@dustinb3403 said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@coliver said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@dustinb3403 said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@coliver said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@dustinb3403 said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@coliver said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

@marcinozga said in Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App:

And since when CCleaner is a security app? Original name was crap cleaner if I remember correctly, and that's what it does, cleans crap. How does that relate to security?

It's owned by Avast, a security company. Since when does a security company provide malicious software? Then when they are found out try and cover up the tool and the extent of the infection?

Avast recently purchases Piriform (the original developers of CCleaner).

Correct. So Avast transversely owns CCleaner.

Did avast own Piriform and CCleaner at the time of this breach? (I haven't looked that up)

Yes, the breach was live in August-September. Avast purchased Piriform in July.

Than Avast is squarely to blame for it. Rather than having a leg to stand on of "This happened before/during we bought Piriform. . ."

Still no hash entries on ccleaner's website. I guess Avast doesn't care about security after all.

Right? How simple is this. Any random open source project has that kind of stuff. How did Piriform miss that?

Ha ha, not a very knowledgeable publication apparently. Must be their first day.

@jaredbusch said in Apache Struts - Critical Security Flaw:

Was the Eqifax breech because of the march strus flaw or a more recent one?

Just making sure the actual facts are known.

The one from March.

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - UAP-AC/UAP-AC-Outdoor LTS Announcement:

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti - UAP-AC/UAP-AC-Outdoor LTS Announcement:

THe UAP-AC?

4 years ago I was buying the UAP there was the square AC model but I am pretty sure ( on phone now can't look) it was called something other than UAP-AC...

The square AC model is the UAP-AC. The UAP-AC v2 was the round one that followed it.

It's hard to figure out when it originally released, can't find anything on UBNT's site. But I can find online references to it going back a ways.

Ok, well in that case nevermind all is good. I haven't been able to dig into it as I'm dealing with issues in the field.

@dustinb3403 said in Microsoft will block Office 2016 users from accessing Office 365:

@hobbit666 said in Microsoft will block Office 2016 users from accessing Office 365:

@dustinb3403 Phone I do then cheapest plan possible.

Lies, no one outright buys their phone.

I do. It's becoming more and more common.

@scottalanmiller said in Cmder - Terminal emulator:

What happened is that DOS era had the Ctrl-V and then around the NT era they moved to the Shift-Insert mode to match UNIX because everyone had conflicts in the CTRL keys. But MS left both options for people used to the old one. But lots of people still teach the old ones as the default instead of the new, which is the biggest issue, so things have not changed over time.

That explains it. Thank you! I was one of the ones that learned the old way.

@aaronstuder said in LXC 2.1 Containers Releases:

@mlnews said in LXC 2.1 Containers Releases:

Not an LTS release.

But does it matter?

It does if you are a person that wants LTS (e.g. you hate keeping your systems up to date) and like run Ubuntu LTS, and want to update LXC and this would cause an LTS conflict.

This application pretty soon might work on Windows 10 too, it is a matter of time I guess someone will modify it if it is left on the Internet like this.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition):

@fuznutz04 said in UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition):

@scottalanmiller Yeah, I did that too, but the payback was so small compared to the cost of the books. College textbooks are such a scam.

That's just an expensive rental fee 🙂

Yep!

@jaredbusch said in Google Blunders and Kills internet service in Japan for 8 Hours:

@ndc said in Google Blunders and Kills internet service in Japan for 8 Hours:

@scottalanmiller said in Google Blunders and Kills internet service in Japan for 8 Hours:

WTF is "The Chocolate Factory"?

Apparently a stupid nickname for Google started by The Register.

It is not a new nickname. I have no idea if The Register started it or not, but I have seen it around.

What a weird one it is, it's so obtuse even reading the article I could not figure out that they were talking about Google. I had to read the technical article that they referenced.

@coliver said in 19 PCIe Slot Board to Crunch Crypto hashes being released soon:

I wonder if this could be used in other serialized applications? Machine learning? Genomic research? Seems like this has a much broader application then just mining.

Yes, but there are bigger systems for that.

@irj said in Google Introduces Chrome Enterprise:

I shared this with my team. I think this may be a Windows killer, but everyone else is skeptical. What do you guys think?

The Windows killer is "customers with a clue" and "the capability to move to modern software". Put those together, nearly everyone can drop Windows. Not everyone, but most everyone.

@dominica said in A Sunflower Blooms:

Thanks, fixed now. That's what you get for letting your husband get involved, no proof reading. But most of you are used to that by now from him.

haha yep

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquity new feature for AP that looks sweet.:

@travisdh1 said in Ubiquity new feature for AP that looks sweet.:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquity new feature for AP that looks sweet.:

Added tags

Bother, phone didn't cooperate with those then 😐

You have to have a topic selected prior to adding tags to make them stick.

Easy for me to miss on the small screen 😞