Posts by Cook942

Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe

https://xkcd.com/538/

xkcd is more accurate than the simpsons

Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos

How did they think that would go?

I fully admit to not being an expert on US or indeed any Law but

"Furthermore, Delta did not disclose to its customers that acceptance of the partial reimbursement would release any legal claims the customer may have against Delta until after the customer 'click[ed] on the button to accept the partial reimbursement.'"

I'm not sure it takes a legal expert to realise that was never going to be enforceable

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

Re: Physical Write-Protect Switches

The fact that USA is single handedly responsible for almost half the toaster related deaths in the world makes me think down darwin award lines

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

so I work in security, if we get a false positive on a rule by your logic the rule doesn't work,

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Re: (Dis)honourable mentions

except it doesn't the link goes to an article on a cloudflare outage

Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data

but that......that's not what that means 360 degrees i.e. all round

Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator

Their laziness finally bit them in the ass

I work for a fairly large retailer and every few weeks we report another fake ad for our website being hosted at the top of googles search results. Incorrectly stating the address it is directing you to. It's been reported to them countless times but they would rather accept the ad revenue then deal with the occasional report than actually fix the incorrect website being displayed. I'm glad they have bit hit by an issue that I'm sure many other people and companies are hit by constantly

Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials

that's why they are using password protected files. unencrypted files can be and are scanned by google

Re: Missing the step between the download and the installation

I'm guessing you don't have much experience with end users, because yes. Yes they do

Greater Manchester cops fined after victim interview vids lost in post

came here to point this out, no-one actually gets hurt by this fine apart from the funding for that police force, net result they f**k up and receive reduced training and manpower resulting in...... more f**k ups

Don't panic, Florida Man, but a judge just said you have to give phone passcodes to the cops

Memory loss

I'm sorry I've forgotten my passcode, now prove I'm lying

Cybercrook spared jail after copping to FIFA video game mega-hack

Re: A different view here.

I thought this, I honestly thought the law would be too far behind to actually get a conviction from this, the phrase victimless crime comes to mind

Kremlin-linked hacker crew's tactics exposed

Reminded of Rocky IV

"APT 28 is variously known as Pawn Storm, Sofacy, Tsar Team, Strontium, Fancy Bear, and (now) Iron Twilight."

I am strangely reminded of the scene in Rocky IV when the announcer is listing all of apollos names

Crooks and kids (not scary spies paid by govt overlords) are behind most breaches

Re: Blaming the aspergers generation

I'm sorry but no, you hold a portion of the blame granted but someone committing criminal acts is still committing criminal acts regardless of the difficulty they had doing it

SpaceX’s anti-hacker tech powers UK launch of security startup

obviously not up to date on GoT

have they not noticed that the nights watch has let the wildlings through now? so I don't think it's a very good analogy

Cash register maker used same password – 166816 – non-stop since 1990

Damn, guess they finally worked out what i was doing

In another, forensics were left stumped by a carder's keylogger which had logged repeat keys (such as aaaaa ggggg bbbbb) entered on the PoS server. It was later revealed staff had used the machine to play Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and download porn.

'Hackers racked up $$$$s via the Android Play Store, and Google won't pay me back'

"My phone is more secure than googles servers"

"the credentials could not have been obtained in any way other than a compromise on Google's end."

LMAO