Miscellaneous Tech News
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@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.
Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability but a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without a password, an investigation shows. The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what is likely petabytes of user data. More notable still was that, according to the vulnerable code itself, a Western Digital developer actively removed code that required a valid user password before allowing factory resets to proceed.That sucks. Like ransomware but without the hope...
And the same problem too - vulnerabilities don't care about your carefully planned zero trust architecture and short-lived tokens and what not.
That's why you don't use shitty tech and practices that's insanely vulnerable ransomware, and other risks like what happened in that article.
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Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately
Microsoft is urging Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system.
The security flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Researchers at cybersecurity company Sangfor accidentally published a how-to guide for exploiting it. The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer. They published a proof-of-concept online by mistake and subsequently deleted it -- but not before it was published elsewhere online, including developer site GitHub. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately
Microsoft is urging Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system.
The security flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Researchers at cybersecurity company Sangfor accidentally published a how-to guide for exploiting it. The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer. They published a proof-of-concept online by mistake and subsequently deleted it -- but not before it was published elsewhere online, including developer site GitHub.Have we not known since the beginning of time that printing is evil?
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately
Microsoft is urging Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system.
The security flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Researchers at cybersecurity company Sangfor accidentally published a how-to guide for exploiting it. The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer. They published a proof-of-concept online by mistake and subsequently deleted it -- but not before it was published elsewhere online, including developer site GitHub.Didn't this information get released last week?
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@dashrender The update came out yesterday.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender The update came out yesterday.
Right the exploit was posted about last week but there was no patch until yesterday.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender The update came out yesterday.
Thanks, missed that part.
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Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censorship'
Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship.
The class action lawsuit also targets the three companies' CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake of the Capitol riots, led by his supporters. On Wednesday, Mr Trump called the lawsuit "a very beautiful development for our freedom of speech". In a news conference from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr Trump railed against social media companies and Democrats, who he accused of espousing misinformation. "We are demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and cancelling that you know so well," he said. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censorship'
Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship.
The class action lawsuit also targets the three companies' CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake of the Capitol riots, led by his supporters. On Wednesday, Mr Trump called the lawsuit "a very beautiful development for our freedom of speech". In a news conference from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr Trump railed against social media companies and Democrats, who he accused of espousing misinformation. "We are demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and cancelling that you know so well," he said.What Trump is clearly failing to understand is that these are all private forums and not public ones. They can and do have the right to ban people or organizations from their platforms.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender The update came out yesterday.
My team for the next few days:
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I have agreed with this statement 100% in the past but my view is slowly changing.
I guess it all depends on how important one views the right of free speech and what is considered censorship.
Governments for the past XXX years continue to tell businesses who and what they have to accept if they want to do business in Country/State/County A, B, C...
Is this situation different from any other past powerhouse businesses in other markets/economies across the globe? Maybe it is, I don't know as there are numerous things to think about.
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@dafyre But they have said it doesn't fix it
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/microsofts-emergency-patch-fails-to-fix-critical-printnightmare-vulnerability/ -
@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
right of free speech
There is not a "right to free speech" from any organization except the government.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
right of free speech
There is not a "right to free speech" from any organization except the government.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding.
"of" was a typo. Should have been "to"
I don't have a fundamental misunderstanding. I'm good.
Like I stated earlier, (correcting the typo) " I guess it all depends on how important one views the right to free speech and what is considered censorship." (notice how I did not say "I")
People denied by businesses for the past XXX years have been helped by new government laws. I see this possibly going the same direction.
I believe President Trump should start his own and go that direction. Create more competition and take millions of users off the other platforms in a very short amount of time.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I guess it all depends on how important one views the right of free speech and what is considered censorship.
Right. The free speech of the platform owners is what is in question. Freedom means that they control what their platform does. Since day one, the US has always given publications the right to their own freedom of speech, it is not seized by the government.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Governments for the past XXX years continue to tell businesses who and what they have to accept if they want to do business in Country/State/County A, B, C...
Right... the polar opposite of free speech. Trump is fighting to ban freedom of business and speech and make his own, government controller speech, get treated differently. Freedom for him, not for anyone else. Anti-freedom. When newspapers, television, teachers, etc. are told what they can and cannot say, and who can and cannot say it ... we have no freedom.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I believe President Trump should start his own and go that direction. Create more competition and take millions of users off the other platforms in a very short amount of time.
I thought he did that. He's said it enough. I just thought no one cared and it died on the vine.
If he wanted the right to say anything, he would have done that already. But freedom of speech isn't his goal. He wants the right to dictate what can be said elsewhere in the private space of other people. He wants to control not just the freedom of what he can say, but the freedom of listening. He wants to remove the controls that we have legally in the private space to be able to turn someone off.
It's 1984... the TV that you can't turn off. That's what this is about. It's not really about what he CAN say, but WHERE he can say it and who can stop listening.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought he did that.
He just tried to use a different platform.
Said platform shutdown until it found new hosts willing to accept them.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought he did that.
He just tried to use a different platform.
Said platform shutdown until it found new hosts willing to accept them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/gettr-trump-social-media-platform-497606
That's what I saw.
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