Posts by Tony.

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

Why did Canada let the USA spend probably close to 1/2 a million dollars to scramble a jet and use an AA missile to shoot down a weather balloon that may have only cost a few hundred? No idea!

JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

Re: Only Limited Data Stolen

Data was limited to only the data they had!

Virgin Orbit doesn't

Start me up..

"Start me up" was also used for the Windows 95 release, and the second verse is "you make a grown man cry", does nobody check these things!

Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035

'Meddling ministers'

Yep, also you can be sure all the usual US companies who hope to sell us their latest fighter will be lobbying to try to kill the project. (As apparently, they did to help kill the TSR2)

Five British companies fined for making half a million nuisance calls

'The two businesses have appealed the monetary value of the penalty notices.'

Well, if after the fines they still made a profit, the fines are not large enough!

FCC gives SpaceX OK to launch 7.5k Gen2 Starlink satellites

What's the worst that could happen...

Let's hope Elon doesn't do to starlink what he's done to Twitter...Sack most the staff and just hope nothing fails (or maybe falls or collides is more appropriate...)

Elon Musk picks fight with Apple for slashing advertising spend on Twitter

In app purchase?

Would the banning of twitter from the app store be over the paying for the tick? because I'm going to guess that apple store would like its %, and then so will google....

Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper'

Hackers.. .

we await on this being blamed on "state sponsored military grade cyber-attack"... which usually just means some PFY with more access than they should have clicked on 'invoice.pdf.exe" they got in an email....

Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia

Re: This is why all traffic should be encrypted

CA trust is not based on location. There's a lot of trusted root CA on IOS...

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212140

although not as many as windows...

https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/microsoft/IncludedCACertificateReportForMSFT

both include government CAs of some countries... no obvious Russian ones but could they have compromised any of them...

Almost 10 years ago Turktrust 'accidently' issues a *.google.com cert (to the Turkish government?)

https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/04/turkish_fake_google_site_certificate/

Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear

So an IP address assigned to Microsoft? So like an IP for anything anyone pays to be hosted in azure?

Same issue with domain names, anybody can buy Azure storage are hosted on *.microsoft.net DNS addresses, even has a MS company HTTPS cert! that's been used for years in phishing.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-attack-uses-azure-blob-storage-to-impersonate-microsoft/

Investors start betting against Bitcoin with short-trade products

Re: Investors or gamblers?

Just don't give dobby socks, because then he will become a free horse...

Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay up if hit again

Re: Tax man always wins.

It never used to be, but they spread the responsibility,

"The corporate criminal offence (CCO) of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion came into effect in 2017, making it a criminal offence for relevant bodies (companies, limited liability partnerships and partnerships) to fail to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion by their employees, agents and others performing services for or on their behalf. "

Tax man always wins.

Interested in how a company would pay in the UK, you're buying a service, I doubt they are VAT registered so are you not facilitating tax evasion?

Top techs preview CES 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017...

Erm...

Dual-perspective 3D TVs - Isn't this a normal 3D TV with glasses that had 2 left or 2 right lenses, you can then sit anywhere?

Spec set for 3D specs tech

Now In 3D!

Samsung dropped IR due to all the issues they had with Sunlight, lighting and IR remotes making it loose sync., Bluetooth does seem to work much better not seen any sync issues.

I'm guessing the new spec will also cover Bluetooth, it does say 'RF systems' as opposed to just IR , that's the only way I can see "will be backwards compatible with any 2011 3D active TVs" is possible, all samsung 2011 TVs are bluetooth already.

Of course the sceptic in me thinks the 'licensing' plan may be to try and stop (or cash in) on those 'clone' IR Glasses that seem to be popping up.

(Icon:3d glasses! )

Fridge-sized war raygun for US bombers gets $40m

Fridge Sized?

When will they make them shark mountable size?

We need "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads!

Gamers raid medical server to host Call of Duty

Yeah right...

Did they also discover 'Some hackers' had installed COD on all the network admins pc's aswell?