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scottalanmiller

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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Russian nuclear supercomputers used in blockchain currency mining.

Ha. . . . hey guys. . . lets use this government run supercomputer. We'll be trillionaires before anyone finds out!

Jailed within a day. . .

They probably arent in jail.

Well yea. . . that was a nice way of saying skinned alive while their family was forced to watched and then gassed. . .

This was Russia, not NK.

Because Russia doesn't do this?

In NK, if you screw up, they go after generations of your family.

You, your parents, your grand parents, and your children... will all suffer.

Of course, they were already suffering from having to live there, so there is a universal precedent in that case.

scottalanmiller

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/from-july-on-chrome-will-brand-plain-old-http-as-not-secure/

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/from-july-on-chrome-will-brand-plain-old-http-as-not-secure/

Firefox been doing that for awhile?

scottalanmiller

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/videolan-vlc-releases-version-3-0-with-hdr-and-360-degree-video/

dbeato

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Here's a fix for it until WordPress fixes it: https://github.com/Quitten/WordPress/blob/master/wp-dos-patch.sh

I got that from here: http://baraktawily.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html

dbeato

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Here's a fix for it until WordPress fixes it: https://github.com/Quitten/WordPress/blob/master/wp-dos-patch.sh

I got that from here: http://baraktawily.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html

Awesome.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Oh I didn't read your link all the way to the bottom, the same fix is linked there too.

JaredBusch

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

WTF WordPress.

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dbeato

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

WTF WordPress.

Yeah, I was surprised by their answer as if it was not a security vulnerability at all...

scottalanmiller

What's new in the Linux 4.16 kernel.

scottalanmiller

AMD Raven Ridge APUs due out tomorrow.

scottalanmiller

What's coming in Kodi 18 due later this year?

scottalanmiller

Oracle still trying to get DTrace on Linux.

Obsolesce

Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/02/cryptomining-javascript-supply-chain-attack/?utm_source=list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021118

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/02/cryptomining-javascript-supply-chain-attack/?utm_source=list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021118

So surprised...

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