They can take our lives... but they'll never take our DATA!!
Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack
Hackers are trying to break into Scottish Parliament email accounts weeks after similar campaigns against Westminster. MSPs and Holyrood staff were warned on Tuesday that as-yet unidentified hackers were running "brute-force" attacks on systems in the devolved assembly, The Guardian reports. Similar attacks on Westminster back …
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 11:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Apparently she's going to hold a once in a generation referendum to see if hacking should be a Scottish thing only and if the result is not what she wanted, she'll hold another one a few years later.
She expects the UK government to allow it to use English, Welsh and Northern Irish computers to support this action because, well y'know whatever. All home grown hacking will be supported by the oil industry running at $100 a barrel and a new tax on UK goods to enter Scotland. Whisky will however still have to have no import taxes into the rest of the UK.
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 10:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Facepalm....
"Legislators and support staff have been advised to update their passwords with longer and stronger combinations of letters, numbers and special characters in response."
Even the guy that came up with this idea says it's pointless
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-regrets-wasting-your-time/
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 16:22 GMT katrinab
Re: Facepalm....
Or, in this case, alexwhursyertroosers would be a better guess.
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 12:31 GMT Pascal Monett
Re: Facepalm....
Yup, but it'll still take years before Manglement recognizes that and changes their stance.
Who knows, it might take a whole generation of manglement to change things. And one can only hope that the new generation, whenever it comes to power, will stop limiting password length to 8 bloody chars.
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Thursday 17th August 2017 08:51 GMT wolfetone
Re: Standing over a thistle in just a kilt
"Only the Catholics. The prods will use 'Gers', if only 'cause they're too bloody ignorant to spell 'Rangers'."
Rangers died long, long ago. The team you're referring to is Sevco.
Although, I'm not sure they've paid HMRC yet. Or their face painters.
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 15:04 GMT Mark Manderson
their passwords are easy
they are all following Mhairi Blacks timeless House of Commons quote, they all use, "yir talking shite hen"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/snp-mhairi-black-video-conservative-minister-caroline-nokes-tory-hen-commons-scottish-footage-a7618706.html
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