Miscellaneous Tech News
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Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data
Washington DC's Metropolitan Police Department has said its computer network has been breached in a targeted cyber-attack, US media report.
A ransomware group called Babuk is reportedly threatening to release sensitive data on police informants if it is not contacted within three days. The FBI is investigating the extent of the breach, US media reported, citing the Washington DC police department. Ransomware is used to scramble computer networks and steal information. Attackers target companies or organisations and can lock their systems, then demand large sums of money in return for ending the hack. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder how much they will get the latency down to. I know they are advertising 50-100Mb/s and 20-40ms latency on their Beta program now.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder how much they will get the latency down to. I know they are advertising 50-100Mb/s and 20-40ms latency on their Beta program now.
I just want service in Georgia (United States).
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Crypto miners are killing free CI
CI providers like LayerCI, GitLab, TravisCI, and Shippable are all worsening or shutting down their free tiers due to cryptocurrency mining attacks.
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An ambitious plan to tackle ransomware faces long odds
Heavyweight task force proposes framework to tackle a major cybersecurity problem.
Schools, hospitals, the City of Atlanta. Garmin, Acer, the Washington, DC, police. At this point no one is safe from the scourge of ransomware. Over the past few years, skyrocketing ransom demands and indiscriminate targeting have escalated, with no relief in sight. Today a recently formed public-private partnership is taking the first steps toward a coordinated response. The comprehensive framework, overseen by the Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force, proposes a more aggressive public-private response to ransomware, rather than the historically piecemeal approach. Launched in December, the task force counts Amazon Web Services, Cisco, and Microsoft among its members, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the United Kingdom National Crime agency. Drawing from the recommendations of cybersecurity firms, incident responders, nonprofits, government agencies, and academics, the report calls on the public and private sector to improve defenses, develop response plans, strengthen and expand international law enforcement collaboration, and regulate cryptocurrencies. -
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I would like to see how this develops, hopefully will be viable replacement for Centos. I see it's being developed by the original centos developer.
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@notverypunny Defiantly agree with you there.
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@notverypunny said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/dell_driver_flaw/
As much as I also agree, I can also admit that I am not at all surprised.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As much as I also agree, I can also admit that I am not at all surprised.
Well, really should you be? Probably not as its closed source code, so public peer review isn't possible.
But at the same time, this very well could've been a "no no, leave it there for us" type of thing from the US Government...
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Xbox Has Never Turned a Profit On Any Of Its Devices
Even now, analysis from documents revealed during the trial suggests that both Sony and Xbox are taking a loss on the hardware, while Nintendo doesn't as per its long-running strategy. Meanwhile, Microsoft currently generates over a billion dollars in revenue from software and services, just as Wright testified.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424700/microsoft-windows-10-x-canceled-rumors
I'm just glad they canceled it before they released it, unlike the last two attempts...
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@scottalanmiller They need to focus on the main desktop version of windows 10 and get that bloated bit of crap sorted. not missed it at all since being on Ubuntu. Went to change the adaptor settings on a windows machine the other day...how many clicks now....piece of crap.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They need to focus on the main desktop version of windows 10 and get that bloated bit of crap sorted. not missed it at all since being on Ubuntu. Went to change the adaptor settings on a windows machine the other day...how many clicks now....piece of crap.
Start menu -> ncpa.cpl
They haven’t changed a lot of the shortcuts but I totally agree that they like to make the GUI more tedious
