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longcat

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    Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

    See also: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert... https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-...

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    Comment #41920569

    Same for the sysadmins/scripts that create C:\Temp on Windows, there is nothing temporary about that directory.

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    Comment #39225753

    In both situations Okta and Cloudflare a generic or system account has been compromised. CloudFlare would have had to upload or provide a session tokens or secret to Okta's support…

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    Comment #36661607

    great taste in music @hatf0

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    Comment #35447699

    Plus a lot of vulnerabilities in Windows 10 or 11 also exist in Windows XP but they're no longer mentioned.

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    Comment #35447672

    Windows XP on it's own, behind Windows Firewall and a router firewall not doing anything too controversial may be fine. Where the risks become higher is when you have many machines…

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    Comment #34964066

    What makes today's English so great is what has been borrowed and adapted from foreign languages. Everything adapts and grows with the cultures around them.

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    Comment #33875410

    PassKey is great but also may cause vendor lock-in looking at Google and Apple in particular. Does anyone have any insights to how enterprises will be managing passkeys for corpora…

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    Comment #32576025

    I'm interested to know more around how a third-party was able to access the data with for others to learn and provide use-cases to increase security controls in areas where there m…

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    Comment #31528704

    As someone who works within an operations team, the telemetry that is seen within MEM/365 is extremely useful for detecting issues and providing overall health of the environment. …

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    Comment #31489902

    Legislation on e-waste, serviceability is extremely important to prevent this kind of preventable waste.

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    Comment #22551872

    This only impacts 1903 and 1909 releases of Windows, so any Windows Server LTSC 2016 and 2019 aren't affected.

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    Comment #21177546

    That would never happen because HK is already part of China, while it's political system differs than Mainland China - It's still effectively China. It has PLA garrisons all around…

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    Comment #21099400

    sadly the CCP don't play by any rules