* Posts by sanmigueelbeer

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Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack

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Oh what a feeling ...

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems

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That's really stupid

What kind of idiot would want to hack a rigged election in the first place?

Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it

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Re: Perpetual or annual licensing?

If yearly payments to Smart License stop, the heater to your house will stop.

Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking

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Re: Calling

Dido Harding or Léo Apotheker

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

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the panel said it "struggled to identify effective guidance" that translated Boeing's safety management system

Could it be the SMS was written by an accountant?

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United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues

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and that the aerospace giant's chief exec "sympathizes" with his frustrations.

TFTFY.

Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama

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Boeing's CEO is a Trained Accountant - but Airbus's CEO is an Aeronautical Engineer

Boeing's decision to hire a trained accountant as its CEO - while rival Airbus's boss is an aeronautical engineer

The Journal reported that unlike Calhoun, who mainly works from home and only appears in the office twice a month, Faury regularly works from Airbus's European headquarters.

I think this says it all.

Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire

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Re: Loophole

If caught breaking the law, how is that going to help if one has "immunity from prosecution"?

ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz

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WTF?

Oldham-based LADH Limited was fined £50,000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, wheeze, HAHAHA ... Oh, wait. Seriously? £50K ONLY???

Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove

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TTIBI and Eicher did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

However, TTIBI and Eicher "take the privacy of personal information seriously" and "we are (un)committed to be open and transparent as we work through the investigation.

Lastly, TTIBI and Eicher are working as quickly as possible to notify our valued supporters who have been affected by the recent hack on TTIBI and Eicher as a matter of urgency do not give a f*ck.

Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand

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Hertz expects to take a hit to the tune of $245 million

Ouch! That gotta Hertz!

(Yeah, yeah, yeah! Stop pushing me! I will show my way out, TYVM!)

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Better out than in.

'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'

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I once went to decommission a site that was used to train drug detection dogs.

I took all our gear back to our office so they can be wiped clean and one of them, a network switch, was making a strange noise. I popped the screws and lifted the lid and found every space packed in dog hair. The noise was coming from the fan struggling to breathe!

Millions of Xfinity customers' info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack

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So what happened to the traditional blurb, that "we take security seriously" and "your information is safe"?

Are the lawyers at the gate yet?

I'm going to make a prediction: Compensation to affected users will amount to a small cup of coffee from McDonalds.

Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

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Was nobody fired?

No, just fined.

Raspberry Pi sizes up HAT+ spec for future hardware add-ons

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That's a big HAT+ to fill.

(Exit is that-a-way, right? I'll see myself out, TYVM.)

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

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Re: or in this case

How to drop a Deere in it's tracks.

Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit

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"Go to the cloud", they said.

What could possibly go wrong?

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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X will stop "sharing" my information to other businesses.

Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist

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Re: Kind of see his point.

Unplugging becomes a common method to determine what fiber goes where.

We call it scream test -- Unplug the connection and wait for the scream.

Cisco has a new problem: You take too long to implement its products and stop buying more kit

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I got a lot simpler solution: Insert a short term certificate into an IOS to fix software vulnerabilities.

Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears

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Cruising a commotion.

Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks

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Re: Firewall updates

It's like a bank buying a firewall but did not buy maintenance contract to update firmware.

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

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Re: Haha, did the same thing to the CIO, with his approval

Strangulation by QoS is really an effective method of "punishment".

And so is "duplex half".

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We had this site that kept annoying us yearly and before the end of financial year. The site would ask us to provide a quote to put WiFi in the building. We would come up with a plan and provide a BoM. The most senior person in that building would always reject it. Generating plans and BoM is time consuming and after 4 consecutive years of getting knocked back, we decided to go straight for the jugular.

We told the senior person that we are going to put a WiFi outside her office (and ONLY her office) because we want to do some "testing". Within a few days, WiFi users started appearing in our stats. Week after week, the number of WiFi users increased. After 8 months, we announced that we were disconnecting the WAP because testing was over.

One early morning, we turned off the radios (but the WAP remained) and within 20 minutes we got an angry call from her demanding the WAP to be returned and made functional again.

We refused and told the senior person the WAP is earmarked for a different building. "I paid for that," she said hotly. And when she said that, we sprung our trap.

Our director calmly reminded her that "'someone' in your building kept rejecting the BoM for the last 4 years. That WAP is not yours and definitely not yours to 'keep'. Hand it back." and sent her a well prepared email, with attachments of previous rejection emails with her signature block along with a new quote.

The BoM got approved before lunchtime.

Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked

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Kim sez, "No."

The money is all gone. He's used them all up. Every bit.

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

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Re: Who cares about interlocks?

And that's why new starters always wear the "red shirt".

CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors

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accused of cheating investors out of $100 million by making up bank statements and revenue figures

I shocked, I'm telling you. SHOCKED!

Feds collar suspected sanctions-busting Russian smugglers of US tech

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Re: At least they were caught?

Much easier to embargo spares for their Airbus and Boeing commercial jets, oil industry or big stuff like that with highly regulated supply chains.

(Not trying to nit-pick.)

Not as easy as what everyone thinks. When the US announced an embargo for Airbus & Boeing spare parts, they (the West said in a news conference), the embargo will cause air travel within Russia to grind to a halt in 6 months time. 12 months later Airbus and Boeing jets are still flying inside Russia.

The Russians admitted themselves that the embargo was really a problem at the beginning. But they managed to find supply chains where businesses were "out of reach" from Western purview. The parts were being flown to Turkey, Dubai, China, Hong Kong, Tajikistan, etc., before being re-shipped to their final destination.

Small time spare parts suppliers, manufacturers and refurbishers always use, "I sold this part to Dowey, Cheatem & Howe Aviation, Ltd but we did not know it will wind up in Russia." excuse. Ignorance, I remembered from my Law 101 course, is not an excuse from the law.

The Russian commercial air transport is one of the best examples of how embargoes, sanctions, fines and penalties do not work if enforcement is left out from the plan.

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Re: At least they were caught?

I feel like sanctions are basically just a bit of a warning

Very much. It is like announcing "XYZ fined Gazillion by ABC for <VIOLATION>". Without enforcement, it is NATO (No Action, Talk Only).

What counts most is the enforcement of said sanction(s) or penalty.

Splunk sheds 7% of workers amid Cisco's $28B embrace

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If I google the sentence "Splunk’s $3.099 billion in debt exceeds its annual revenue." one of the links is this: Did Cisco Save Splunk?

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

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Yes, it's called "tax".

Nobody buying their wares, the less taxes they paid.

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

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Feel free to have a conversation with them if you'd like.

Oh no. Not me.

Lenny has been restless.

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with a toll-free number at which assistance could be had

Does anyone know what this toll-free number would be?

Because I want them to feel what it's like to be in the receiving end of a scam call.

Chinese smart TV boxes infected with malware in PEACHPIT ad fraud campaign

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`tis all fun-n-games until somebody pokes an eye

Would it make any difference?

How many oil refineries, power plants, manufacturing/industrial plants, etc get hacked every year?

The most fundamental question is still left unanswered: If these critical network infrastructure (CNI) are deemed "critical", then why is the CNI network connected to the internet?

`tis all fun-n-games until somebody pokes an eye.

Lorenz ransomware crew bungles blackmail blueprint by leaking two years of contacts

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Re: Ethical?

Victim shaming would be going back to Lorenz with, "I got your data. Pay up or else."

Cisco warns of critical flaw in Emergency Responder code

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Re: On CISCO

After their enterprise stuff had at least 5 backdoors

And about a dozen plus more no one has discovered. Yet.

HOW did this get past their redoubled QA?

Cisco no longer has the ability to publish technical documents and release notes that make sense, QA codes would be an even bigger hurdle.

Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes

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Joke

devices becoming uncomfortably hot during normal use

You are holding the phone the wrong way.

Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten

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Re: The aforementioned IPAs

Yes, Rivos have some pint up energy.

Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push

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Re: HA ha ha

thought that was their license cost

It is (license cost).

Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via India-based call centers

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Re: I let the scammers in once...

The game was up when they pressured me for a credit card and I refused. I should have had a disposable card number ready from privacy.com, see how much money they would try to take.

I watched a YT of a Brit security researcher who had a VM ready-n-waiting for calls like this. (He even made sure the VM had different icons and shortcuts all over so as not to arouse suspicion.)

The "jewel" of them all was an icon of a JPEG file. The JPEG file was a trojan horse. Click that and the worm will spread throughout the network and encrypt every friggin file. And to make it worth the scammer's time, the JPEG file was called "creditcard".

One day, he got a scam call. As proof of payment, he sent the "picture of my credit card" to the scammers. The last thing the Brit heard from the scammer were "oh, no. What is going on? Why did you do that? What did you just sent me?" And the line went dead.

Scattered Spider traps 100+ victims in its web as it moves into ransomware

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Re: The race is ON!

A new, forever home with lake view or perhaps one of the desert

And they can have `em.

Lower torso goes to the desert. Upper torso into the lake (minus a finger for "proof").

You get the message.

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The race is ON!

Hitting MGM put a big f*cking target over themselves.

The race is now, officially, on. If law enforcers do not get to them first, a different kind of "enforcers" might.

(And one of them takes the meaning of "take no prisoners" literally.)

Airbus suffers data leak turbulence to cybercrooks' delight

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An attempt to download an unauthorized version of the Microsoft .NET framework was blamed for the infection

Would it be safe to assume that someone tried to install a "not legitimate" software (like a keygen)?

China caught – again – with its malware in another nation's power grid

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It is another example why CNI should never be connected to the internet.

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

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Devil

spend more meaningful time together

We have the go ahead from corporate. Your place or mine?

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

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Re: But surely

I'm currently feeling wired ...

Don't worry. You're fine. Just solder on. You still have some spark left.

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Re: But surely

I'm laughing so hard it hertz.

DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel

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Swift has now been ordered to pay a penalty

When the penalty is paid, in full, that is newsworthy to me.