, is simply psycho behaviour; yes this
thus exists in the compchess world and you be warned
btw the world cup21 final only had prize money 1000 dlr,
and while i didn't get into the top 3, i also did not
lose a single game, when i had come back into
my systems again; yet some annoyance of such
a security breach remained. i still have win7 (and
backups), and a little extra firewall