Posts by RErnes

Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses

Good luck to CS!

I'll get the popcorn while delta tries to recoup the loss for their negligence at accepting a single point of failure.

All endpoint security products are a single point of failure and it's part of the balance between security, relability and convenience. Working at a bank, we had a few issues with Netscaler, in which internet connectivity would be lost due to their MITM proxies suddently blocking some IPs. CS will have a day explaining how other companies were able to recover quickly and expose the incompetence of Delta IT systems. From this article, what Delta says is that a backlog in one system created a cascade effect on other of their systems because it was never considered a scenario.

Microsoft will also shrug this off and I wouldn't be suprised if the next time Delta needs to renew a contract with MS the cost will be materially higher.

Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams

People unfortunately fall for this

My dear sister, bless her, fell a few times to these scams and a couple to times sent me links offering to buy some products for me.

The sites were obviously fake and my take was that they were stealing CC details, but it might be a different money stream for the crooks to get some 'legal' money.

Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year

Bye bye QBot?

I think the friendly vultures were circling the dead botnet. The FBI just released the news that they have taken down Qbot. I hope it remains dead and doesn't do the phoenix trick thingy.

Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits ... now please buy our silicon

Acc en manure

I don't think I'm alone thinking that anything that comes from Accenture, Deloitte, Capita, etc to be pure horse sh*t.

I do hope intel starts gaining some popularity in the hardware side of AI acceleration and helps to bring down the price... in particular of ngreedia.

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

Re: Purely financial

I second this... also, the US tech market is on fire at the moment, so those people probably had something really interesting on their plates and the exit package was more of an incentive to leave.

Nominet ignores advice, rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, half its board in membership vote

What would the FCA say about this?

Having just completed my yearly compulsory anti-fraud training, I can say with confidence that this this is fraud 101 behaviour.

Smells like the board might be covering something, and they are in that together. Do they use Ernst & Young as their accountants? I've heard they are good at cooking books.