Posts by SparkE

Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury

Did anyone tell Elon?

I read somewhere last week that Musk mocked people who thought the US government used SQL databases. Maybe he needs to update his?

Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS

Curious how this Zero day is fixed by the very iOS update that a lot of Apple users are avoiding because of the opt-out Apple intelligence roll out…

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

Re: In the interests of national security...

Ugh! My company sells aerospace and industrial hardware. Pretty much ordinary nuts and bolts that are used on everything from aircraft to holding together backyard swing-sets. Nothing remotely secret, military, proprietary or ITAR or DFAR related. Many US government agencies buy hardware from us and whenever they do, we have to sign a Form 889 to say that our company does not use any networking or communications equipment made by Huawei or they can’t do business with us. Not too big a deal because I’ve never seen anything made by Huawei. However, TP-Link is EVERYWHERE. I hope they don’t start the same non-sense with TP-Link without any concrete evidence, Just because an IT guy doesn’t change the default username and password from admin/admin to something unique, I’m not going to label the manufacturer of that equipment a security risk.