"upper management at the software biz are evaluating all the available options"
Translation : they're looking for a position elsewhere.
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All you high-falutin' business execs who swear on Sun Tzu, explain to me why :
1) you are willing to not only give your internal company workings to a competitor (Borkzilla is nobody's friend), but are willing to pay for the privilege
2) you have apparently no qualms to hand over such data to a company you cannot trust to either not benefit from it, or not sell that data or use it somewhere else
Is it because, when Borkzilla starts a new branch that does what your company does, you're hoping to get hired as branch manager ?
Good luck with that.
Well, the inquest is not finished. One can only hope that accomplices will be found during interrogation of everyone they have. The victims will be only too happy to describe the people who beat them, and the nine arrested will certainly be taught that it is in their best interest to cooperate fully.
I am hopeful that more perpetrators will be brought to justice, but let us not kid ourselves : the top level who put the money in this operation will never be bothered.
That annoys me immensely.
I really think Infosec the hardest area one can work in in IT. You need to juggle with the needs and demands of users and management, while stitching together the failures of the products you didn't choose to use to try and ensure that miscreants inside and out won't make a total dog's breakfast of the whole network.
And every time Borkzilla posts a new update, I'm guessing you just cringe and hope for the best . . .
Meant to be helpful, yes. Stupid, no.
I have trouble understanding how this is supposed to work. Every company I work for has a helpdesk, obviously. The phone number is internal. It is not posted on the Internet. Yes, it is accessible from outside once you know it, but you won't find it in the phone book. Curiously, companies I deal with do not post their Helpdesk number in the Yellow Pages - I wonder why.
Second point, most organizations I work with do not allow users administrative access to their computers. You might manage to get control, by a miracle and a magic wand, but you're still stuck in user space. You can't install anything. The few companies I deal with that leave me a computer with an admin account are companies I cannot work with remotely, and the helpdesk drone knows me by face and name. Someone tries to pose as me by phone ? I wish him good luck.
In short, this whole story stinks of incompetence and lack of proper procedures at the highest levels. There are none of my clients - and I don't work for Fortune 1000 companies - that appear to me to be subject to this kind of shenanigans.
Because The CloudTM, obviously.
It is impossible today to handle things locally. That's just not how business is done now. You have to have your ordering system, your procurement system and your payroll in The CloudTM.
So, when The CloudTM fucks up, you're out of business.
Personally, I rather like this result.
Yeah, just like a driver who got caught red-handed running a red light is going to recognize that he ran the red light.
Sorry, that does not instill any measure of leniency in my mind.
Let him be extradited to the US after he's done his time in a Canadian jail.
The only place they should exist is in the tiny safes of cheap hotel rooms, for the occupant to throw his valuables and pray that nobody is going to try anything on the obvious target within the day or three that said occupant is there.
Anywhere else, an electronic lock is a no-go proposal because, if you actually have the need for a safe to put stuff in, the last thing you want is a power outage to keep you from accessing said stuff when you need it. Mechanical locks have made a lot of progress since the days of the Wild West, and there are numerous ways of protecting a safe beyond just the lock on the safe itself.
If your "valuables" (whatever they may be) are worthy of a safe, the go the whole hog. Camera surveillance, multiple locked doors, access via airgapped sas, etc.
Just chucking a safe in a corner of the office isn't secure anyway.
And there we have it. Citrix is not interested in serving its customers, it is interested in getting fixed revenue every month for life.
You're in business, Citrix. Uncertainty is what you live with.
Deal with it, or get a government job.
I don't know what is going on on social media, I don't have any account. But, here in France, there is a platform called LeBonCoin (the Good Corner) that allows people to sell stuff they don't want any more. It's basically a nation-wide garage sale. Prices are reasonable because it's not Ebay, so people who want to gouge find their offerings languguishing.
But the important part is since LBC integrated a secure payment system. It's not secure as far as banks are concerned (well, not any more than elsewhere), it's secure as far as the user is concerned. When I purchase an item on LBC, I can use its payment system or I can pay directly. If I choose LBC's system, I pay the money to LBC. LBC then notifies the seller that the money has been paid and the seller can send the item. When I receive the item, I notify LBC which then releases the money to the seller.
If I'm the one selling, the system works in reverse, of course.
There is obviously the case where the buyer lies about receiving the item, I don't know what LBC does about that but, when I am selling via LBC, I am specifically encouraged to send the item with postal trace - so I'm guessing if the buyer tries to stiff me, LBC will contact La Poste and get the record of that item.
In any case, I've never heard of wiespread problems or scams on LBC. I think the payment system has a lot to do with it. Maybe that sort of system should be widely copied on other platforms ?
Sorry, why ?
We have been repeatedly told that the quantum computer resolves all possible values in one go. I am aware that modern GPUs have more than a million transistors, but I am not aware that anybody has yet drawn an equivalence between how many transistors are needed to equal a qubit.
Now, all of a sudden, a million physical qubits are needed to equal a single Nvidia GPU ?
When the best anyone can do at the moment in a lab are 1000 qubit computers, it looks like quantum cumputing is looking weaker by the year.
The NSA would do well to set up a 1000-GPU system to crack encryption, rather than wait for quantum.
Sure.
Here's a warning to Microsoft : you do not dictate how millions of your customers work.
You've already tried and failed before. I expect you will fail again, big time. Millions of companies have processes that depend on COM + Outlook. You pull that rug out from beneath them and you're looking for massive pain in the PR department, and, who knows ? That just might be the drop that pushes a fair portion to other solutions. Mail + COM is not entirely unfeasible in the Open Source area. there's going to be a lot of upheaval by 2029.
You keep on acting as if you dictate the terms. You have erected this wall for no good reason. I'm looking forward to seeing you crashing head-first into it.
In Firefox it didn't want to go. Said "can't find MIME format" or somesuch.
Tried in Brave, no cigar. Seamonkey didn't like it either.
So I copied the URL to my work PC and tried with Chrome. Still no go.
What format are you people using for even Chrome to not agree ?
P.S. : all my browsers are up to date and have no trouble viewing videos on YouTube or elsewhere, like this one.
With my i9 10980XE, my 64GB of DDR4, my 8TB of HDDs and my GeForce RTX 4080 Panther, it would seem, from your experience, that I have a machine that can run a chatbot.
Now if you could just convince me why I would need one. I already have a wife and a cat if I wish to talk with someone, and even the cat has more brains than a chatbot.
Sorry ?
Trump, who has been bleating about how Beijing is our enemy, imposing a ridiculous trade war and blaming China for everything he can't blame Mexica for, has used a Chinese firm for one of his shady deals ?
Wow. I would say somebody alert MAGA, but they'd have to have a brain to understand.
"Leicester City Council has a good reputation for information governance, so I have some faith that the damage done in terms of sensitive data will be quite limited "
Yeah, well we're going to find out just how "limited" the damage was. Not that I wish them to languish for weeks, it's just that I doubt that their reputation is enough to get them back on their feet next week.
Roving bands of hooligans are trashing the infrastructure in preparation of the apocalypse ?
Is it safe to walk the streets in the daytime ?
Do I risk getting burned when walking by a manhole that suddenly belches flames ?
So many questions . . .
Isn't that fun ?
When I go to a hotel, I reasonably expect privacy everywhere.
I do not expect my face to show up on the hotel's Facebook page of reservations. Nor do I expect that I be found on the hotel's Facebook restaurant guest page.
I am willing to accept that there be a security cam in the garage, but that will be the extent of my understanding.
If you so much as show a pic of me wandering around in your garden, I will sue your ass off.
And he could count his blessings that day, because today there would have been a response, quickly, and then things would have escalated from there.
A massive semiconductor company, eh ? Not based in Taiwan, eh ? Sounds like Intel. Looks like Intel participated in the learning IT security paradigm.
You don't give interns superuser access to anything.
Now they know why.
Um, yeah, you can pretty much say the same about the USA.
Why is nobody remembering National Security Letters on newsdesks these days ?
Yes, Beijing can perfectly well ransack a Chinese company's data. The White House can do the same to any US-based company. I'm convinced the same is true for just about any country.
This is a pot meet kettle argument. Stop using it.
But I'm not going to go dissing on hospital stuff. I'm very happy that we have hospitals, insecure as they are. The people who are there want to help, they really do. You have to want to help when you're paid so little for saving people's lives, or even just making them slightly better. As I am getting on in age (60 is an asteroid that is looming ever larger on my horizon), I think that, if push comes to shove, I will gladly accept an insecure pump or whatever if it gives me more years to be with my family.
Yes, I would definitely prefer that medical thingamajigs be secure, it would certainly be reassuring, but I think I can stand the insecurity if my life is on the line.
But in my house ? Never.
I can get my fat ass of the couch and go for the dumb, stupid, secure switch.