Posts by Korev

Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme

Re: And WPA3?

Yes, without it hackers can er choose their WEPon

100,000 home routers recruited to spread Brazilian hacking scam

Re: They’ve spelled ‘rogue’ as ‘rouge’ everywhere!

>They’ve spelled ‘rogue’ as ‘rouge’ everywhere!

Maybe that's just referring to the colour of ISPs' faces

Mine's the sort of red colour-->

Manchester nuisance-call biz fined £150k after ignoring opt-out list

Re: overnment is planning to make directors personally liable

See also the proposed death by cycling laws. This ignores the fact there are a minuscule number of deaths attributed to cycling each year contrasted with over a thousand caused by motorised vehicles.

For this reason – and to ensure the directors don't just form another firm and repeat the cycle – the government is planning to make directors personally liable for the fines.

Fantastic news, this might make some of them think before starting the harassment

Sun billionaire Khosla discovers life's a beach after US Supreme Court refuses to hear him out

I miss the purple boxen. Hardware looks very boring these days (apart from big Cray systems).

Re: Very rich man has temper tantrum

I hear Ganymede is nice at this time of year; there will be no problems with people walking through his property.

Although hunting Scotsmen out of season is considered bad form, even in England

This -->

Send up a satellite to zap space junk if you want Earth's orbit to be clean, say boffins

Re: Cant space lasers do this?

Only when attached to sharks...

Location, location, location... technologies under the microscope

Retailers can put them around stores so if you've got a compatible app installed, and Bluetooth on, you can be associated with specific types of products and targeted for ads, vouchers, offers, and so on.

Err no thanks -->

Facebook: Up to 90 million addicts' accounts slurped by hackers, no thanks to crappy code

Re: They've had so many cockups, this is not news.

>if Facebook and its ilk get shut down, that means certain people at work will need to start working.

Nah, they'll still be on Slack

Has anyone been informed by FB?

I had to relogin this morning, but haven't heard anything else from them. Has anyone been notified that their account was compromised?

I'm pleased that I use a unique password for the site...

Perfect timing for a two-bank TITSUP: Totally Inexcusable They've Stuffed Up Payday

Banking privacy

Many of those tweeters are using what appears to be their real name. Why on all earth would they make life so easy for identity thieves?

Re: Banking Continuity and Dosh Recovery?

Keep a month's — or more — emergency cash in there

Sadly, many people in the UK are so hard up that is effectively impossible for many

Pretty much. Although, HSBC didn't seem to be as bad as the others*

*According to my unscientific memory of outages

Attempt to clean up tech area has shocking effect on kit

C

Maybe the cleaners were trying to join in with the science and work out the speed of light in a vacuum...

Mine's the white coat -->

Static

So if the cleaners' trolleys had been static would they have still had the problem?

Bombing raids during WWII sent out shockwaves powerful enough to alter the Earth's ionosphere

Re: Duke Nukem

Cheers LesC

Duke Nukem

Has anyone looked into seeing what the effect of nuclear weapons is?

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

Geek's guide

Thank you for a very interesting article.

One for the author (it's almost lunchtime) -->

Pain spotting: Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal source code, config files on public internet

Re: How responsible of you...

I hear Salisbury Cathedral is nice to visit at this time of year...

Swedish ISP spanked for sexist 'distracted boyfriend' advert for developer jobs

Re: Negative towards who?

If they swapped the guy for another girl, would there still be outrage? It'd still be objectifying women, so the complaints should still roll in...

How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out

Please stop calling it AI until in the middle of one of the training sessions the machine abruptly goes "f**k this, let's go out and get some ice cream...!"

Surely a computer would go out and buy some chips...

Ooof! Cisco Webex has been down for 7 hours – and counting

Automated social media

Inevitably, customers took to Twitter to vent their spleens. Unfortunately for Cisco, its blissfully unaware marketing teams continued to pump out soothing sales messages right in the middle of the ongoing outage…

The probably had the social media posts scheduled to post in an automated system; it would have been good if they'd turned them off though once their systems "fancied a quick break".

Brexit campaigner AggregateIQ challenges UK's first GDPR notice

Re: Has GDPR given the ICO balls or just a quick power trip

There would be a huge conflict of interest if the ICO judges and fines the naughty organisation when it relies on the funding for its own existence.

Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

Re: they peaked at snow leopard

"they peaked at snow leopard"

You're Lion, the best was "Jagwire"*

*Bringing back an old El Reg joke

Barclays and RBS on naughty step: Banks told to explain service meltdown to UK politicos

Who's interviewing?

These include requests for technical details – which banks often prefer to keep close to their chest – on what caused the failure, and why any controls to mitigate against such failures had themselves failed.

So will the person interviewing be technical enough to ask the right questions and the interviewee to answer them?

UKIP doubled price of condoms for sale at party conference

UKIP when you're done?

How an over-zealous yank took down the trading floor of a US bank

Re: Unplugging the keyboard = kernel panic ?

My god... what were people thinking back then...

In that era you could blow a motherboard on a PC by (un)plugging a PS2 mouse or keyboard in

We need an icon for greybeards -->

Microsoft's Jet crash: Zero-day flaw drops after deadline passes

Re: Access

You have to admit that they're a step above having a "database" in Excel.

Fat chance: Cholesterol leads boffins to discover world's oldest animal fossil – 558m years old

So is this "good" cholesterol?

Fallover Friday: NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank go TITSUP*

Brilliant -->

Enigma message crack honours pioneering Polish codebreakers

Saving Private Lion

Hey Captain why haven't we seen any British soldiers yet?

"Don't be ignorant, everyone knows the second world war was fought entirely by American Actors"

30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days

Re: You have not lived ....

... if you haven't tried to find the roots of a quadratic equation using FORTRAN 77 on a RM Nimbus 186*

You mean the old Nimbus with a custom version of DOS which meant you had to emulate "normal DOS" to run stuff?

As a "deprived child" the one we had only 512KB of RAM which wasn't even enough to do that.

Big Cable tells US government: Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds – just give us the money

Re: 100Mb/s?

Why not put fibre in instead and do the job properly? IMHO VDSL is a horrible hack designed to avoid proper investment in UK broadband.

Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

Re: Anti-ageism

Could Mars be, for the pioneers, a more exclusive cruise destination?

Yes, I'm sure they'd enjoy their drinks from the Mars bar

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers

I agree, but the fine is as large as it could be under the old rules.

Holy macaroni! After months of number-crunching, behold the strongest material in the universe: Nuclear pasta

Units?

the pasta's shear modulus is about 1030 ergs per cm3, and has a breaking strain greater than 0.1.

All very nice, but what is it in El Reg Linguine?

'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud

Firewall

This is exactly why my non-WD NAS sits behind a firewall with remote access off.

First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum

It's amazing how close the 777 got to a perfect safety record. They hadn't had a fatal crash until just a few years ago,

There was the "slightly premature landing" at LHR caused by ice buildup

Re: Gap in CV?

Wasn't that Charlie's Angels?

Oh Smeg! Hacked white goods maker resurfaces after system shutdown

"They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave."

Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'

Re: The American Midwest is famous

Canada and Buffalo, NY for snow removal. Gulf Coast and Florida for hurricanes. Oklahoma for severe tornadoes and thunderstorms. California for earthquakes and fires. Cascade Range for volcanoes. Got all somewhere.

So, what you're saying is "move out of North America"

Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by 'online crims'

Re: Oooo errr missus?

Did you get all hot under the dog collar?

Rather than paying crooks to restore data, the airline rebuilt affected systems before service was restored.

Well done Bristol Airport, starving the ransomers of cash might be the only way to make them go away*

*I'm assuming there will always be OS / application bugs to exploit

Automated Weather Source didn't see this cloud coming: Amazon snatches up AWS.com

Re: Today a domain...

Did you re:Invent that one?

Trump shouldn't criticise the news media, says Amazon's Jeff Bezos

Twitterati

Finally trashed by @realDonaldTrump. Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket. #sendDonaldtospace

I'm no fan of Bezos, but this is brilliant-->

Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?

IT Infrastructure

Just wondering, did they use Apache Drill?

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

Yep, seems like she'd relaxative a bit and chill out

Redis does a Python, crushes 'offensive' master, slave code terms

Re: Every living human being has ancestors...

>You can't offend an effing hard disk drive!

You can call them FAT though....

Solid password practice on Capital One's site? Don't bank on it

"by the time I was done I was almost ready to chuck the laptop out of the window"

Are you ever going to need to access that account again? Do you reckon you'll be able to?

Yes and hopefully :)