Posts by mikus 90 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2008
Their customers will be the ones to pay for their own stupidity and laziness, not them. They obviously learned nothing after the first, paid the ransom like a fine, and went back to operating poorly. Now they got got again.
Hopefully the CIO and CISO were at least fired as part of this.
This is Microsoft's way of trying to remind people they still make a hypervisor, same way they beg you not to download Chrome when it's the only thing you use IE/Edge for. Most well-heeled Microsoft-y admins pay VMWare today for *good* virtualization, but with Broadcom pissing on everyone now, they need another easy button since being allergic to Linux usually. Anyone that isn't afraid of Linux will just use KVM or KVM-based solutions.
Likely by the same incompetent CISO/CIO's that allow this sort of thing to happen under their watch fearful for their own careers.
Like the Solarwinds CISO getting sued for gross negligence, Change Healthcare's management should as well, first for being lazy/stupid to let it happen in the first place, for even considering paying the fine let alone doing so as they did, and for letting it happen AGAIN not learning from the first.
Organizations like these are so broken it's laughable, but this is how most run businesses operate still I deal with in consulting still in 2024.
Guess what everyone, medical insurance rates are going up again to pay for their mistakes. North Korea thanks you for your continued support.
Silly Microsofties always see Team is some kinds of gift of cheapness vs. say Slack, but there are hidden costs.
-Teams group chats are as barren as catholic confession stands these days.-
-Everyone is afraid to be logged saying something bad, so they say nothing. Nothing.
-When you do use it, it's always just a little bit broken for inexplicable reasons, regardless the client platform.
-Abandoning 3rd parties like Mac and Linux to web put them as a less than 3rd class citizen alienate an already hateful crowd everywhere.
Now I wonder the true cost of using the platform decoupled from ambiguity, let us finally have a real cost of using sub-standard "freemium" services where only sacrificing human souls to converse.
Enslaving a new generation, why not? Or people could just use LibreOffice, a perfectly usable solution to replace Office for the past 20 years already.
I've been working/consulting in enterprise IT space and have used Linux for the past 25 years, where 20 of that full-time personally using a Linux desktop, LibreOffice has always been exceedingly just fine to use, and something I use daily. People need for day to day probably 5% of what any office-suite does, and for that most any other solution is fine, and open-source is best for trust. After using LibreOffice/OpenOffice for so long, moving back to real MS Office on a customer provided device annoys me greatly.
Apple mostly spit in the face of the EU's plans to corral them into playing fair, hopefully they respond in kind. If Apple is simply going to play this cat and mouse game, EU should simply ban their sales until they come in good faith and not some passive aggressive at best flaunting of their market power.
All this means is they used the cheapest grade of stainless possible vs actual quality stuff that is truly corrosion-resistant. I wondered if something like this would happen, and simply laughing that yes, like most cheap Chinese "stainless" things you get from amazon or wish with low-grade metals, they corrode/rust about as bad as steel.
When will people stop being surprised Microsoft is this inept? Have we not seen almost 30 years of security ineptitude from them from the operating system to things like internet explorer as the best malware delivery engine of all time? If anyone gets into your network, it's 99% of the time going to be via a windows box, active directory, or crappy 3rd party application built for them.
These reports going public are now only since they "have to" report these sorts of breaches, as they can't trust their secret won't be leaked by the instigating hacking crew to shame them and put them in a compliance situation. They will however downplay the severity as much as they can to placate the user base back to blissful ignorance, and hide any unnecessarily embarrassing details.
Just imagine how often this has happened over the past 30 years they haven't told you about publicly since ransomware and exfiltration has become more common that they have to?
As an Account Manager, they have quotas, and they are essentially disposable sales drones. Either you close deals, or you don't and eventually get fired. They obviously didn't, regardless of how many they had "in the works". After 25 years in IT, I see AM's come and go each year from my vendors, I rarely see the same one more than a year at a time. Then I see them at another vendor asking me to buy their product from there next.
This is the nature of a job in sales - either she's naive, inexperienced, or simply being petulant to expect anything else if she's not closing deals to their liking.
Sadly IT sales is a job where the more attractive they are is directly proportional to how much they sell. When most in the IT industry is male, females are hired as Account Managers as customer doors magically open for them and calls are taken. When do you ever see a male AM? You don't, that's why they pair them with a Systems Engineer that actually knows the products they're selling. If she's not closing deals, well maybe she needs a boob job, or a different career. Might as well call the job a modeling career.
I suspect they'll probably ship standard hardware and attempt to cripple it via firmware as they've done before (remember the crypto hashing restrictions?), in which case once received someone in China will magically create a firmware hack to open them up entirely. Hooray, export restrictions.
With the resale and auction-style pricing for H100-style cards with scarcity, I wouldn't be surprised if China doesn't just buy what they can on the secondary market like everyone else at that point. Resellers I'm sure won't really care who's buying at ludicrous MSRP+small-fortune profits.
I only use windoze as a runtime for Visio and Project, or other odd one-off windoze-only tasks, XP that I can with 384mb of ram and 5gb of disk was perfect. Anything after only added spyware, telemetry, and garbage I never wanted or needed.
If visio/project ran in wine, I never need windows at all, but Microsoft would never let *that* happen.
At some point Russinovich has to retire, he's spent 30 years wiping microsoft's arse, he needs a break.
Maybe they can hire someone for a better idea than fix what isn't broken, ie the task bar and start menu, making them the advertisement bazaar that the start menu became when people got lazy under Ballmer. Anyone with an advertisement background should be summarily excluded.
I use windoze anything only as a hypervisor for visio, quick launches saves me most of the frustration, but think of the children.
Alas poor Cilium, I knew him.
Cisco will try to cram a square peg into a round hole most of their backward customers will never ever figure out how to use while they still try to evolve beyond windows. As a Linux solution it's great, but as a Cisco solution it will be spurned and/or forked, thus marginalized as an undesired solution internally that it'll become another relic of the past like appdynamics, tetration, tail-f, viptela, and others.
Of them causing them incidents, or getting got externally?
The world would be a better place blocking anything out of china, russia, and other undesirable places as a whole anymore. Nothing good comes out, if they did want to, they'd use something not of their country so toxic.
A great firewall of 'murica isn't so bad an idea anymore, keeps me from having to invest in better firewalls if it worked.
I recently ran into this with mremote-ng, a windoze software client for ssh and remote desktop use, so like something mostly system administrators would use was still using an ancient vulnerable log4net, a variation of log4j with the same vulnerabilities. My FortiClient EPP software noticed it to alert, luckily I had some enterprise security to do so, but how many others do not?
Looking up the software project's github to post an issue, someone else with the same alert from FortiClient told them years ago, and they closed it, telling someone to get the "nightly" version vs. the ancient and non-updated main app from the website that you know, 99% of people including myself would just download to use. I opened a new ticket asking them patch the main version ffs too, and finally did after some nagging and public shaming, but by this point I already uninstalled it, cursed having to use anything like that on windoze in the first place.
Anything on windoze, particularly 3rd party software I imagine is all a rats nest of vulnerable dependencies that never get updated. I use windoze for anything as little as possible for that reason alone, usually only keeping it around as my visio runtime.
If anyone bothered to actually properly audit, and not the old buddy wink and a nod audit, they'd find most State and Local Muni orgs across the US operate the same way. I used to consult at many of them locally, they certainly don't here, and having worked enough sampling of the rest of the US too, have no doubt. No one in government actually implements proper measures, they buy something, pay a consultant, pray it works to drop a bit extra in the hat in on sunday when done, and when it doesn't, hand a claim over to insurance to go back to waiting for their pension to kick in.
Well, who can blame them as a small business, one has to make sure to right-size their staffing accordingly. They can't afford to do it like those real "large" IT companies do it. Maybe those relying on this solution should shop for a more appropriate sized organization and product offering that can actually meet their needs for redundancy and scalability.
I still laugh every time I see an enterprise that rolls out winrar or winzip on a corporate level, I can only ever say "eww" or think "what silly old warez d00d admin put this out there?". Particularly when there are far better and far more open and un-encumbered license-wise solutions like 7zip that don't come with a shareware trial nag on every launch. Keep it classy y'all.
After he's routinely stiffed most orgs that do business with Twitter for major dollars already, would you work without cash up front from him?
Anyone of conscience has long since left left the platform and/or doing business with them, I presume it's only bottom-feeders left now, and these sorts of lawsuits expose that even more.
Not really sure, with the advent of Steam Proton support for Linux gaming, I suddenly care to game again 20 years later, but pretty absurd being re-introduced to this when people were scalping gpu's for 3x the cost, ie several thousands of dollars, as apparently they generated gold or something. Suddenly they don't, and I just want some pretty graphics maan, but really - starting at 1000 dollars? I remember buying my first voodoo2 that broke me at $200 bucks, so perhaps I'm jaded.
Remember? You missed the memo Radware bought the rotting carcass in the Nortel collapse, and used it to make their "next-gen" load-balancers now. Yes my friend, it's aliiiiiive! <cackles to himself>
I always wondered what jackasses actually buy radware (that aren't Israeli), and last year I ran into one still running ancient radware LB's (still required flash!) and went in on the "next-gen" kit now. I tried to talk some sanity into them F5 or Citrix might be a more rational option, you know, people actually use and support them, but they couldn't be bothered to look at switching vendors.
I just laugh inwardly that someone actually bought the last-gen-before rejects as everyone already forgot the stench from the first and second round of life.
I've used only linux for almost 20 years now, and in IT consulting have to exchange files regularly with clients that of course only use MS Office. OpenOffice worked well enough mostly, and now with current LIbreOffice have almost no issues with import/export of native docx/xlsx files. Of course MS Office supports native odt and ods files for Word/Excel native import, which works well too, and so does even 365 online word/excel.
Give it a try, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised these days. The great equalizer is export to pdf if nothing else, which I tend to do for formal docs anyways.
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