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This month news broke about a hacker group, namely Blue Mockingbird, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers to plant Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency miners on compromised machines. And they say you can't make money hosting on IIS
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Quote: ... a critical vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers ...
... is an untrusted deserialization vulnerability within the proprietary Progress Telerik UI (for ASP.NET AJAX) library ...
I guess "vulnerability in a third-party library" doesn't sound scary enough for their clickbait.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The Russian spy group, a.k.a. BlackEnergy, is actively compromising Exim mail servers via a critical security vulnerability. "He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!"
Besides, that's their job.
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Half of the normal matter in the universe has been hiding since the Big Bang. Astronomers have just detected it for the first time. It was in the fridge, behind the pickle jar all along
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Quote: Macquart and a quantum of collaborators... Perhaps they were looking for the word 'compendium', even though it isn't great in this context either? Unless they all fit in that pickle jar.
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Of employees now working remotely, almost one in four reported the adjustment to new technology as being very to moderately difficult, according to a new study by Office Depot. I'm just complaining about the menu options in the new cafeteria
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Kind of mandatory[^]
Kind of mandatory 2[^]
But I suppose it is more like:
Kind of mandatory 3[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That last one is a scream!
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Nelek wrote: Kind of mandatory 3[^] That's just idiotic. Imagine that same irate tech guy taking his car in to get service. Is the mechanic thinking all the same things?
Seriously, how come IT people don't seem to understand that just because they know a lot about computers doesn't mean everyone understands them and that they probably do not know much about other topics (except Star Trek maybe.) IT people can be so stupid.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nah, they just didn't have anything else to say to the prompters question ...
(Have YOU ever been "exit polled" by Reuters or significant other?)
R
MC
[EDIT]
Ok, I know, patience is a virtue ... I won't give up hope. Some day I'll get polled.
[END EDIT]
modified 29-May-20 15:47pm.
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Officials had to chase a six foot alligator away from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday Are we sure it wasn't a Gorn spy?
Give him the old two-fisted punch maneuver!
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They should be glad it was only a six foot alligator... It might have been a 1 letter bug in the firmware
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Security researchers have found a new malware that finds and backdoors open-source NetBeans projects hosted on the GitHub web-based code hosting platform to spread to Windows, Linux, and macOS systems and deploy a Remote Administration Tool (RAT). Give another cheer for shared code hosting!
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And the other day discussing about cloud and similars in the lounge...
Another plus for the paranoic list.
<looks over the shoulter>
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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These days, being paranoid may be a proof of sanity.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Google has announced a partnership with the Cybercrime Support Network to help people identify and stop scammers that might be out to get their money, with a website called Scam Spotter. I'm a little skeptical of it though
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And I suppose it will cost nothing (not even your data), won't it?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It builds trust in Google and gets rid of the competition that isn't smart or powerful enough to steal your data "legally". So even if they didn't harvest your data on that site they could still profit.
Although, they probably would throw their trackers in for good measure
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Behind Rust, Microsoft's TypeScript extension of JavaScript has overtaken Python in the most-loved language stakes. Just in case you need to know what to like and hate
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Typescript isn't a language. It's a framework around javascript.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And thus begins one of Code Projects saddest annual traditions. Linking to articles that cherry pick 4 or 5 random datapoints out of the results of StackOverflow's yearly survey because they can't deny it's newsworthiness; but don't want to directly link to it.
(I really need to make a giant version of that one of these days.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Understood. I'll skip it next year to avoid offending either of you.
(Please make me a big one of that while you're busy, please and thank you)
TTFN - Kent
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Annual? Kent's middle name is CherryPick. Insider News would be boring otherwise.
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This one gets my continued ire because managements attempt to have its cake and eat it too with the SO Dev Survey.
If they decide it was newsworthy enough to link to the survey results directly despite SO being a competing platform to QA and the programming forums; I'd be impressed that they finally decided to take the high ground and do what's best for Insider readers. (And at this point it's not like more than a handful have been living under a big enough rockpile not to know that SO exists.)
Alternately, if they chose to adopt an official policy of pretending SO doesn't exist and completely ignored the SO Dev survey, and all the craptastic clickbait churned out by other sites writing about it I wouldn't say a word. (Roll my eyes in private, certainly, but not say anything.)
Instead what they're doing just makes them look sad and a little bit silly; and I will continue to express my dismay when they repeat the current process every year.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Distractions while working from home, pressure to hit deadlines and using personal devices are all creating additional security risks for remote workers. What's the matter with a bit of home maintenance?
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