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  1. overscan (PaulMM)

    Crowdstrike causes world-wide IT outages

    So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...
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    • Forum: The Bar
  2. Grey Havoc

    Medibank data breach incident fallout

    https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1514222/australia-to-consider-banning-ransomware-payments Some more background: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/14/medibank-mental-health-data-posted-on-dark-web-as-russian-hackers-vow-to-keep-our-word...
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  3. Grey Havoc

    Log4Shell

    https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01
    • Grey Havoc
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    • Replies: 12
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  4. Grey Havoc

    Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (DARPA)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/darpa-seeks-secure-microchip-supply-chain/
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
  5. Matej

    Make the backups!

    Because my stupid decision, I was just attacked by a combination of a very felonious and resistant trojan horses, that infected my system files, MBR table and one of them set itself as the system restore file, so it attacked my clean reinstalled Windows. It took me nearly the three days to clean...
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    • Forum: The Bar
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