Next version: admin privileges will be subscription-walled.

More like affiliates and not originals?

_____ hackers access _____ telecom firms, worrying national security officials…

Why is this news? Ever heard of the NSA?

Because fuck collateral damage.

/s

He does that a lot, although he tends to be more verbose on the topic when he does. Then again, there’s not much to this story (the details, not the implications).

Opens with:

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is increasingly considering cybersecurity when evaluating software projects

You don’t turn on security, but i guess it’s better than nothing.

Posted the source i found it through.

No for-profit will bother with security unless forced to, as it’s seen as an expense and shareholders don’t like that.

Edit: also:

We had difficulty identifying the right disclosure contact for this issue. We did not want to contact FlyCASS first as it appeared to be operated only by one person and we did not want to alarm them.

Emphasis mine.

Did someone plug in the router to the internet and got crowdstruck a bit late?

There’s a second season for Arcane?!

Can’t pin it on CrowdStrike this time. Or the EU.

Are there sites in the EU a US service can’t reach? Probably.

Celebrite gets mentioned

The crowd has been stricken indeed.

Actually, the last time cryptocurrencies were mentioned in a thread i was reading here on lemmy someone pointed out that, due to government regulation changes, using cryptocurrencies on the dark web was the only way some people could get the drugs they needed.

nowhere accepts it

most retailers don’t accept

Make up your mind. Plus, you’re wrong.

I’ve had zero trouble with online banking. The only hiccups i may find is that some banking (android) apps may refuse to work unless you installed them via Play Store.

XSS springs to mind.

And spinning up a VM (or container) is not that hard nowadays.

the country’s inner workings are far behind other well established countries, with some government agencies still heavily relying on fax machines to carry on with daily work.

I once heard that was mainly because older people would rather fax hand-written script than use a computer for it, not sure.

You’d get nowhere using assembly because people wanted to keep improving technology.

The Nokia was actually build and freakin’ rock solid. Then came smartphones because people wanted to improve. It sure wasn’t easy and they didn’t go Geez, a phone from scratch? Why bother?