Posts by Craigie

Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after credential-stuffing crooks board customers' accounts

What is there of value in an Oyster account?

It strikes me that TfL are storing things that they shouldn't be if miscreants are trying to get in. What is there of value?

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

Who confirmed that it was 'not exploitable'?

Boeing must have some very talented security people to have 'confirmed' that there's no way to use the holes in the 2nd network to get to the 3rd network. They seem very, very sure that it is 'not possible'. If they were so supremely sure, why don't they give the black hats a plane to play with for a while?

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

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* and the area of Glasgow just by the Kingston Bridge.

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Bob, do you have a part-time job writing Daily Mail headlines or what?

Re: Rust compile time speed

> typoes

Can we all pause and take a breath to marvel at this?

You ain't getting around UK data laws on a technicality, top judge tells Google

I have had targeted ads disabled across Google for a couple of years now. The ads I do get are now far more interesting. They are more repetitive though; I think the pool of such ads is a lot smaller.

Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone

Orange

Clearly someone high up in Bloomberg snorts a lot of orange powder. Unfortunatel.

Cheapskate Brits appear to love their Poundland MVNOs as UK's big four snubbed in survey again

Re: 1Gb Data a month - Really ?

I've never had anything but unlimited data and the least I use is 20GB, usually more like 40-50GB. I am extremely reluctant to move to any sort of cap.

Re: Vodafone

I assumed you were going to complain about their sh*t data network.

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Is this not new tech then?

If you're going to come out with a folding screen you'd think you'd need to invent a new type of screen first, that's robust enough to stand the wear and tear involved. I'm very confused as to why Samsung appear to have not done this then tried to sell it anyway.

UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23

Re: Had a complaint at work today

What's wrong with that is that it's pitifully slow. Unless the user only needed to download that one not very large file once, then I suppose they can wait, once. But working with a decent amount of data at that speed would be maddening.

RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009

Sandwiches

XP will be dead for many more years before you stop seeing it in restaurants and supermarkets.

It's December of 2018 and, to hell with it, just patch your stuff

Re: Remote code execution flaw in Powerpoint

Hah. Most 'managers' wouldn't have a clue anything was wrong and if they noticed it at all would report it as 'my screen went a bit funny'.

Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving

A shm I

Self-driving anything will only be useful on main roads with nothing but other traffic to cope with for at least the next 30 years.

New Zealand health boards write down losses on Oracle implementation

Oracle

Not even once.

It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now

arbitrary remote code execution via a malicious web page

Nice.

Do not adjust your set: Hats off to Apple, you struggle to shift iPhones 'cos you're oddly ethical

Re: Losing customer

The second-hand price of iPhones seems to me an argument against buying them, not for.

Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests' deets exposed over 4 years

Card numbers

Remind me again why card numbers aren't all single-use and virtual yet?

Azure, Office 365 go super-secure: Multi-factor auth borked in Europe, Asia, USA

SPF

This reeks of 'single point of failure'.

What's the point of this cloudy stuff again?

Microsoft lobs Windows 10, Server Oct 2018 update at world (minus file-nuking 'feature') after actually doing some testing

1809?

Why is it still build 1809 if they've made changes?

If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe

Re: Eh?

'Failing to spot an IT security problem does not make you "thick as mince."'

Maybe not but she has already proven herself to be thick as mince in many other ways.

The Chinese are here: Xiaomi to bring phones to the UK next month

Xiaomi is the new OnePlus

High spec, low price. OnePlus is now high spec, medium-high price. Nice to see another manufacturer available in the high street.

From today, it's OK in the US to thwart DRM to repair your stuff – if you keep the tools a secret

Re: But how are...

Give Drumpf a few more months...

The best way to screw the competition? Do what they can't, in a fraction of the time

Ahhh beancounters

Can't live with them. Can't hunt them for sport.

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

'as a result of that sudden disappearance of revenue'

A bit of a stretch to write-off all Chrome and search revenue in the EU just because the apps are no longer bundled. What's the first thing you'd do with a new device with no Chrome on it? Install Chrome! Same for search. Sure they'll lose a bit but I'd be amazed if it dropped by more than 35%.

Bloke gets six months for fixing up Russia's US election trolls with bank accounts, fake identities

Re: When does the UK start sentencing people?

Well the Tories are still in power so I don't see anything happening about election interference any time soon.

New Zealand border cops warn travelers that without handing over electronic passwords 'You shall not pass!'

Re: Have fun!

'I'm happy to unlock my phone for any reasonable authority who asks politely' ah the old 'nothing to hide' argument.

Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond

Broadcast

I tried the broadcast thing this morning and it apparently broke all the Alexas in the country. Sorry about that.

Click your heels, um, mouse thrice and you've quickly got Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Win 10 Pro

WSL dead then?

See title.

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

Criminal Law is a bad move. Corporate is fine, but criminal is paid criminally badly now.

Medicine is good if you don't mind the long hours and can get to Consultant or Surgeon level.

Plumbing or another trade is where the money is.

The grand-plus iPhone is the new normal – this is no place for paupers

Apple ecosystem

What is that exactly? iTunes? I honestly don't know what Apple offer in way of an 'ecosystem'.

British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages

Re: Third Party Domains

'It was their own infrastructure that got hacked and nobody noticed until it was too late'

The article does seem to rather miss this point.

Microsoft tells volume customers they can stay on Windows 7... for a bit longer... for a fee

Choice?

Surely there should be two major and supported versions of Windows at any one time?

Plusnet customers peeped others' deets during system upgrade

Re: Plusnet

I hate that tosser and all the tossers who decided his accent wasn't tosserish.

No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

Is your browser not set to save passwords? Click in username box and choose the likely single username you've created on the site. Don't care what the password is as the browser remembers. Works pretty much every time. I have no idea what most of my passwords are as they were auto-generated and are recalled without my having to do anything other than be logged in to Chrome.

Your Twitter app stopped working? Here's why

Re: 140 characters of banal shite

It's been 280 characters of banal shite for a while now. Do try and keep up.

Google bod wants cookies to crumble and be remade into something more secure

Re: doesn't allow 3rd party access is a good idea.

I have also disabled all 3rd party cookies (feelsgoodman.jpg) and 99.9% of the time it causes no issues, but it has caused a few. If an application has deep integration with a 3rd party app via an iframe then it tends to come unstuck. It hasn't happened often enough for me to re-enable 3rd party cookies though.

Vodafone's spending pays off - but EE hangs on to UK network crown

Re: Vidafone .....

Great network, but only if you don't care at all about data. For voice, sure, it's available everywhere. But for data, forget it. You may as well send a letter if you're not in a big town. Pathetic network.

The last phablet? 6.4in Samsung Galaxy Note 9 leaves you $1k lighter, needs 'water cooling'

$1,250

No.

Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)

Links

So absolute URIs are fine for img src then?

<img src="https://originalhost.com/pic.jpg" />

Oracle's JEDI mine trick: IT giant sticks a bomb under Pentagon's $10bn single-vendor cloud plan

Three attempts at 'they're', three misses. Well done.

Bank on it: It's either legal to port-scan someone without consent or it's not, fumes researcher

While I sympathise with the feeling of disparity, the bank is forcing you to port scan yourself. If you want to set up the same scripts and then send them a link to let you port scan their PCs then go ahead.

I just loaded their login page and these are the ports that were scanned:

3389

5900

5901

63333

5903

5950

5902

5939

5931

5279

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

Stellar

When does the ad-free Vulture Central option via Stellar (XLM) payment get switched on?

Why Google won't break a sweat about EU ruling

competing products and services beyond Google Maps, Google Play Store and Google Search

good luck with that, unless you have a spare few billion lying around to develop alternatives and attract developers to them.

Samsung’s new phone-as-desktop is slick, fast and ready for splash-down ... somewhere

US$99/£52.99?

I'll be amazed if a $99 device is priced at £52.99 in the UK.

Fukushima reactors lend exotic nuclear finish to California's wines

So the French are saying that Californian wine is getting a bit radioactivey? Well that's not likely to be biased at all is it?

Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year

Intelligent cloud

What the hell is that? How does it differ from stupid cloud?

Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested

Re: Slighty different, but *user* training ...

Estate agents, who get paid vast sums for doing almost nothing at all, are tightwads? Why does this not surprise me?

Ticketmaster breach 'part of massive bank card slurping campaign'

It's £100.