Posts by Sabot

You've heard of the cost-of-living crisis, now get ready for the cost-of-working crisis

Are there more options?

Some companies save money by both abandoning offices and decreasing the salaries of the people who are working from home, because they are working from home. Companies with weak management want people to return to the office, for micromanagement. Good companies save money by downscaling offices and providing good work from home conditions, which results in happier staff, which will show in the company results.

Privacy watchdog steps up fight against Europol's hoarding of personal data

It is their mindset.

For police, every non-police person is a potential criminal, and potential criminals deserve to have as much of their data as possible in police databases, illegally or not.

YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government

Kick them out

State officials from countries that block social media from their population, shouldn't be allowed accounts on those media at all.

File Explorer fiasco: Window to Microsoft's mixed-up motivations

Now where did I leave my Norton Commander

Must be on the NAS somewhere...

Beware the techie who takes things literally

The world would be a better place if WinRAR had done that.

Chromium-adjacent Otter browser targets OS/2

The first OS I could say "Microphone off" to, and it would switch it off.

With Windows you could set something up in no time, but it would also crash all the time. It took a little longer to set something up in OS/2, but after that it just kept on working forever.

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

"There is an argument to be made that there was a violation of law,"is true, but the violation came from the people who ran the website that exposed personal data. They should be prosecuted.

Japan's Supreme Court rules cryptojacking scripts are not malware

Sue the police

This "The desktop PC was returned after deletion of all data including OS at a later date." absolutely shows the incompetence of the police.

Re: "crypto mining software is not malware"

It wasn't theft. People who visited his website knew this happened. As with most websites and cookies: continuing to use the site is an implicit consent.

America tops ITU's Global Cyber Security Index, UK in tie for second with Saudi Arabia

Putting Israel in the Europe region makes this report and the ITU a bit questionable.

To avoid having a Middle East or West Asia section, where Israel belongs to, they created an Arab States region. Well, Tunisia is not an Arab state, and neither is Morocco.

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

More than 20 years ago I tested fingerprint readers from Precise Biometrics, that would refuse to recognize "dead fingers", even when the fingers were still attached to the body, but suffering from a serious lack of blood flow. After the blood flow returned, the fingers came back to life, and the fingerprint reader would accept them again.

UK's National Cyber Security Centre recommends password generation idea suggested by El Reg commenter

As a dutchie I'd like to say the bri ish are overtaking the Belgians.

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

DOJ after the wrong people again

No one indicting Verkada for criminal negligence?

Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff

"hacker"... Sure...

You weren't hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. Nor because cyber-gurus picked on you. It's far simpler than that

Re: Too hard, too frequent, too unreliable

Indeed, if it isn't setup with high availability, apparently it isn't business critical.

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

Failure is an option

Wasn't HP also the company that had a "printer driver" that created a .exe file for every print job?

Freaking out about fiendish IoT exploits? Maybe disable telnet, FTP and change that default password first?

This is about miscreants creating internet-connected devices.

Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

Make Microsoft pay for the use of a CERN invention: the World Wide Web.

Argh. Shot themselves in the foot, on 30 April 1993 CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.

'Plane Hacker' Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!

Israel is a threat 24/7

Pirates and war criminals should know about security.

Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot

No, just running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008r2

And you have less than 36 hours before Microsoft will have fixed it.

The real cause of the issue turned out to be Windows Defender ATP...

Status today:

Microsoft is aware of the issue and is rolling out a fix for Windows Defender ATP over the coming 36 hours.

What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs

Re: I am a bit disappointed ...

Who gives their brooms names?

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff

Re: Hypocritic US

So I use a free home edition UTM, and tell it to drop all incoming traffic from any other country than my own. Except when I'm abroad, I still need to be able to VPN into it, so allow traffic temporarily from that country. Companies can buy this stuff.

What could be more embarrassing for a Russian spy: Their info splashed online – or that they drive a Lada?

Only if the spy is a citizen of the EU.

Trainer regrets giving straight answer to staffer's odd question

Now I miss my Epson LX 800...

AI sucks at stopping online trolls spewing toxic comments

The other way around

Twitter just banned a guy permanently for explaining the difference between threatening and non threatening language. The TwitterSupport bot is also useless.

Former ICE top lawyer raided US govt database to steal aliens' identities

Re: What a stupid idea

Let him loose on veterans or the homeless? Surely he wouldn't prey on them. Do not forget he did not "just" steal identities, he stole money, and caused real damage to his victims. They could not afford food, a decent lawyer, a home or whatever. That sounds violent enough to me.

NSA bloke used backdoored MS Office key-gen, exposed secret exploits – Kaspersky

"Following a request from the CEO, the archive was deleted from all our systems." Why? Because the CEO is allowed to make such a request?

US govt ceases fire in legal spat with Twitter to unmask anti-Trump 'immigration official'

Rogue

What is rogue here is not the twitter account. What is rogue here is the US CBP.