Posts by steviebuk 2876 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
...another infection. It will continue the more you keep paying out. Yes it's costly to restore but surely paying out means they know it's profitable to will try again. And will more than likely target you again.
"Knowing you possibly can't afford to have a knowledgeable IT team, means you'll probably still have a hole somewhere. And because we know you pay out, we'll carrying on picking away at you until we find something."
Having a keen interest in virus' back in the 90s in college, they always fascinated me.
The first virus I managed to get on floppy was the Form virus. Used to mess around in a hex editor looking for the messages that it never displayed. Can't remember what they said now. Always infected the boot sector.
Found it
"The FORM-Virus sends greetings to everyone who's reading this text. FORM doesn't destroy data! Don't panic! Fuckings go to Corinne."
They'd break just outside of the warranty. The Genius Bar would say it would work out cheaper buying a new one that fix the old one. And you wouldn't be allowed to fix it yourself or take it to an independent repair shop.
This is why we won't have AI robots in my life time.
Infrastructure Free.
:) I jest. But better move than shit GSuite. Tell Microsoft you're thinking of moving to them and they throw in the migration for free. Shame the place I worked at ignored that, and ignored that 365 was cheaper than GSuite. Now they are stuck with GShite and still require some Office licenses for certain departments. What a fuck up that has been.
That it suggests they hadn't/haven't locked down their own network and systems. So they didn't have Google Drive and other cloud storage sources blocked by default? And they didn't have e-mail interrogation software to check what was being sent (which should of then blocked that .xlsx document going out).
Oh dear.
Cases like this also confuse me. "We're hiring you as sales. When/if you leave you can't take any knowledge of sales techniques you've learnt over the years while with us. So essentially you can't make any carrier progress as all you've learnt is void if you go elsewhere. So essentially if/when you leave, you just have to get a job in a totally different field." How is that lawful.
Lets hope the case exposes how shit McAfee actually is.
...would it be possible (as my network is mega basic) for a 'bad actor' to break into a local, small ISP to cause this. Then take the data dump from the small ISP? To make it all look like an internal fuck up instead of a state sponsored attack?
Just curious. I have no doubt this is an internal, American cockup, but would it also be possible to do the above? Be a sort of, slight of hand/misdirection type of hack?
Because recently you had an article about security consultants suggesting companies do just what the article mentions, paying the ransom. Mainly by Paying an IT consultant to get the key off whoever and restore data.
So this doesn't seem all that nuts:
"We do not recommend dealing with the 'hacker' directly (see advice on our home page). In many cases, paying the ransom may be the only option to get your data recovered and it is best to get an experienced consultant to assist with this process."
Google Richard Prince. One of the many reasons "Art" annoys me. I liked it at school but what others saw as shit, lots more would see as AMAZING and said shit would sell for millions but some great art would be ignored. Richard Prince has somewhat proved my point. Making millions by copying others work and making slight alterations. Look at his work on Instagram feeds. So he makes millions from it, the original owners for some of the pieces get no recognition.
We ran a 'not very scientific' experiment back in school in the late 80s, early 90s. We got a piece of our art and a piece of the "Favourite" art teaching in the art department art. Another art teacher who was incapable of controlling any of her classes (even confirmed by the head of art as I think she didn't know what to do with her, cause she couldn't very well sack her), thought the "Favourite" was great. So we took his work and told her it was arse. She said it wasn't very good. We took our art and said it was his, she said it was great.
She proved my point that day. I've been annoyed with the perception of art ever since. I see the amazing pencil drawings done by people on YouTube, that look photo realistic but they get no recognition. Yet art by the like of Jackson Pollock is deemed AMAZING! and worth millions. One of his "drip" paintings sold in 2006 for £140million. What the actual FUCK!
...getting ready with my sheild for the downvotes. I've always liked Windows but I like the idea of Linux. I like its free and gives people the option if they can't afford a Windows license or decide they just don't want to use Windows. Or if you're a system builder, you can at least give away an OS with no extra cost in the form of Linux. At least there are options. But Linux doesn't make it easy. You see posts from people over the net saying "Why use Windows, move to Linux" or "Linux is my main system, I only go into Windows if I'm desperate for something that doesn't work on Linux" or "Everyone should start moving to Linux what with Windows 10 intrusiveness". But the problem is, not everyone is a tech. People just want stuff to work, and unfortunately Windows 10, for the most part, does just 'work'. But Linux can be an arse to get working for a non technical person and now this. Hmmm.
Rob Brydon said on a recent interview that he found a ladder and put it at a 45 degree angle against a wall, to use as a taboggan. He'd made the mistake of putting the hooks at the bottom. He slide down it and ripped open his new trousers. He then noticed he'd also ripped open his leg.
...funny (should that be 5 very's). So funny because it's annoyed you so much you wrote "fucking" in the article, so we can all picture how annoyed you must of been typing it up, which is good because this is FUCKING madness. This is why I hate IoT stuff.
But I'd like you to make a correction. There is a way you can tell what firmware you're on...."Which is designed for C by GE bulbs with this package". What! The fucking packaging that you'll have fucking thrown away as there is no fucking reason to fucking keep it anymore. Or the house you've moved into has the bulbs already fucking installed.
Jesus fucking Christ!
...cock
"Age verification for online pornography needs to happen and I believe it is the clear will of the House and those we represent that it should, and in the clear interests of our children that it must."
Not up to you to save "The children" parents can do that themselves. Besides, this will save no one. Magazines still exist. VPN still exists. The same very penis will probably say "Next, we will be looking to ban VPNs".
Tools. What a waste of pissing money. This is what annoys me most. Someone has clearly lobbied this and they've obviously ignored all technical sense on why this is pointless and waste of money. Yet because some clueless cunts have said "Think of the children. If you don't push this through, me and all my friends will campaign to vote you out". And that's all the PMs care about. They don't care that it's a waste of time and money, they just want to keep their PM job.
Cock.
Is the sad truth. These sounds like they are Happy Shopper hosting. I suspect being bought up by GoDaddy and the others slowly killed them off. With staff being forced into working how the new owners want. It annoys me as some small hosts are really good with good customer service. That is what you're buying, so why then force them to work how the parent company does, the parent company that lots of people hate.
I used to be with ariotek hosting but, alas they had a massive outage with two of their servers. Bare metal backups didn't work so eventually, with a heavy heart, Colin had to sell the business to Krystal who offered to help. I believe he went to work with them at the end of it. Everyone was shocked but Krystal have turned out to be really good. I had an issue with my site not working the other day and couldn't work out if it was their firewall or not. Raised a low priority ticket asking if it was the firewall. It wasn't. It was a plugin for Wordpress that had failed. They disabled them all so the site worked again and I was able to get in and find the one causing it. Something they didn't have to do, so they are all good. But I fear, they'll get bought out at some point. The owner is young and I wouldn't blame him for selling. If someone offered me several million for a business I'd started, I'd take it so I'd never have to worry about money again. Bit like Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Got bought out by Microsoft. I think part of the contract was they both had to carry on working for 3 years I think it was, then were free to continue or leave. Bryce decided to retire and enjoy his new wealth. Mark carried on and now runs Azure.
I had more of a point but started to ramble and forgot what the point was. Still posting this anyway :)
They probably bought in the ideas. Hipster, bullshit ideas that were never going to work. Sold it as a cost saving. Other incomptents fell for this bullshit and hired them and allowed them to run the show. No doubt the people actually doing the work would of pointed out "This is a stupid fucking idea and is bound to fail", would of been ignored and due to needing work just got on with it.
Said higher ups finally realise they have been discovered as being shit and I jumping before being pushed and fully failed. So they can stick on their CV "Began a large project to digitise the court system, to cut costs in software and staff. This will save blah blah blah, cloud, blah blah, digital, blah blah blah." New employee will fall for said bullshit and they'll begin to fuck up elsewhere and put more needlessly out of work.
"a single workspace designed to bring files, fragmented work tools, and teams together".
And a place where phisers put their bent PDF files.
People then follow the link cause "Oh its dropbox so must be legit" sign in and then follow the bent links in the bent PDF stored on dropbox.
Its amusing to see this exploit happen as I learnt that day I was asked to check if it was legit or not. That you can put comments next to the file which I wasn't aware of. Over 20 people from different companies had fallen for it leaving such comments as
"Hi Jane. I wasn't expecting this file from you. And it doesn't appear to be working".
To simply
"Hi Jane. File doesn't work"
So you weren't expecting the file but you logged in and tried to access it anyway?
"Fucking 'ell John."
But if there weren't people like that, I'd have no job.
Happens elsewhere also. Which is why this responds is bollocks
"In addition, we offer security protections for users by warning them of known malicious URLs via Google Chrome's Safe Browsing filters."
Because the other day when checking the quarantined emails (I like to collect samples) one was allowed through because it was linked to Microsoft forms. So that part looked legit. They'd just exploited the fact Microsoft forms is free and shows as https. Stuck their malware crap and links on that.
True. There is that case of the police woman that was arrested for murder I think it was on fingerprint evidence. Turns out when they had another expert examine it was only a partial print that just happened to match hers but wasn't actually her print.
I think it was this one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie
To me this smacks of someone thinking
"The government knows they can snoop on DNS queries and this also helps us censor the net and helps our brown envelope friends the movie and music industry. However people want these DNS leaks to be plugged which will annoy our brown envelope friends. What can we do to stop this encryption happening? I know. We'll say we use these queries to block child porn, that'll get them. But how? Well isn't it obvious. If you're not in agreement with us, then you must be in agreement with child porn. No one wants to be associated with that, so we'll indirectly get more backing. There will still be some that will be able to argue their point better than us and point out the above argument is bollocks, but a lot won't because of the fear it makes it look like they support child porn (even though we know they don't) so they'll keep quiet and we'll get our way"
Or is that too cynical of me?
...go out to a GP Surgery who, for some reason (was still studying I think), had forgotten what the voltage switch did on the PSU. So switched it to 115v to see what it did. Then turned the PC on.
BANG!
A staff member came running to him to ask what had happened. He made up an excused and got it replaced :)
You can say "It needs this and that" all you want, but if they pay the wage and are high up enough you have to warn them of the risk in writing (to cover yourself) and then let them have it anyway. Then hand in your notice. Because if they aren't going to listen then no point being there.
I dislike Bing as its results are mostly shit as irrelevant to what I asked. I do agree that sometimes their maps are better though. I'm sure they did the 3D view before Google Maps. At least I remember seeing it on Bing Maps round my area but was still only 2D in Google. And the 3D was real footage, unlike Googles which is sometimes generated.
Also, on the way to Osterley, down windmill lane is the Sultan of Brunei's property. Which appears to be missing on street view yet appears on Bings version of street view.
...get Windows 10 Updates to install without randomly picking laptops at work where it then kills the WIFI, so you then have to uninstall the WIFI card, reboot so it can resetup the WIFI is fing annoying. So why they think it will be "seamless" is anyone's guess.
I can't type because this bollocks makes me so angry. They seem to think the world is on fibre broadband to the house and not on slow, piss poor speeds. Or in some areas with no BB access at all. So won't be able to do the "Always connected" with the bullshit "AI".
Considering we're thinking of a move to the Isle Of Wight where, the best you can get is WightFibre that already looks slower than the Virgin Fibre we're currently on is worrying and Virgin don't look like they are never going to invest in the Island and not forgetting its stuck in the 80s. The fact WightFibre is only 15mb up also, so all the advertising slurp their new "OS" will push to the "cloud" will probably chew all that up. I hate marketing people, especially when they spout bullshit and even more when directors fall for said bullshit.
And I shall add. You are required to use GAM to manual GSuite mailboxes and users Google Drive. It seemed to be an after thought app to me. I don't know if they've now fixed this but this was still valid last year, you'd hope they'd have sorted it but probably not. That is, you setup GAM to manager GSuite users and need to save that to your machine. If someone has admin access and can grab your install folder for GAM, then that's it. They now have full access to everyone's mailbox and Google Drive via GAM using your login, without requiring to every have to put your details in.
Everything is basic. Google Docs is basic, Google Sheets even more so, so much so most finance people still require Excel because Sheets is so poor on functions. Google Docs you can't change orientation of a page midway through. It's all landscape or all portrait, you can't have a mix.
Google Docs claims to support several different formats but as you import your docx files it regularly screws up the formatting.
Share a Google Doc or Sheet with another user and they require a Google account to be able to read it.
Google Hangouts, although useful has a shit Android app. The amount of times it fails to upload images is FING annoying.
The only thing I like is Google Keep. That is actually really useful including the plugin for Chrome. Meaning you can highlight text from a page, right click, save to Google Keep. It will save what you highlighted and attach the link as well.
Oh and the fact that when with GSuite, YouTube can't be blocked, bonus.
Overall it's simply shit.
"Mindgeek, owners of Nutaku and Pornhub, as well as the future operators of a large chunk of Britain's upcoming porn ID card scheme, told El Reg it "takes the security of its users very seriously."
....will we be reading "Mindgeek's ID card scheme compromised. Millions of users data exposed"
Place your bets.
"Mindgeek's spokesman added: "None of the reports regarding the Android APK for Nutaku demonstrated a means to remotely capture login credentials without having full control of the user's device and or its network connection."
As this statement clearly means they don't give a fuck. "or its network connection". What, like in a fucking hotel or other such free WIFI? Do they know how the Internet works?
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