Posts by Mahhn

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

Re: I wonder what they'd do when presented...

they will say "ahh, okay, we already tracking that one"

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

Re: They are now the Voyager Borg

I don't think they are as incompetent as they are greedy.

Their marketing of W10 is proof. It's a horrid system, but its so much of a cash cow between it's data harvesting and micro-payment for apps they could afford to just give (push) it away this time. They figured out that there is more money in Service (and data) than Sales. Now they just need to be sure to have their fingers in everything else to bolster marketing a little more. "Here at MS we work with and support other software (Linux) to ensure your W10 experience is fluid no matter how or where you compute. Welcome to MS, we are the world." Just greed, that's all.

Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google

Google is drooling

They can't wait to have complete control over what you see. Think that editing all the hyperlinks in gmail (so they get add hits) was bad. Every thing you will see will be modified by google to meet their best propaganda advantage over your financial and political situations.

Google has gone full evil.

US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?

Laws lol

"weaponised use of malware by state agencies is something that is, by law and custom, restricted to being used against actual criminals and not journalists."

Criminals don't obey laws. Laws will never, ever, stop a criminal.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

I like the "Dark Star" movie reference - "let there be light!"

Thank you, your DNA data will help secure your… oh dear, we've lost that too

Re: Alistair Dabbs

"make her face them when touching " jacket fillers like that should be fired and have their licenses removed. Report them to the SIA

Re: Alistair Dabbs

if someone says 34, and there is no 34, rooms start at 134 or c34, that's a no brainer. Similar asking someone what their birthday is, if they can't remember of the top of their head, it likely isn't their ID. if they don't have a hotel card/key (which he didn't ask for) that would be easy to, but just by asking - will actually make a would be thief want to leave and not deal with it, while someone wanting in the room will - which is why he was let in.

Hey - my post is very disliked, awesome, lol. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.

Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs, clearly you have a big ass chip on your shoulder. Ripping about door staff, that is there to keep people from getting robbed, raped and stabbed. I have worked at night clubs and known plenty of other people that worked various security jobs over my 50+ years. Door staff have to deal with the worst of society all the time. There is always some scum bag trying to drug others, lift peoples phones, coats, sneak into places, and hurt others. The scum put a lot into their efforts some times, some security people (in any roll) get jaded by the sheer amount of BS they have to deal with, to the point you just expect everyone to be the worst - because we see it so often. There are stabbings every day in clubs across the UK, and the most likely person to try and save someone is the security person, not your buddy/coworker or date. So get off your high horse, if it wasn't for the large amount of scum, people wouldn't have to work as security staff. That Guy at the hotel making sure you are a guest, has likely had to toss several people over the last month that were there to rob and rape - but you're to stuck in your drunk head to think about anybody besides yourself.

Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

The statement "The government said Manning told Assange she was"

At that time Manning was a man. I hope Assange doesn't leave jail with his gender changed too.

My government is so full of corruption and lies, I don't think they know what the truth is anymore...

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

Re: delay

Or the lazy ones flag auto everything unsigned, while the others detonate it to test.

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'

Zuck-up

and he hoped to be remembered for something cool.

In 20 years the only thing people will know about him, is that he's where the term "Zuck-up" came from.

Schneier: Don't expect Uncle Sam to guard your web privacy – it's Europe riding to the rescue

In the USA

Politicians are little more than brokers, selling off consumers to corporations.

Corruption is so deep, many of the them don't even realize that they are the problem by compliancy to the situation that is now the norm.

Surprise, surprise, yet another cryptocurrency creator collared, hit with $6 million fraud rap

One to many "i"s

Just one typo away from being honest:

My Big Coin Vs My Big Con

After last year's sexism shambles, 2019's RSA infosec bash has upped its inclusivity game

This is why

"RSA isn't really a security conference as such, but a sales bonanza"

This is why I never attend RSA. Defcon is where you go to learn useful things :)

US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)

Re: Lock him up

"the people" vs. "the corporates".

Always has been, but most of the sheeple don't get it, and make the corporations stronger all the time. Electing officials that have gone so far as to give corporations rights as a person, but no responsibilities of such (it was a way to allow massive donations to political funds).

OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

#|

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was their best song :)

It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security

Follow up to CA please

I know the company changed names, stayed in the same hands. But I'd like to know what happened to all the data Cambridge Analytica mined.

Most likely they still have the data, are still using it for political manipulation. But I'd like to know.

Any chance for a follow up story?

Thanks

The Obama-era cyber détente with China was nice, wasn't it? Yeah well it's obviously over now

okaly dokaly

"China has returned to the cyber-attack arena"

Think all that back door'ed hardware was engineered and made in the last year? Iol nope.

Chinese Super Micro 'spy chip' story gets even more strange as everyone doubles down

I remember

when the US gov was installing malware into the bios of hard drives years ago - interrupting shipments after leaving warehouses - before they got to customers. So, is it possible, yeah, would china do this if they could, hell yeah, would the nsa? likely has for years.

Bloomberg needs to submit more details, but the accusations are doable.

Microsoft 'kills' passwords, throws up threat manager, APIs Graph Security

One device to rule them all!

Since it is reliant on ONE device, I call it SFA.

When a criminal gets your unlocked phone - They own "everything" you have access to.

No doubt hardcore crims are very, very happy with this.

Developer goes rogue, shoots four colleagues at ERP code maker

Re: A gun is involved in every single mass shooting.

Please bash any law or stats you want, but be accurate.

Your thinking people are using guns to defend against other people with guns, which is not correct. If you read the reports, it is primarily people using guns to counter un armed assaults. Yes there is defense of knives, and guns, but at a much lower rate.

Your mother will not be able to fend off the rapist even with a knife, but you don't love your mother anyways.

The Reg takes the US government's insider threat training course

how fucked up is that

Identifying personality traits including being polite and helpful as a NEGATIVE. No wonder our government is so corrupt and evil, they keep all the good people out. wtf

Feel the shame: Email-scammed staffers aren't telling bosses about it

Re: Testing the staff

That's to bad. We do this testing every few months to ensure we are training people well enough to understand the way hackers try and fool them, and how to report the Emails to us.

If they don't take the expected action, there is no berating, it's all about making sure we are keeping our people informed enough that they know when they are being phished and how to respond. We change our training to make it more useful as needed. For the benefit of securing employment for all of us. If the company goes down, everyone in it is boned. Don't bone your fellow employees. - our phishing test emails always come from outside. Free Pizza if you fill out this form lol.

Israel cyberczar drops hints about country's new security initiative

It's made in China,,,,,,

Tesla fingers former Gigafactory hand as alleged blueprint-leaking sabotage mastermind

I see Teslas

"You're far more likely to see a Nissan Leaf than you are a Tesla"

I see at least 2 tesla every day on my way home and to work. Yet to get one of them to race me. If I catch them on the highway I have a chance (60-120mph) from a dead stop they will beat me off the line - if the driver has enough balls to push it hard that is.

Citation needed: Europe claims Kaspersky wares 'confirmed as malicious'

Criminals are in charge

and they are clearing out anyone that won't put a back door in for them.

Which means MacAfee, Cisco, RSA, Redowl (Raytheon), Microsoft, and Google, are approved for government contractors to use.

VPNFilter router malware is a lot worse than everyone thought

Detection

If anyone has an infected device; would you try having virustotal scan your IP, to see if that detects it.

I searched this morning and found no mention anyplace of how to detect if this is on equipment.

Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House, SS7 abused to steal US citizens' data – just Friday things

Who's is it?

Equipment everywhere and nobody is saying who it belongs to?

No part numbers to trace, fingerprints, logs or activity of where the data is going?

Did anyone even look at the equipment?

My bet is, its a US 3 letter agencies equipment.

Court says 'nyet' to Kaspersky's US govt computer ban appeal

Bribes?

"The government countered that neither act was unconstitutional, and lobbied the judge to dismiss the suits as unfounded."

When ever I hear "lobby/lobbied" that is a soft word for bribe/bribed in the US.

I agree that no government should run a foreign security tool, but meh, the reason to dump them was BS. The replacement will be much weaker than KL and have NSA backdoors galore. Just like everyone the US gov does business with (RSA and Cisco come to the top of my mind)

FBI fingers North Korea for two malware strains

Re: Credibility

The Sony hack evidence was all made up by one Noris corp executive (see stories about the companies implosion) so that is very old news.

I don't doubt this is NK, just because its been around since 2009 and hasn't amounted to squat for 9 years.

Big bimmer bummer: Bavaria's BMW buggies battered by bad bugs

Re: Are You Surprised

So, when at home drop the keys in the new key holder - metal box on the desk. (faraday cage).

Just like that metal sleeve I keep the CC in, in my wallet.

METAL!!!!

New law would stop Feds from demanding encryption backdoor

placing bets

That this will be doing the exact opposite than intended by time it passes (reworded) just like the Patriot act was manipulated into an "allow evil doings/non patriotic stuff" that will make people hate us

North Korea's antivirus software whitelisted mystery malware

Sounds more like the NSA

" SiliVaccine has whitelisted one virus signature that Trend Micro’s products could detect. Just why North Korea’s government wants software that won’t spot some viruses is not hard to guess: a totalitarian dictatorship can only sustain itself with pervasive surveillance and leaving a backdoor that allows viruses in would facilitate just that."

Welcome to the planet of pervasive surveillance and backdoors that protect it's evil overlords.

Power spike leads Chinese police to 600-machine mining rig

Not Chen!

Oh no not Chen, he made great swords. (there is only one Chen in china right?)

Massive cyber attack targets mid-Atlantic nation 'Berylia'

Never forget Berylia

NATO and all it's corrupt governments will turn on you and make you a slave more than you already are. Tyranny is all the coked up greedy know, that run these governments.

There is no god, no peace, only greed and we shall destroy all those that rebel.

Lust for wealth, oil, gold, all your resources shall be subject to law, and by law I mean taken from you.

Death to hope!

Furious gunwoman opens fire at YouTube HQ, three people shot

Re: Of all places

gun crimes went down, due to less guns - yep. Violent crime did not, and rapes went up. So it's a win if you are a rapist.

Re: Of all places

paper, this is Scissors, what do you consider an "assault gun"? Classification in the US is fully auto, which is illegal for 99.99999% of people in the US. The permit to own one takes years, is denied to all but the richest collectors, and so rare they garner very high prices. Much cheaper to buy a dozen 1930's revolvers and just drop them as they empty. Get your head out of your ass.

Re: Of all places

Joaney is lying: The NRA is 5+millinon people that pay dues, support safe use and laws - not companies. Just like car clubs, they are run by people, not car companies.

Feel free to contact any NRA member or office. But propaganda is pure BS and easy to look up for people that don't want to be played by trolls like "Joaney I've"

Re: Of all places

its amazing how much people hate the truth

It's baaack – WannaCry nasty soars through Boeing's computers

Thanks Reg

for calling it what it is "NSA-augmented ransomware"

I like this more than the softening words about evil stuff my government does.

Guccifer 2.0 outed, Kaspersky slammed, Oz radio hacker in the slammer, and more

Wrong man

So hilldogy killed the wrong man. I hope she at least apologizes to Seth and his family. As if she has ever apologized in her life.

BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose

Re: Obama

bashing obomber and hilldogy on thereg will only get down votes. To many US DNC puppet trolls here.

We're Putin our foot down! DHS, FBI blame Russia for ongoing infrastructure hacks

News vs Conferences

All I see in the news about hacking is blame Russia, BUT, when I go to info sec conferences, review FBI reports - its 95% China, China, China. Gov agencies working to destabilize; infrastructure, governments, military. Nearly every hack blamed on NK was eventually traced back to China - but it didn't' make news on the follow up analysis.

If nothing else China is doing a great job of keeping the US and Russia at each others throats. What else could be better for them?

Audit finds Department of Homeland Security's security is insecure

Re: Shrug

As much as I like to bash gov for dumbs stuff, you are correct.

Re: The DHS is insecure?

Fish & Game, may be the best run agency the gov has. And the least amount of management :) Coincidence? I think not.

Crims pull another SWIFT-ie, Indian bank stung for nearly US$2m

Here comes the Block Age.

In 3 years when international banks have moved to blockchain logging for transactions it will be much harder to get money out of the banking system anonymously. Would-be hackers best set up your fake name banking accounts now if you can, there will be no anonymous withdrawals in short time.

Google reveals Edge bug that Microsoft has had trouble fixing

Strategy

It's only about driving people to Chrome to get the ad revenue. They could care less about the actual bugs or anyone security. (proof is in how much malware they push from google play store) Strategy

Magic Leap's staggering VR goggle technology just got even better!

google is evil

If google hadn't bought out the Oculus Rift, we would have product. All google did is kill a cool product with money and BS, then more money and more BS.

I'll be on a holodec in space before google has a product on in the market.

Microsoft working to scale Blockchain for grand distributed ID scheme

not again

This is for destroying anonymity, nothing else.

first it was Intel with the ID on the CPU, now MS with block chaining us, bah.

Still not on Windows 10? Fine, sighs Microsoft, here are its antivirus tools for Windows 7, 8.1

Need W11 business edition

yeah it doesn't' exist. But it's what we want. No crappy bloated interface, no entertainment crap, no built in Skype, no Games, Just an OS that is manageable and can run business apps. But nooooo, they gotta shove weather and TV widgets on the desktop. Fing MS, give us a desktop equivalent of the Server OS.