* Posts by Pax

7 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2010

Azure VMs borked following Meltdown patch, er, meltdown

Pax

Re: like mnany I suspect.

This is part of what organisations should be doing in assessing the risk to their organisation on machines which don't run user interactive sessions, and "adequate protection" is deemed to be in place.

Can your business application/users cope with the performance hit, and can you scale your resources accordingly to mitigate a performance hit?

If you are in public/hybrid cloud, what is the cost in horizontally scaling resources to mitigate performance hits.

If you use ‘smart’ Bluetooth locks, you're asking to be burgled

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Link to full report on all devices?

UH OH: Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

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So now all WiFi/router manufacturers should enable MAC filtering by default just to counter-act how loose MS is making security.

Brit boffins trap light in Lego-like lumps

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What about an application of a type of reflective metallic tinting which lets the light through, and traps it on the inside?

This would keep much of the light trapped and able to be converted to electricity on the panels.

Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck

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Maybe FB's 'bug' was the same method by which they decided to post ads and other advertising commentary into your stream.

Now they need to find another method to violate you....

Prisoners chucked off Facebook

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Pirate

Airport scanners at the prisons.

If it is good enough for non-criminal members of the public who fly, then it should be good enough for the criminal's visitors.

Yes I realise that sometimes the phones get inside by workers at the prison, but there isn't any reason why they should not go through them either, as their personal posessions are stored the "safe" side of the prison anyway.

Brit ISP knocked offline by Latvian DDOS

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Megaphone

Vispa problems.....

Seems the company is a little more coy about the problem(s)

http://community.vispa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4808