So if Trump rings me and says he's forgotten his password, I now know to just ignore him...
Posts by Alister
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Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info
Re: usable payment or card details
>> All the other details may be stored
PCI DSS doesn't prohibit the storing of the full PAN, but it strongly recommends against it, and does mandate that if stored, it should be encrypted, and when displayed, should be masked.
In practice, in nearly all cases only the last four digits of the PAN are stored, and that is simply to identify the card to the user for subsequent transactions.
Actual transactions use a representative token generated by the payment provider, rather than passing the actual card details.
Dell sheds ten percent of staff for the second year in a row
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport
BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o
Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door
Re: WTF do IBM know about emergency services radio?
This.
But also, the government keep trotting out "PTT services" as though this was something normal and everyday on cellular services.
It Isn't.
There are no fully working reliable examples of PTT operation over a commercial cellular network anywhere.
Motorola did have a system, but they couldn't get it to work properly, which is part of the reason this contract has rumbled on so long.
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff
Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge
Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips
This is why you have a separate disk for the O/S, and don't allow any application to put any data there.
We have successfully restored a number of Windows IIS and SQL servers today, by just rolling back the O/S disk to las night's snapshot. The data disks were not replaced, and so they are still current.
CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world
BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user
AI Confused
My first name is Alastair, but throughout the company I'm known as Al.
Recently, there have been a number of emails from manglement encouraging staff to find innovative ways to use AI within the business...
Colleagues have taken great pleasure in pointing out that my workload looks to be on a skyward trajectory.
Al.
US 'considering' end to Assange prosecution bid
Cyber-crooks slip into Vans, trample over operations
PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here
Not quite on topic, but we run backend systems for ticket purchases on a number of transport links, where customers can book a ticket and receive an email with a barcode or QR code which allows them to travel. Associated with the barcode is a randomly generated 12 character reference code used to store and refer to the transactions.
We do have some rules in place to sanitise the reference code, but on this occasion the system beat us.
We had a complaint, demanding that we refund the ticket price because of the rude word...
The ticket reference code was UrAWw4nK3rB8
I think the computer was right.
A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal
Locked up: UK's Labour Party data 'rendered inaccessible' on third-party systems after cyber attack
First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk
LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher
Good luck trying to sort out a single coherent stream of data from the bundles of cables shown in the rack in the header photo. If they had to artificially slow down UDP packets and transmit a single letter at a time on a single cable, I think it's going to be a while before we need worry about this in the real world.
Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems
Bistromathics!
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers, Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers am not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?
Computer shuts down when foreman leaves the room: Ghost in the machine? Or an all-too-human bit of silliness?
WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job
Re: "Cheap" for a reason
I just don't understand why so many managers insist on going cloud
It's because the beancounter mindset worships OPex, and considers CAPex as the work of the devil.
Going cloud means your IT spend becomes OPex, and they simply don't care if it's 3 x the annual spend if you went with hardware.
Sir Clive Sinclair: Personal computing pioneer missed out on being Britain's Steve Jobs
Arms not long enough to reach the plug socket? Room-wide wireless charging is on the way
How to stop a content filter becoming a career-shortening network component
Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'
Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?
Also got lucky
In February 2020 we started a major change to our office connectivity, moving from a 20Mbs copper leased line to a 100Mbs fibre link, and migrating from Cisco routers and firewalls to Juniper routers and Netgate pfSense firewalls, and rolling out OpenVPN clients to all staff. The work was completed on Friday 13th March 2020, a week before the office closed. Had we not completed it in time, there was no way our previous infrastructure would have allowed all our staff to work-from-home, but with the new kit, it all went smoothly.
There's no Huawei on Earth we're a national security threat, Chinese giant tells US appeals court
“Last year the FCC issued a final designation identifying Huawei as a national security threat based on a substantial body of evidence developed by the FCC and numerous US national security agencies,”
Strangely, nobody seems to have actually seen any of the "substantial body of evidence", so at the moment it still looks like a purely commercial decision.
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
Legacy IT kit is behind 80% of UK taxman's pandemic costs, says spending watchdog
"HMRC has recognised that, due to the need in the past to forgo operational maintenance and upgrades to its systems to secure cost savings, its IT systems now constitute a significant risk to the department,"
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the root cause of the problem.
Will they learn from this?
Nope.
1. Install big new shiny
2. Do no maintenance or upgrades for the next ten years
3. Moan about risk to business.
4. goto 1
Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with remote-access worm
BOFH: Are you a druid? Legally, you have to tell me if you're a druid
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
Re: PDNFTT
Jake, your quoted statement relates purely to medical examination and emergency treatment in an emergency department, and then only if the hospital is part of the Medicare program.
Free healthcare means you don't pay for routine operations, doctor's consultations etc, no matter how much it might cost or how long it takes.
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button
Re: Won't somebody think of the ducklings?
And as a tax-payer (?) I'd rather pay for a drone over a cop-ter.
As was pointed out to you in the previous discussion, there are things that a helicopter can do which a drone can't - as one example, following and recording a high-speed pursuit on a motorway - and as most police services already have a helicopter, why not use it to its best advantage?
Hollywood drone pilot admits he crashed gizmo into cop chopper, triggering emergency landing
Re: Helicopter danger
Something that could and should have been carried out by officers on foot.
You really don't have a clue, do you. By far the safest and most effective method of searching for someone at night is to use an infra-red camera from above. Officers on the ground have no way of replicating that sort of search.
Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features
Re: Keep retracting.
Tesla Autopilot actually has fewer (and generally less serious) accidents per million kM than human drivers. This despite AP not being fully autonomous.
Umm, that's because Tesla Autopilot is not autonomous, and therefore when used properly, the human is doing the tricky stuff. The accidents attributed to Tesla Autopilot occur when the human decides to pretend AP is autonomous.