Posts by ItWasn'tMe

Heart surgery device maker's security bypassed, data encrypted and stolen

Re: "Sounds like th-aorta get this sorted quickly"

I suspect it may bypass many.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

Re: Thermostats

Also known as 'boil plus' i.e. there is no such setting!

UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems

Link to source info?

Can the link to the source (NHS England recent survey) be provided:)

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

Information classifications

Note that there are different levels of information classification. This is described on the following gov.uk website (public info).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications

So I doubt that anyone would go to prison for mishandling documents/information marked as just Official.

Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline

BNC

BNC = Bayonet Navy Connector?

Yes, I know it really Bayonet Neill Concelman

Re: Wait, what?!

It is, but only to play tic-tac-toe.

And the winning entry for the Jumper of Windows Past is...

Blue scream of death

But only on a sunny day, and into the ocean.

China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

Load of hype if you ask me...

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

Capt Pugwash

References incoming in 3.. 2.. 1..

You can 'go your own way' over GDPR, says UK's new Information Commissioner

Re: the "United Kingdom is entitled to take Fleetwood Mac's advice and 'Go your Own Way'

We'll just expect the usual sordid Tango in the Night with our politicians.

Re: proviso

V good, have one on me, with or without a symbol on it...

Hey – how did you get in here? Number one app security weakness of 2021 was borked access control, says OWASP

Needs to be announced to music

https://youtu.be/bY85ET2gXGQ

Not sure if you left pondians have an equivalent tune?

Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth

Re: Storage

No you can't.

The fixed barrel must be 30cm minimum.

Any moderater would be an addition to that overall length.

Likewise the 'stock' (common to be just a bar) is fixed to the firearm during manufacturing.

Subcontractors working on CityFibre's £45m Derby rollout threaten to 'rip up tarmac' in dispute over payments

Shit not happening

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

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Indeed

Devilish plans for your next app update ensure they never happen – unless you start praying

Re: Ahhh

Would he always be taking the piss?

VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

Re: If you had to start from scratch...

Namespaces anyone?

How much would you pay me to develop a COVID tracking app that actually works? Ah, thought so: nothing

Re: Tea....

Hmmm, is there an auditor qualification?

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Queen of Carnage

One wonders if someone has branched out from her 'can't track and don't trace' day job?

1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?

Re: No need for such triffilings

Password1# surely.

Can't forget that outdated requirement to include a special character...

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

Is that the one where the mic gain goes up to 11?

This product is terrible. Can you deliver it in 20 years’ time when it becomes popular?

"A cheese and onion union jack tickler it is."

Sorry, not allowed to add as a url yet.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCtAfSOLcHEE&ved=2ahUKEwjxksqZqt3tAhXQMMAKHVmMBJ8QjjgwAXoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2rrFqICSo5hZmjd8qC_gWN

With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft

Re: I suggest "data centre"

"Digital fog" it is then..

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Re: Big savings! Now!

Don't you need some other gere (allegedly) as well?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Re: "data being a luxury"

With many business IT products moving to only being offered as SaaS, The Cloud may become a necessary evil for some who wish to use such product / services.

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

Re: A.R.S.E

Could I suggest ARSE becomes a department, and make it a combined effort with the Redistribution And Transportation folks?

R.A.T.A.R.S.E.D

Resistance is futile: Some Cisco security appliances are ticking time bombs of fail thanks to faulty resistors

Counterfeit parts

I know of a similar issue with counterfeit parts (diodes) that entered the supply chain of major US telecom vendor in the early/mid 2000s (merged & bought twice since).

As a UK based engineer I had to visit our UK and Ireland staging areas and inspect products waiting to be sent to customer sites, as the company didn't know when (time frame) they were used in the manufacturing process.

BTW, these diodes were used in the -48v dc power circuits and would/could fail spectacularly! Hence icon.

Why should the UK pensions watchdog be able to spy on your internet activities? Same reason as the Environment Agency and many more

Wonder what the detection stat's are for that?

Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops

Yep, drown it in false positives. Presumably the automation workloads have been specified to cater for this.

A paper clip, a spool of phone wire and a recalcitrant RS-232 line: Going MacGyver in the wonderful world of hotel IT

Interface poker

I'll see your RS-232 and raise with a V.35

It's us, only backwards. DXC registers new corporate entity: World, meet *drum roll* CXD Infrastructure Solutions

CWB

Could have followed Kubrick & Clarke's idea when IBM wouldn't play ball

LTO-8 tape media patent lawsuit cripples supply as Sony and Fujifilm face off in court

Long Time Overdue?

See title ^

Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp?

The Reflex

Following the Barbarella reference I was expecting a Duran Duran clip at the end.

AI has automated everything including this headline curly bracket semicolon

Re: Robot journalism and ethics

Isn't that what an electric monk is for?

Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G

Re: The madness is everywhere

Ah, constructing the questions to get the desired answer. Do they really believe that such false/unrealistic assumptions won't be spotted at a later date?

Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?

Re: Not only Military

Remember, stores are for storing...

NHS needs to pull its finger out and prep staff for future robotics, genomics, data-led healthcare

Re: Don't worry about the IT, what about the staff

Talking of which...

https://youtu.be/tKodtNFpzBA

Expired cert... Really? #O2down meltdown shows we should fear bungles and bugs more than hackers

Re: Was this

Alternatively I have first hand experience of a UK telco that did act as a CA, but then managed to 'lose' the passphrase to their root cert! You couldn't make it up