Re: Walk in to a zoom meeting just like that?
They didn't require logging in, they made it public. People had control over their own Mic's and screen sharing.
It was a management caused issue, not IT.
Posts by Mahhn
275 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2016
National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested
In the market for a second-hand phone? Check it's still supported by the vendor – almost a third sold are not
Friday 31st July 2020 14:45 GMT
Re: for manufacturers to open-source old code
"this is not going to happen, unless they're forced by law."
no, you are just giving dictators more control.
Consumers drive the market, stop buying junk and they won't make it.
So long as people will buy junk, companies will make it.
This is your choice, and yes stuff that isn't cheep does cost more.
We're suing Google for harvesting our personal info even though we opted out of Chrome sync – netizens
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist
Friday 24th July 2020 16:37 GMT
Training and infosec
So they say he had been bringing items from for at least a year 2017-2018.
Pretty sloppy infosec to not notice 31,000 files downloaded to non company devices.
Since they say he wasn't malicious with the data he had, does that mean he got shit for training on procedure too?
There are a lot more issue here than one guy brining home sensitive data that should be addressed.
But hey, if your a manager at Raytheon, at least the sacrificial goat took all the heat right,,,,,
Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash
Wednesday 22nd July 2020 20:14 GMT
Re: So let's get this straight
Just these two were local so they could arrest them. Chinese state run ATP groups are reported on the Reg and many other IT news sites regularly. Hacking the world for fun, profit, and the power of the PRC.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/fireeye_apt41_chinese_hackers_zoho_citrix_cisco/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-chinese-hacking-group-apt40-hides-behind-network-of-front-companies/
https://www.theregister.com/2014/10/21/bakers_dozen_of_apt_groups_popping_aussie_biz/
We really doing this again? Rumour has it that Apple is nearly finished developing augmented-reality glasses
Friday 22nd May 2020 16:23 GMT
games and some biz
it has great potential for video games ( Final Fantasy seeing spirits)
maybe for military/police/criminals (seeing through drones cameras)
but for the average user on the street, it's just one more excuse to walk into parking meters and fountains.
I would love to play a FPS game with them, but not for $1000, or even half of that. Real life is still much cooler.
NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments
Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps
Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things
Wednesday 13th May 2020 15:29 GMT
Herd mentalty
Just noticing how everyone is happy join the media hype and throw rocks.
However, he isn't wrong that other places are allowed to operate and his isn't.
I've read so many Hit articles on Tesla over the years, it's amazing he made any cars.
Yet, he does make cars, has a space ship, and works "with" this workers.
I'm not going to bash him. He is angry for good reason.
Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground
Monday 9th March 2020 13:13 GMT
Profit time
Cattle do not have rights and their opinions are not of consequence.
'the Five Eyes Human Farmers alliance – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – have agreed to a set of principles to guide internet companies in their efforts to Harvest Consumers Data. Representatives for six online companies – Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Roblox, Snap and Twitter – were there to endorse the initiative.'
Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI
Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia
In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones
Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors
Thursday 21st November 2019 19:22 GMT
Re: Here we go again...
The ugly truth is, unemployment is high, so more depressed people, more drug use, more crime overall. Illinois problems are very deep, and mostly due to corrupt politicians driving out jobs with over taxation. Please ask anyone that lives there. I used to live there and still have very many friends that do. State fuel taxes jumped again last year, hitting people really hard.
Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property
What do you get when you allegedly mix Wireshark, a gumshoe child molester, and a court PC? A judge facing hacking charges
Friday 8th November 2019 16:25 GMT
She hired a security company, wouldn't have been a legal issue if their IT team was part of the investigation to at least know what is going on with their systems. I doubt most "support only" IT depts. can even use Wireshark effectively. There is clearly much more going on here though I don't doubt her concerns are real, but this was all her opponents needed to get rid of her.
We're almost into the third decade of the 21st century and we're still grading security bugs out of 10 like kids. Why?
Thursday 7th November 2019 18:29 GMT
helocopter
It will be made as complicated as possible, completely unusable, and have governments highest approval and be made mandatory. Half the InfoSec peeps will say F this, and take jobs that don't stress them out so much.
Great plan. Just like making a helicopter, a million parts flying in formation, when one goes bad - they all do.
Microsoft crams Office 365 docs into Edge-style sandboxes to thwart malware infections
NSA to Congress: Our spy programs don’t work, aren’t used, or have gone wrong – now can you permanently reauthorize them?
That was some of the best flying I've seen to date, right up to the part where you got hacked
Disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy made me do it, says bloke in Russian court on hacking charges
Massachusetts city tells ransomware scumbags to RYUK off, our IT staff will handle this easily
Friday 6th September 2019 17:58 GMT
They do not. These new bios infections do not overwrite the files, they create their own little pocket, the malware runs independent of the OS and cannot be seen by the OS, but it can see the files. This is from a Defcon presentation this year. Several of us asked bout flashing the BIOS, but that only overwrites the existing parts and won't touch the infection. I'm sure every AV company is working on detection methods. I have to say I have an older ROG2 MB and it has and independent Linux install in the bios that you don't need a HD for some basic things. Also heard of infections 5 years ago, but not as scary as todays.
Google security crew sheds light on long-running super-stealthy iOS spyware operation
Finally. Thanks so much, nerds. Google, Apple, Mozilla end government* internet spying for good
Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on 'battle mode' and vows to 'dominate the world'
Wednesday 21st August 2019 19:12 GMT
Short memories
Maybe some missed the news that Huawei helped out political opponents in multiple countries, resulting in the murder of several candidates.
But ohh look there's trumpf, lets go call him names and pretend Huawei isn't putting spyware in all their phones for China's government (not like they can say no).
NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down
Tuesday 20th August 2019 14:55 GMT
Re: The constitution is not supposed to be optional
About 6 years ago during project Jade Helm (prison camp building/training at closed walmarts across the US) there was a LOT of discussion among enlisted people, the consensus being they are pledged to protect the Constitution - which represents the people not the government. A revolution in the US would take one day if it happened - Orders sent to attack civilians with military, an hour later those ordering it would be arrested for treason, a temporary government initiated, and new elections held within a month.
Monday 19th August 2019 13:15 GMT
never left
The spying never left, if you recall they shifted the storage responsibility to the Telcos. Which the NSA has direct access. This took it off the NSA books and provided closer to real time access or data/connection records. Which has improved the speed at which people can be intercepted. They are now looking to publicly display their abilities as apposed to hiding (can get legally tricky), but want it to look legal - by having publicly acknowledged access.
There is nothing good to come of this, but it's not like anyone has a choice - it's still going on either way.
Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions
Thursday 15th August 2019 18:44 GMT
Re: Or...
yeah, all those people that have infected home PCs and either don't know it or don't care, they should be able to infect documents that go inside the company, barf.... Then you will be begging for some of those "pointless" policies back when you shut the company down from malware. - happens all the time.
Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?
We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones
2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?
Tuesday 2nd July 2019 17:11 GMT
Re: They are now the Voyager Borg
I don't think they are as incompetent as they are greedy.
Their marketing of W10 is proof. It's a horrid system, but its so much of a cash cow between it's data harvesting and micro-payment for apps they could afford to just give (push) it away this time. They figured out that there is more money in Service (and data) than Sales. Now they just need to be sure to have their fingers in everything else to bolster marketing a little more. "Here at MS we work with and support other software (Linux) to ensure your W10 experience is fluid no matter how or where you compute. Welcome to MS, we are the world." Just greed, that's all.
Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google
Tuesday 4th June 2019 14:26 GMT
Google is drooling
They can't wait to have complete control over what you see. Think that editing all the hyperlinks in gmail (so they get add hits) was bad. Every thing you will see will be modified by google to meet their best propaganda advantage over your financial and political situations.
Google has gone full evil.
US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?
Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
Thank you, your DNA data will help secure your… oh dear, we've lost that too
Friday 26th April 2019 20:03 GMT
Re: Alistair Dabbs
if someone says 34, and there is no 34, rooms start at 134 or c34, that's a no brainer. Similar asking someone what their birthday is, if they can't remember of the top of their head, it likely isn't their ID. if they don't have a hotel card/key (which he didn't ask for) that would be easy to, but just by asking - will actually make a would be thief want to leave and not deal with it, while someone wanting in the room will - which is why he was let in.
Hey - my post is very disliked, awesome, lol. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.
Friday 26th April 2019 13:33 GMT
Alistair Dabbs
Alistair Dabbs, clearly you have a big ass chip on your shoulder. Ripping about door staff, that is there to keep people from getting robbed, raped and stabbed. I have worked at night clubs and known plenty of other people that worked various security jobs over my 50+ years. Door staff have to deal with the worst of society all the time. There is always some scum bag trying to drug others, lift peoples phones, coats, sneak into places, and hurt others. The scum put a lot into their efforts some times, some security people (in any roll) get jaded by the sheer amount of BS they have to deal with, to the point you just expect everyone to be the worst - because we see it so often. There are stabbings every day in clubs across the UK, and the most likely person to try and save someone is the security person, not your buddy/coworker or date. So get off your high horse, if it wasn't for the large amount of scum, people wouldn't have to work as security staff. That Guy at the hotel making sure you are a guest, has likely had to toss several people over the last month that were there to rob and rape - but you're to stuck in your drunk head to think about anybody besides yourself.
Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky
Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'
Schneier: Don't expect Uncle Sam to guard your web privacy – it's Europe riding to the rescue
Surprise, surprise, yet another cryptocurrency creator collared, hit with $6 million fraud rap
After last year's sexism shambles, 2019's RSA infosec bash has upped its inclusivity game
US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)
Friday 8th February 2019 14:26 GMT
Re: Lock him up
"the people" vs. "the corporates".
Always has been, but most of the sheeple don't get it, and make the corporations stronger all the time. Electing officials that have gone so far as to give corporations rights as a person, but no responsibilities of such (it was a way to allow massive donations to political funds).
OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?
It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security
Thursday 27th December 2018 13:51 GMT
Follow up to CA please
I know the company changed names, stayed in the same hands. But I'd like to know what happened to all the data Cambridge Analytica mined.
Most likely they still have the data, are still using it for political manipulation. But I'd like to know.
Any chance for a follow up story?
Thanks
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