Posts by tmTM

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals

Robbing the Feds

It's a bold strategy, lets see how it pays off for 'em.

Iran's cyberwar has begun

Do us all a favour

Send a tomahawk or two to sort them out

DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation

You forget the level of idiot that often is plonked in charge of these large public bodies.

That kind of common sense simply doesn't exist in their world.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Luckily no-one else does.

Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted

We paid up

Now we hope we don't get fisted in the process

West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

Failing upwards

How do these idiots get to where they are?

If you're hauled in front of a bunch of MP's to explain yourself, the absolute minimum you should be doing is double checking the information you've based your decisions on.

Not just swanning into the meeting and attempting to wing it.

DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch

Re: Proud !

Proud to receive top money for delivering the absolute lowest level of service possible.

Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users

Nothing?

They weren't stolen, they weren't obtained by fraud or deception.

They were given freely

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working

Re: This must be world record levels of bad

Not even close to record levels of bad from councils unfortunately.

Not when you've got the likes of Thurrock where quite obvious corruption syphoned off similar amounts.

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

False positive

Hasn't this tech produced near 90% false positive rate in previous tests by the Met?

Do they disclose the current rate?

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Re: Never buy a device that doesn't work if the internet is down or the server is not responding.

It's easy to say that, but it's not like anyone is going to advertise this fact to potential customers.

Usually something you find out a few months down the line, when the servers go TITSUP and suddenly nothing will respond.

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

Re: Just asking for a fiend.

A friend named Donald?

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath

and...........

and the aftermath of burning the Jaguar brand to the ground

and the continued problems created by the terrible engines they produce

They're competing with Ford Europe for the most incompetently run auto manufacturer, and it's a hotly contested race.

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust

'Investment'

Crypto is a gamble not an investment and should be treated as such, only put in what you can afford to lose.

You GAMBLED your retirement fund, and lost.

Whomp whomp

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

Treaties

What's the point in having treaties if local law enforcement think they can ignore them?

Seems like time Politicians got off their arse and spoke to each other to ensure these requests go via the agreed route?

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

Re: "repair kit for a cracked window on the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft."

Great opportunity to test out the repair kit for real though.

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

Re: Eleven year sentence ?

She's got that to look forward to next.

Entered the country on a fake passport, convicted and sentenced. Will be deported once prison time is up.

No, you can't claim UK asylum to escape extensive crimes committed in your home country

Cyber insurers paid out over twice as much for UK ransomware attacks last year

Minimum standards?

How Minimum are they?

JLR got popped big time, they suffered huge losses, and companies that work them took a huge hit. M&S losses were so big they maxed out their cyber policy.

Do companies need to look at raising this minimum threshold? because clearly some messes are racking up substantial sums to clean up.

FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute

At least his Bitcoin did exist at one point.

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

Example to others

You can't just hide behind a cyber insurance policy to justify pulling security investment and poor incident response planning.

You will be left out of pocket and out of ideas.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Re: Watches

Easy to move on, generally appreciate in value and (I think) a private sale does not incur tax.

Also relatively easy to move across borders, one or two at a time obviously.

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

Slow poke America?

Perhaps those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? but it seems like America is trailing quite far behind with high speed rail?

A paltry 257 km/h? and only on some East coast lines.

Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

Why?

Why become a corporate shill?

He obviously doesn't need the money, his wife is rich beyond dreams. It's not as if these posts further the public interest, or do any real good.

What's the move here?

£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

unreal returns

Well the 404 million she had is now worth 5500 million, not a bad job at all.

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

Only £170 million?

Come on now, with associated costs and hits to productivity, and the fact they've no real idea what their money is doing. They must be pushing 1/4 of a billion pound loss?

Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley

Re: Quackamólé

Exactly, if you're going to use AI to conduct an interview I'm going to use AI to attend the interview.

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

Scan or Overclockers.

PCPartPicker is a good place to compare prices of parts

US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

We employed dodgy foreign workers who promptly robbed us blind

and other completely avoidable problems

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Re: I agree about lazy HR people.

Sometimes one upvote simply isn't enough

Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff

Stupid enough to travel?

You commit these crimes, you commit yourself to a life inside your borders.

You cannot leave.

Four REvil ransomware crooks walk free, escape gulag fate, after admitting guilt

They're mostly large recruitment facilities for meat to send to the front line in Ukraine now, so probably no where near as full as they used to be.

Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data

Re: "one of the most sensitive and important things to retain"

So why's it being stored on a poorly secured legacy system?

Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent

Culture change?

With their notoriously harsh work culture they'll need more than just money to attract foreign workers en-mass.

I very much doubt they'll be willing to change to accommodate outsiders.

Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs

Re: AI knowledge

People in charge rarely think about such things

‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources

Re: Something doesn't add up

No, no, that's standard startup mentality.

Barely anyone knows your product, you serve few people and your turnover is tiny. Yet you're the next biggest thing and obviously worth billions.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Re: Sixty billion is incredible

Where has it gone?? Where?

Apart from releasing another generation of VR headsets, where has all this money gone? It's not like the VR library is stacked with amazing apps, not for the money they've thrown up the wall.

I'm genuinely stumped.

Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands

re: A £3M bribe couldn't be approved at mid management level, right?

I guess it depends if they've got a cost code setup to cover it with purchasing

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Sh*t in, sh*t out

For any kind of accurate prediction you would need detailed and accurate psychological data on each subject, and given the sorry state the mental health services are in, it's safe to say that does not exist.

Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft

I wonder how many times customer services are going to have to have that conversation over the next few days.

"Yes your fund has lost 25% over the last week, no it's not been withdrawn. You are poor now"

From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner

Re: "naive unsuspecting marks to fleece"

The only one getting fleeced here is the idiot who thought paying 200 million for a failed brand and concept was a good idea.

Imagine the gut-wrenching feeling their investors got seeing how poorly their money is being spent.

Photobucket must be next?

For long forgotten internet services of the early 2000's

$200 million for a name

A long forgotten name that only resonates with people over 40 in the first place.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: Wrong question

Isn't this tech notorious for false positives?

People shouldn't be pulled up by the police because a computer thinks they look like a criminal.

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

Re: curious to see how they arrange it so that WFH boosts "a sense of community"

Tech also attracts alot of people with neurodivergent qualities.

Such people don't actually get on well in face-to-face or communal environments, but having the team available to chat online, from their own safe space is more of a feeling of community to them.

As usual, bosses need to look past their own wants and viewpoints.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Silicon Valley Science

You can't fake it till you make it with such public facing Scientific projects, especially if you're going to present data. It either is, or it isn't.

Ask Elizabeth Holmes how it will end up.

Leeds United kick card swipers into Row Z after 5-day cyberattack

What's worse?

Your credit card details being leaked, or it being made public you support Leeds?

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

" Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines."

Aye but it does force it to print in much lower quality, and I'm sure when questioned directly you'll blame the ink cartridge you lying snake.

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

Plural?

Is more than one Bigfoot referred to as 'Bigfeet' or Bigfoots? What about a group of them?

Important questions!

US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K

Red faces

Tricking a low level admin employee into making this mistake is bad enough, but breaking in and doing it themselves is downright embarrassing.

UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

Brexit

Creating problems where there were previously none.

Congratulations