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lorgonumputz , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica What is amazing to me is that the software responsible - the system by which the phishing email gave the bad guys control - is never mentioned.

Systems that are this vulnerable should be banned from these kinds of businesses. e.g. "All banks have 6 months to remove vendor X from all banking systems."

Furthermore, were all of their backups also encrypted? Is so - how? How do you fail this badly at system security?

I have multiple layers of security on my systems. Backups can be added - so, a compromised system could upload an encrypted (not by me) backup.

But it cannot remove previous backups which would mot be ransomewared*. None of the systems doing backups have that kind of access.

This is almost trivial to set up. How are these companies failing so badly at this???

• Is "ransomewared" a word? Well it is now.

aggiepm , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica sigh, this is my bank and it SUCKS!

greg , vor 7 Tagen

@arstechnica @godnojoe I predict floppy disks will come back again, like the LP.

Luna , vor 6 Tagen

@arstechnica They have floppy emulators now that allow you the use images on a USB thumb drive.

Starcade , vor 8 Tagen

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It's funny how manufacturers were quiet about phasing it out in the US. Apparently the EU banned it long before we did.

Yes, it WAS in Mountain Dew.

Also, it's interesting that there's articles on the internet that resurface every few months saying it's still in drinks, even after it was removed-- probably because, it was never mentioned as being removed.

phaysis , vor 7 Tagen

@arstechnica Brominated vegetable oil was in OK Cola, so, eh.

xinit , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica they should just scan the police computers more actively.

qhstone , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Oh come on.

tleekeene , vor 7 Tagen

@arstechnica #science #racing #medical #f1 #openwheelracing Hope all is well in future

ferdifz , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica was about to ask how long ago was this, but the various AI chat bots confirm it was about 600 million years ago, 'pre-cambrian era'..

MondayMarionJ , vor 7 Tagen

@arstechnica I love Paul's video within the story. He's always been one of my favorites.

doctor_zoidberg , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Small children are a common sourcce of stress for everyone in their vicinity.

JoeBecomeTheSun , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Or maybe they were hacked and the german military doesn't want to admit it.

frdl , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Have you tried to turn it off and on again?

therealwfk , vor 8 Tagen

We should try force-feeding it YouTube Kids clickbait content farm videos to see if it feels pain

gimulnautti , vor 5 Tagen

@arstechnica ”Current AI models cannot forget data they were trained on, even if the data was later removed from the training data set," Han's report said.”

That is the dumbest and most misleading answer I’ve heard yet.

Yes. The old ones will still refer to them. But a new model trained without them in the training data won’t.

SO DONT TRAIN ANY NEW ONES ON UNSOLICITED KID’S PHOTOS YOU FREAKS

HopperMCS , vor 8 Tagen

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Prepare for mass leftist autism. Got it, thanks.

LanguageMan1 , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Here we go again.

jmcrookston , vor 8 Tagen

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They should have called it the SSHealion attack

bitman , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica Some scripting to detect vulnerable #regreSSHion #OpenSSH version and patch sshd config by LoginGraceTime

https://gitlab.com/bit-man/os-mindset/-/raw/master/lib/debian/regreSSHion?ref_type=heads

tleekeene , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica TexASS!

Kierkegaanks , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica at least their ai is useful lol just kidding

MrLee , vor 8 Tagen

@arstechnica
These companies have had well over a decade to do this while raking in Billions. We can see their priorities.