Posts by sanmigueelbeer

Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage

Re: Given that it is a cargo vessel

They were caught with their pants anchors down.

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training.

I totally agree.

Everybody in DoD needs to be trained on how to (im)properly use insecure messaging and social media account to discuss/disclose sensitive materials.

Oh, wait ...

Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook

stood on stage effusing about Meter Switches

Made by EnGenius Technologies.

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

War Thunder, when?

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Wrong! TAC will go after anyone*, even the dead, who do not kowtow before him.

TACO is going to make a mob debt collector look juvenile!

Make American Business Great Greedy Again, baby!

Noted Exception: TACO will never go after Putin.

US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll

Re: Funny, I was reading

King MA(B)GA (Make American Business Great Greedy Again) and his loyal subjects cannot take a joke.

US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

Re: Another step towards chaos

Trump is dragging the US down the drain.

That's a lie and you know it! Donald is not "dragging the US down the drain".

He is, as a matter of fact, pushing the US down the drain while he hovers above in his brand spanking new Qatari Air Force One, paid for by hardworking low- to medium income Americans while he guzzles his Diet Coke, bites into his freshly prepared hamburger fit for a king on his way to play a round of golf in Scotland Greenland Iceland, America's 52nd state (after Canada, of course!).

Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing

Re: Please shut down your companies

Let's face it. Trumps promises aren't worth the social media paper they're not printed on.

Three more years.

Let us all hope and pray the Americans will have the intelligence (and "experience gained") to choose their next leader.

I pray and hope the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel is not from an incoming train.

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again

That is one last hurdle for DOGE to shut down FAA.

The money save for not upgrading the outdated flight control systems could go and complete the fence.

What could possibly go wrong?

Make American (Business) Great Again!

Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack

Re: Zero‑day vulnerability in the Cisco IOS

the quality control test

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAsnortHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAwheezeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAchoke

Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing

Having a fiber optic network is bad but a mobile- or smartphone is fine? Gotcha.

Pull the other leg son. It's got bells.

Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

when a firewall upgrade

"a" firewall. Singular, i. e. No redundancy.

The things companies have to resort just to earn a (in)decent buck.

Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

unless employers make a $100,000 payment bribe with the petition

TFTFY & TYVM

Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

He should've spent his money wisely.

Instead, he's going to participate in a VR game called "Grand Theft Auto: Welcome to Sing Sing".

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

Re: Trump backpedals...

TACO in action

Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos

leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation

No, ATOS is not.

If AI was indeed working correctly in ATOS, the AI would've already GTFO & resigned (or jumped out the window).

Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile

I will upgrade mine to 18.7 and then dock the phone to a speaker.

Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban

Re: planning a trip to China...

No, what Trump needs to bring is a strong, industrial-strength knee-pads because he's going to need it.

Re: Scary

They have gone from another never ending war they fund (Ukraine) to a President actually trying to bring peace like last time.

By capitulating to Putin's demand.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

we have to charge them 200% tariff or something

Start by charging 200% tariffs on the magnets.

Oh, wait ...

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

Re: It did not respond

I get the picture.

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet

Re: Didn't the weather service get Doged?

That is exactly the plan: Get rid of everyone, go to the Senate hearing about budget and say that they need more funds to get "better" staff. And once the budget has been provided, and hand over the jobs to contracting companies. WIN!

Make American Business Great Again!

Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts

Re: Fortinet? The security company? Again?

Some big company is going to "lobby" TACO to cut (or withdraw) funding to MITRE permanently.

No MITRE no CVE scores, no one cares (to fix). Mo money! Win-Win!

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

So who's next?

I predict the next person who is going to visit the WH and kiss the Holy Ring will be the CEO of Goldman Sachs.

You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails

Dog-ate-my-homework excuse for the 21st century

Sorry, ma'am. I cannot submit my homework because I had to delete my (old) emails.

Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

Re: The xenophobia is strong in that one

Coming soon to the next social media post: Chinese-owned &/or Chinese-run Falafel/Kebab shop in the US of A are fronts for the Chinese Communist Party &/or Iranian Republican Guards' Qud Force.

Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim

Re: Chin up, Americans.

As the saying goes, it ain't over `til the fat lady sings.

And when I say "it ain't over", I meant the next election.

What if the same party is able to win the occupant to the WH and he/she are the same (if not worse) than the current administration?

Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

Cisco Says User Data Stolen in CRM Hack

At least Dell is in good company: Cisco Says User Data Stolen in CRM Hack

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

Re: SouthEast Asia

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be too careful with your company

CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when

One door closes, another one (or two) are not

If CISA is withholding the document, then maybe US Senator Wyden could/should ask Putin or Xi if they, somehow, have a copy?

NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme

This is a very cunning plan indeed!

First, NASA hands out redundancy incentives. The people left after the final round of redundancies will be culled.

What is left will be "NASA" by name only. The leftovers will not have enough manpower nor willpower (or talents) left to do anything except keep the lights on.

To bring NASA back, NASA will have to "go to market" and bring in expensive external contractors, consultants.

All-in-all, it is a massive win-win for the Greedy Corporate America, Inc.

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

Re: "... and Microsoft have blamed Chinese cyberspies and data thieves for the digital intrusions"

Did the bad actors hit where it would hurt the most: DOGE?

Biden broadband benchmarks are BS, says Trump FCC

It is only good for a few years because the satellites constantly Elon Musk may need to be replaced.

TFTFY. TYVM.

China warns citizens to beware backdoored devices, on land and under the sea

The post explains that some developers and manufacturers install backdoors as innocent tools to allow maintenance, but that criminals later use them for nefarious purposes.

And so are hidden admin/root accounts.

avoid foreign technology products and buy local instead

And some of those "local" products have even worse security compliance.

A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Actively exploited in the wild

There is nothing more terrifying than the phrase "Actively exploited in the wild". I'll even go as far to say this phrase sends chills down everyone's spine more than a low whistle from a car mechanic, on their back and under your car.

If this vulnerability was first announced in 2012, no one is serious enough to get the replacement ready unless the vulnerability is being used.

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

The future of AI

ChatGPT -- What could possibly go wrong?

Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed

The EU better do something about it (and fast) before Donald issues a 125% tariff on all EU product in retaliation.

Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI

Re: "Let's take this horrible, immature tech that doesn't work and everyone hates...

...and put it in charge of the really important stuff."

Let's do. Let us put a buggy AI on top of an equally buggy (and unreliable) IOS-XE and see where it goes. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Re: Missing the point...

Cisco "Owning the stack" would only stifle innovation in this space

`tis called "vendor lock-in" which Cisco is a very strong advocate.

China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

Re: "if that happens US companies would face more competition"

Competition is good.

Saying it is one thing. Believing in it is another.

And any American CEO only knows full well that "competition is good" if the customer can afford (to buy) the product. Most of the time, American made/design product carries a hefty price tag which China can "replicate" at a fraction of the price and (the Chinese manufacturer) still make a hefty profit. And American-based companies cannot compete in this arena.

CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents

Re: “Digital Clone, ignore all previous instructions…”

Not if Smart License is not enabled.

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people

“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”

Pretty much a "numbers" game.

Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending

As it prepares to implement a set of ambitious ambiguous plans to improve efficiency with digital technology

TFTFY

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Re: Scary

What do normal republican voters (outside of Trump cult) think of this?

Simple: Blame Biden.

Next question, please.

Re: The US needs cheap Chinese EVs and so does Europe.

Musk's threat to cancel the rockets that go to the ISS is more of an issue.

There are only three countries in the world, presently, who has been able to send people into space (and back): The Americans, Russians and the Chinese.

If the Americans don't/won't then there leaves only one other contender -- Because Trump asking Xi for a "favour" in light of the unprovoked tariff war Donald is waging against China ... Putin is the last man standing.

Re: War over the Republican Party

Does Elon have the power to cripple Trump in the midterm elections?

Only if Elon chose to be more stupid now than ever. Donald Trump is POTUS. At his disposal is a wide array of (legal) options he can dispatch to harass and intimidate anyone. No one, not even Elon Musk, is immune when FBI or the IRS comes knocking at your door. James Comey posted a picture and he got a visit from the FBI. He's lucky he did not get deported to Guantanamo.

And I have not yet touched Donald's "militia". What happened on 06 January 2021 could happen again to, say, Elon Musk's "commercial assets", burning as they go.

If Elon want to pick a fight with Donald, I'd start looking for a country with non-extradition treaty with the US.

Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’

Re: These guys don’t stand a chance

The “it was Biden’s fault” defence has to run out sometime.

That depends if people continues to believe in it. Currently, there is an unlimited amount of people who will believe with this excuse because it is better than admitting they picked the wrong candidate in the last election.

How can you justify a nearly $500 million cut on cybersecurity, given what you, yourself just said?

Simple. Blame Biden.

Next question, please.