* Posts by Captain Badmouth

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TalkTalk attack: 'No legal obligation to encrypt customer bank details', says chief

Captain Badmouth
FAIL

Security tomorrow?

"Hoping to get the site up and running as quickly as possible, but obviously we will not do so until we are confident that all aspects are as secure as possible."

Don't hold your breath.

Twelfth of Never, perhaps?

TalkTalk attackers stole 'incomplete' customer bank data, ISP confirms

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Re: It is time for a PSA

"* it might be best to call that number from another phone - you cannot be sure the dial tone you hear is not being played to you by an attacker who has not actually hung up"

In which case dial 1471 or a friend's no. first to make sure the line has disconnected.

Fully working U-Boat Enigma machine sells for $365,000

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Coat

Re: $365,000

The talk-talk m/c had one rotor working part time, so I've been told.

Mine's the one with the one-time pad in the pocket.

TalkTalk shares drop 10.7% despite research that breaches don't cause drops

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Holmes

Stock market intelligence

"An article published in the Harvard Business Review earlier this year claimed that data breaches "don't hurt stock prices" due to shareholders lacking "good metrics, tools, and approaches to measure the impact of cyber attacks on businesses and translate that into a dollar value."

Sometimes, shit happens.

TalkTalk: Hackers may have nicked personal, banking info on 4 million Brits

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Re: Talk Talk Techies - are you out there?

"they should be all awake over in Delhi"

I believe they have an outpost in Sith Effrika as well.

Captain Badmouth
Happy

Re: CEO Interview on 5 Live

"To make things worse the scammers talk much better English than the paid staff......"

I did point this out as an obvious pointer to being scammed in the previous talk-talk online fail :

"My brother was with them and it was next to impossible to get through to anyone that spoke any sort of sense. So any intelligent authorative sounding person on the phone is obviously a scam imho."

CIA boss uses AOL email – and I hacked it, claims stoner teen

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Paris Hilton

What they really mean to say.....

"The problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic"

The problem with these older-generation guys is that they won’t be told anything about cybersecurity, they're too important to be told anything by underlings or clever-arsed college guys who haven't seen action,and, as you can see, it can be problematic.

Fixed, continue with the narrative.

Paris, knows how to take precautions.

Connected kettles boil over, spill Wi-Fi passwords over London

Captain Badmouth

Re: What kind of numpty would actually want one of these things?

"Rinse teapot, and heat with hot tap water."

No, heat teapot with steam from the kettle, that way you get the added latent heat when the steam condenses.

Today's top tip.

In 2015, your Windows PC can be owned by opening a spreadsheet

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Flame

Re: In 2015,

The optional win 10 upgrade returns "ticked by microshaft" after every restart so GWX control panel as mentioned above finally does the trick. Microshaft, what a bunch of bastards.

Captain Badmouth
Big Brother

In 2015,

Your windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 box can be pwned by Microshaft. I thought I had gotten rid of all the win10 shit on my daughters laptop until she complained that when she went to update it win10 tried to download. It seems there's a new update for 8.1 -KB2976978 which does this, and the win10 update is in the optional updates section which Microsoft had helpfully ticked for her! Sorry, but these people are getting totally out of hand, it needs a class action against them from people who have automatic updates and whose computer(s) have been subsequently bricked.

Daily Mail caught on hooks of Angler exploit kit

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Joke

Mailicious shoe ad...

gets mail a shoeing? What a headline, eh?

Shonky securo-nightmare NHS apps library finally binned

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Stop

Calm down

The person in charge has been upgraded through the ranks because his/her brother knows someone who can repair computers/ipads/mobile phones and has done few for the staff in HR. Get a life, this person is holding down a responsible position, responsibly, and can't be expected to know the ins and outs of every little app. that comes their way : If they do something and look pretty surely, that's enough? ( Err, the app. not the employee. Err, I think...) We can't spend any more money on this sort of thing, we have outsourced management consultants to look after.

Storage device reported stolen from insurer RSA's data centre

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Shit. It's even worse than I would have imagined- that easy? Nice to be proven right, will show the lady of the house later tonight.

Captain Badmouth
Pirate

The lady of the house was given a leaflet for "immobilise" by a police person in town the other week inviting people to register their valuables on their "secure website" so that any stolen items could be returned if recovered etc. "All this means", I said, "is that when (not if) their database is compromised the crooks will have a nationwide shopping list at their disposal".

https://www.immobilise.com/

Fiat Chrysler recalls THOUSANDS more cars to swerve hack-my-brakes roadkill

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Happy

Gullible all right

"The crook fakes up something that appears to come from Ford, gullible owner plugs it into their car...."

Plugs Ford usb stick into Chrysler vehicle? Definitely contains gullible DNA. :)

HMRC breaches job applicants' privacy in mass email spaff

Captain Badmouth
FAIL

The company blamed the issued on a "systems processing bum".

That's more like it.

Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches

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WTF?

Have uninstalled the following, one by one, from my win7 system as per the list on Wilder security. The ones with an asterix required a system restart after uninstall. I then checked for updates and windows wanted to re-install 9 essentials. I hid them last night then restored them this morning. Checking again for updates I find I now have no "essential" updates but have 18 optional ones - including those 9 that were essential last night.

Has something changed?

I tried stopping Diagtrack but it doesn't exist on my system, it says.

KB2923545 RDP

KB2970228 *

KB3035583

KB2990214

KB3021917 *

KB3068708 Telemetry *

KB2592687 *

KB2660075 *

KB2506928

KB2952664 x2

KB3050265

KB2726535 *

KB2994023

KB3022345 Replaced by KB3068708 Telemetry KB3022345 Caused false sfc result

KB2545698 (IE9) *

KB3065987

These not found on my system. (didn't expect to find the win8 one)

KB2876229 SKYPE, If you want Skype then install it.

KB 3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points

KB 3050265 - Windows Update service updated to accept upgrade to W10

KB 2977759 - W10 Diagnostics Compatibility telemetry

KB 3044374 - W8,8.1 Nagware for W10

KB 3075429

KB 3080149

Vote now: Who can solve a problem like Ashley Madison?

Captain Badmouth
Coat

Candidates

Impossible job candidates :

1. Oddjob

2. Nutjob

3. Handjob

4. Blowjob

Mine's the one with the beginner's guide to soho.

Want branchless banking? Live in the developing world? Oops

Captain Badmouth
FAIL

Less regulation?

"This is something to keep in mind when they push for less regulations."

We all know what happened when Gordon relaxed regulation of banking. ( George thought it was a good idea, too.)

CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS

Captain Badmouth

Re: Linux v Windows

C'mon, I did say average user, gentlemen.

Captain Badmouth

Linux v Windows

The reason the average user won't swap to Linux is the difficulty of finding drivers for their peripherals. Printers for example - most printers currently available for the home market are winprinters and finding a linux driver that works is very difficult. As for virtual enviroments, did I mention average user?

Dying cipher suites are stinking up TLS with man-in-the-middle vulns

Captain Badmouth
Pirate

2015

The year that hackers had more toys to play with than they ever thought possible.

Websites that ID you by how you type: Great when someone's swiped your password, but...

Captain Badmouth
Big Brother

Re: Providing they have JavaScript enabled...

If you ever type the keyboard

I make sure we know you man

J'script log and make you mine

Guarantee you good fine time

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola

I can see what's in your buffer

Both motherboard and usb port

Searchin' for the inkey$

................................................................'Tis a rudimentary tune.

Bitdefender feeling a bit tender: Hackers enter anti-distemper vendor

Captain Badmouth

Fair play..

As their name suggests they've defended a bit of their network.

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