BlackCat malware lashes out at US defense IT contractor The BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, has allegedly broken into IT firm NJVC, a provider of services to civilian US government agencies and the Department of Defense. DarkFeed, which monitors the dark web for ransomware intelligence, tweeted this week that BlackCat had added NJVC to its victims' list, along with …
Usually, competence is called into question before malice is assumed.
In this particular case... the suspicion of external force to "do the right thing for your country" seems to be an eligible pick in the malice camp. All the intelligence communities of the world would be aligned on this particular topic if they can have a spell-check check-stream too! If that is not a good enough reason for malice then I don't know what is.
Question: who pwns google, microsoft, apple and amazon? Must be the NSAFSBGCHQETC kind of sharestakeholders.
Good question, but it hasn't really been corrected at all, has it? Instead, as is the usual practice, every website in the world now has to take defensive measures to protect against the depradations of a few big monopolistic companies who just really don't care at all about anything except their ad money. Everyone now has to put spellcheck=no on their web forms to prevent user passwords from being sucked up into Google-borg? Fuck you.
Not the form, but on the specific fields containing "sensitive data".
I'm sure everyone in the world who maintains any kind of Web form is even now stuck in a furious cycle of meetings and legal advice to determine which fields are "sensitive".
Yup. 'Cuz they've none of them got anything better to do.
Doesn’t that usually mean “complete”? […] So is this an error on the part of the author […]?
Usually, yes. It would most likely be an error if his intention was to describe the list as “all-encompassing”, in which case describing the list as “extensive” would have been more accurate. It might not have been an error, though, if he’d meant “exhaustive” in its less common “exhausting” meaning.
PS: It appears that El Reg’s CSS has been changed recently to reduce the size of text, from 19px to 16px in comment headers and from 16px to 14px in comment text. Having imperfect eyesight, I prefer the larger size, so I guess that it’s time to make use of the Stylus add-on to revert these changes in my browser.
> It appears that El Reg’s CSS has been changed recently
...to generally reduce usability. Like removing the "visited link" color difference, so one can't spot on a glance where he had stopped reading last time. Great idea! What's usability compared to style! After all it only has to satisfy the marketing goons, screw the visitors.
> Huh? Visited links still clearly different over here.
Could you please elaborate? Which browser?
I'm using Firefox latest, and since the makeover the already visited articles on the homepage remain black (were some kind of blueish before). Very annoying, and apparently I'm not the only one.
Between El Reg’s scaffolding.css and design.css files, there are a couple of dozen places where :visited colors are specified (there are still several colors being used in different places). This is exactly the type of thing for which Stylus can be used, to specify your preferred color(s) [or text decorations such as underlining] in the relevant document parts, if you use a browser that supports Stylus.
I took a look at older versions of their CSS files thanks to archive.org, and they’ve been specifying 14px body text for some time now. I don’t know why it was rendered as 16px in my browser until this past weekend — perhaps a recent change to a CSS media query that happened to match my setup? At any rate, it’s back to 16px here, thanks to the add-on.
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