Posts by tmTM

German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks

How?

How is your disaster recovery so poor that it takes you 6 weeks to get your act together?

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

No rush eh?

Over 5 million texts sent, over several years. 60,000 complaints. The regulator finally gets off their arse to do something about it.

Slow clap

Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground

Long game?

Given how targeted alot of these attacks are it'll be no coincidence this happened at such a critical time.

Which probably means the attackers gained access to their systems some time ago and have not been detected.

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Re: Impossible?

and after they've saddled NordVPN with nonsense additional extra admin, what are their plans when everyone switches to TOR?

Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Re: Cisco's approach to research and developing new product areas is to acquire a company

A number of large Pharma firms take the same approach.

If you're big enough, it's easier/quicker to let someone else do all the leg work, then just buy them.

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Hallucination

They already tell convincing lies, do we need a new word for new lies now?

Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine

"We took immediate action"

The entire reason you are being fined is because your company failed to take immediate action, you gigantic moron.

$250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars

Re: They never learn..

or at least not do it in the same country as your target

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

LOL

Imagine going into a Northern Irish prison and telling the other inmates you think mobile phone masts give you Covid.

I hope they pack plenty of Vaseline, they're gunna need it!

Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide

Several of these criminals have been caught abroad, thinking for some reason their crimes stayed back at home.

Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones

Come on people

Four years of war in Ukraine have shown how effective drones can be on the battlefield.

Why have you left it till now to start thinking about protective measures?

Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison

Italy?

You absolute clown, get involved with these sort of crimes means you stay inside Russia.

For ever

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

80 billion

Where on earth did the money go? What they produced from that 80 billion investment is laughable.

The Metaverse didn't fail because the public weren't interested, it failed because of biblically poor budget management.

ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

Re: It's "Krafton"!

It's soon to be nothing.

Huge bills on their horizon, legal and contracted. The CEO is clearly completely incompetent.

They won't be around for very long.

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%

The cycle

Invest heavily in AI -> AI underperforms -> Slash headcount to reduce costs -> Invest heavily in AI to 'boost productivity' -> AI underperforms -> Slash headcount to reduce costs -> Invest heavily in AI to cover 'core roles' -> AI underperforms -> Slash headcount to reduce costs -> Panic

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.