Posts by Netbofia

60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy

Re: ...and 100% of Germany's Internet is Cisco........................

Philips has licensed it's Brand name out to Asia. It know only makes eletrical shavers and toothbrushes and Medical equipment.

The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows

Does this mean we will start seeing more Linux attack vectores, targeted towards windows users, as a means to exploit linux kernel capabilities?

Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code

CMD commits

I'm I that old fashioned? What happened to committing via command line?

Assuming the point of failure was the git GUI.

Dixons Carphone 'fesses to mega-breach: Probes 'attempt to compromise' 5.9m payment cards

But implementation only occurred on the 25 of the past month.

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

Why doesn't Netflix validate the email address?

Why doesn't netflix simply validate the email given on sign up. If you can't prove it's your then u can't sign up with that email address. Problem solve.

Or am I missing something?

Tape lives! The tape archive bit bucket is becoming bottomless

Price range

Any Idea what kind of a price range this would be in? Really rough estimate.

Media players wide open to malware fired from booby-trapped subtitles

No real explanation into how the exploit is done

Even after watching the video, I had no insight into how, all of a sudden, a guy running kali linux just started a VNC session to your computer because of a subtitle.

Looks like hollywood bull*** just missed a guy typing really fast.

America 'will ban carry-on laptops on flights from UK, Europe to US'

Great new economic model

So folks that need to work on their presentations just need to bring their VR googles a keyboard and a mouse with batteries bought in the airport. And can work on their phones. Just build a vr powerpoint system.

VCs,line up here... to throw your fists-full of cash.

MongoDB hackers now sacking ElasticSearch

How about proof?

I'm assuming they ask for the bitcoin transfer proof. But then again send the money is probably as good as sending the hopeful email without proof. The end result should be the same.

1st one you lose your money and data. But learn a valuable lesson in infosec.

2nd you only lose your data. And still learn the lesson.

Getty Images flings competition sueball at Google Image Search

No robots

Well how about putting up code to disallow Google spiders to crawl though certain parts of the website. Or set up watermarks so you can't use the images.

Linux command line mistake 'nukes web boss'S biz'

HOAX

It turn out it is actually a hoax.

http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella_l_azienda_per_sbaglio_la_disavventura_tecnologica_di_marco_marsala-137693154/?ref=twhr&timestamp=1460722285000&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#gallery-slider=137699008

Dropbox slips 500PB into its Magic Pocket, not spread over AWS

Re: Easy

just setup syncthing. Put a pi on you network with a disk or two voila.

Ashley Madison made dumb security mistakes, researcher says

Wiener fest

The admin where just tired of hosting a site filled with horny men and no women to be seen.

Nothing else can explain the terrible lack of security practices.

Meet the man who inspired Elon Musk’s fear of the robot uprising

How bad can it be....

How bad can it really be. Humanity has past the entirety enslaved, to lack gather food to eat, to kings, to dictatorships and lastly to debt.

I welcome thaí supercomputer overloads.

Besides has there ever been a software that lack bug to be exploited.

It Microsoft come u with it will be instantly plagued by malware, worms and viruses.

leading to its self destruction.