Posts by Black Label1

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

Re: Invention

"If patenting it stops anyone except Ford from doing it, I'm all for that."

Patenting means everyone will still do it, but a big chunk of the money will go to Ford.

Re: Ah.

"As if Ford being a good friend of Hitler wasn't the good enough reason?"

From what I can recall, IBM also assisted the National Socialist party in their organization efforts.

Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML

Re: Warren Buffett tips

Since China told researchers to disclose vulnerabilities to government first, it seems like a lot of 0days.

NSA was recently caught snooping Solaris server at a Chinese university.

Warren Buffett tips

Warren Buffett Just Dumped TSMC shares.

It was either:

1) Someone knew Taiwan would soon be invaded

2) Someone knew homegrown China EUV tech was soon going to be announced

By this news, I believe it is option 2). Not necessarily due to spying, tough. USA spy China way more.

Microsoft grows automated assault disruption to cover BEC, ransomware campaigns

Re: to late to be usefull

"They offer a workaround to run a PowerShell script unique to each change"

So, basically, the same TTP Ransomware operators are using to deploy their malware all over the network once they takeover the AD?

Automated Assault Disruption - things may go wrong

Isn't this "automated assault disruption" the cyber equivalent to let computers automatically "identify and kill" the offensive bit?

If there are no man-in-the-loop processes anymore, attackers do not even need DDoS to disrupt a service. Just identify the signals and trigger them... kaboom, system down with little effort.

Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US

"Team America World Police at it again."

Because USA cannot get the best ones, they need to show some limited success into getting some.. anyone...

Meanwhile, a bald intelligent guy working in the basement in a black sea city, is planning his next computer code...

"This won't end well. He'll end up being exchanged for hostages"

Dunno. Apparently no ties to the military or politicians - he fled to Gerogia to escape from the Russian military operation, when he could easily be absorbed by the GRU to boost his country's cyber offensive powers.

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Re: Nazi invasion...

More correct numbers here in Brave New Europe website.

"In March 2022, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky seemed to understand Ukraine’s dire predicament as victim of a US-Russia proxy war. He declared publicly that Ukraine would become a neutral country, and asked for security guarantees. He also publicly recognised that Crimea and Donbas would need some kind of special treatment.

Israel’s prime minister at that time, Naftali Bennett, became involved as a mediator, along with Turkey. Russia and Ukraine came close to reaching an agreement. Yet, as Bennett has recently explained, the US “blocked” the peace process."

Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server

Fools (+1)

Fools.

Running secret / top-secret / military stuff on someone`s else computer (the cloud).

Use ON-PREM hardware / software for classified stuff. Or else.

Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson

On-Prem + Cloud (when needed)

Having worked in the ecommerce sector, I would go for On-Prem / Hosted infrastructure, and near black friday, would spin some machines in the cloud to handle the traffic surge.

If not affected by black friday, On-Prem only.

Re: The pendulum swings

"you need multiple machines for availability, you need to put fixes on it!, you need extra staff to support it - you need to do security audits, and backups, you need to manage (and pay lots of money for) software licenses"

You do need VM redundancy for safety. The rest, you do not.

You can hire 2 experts on virtualization, run 2 clusters of Proxmox, automate virtually everything by writing scripts. All redundant.

Clumsy ships, one Chinese, sever submarine cables that connect Taiwanese islands

Re: State Actors

"Too many coincidences."

Have been there. A "friend" of mine also reported that quite often, in every new city he moved in, once he installed a fiber optic cable for internet, within a few days, cable would be "disrupted" ( clear cut ) and after being repaired, he would see a lot of packets of his VPN screaming about duplicates, a potential indicator of a man-in-the-middle.

This was before microchips and microwave were this much hyped.

Helicopters for obvious reasons, not Montana because I don't like USA / UK / Israel at all...

Chinese boffins call for research on ‘countermeasures’ to US chip bans

Re: Just invade Taiwan

I heard some military men advised Taiwan at those TSMC fabs to booby-trap their machines with a lot of explosives.

Dunno if it was properly done, but there is a risk.

Some private companies in China are pretty much advanced in the lithography business. I would put them together with scientists and see new equipment coming out soon.

Nations agree to curb enthusiasm for military AI before it destroys the world

Re: 60 Suckers

"have shown time and time again that no country can trust any agreement that can put them at disadvantage."

Earlier this month, Merkel described Minsk as “an attempt to give Ukraine time” to build up its military. Speaking with the Kyiv Independent, a pro-government Ukrainian outlet, Hollande agreed, saying Merkel was “right on this point.”

Yes, no country can be trusted. USA, EU et al. lied when Russia was eager to sign peace agreements.

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

".. and like most military budgets, that is a waste of effort, money and time on a hopeless task."

This applies to the bloated USA Pentagon only.

Other countries with better scientists use their budget better, to actually produce functional, quality military hardware and software.

99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

Status-Quo

Cryptocurrencies allows you to change the status-quo imposed by any hegemonic power in place.

Of course some people will be against it.

Crypto mixer Sinbad looks uncannily like a remix of North Korea's notorious Blender

"If all of cryptocurrency was banned, including all transactions"

Impossible to happen at this stage. In some countries it is heavily supported, in another, legal tender - El Salvador.

Chainalysis Honeypot Possibility

If Blender servers were compromised, there is the possibility this new mixer is a honeypot operated by Chainalysis / FBI.

Remember to use 2 mixers / tumblers in-tandem for safety.

National Security Threats

"Treasury last year said mixers are a national threat to the US."

What is next? Weather Forecasting Balloons are a threat to US national security? Oh... wait...

Re: Waste of effort

"It's worthless, why go to all this trouble over something with no inherent value that just keeps falling?"

Probably because it is not subject to sanctions, and it is proven it can help booster a country's military weapons program, even if it is heavily sanctioned.

US sanctions fail to stop Russia connecting with Cisco hardware

Re: The Russians are using Cisco?

Also remembering, those implants costs time and money to make. And to sell it to rivals is a nice blow against some Intelligence agencies.

Re: The Russians are using Cisco?

"The ones famous for security failings and for being backdoored by certain US 3letter agencies?"

According to the media, NSA/CIA bugs Cisco equipment, via hardware or software, by intercepting them before they are delivered to you.

Otherwise those implants would have show up in some reverse-engineering efforts.

Romance scam targets security researcher, hilarity ensues

Murder

"The security biz would probably want us to make very clear that no one was murdered in the course of this research."

No one, that he knows of, was murdered

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

Re: Stupid Brandon administration

"Does this apply if the US send balloons into other country's sovereign airspace?"

Actually, the US of North America do send a lot of flying objects into other countries. Not always as harmless as a weather balloon. Like this captured and reverse-engineered Spy drone RQ-170

Problem is, once in enemy's hands - be it a drone, a microchip or cyber weapons - they are spoils of war.

China's spy balloon barrage earns six of its companies a spot on US entity list

Re: Tinfoil hat time

"Bet the balloon costs a lot less than the missile fired at it too."

Indeed this would be funny and effective. To deplete USA stockpile of missiles releasing hundreds of helium weather forecasting balloons with junk electronic parts below.

Nice idea !

Weather Forecasting Balloons

Meanwhile, The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and The World Meteorological Organization are silent.

Won't they scream "For Chr1st sake, don't down all or weather forecasting balloons ?"

Laughing here of this utter non-sense.

Let's play a game: Deepfake news anchor or a real person?

In-house capability

That's why an in-house developed capability has several advantages over buying / renting foreign tech.

If terms can be agreeable, of course.

Re: Puppet newsreader

Didn't the angry guys severed the hand?

American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran

Re: Company registered in UAE

"Not US jurisdiction, once again the US seems to have an issue with the concept of jurisdiction"

This disease is called "USA Global Cop Syndrome"

Reminds me of one of the responses from PirateBay to legal threat letters:

"We are well aware of the fact that The Pirate Bay falls outside the

scope of the DMCA - after all, the DMCA is a US-specific legislation,

and TPB is hosted in the land of vikings, reindeers, Aurora Borealis and

cute blonde girls."

Ransomware crooks steal 3m+ patients' medical records, personal info

Re: Record Profits and Accountability

"It doesn't appear those excess dollars are being reinvested in protecting their customers' private information"

Remember capable and determined fellas can invade the US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA - and some of those folks have bigger pockets and are used to kill for a living.

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

Re: Go... Get the hell outa here

Amazingly enough, if a GUI is needed, I still find wxDevC++ pretty useful - and quite fast, despite the bugs.

US, UK slap sanctions on Russians linked to Conti, Ryuk, Trickbot malware

Re: Re Travel ban

"Seems ineffective, until the regime they support falls down and they suddenly find themselves person non grata, unable to flee."

Why flee from safe-haven?

Even with this (highly improbable) regime change, I believe they would still be in safe-haven. Obtaining spoils of war from historical enemies? GRU/FSB would hire or protect them, if they are not already doing it...

Yet against all odds, if a powerful prick has a grudge against them in their motherland, there would be a few embassies willing to hire those computer experts, maybe even on a diplomatic passport.

US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers

Likely weather stuff. North Americans are scared by nature.

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Re: Whereas, in real life . . .

Probably luring the victim to Rome, to a certain hotel, cloning his/her hotel room key, or the rfid, or bribing the cleaning lady...

Then, using old-fashioned spying micro cameras or malware, they got the images of the seed phrases necessary to make the transfer of funds to happen.

Better to have camera detectors before conducting cryptocurrency transactions, plus a fresh and clean PC / Macbook.

Eurocops shut down Exclu encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens

Re: Am I missing something?

Their crime was to use unbreakable encryption to conduct business. LEA got angry.

Their App maker mistake was to use servers without FDE (Full Disk Encryption), allowing LEA to reverse engineer and extract cryptographic keys.

Re: Baffled

Nah, my mother is a treacherous whore. She would never tell me WhatsApp is in bed with Intelligence agencies. Prefer to use Signal in sensitive matters :-)

Re: Baffled

You Fool. WhatsApp is in bed for YEARS with Intelligence agencies.

Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked

Meanwhile in a big South America country

CIA just lost a lot of influence in a certain country in South America, after a certain the shift of power in the Intel community.

One step closer to 7+ years of illegal surveillance, harassment, attempted killings, etc..

The sale of sensitive microchips to China, plus stronger partnerships with Russia / Iran is an inch closer to reality.

Things are Not All Quiet at all on the Western Front.

Dogs jokes shall end soon.

It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance

Re: Study provided known false answers like this?

If you are trusting a computer but the computer do not trust you, then yes, you will have an "unreliable advisor", plotting your downfall.

Microchip, Microwave

"incompetent people lack the capacity to recognize their incompetence and thus tend to overestimate their abilities"

Once you realize you have a microchip allowing others to profit from your ideas, stop performing as usual.

Remove it and sell it, thea get back to normal.

China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program

Re: I think it's come time to put China in it's place

Not going to happen. If we kill each other we finish earth.

So lets just talk and solve our problems.

Re: I think it's come time to put China in it's place

When I was dating (sex) a biologist a few years ago, she presented me vhemt

I do not like it or am inclined to it. Just it looks like your ideas, so take a look

Re: I think it's come time to put China in it's place

I understand your point of view and I have no arguments against your position, despite my will to procreate myself.

Re: I think it's come time to put China in it's place

"but if the world gets together and carpets the whole of China in nukes"

You clearly have not heard of the Nuclear Triad

A nuclear triad is a three-pronged military force structure that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear-missile-armed submarines, and strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs and missiles

Yes, it is technically feasible to wipe out all China's land with nukes. But submarines will assure MAD is in place. Dissuasion at its best.

Putting it simple, just not. Better sit and talk.

Re: I think it's come time to put China in it's place

Heil ! :-)

China also has nukes, so.. let's all chill and behave like adults, sit in a table and talk.

China unveils massive blockchain cluster running homebrew tech

Re: Now we're talking

"So yes, it will be a scam"

If true, totally not a scam. It could even be used to integrate financial services across BRICS, to integrate CIPS+SPFS (thinking of an advanced version of SWIFT) - with friendly nations running their own nodes, all cryptographically-verifiable.

Plenty of useful use cases, I cannot even imagine all of them. Kudos for China.

Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data

Re: What about the claims companies?

And another company working in the same business, would be created around the corner of the same street in 3,2,1...

Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders

Re: Ad blocker is mandatory

or you're just having random sex without condoms in Haiti.

Interestingly enough, I believe browsing without ad-blockers is more dangerous than having fun in Haiti without condoms (see PrEP)