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Quote: he hackers provided Colonial Pipeline with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network after they received the payment, but the company used its own backups to help restore the system since the tool was slow,
So, they wasted the $5 million anyway.
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Looks like a lot of criminal organizations know where to get their meal ticket now.
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Just because they got paid doesn't mean they are going to get away with it. The FBI will be on to the job, as will potentially kinetic solutions. Being in eastern Europe won't save anyone. Only being protected by certain governments could provide protection and, even then, might not be guaranteed.
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Old-school security guy’s reaction: The Ransomware Hack[^]
(He’s also expecting it to get worse)
TTFN - Kent
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The are serious implications here, particularly for inspiring career choices. Is there anything intrinsically illegal about offering (online?) courses in "Ransomware Made Easy" or "Build Your Own Ransomware in 24 Hours" ?
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This makes me incredibly sad that, after years of this rubbish, corporations still don't understand the concept of backups.
My thinking here is that 5M for a massive corp is cheaper than what it would cost them to implement full backups. So they save a bit of money, and then pass the problem onto every other person on the planet who may not have the funds or ability or even know-how to manage backups properly.
Even my 82 year old dad does daily backups.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One such aspect is getting the WinForms designer to act the same in VB.NET projects as it does in C# projects because of the idiomatic differences between the two languages. Twenty-year-old technology fails to work with another twenty-year-old technology
Yeah, I know - WinForms 5 isn't WinForms 4++, so it's not exactly 20 years-old anymore. Still, this is what happens when you decide to stop putting effort into maintenance for a while.
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they work for msft don't they....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Nearly every modern software development project relies heavily on open-source software. It's 'free' as in 'puppies', so it needs some care and feeding
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Kind of mandatory[^]
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?
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if you pay us money it will work on you machine also
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Smart lightbulbs, door locks, thermostats and other devices should get along better once certified to work with a new network cooperation standard starting in 2021. Will they also share the vulnerabilities?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Will they also share the vulnerabilities? They are already sharing them... they connect via WiFi, don't they?
M.D.V.
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On Earth, we tend to take laundry for granted, but life on the International Space Station is a bit different. No "tooting" allowed?
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They probably know about the 4x law...
once normal,
once front to back,
once inside out,
once back to front
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What happened to the old Science Fiction standby of hanging them in the airlock for an hour (dehydrating any dirt), and then brushing them off before taking them back inside?
Kent Sharkey wrote: No "tooting" allowed?
Eating bean burritos on the ISS is fine - as long as you do it outside.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Eating bean burritos on the ISS is fine - as long as you do it outside.
Yeah, but the gaseous discharge may put the astronaut into a different orbit than the IIS.
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The breakthrough could lead to tightly integrated quantum chips. Put two cats in the box?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Put two cats in the box? Put a cat in two boxes (at once?)
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Be careful - they might get entangled.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Managers ask it. Developers hate it. Know why that is and what you should be asking instead It's not, "Can you build me a website for no money?"
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Do you get asked that?
My ex-boss didn't ask me "when will you be done?" at all... he simply said "I want it for yesterday"
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I knew this one before opening the article
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