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If they're insolvent, depending on who they're using for their infrastructure their systems and services may have literally been turned off on them.

Time to find out how many applications have regexes with a user agent parser with version /d{2} instead of /d+.

If you're using Kaseya VSA, you should go disable it IMMEDIATELY. This is an active attack.

The end of support dates appeared this weekend. Identical dates announced for Home and Pro edition.

There's actually interesting issues with how property paid for through mortgages are impacted by nuclear regulations. I recall something deep in my mortgage about how (I think) the…

In general the court seems to try to go to the easiest decision point in a case. The copyrightability of an API is less relevant if the user being sued should win regardless becaus…

Epic Hosting | Verona, Wisconsin | https://www.epic.com/ I'm a security engineer with Epic's hosting team. We are the hosting side of the largest electronic health record company i…

infoblox is a company that does DNS, DHCP, and IPAM management. I think the big concern there is that it is at least named to look like it is their CTO's files, so who knows what i…

The need to use a third party plugin to get any form of cloud sync working for one. Minor weirdness with it scrolling through your secret share structure on the left instead of up …

Question for you, what company do you work for? I've really wanted to break into NGO security in particular for a lot of reasons. Spent a lot of years working in NGOs, and now do i…

An impressive amount of OPSEC fail. This is why you shouldn't mix real names with activity that gets you noticed!

No, you're about right. On the bigger corporate side, security is at least the big buzzword. The VP- and C-level positions want to be sure that action is being taken to improve sec…

We started seeing this around the 9th I believe. We were not the only people as well, based on a somewhat late ISC post[1]. We thought it was a new form of intelligent blackholing.…

I'll have to check, because for me its an immediate shift. It even causes system slowdown for a few seconds as it transitions.

I've been using this for about a year now. It does seem to have a noticeable impact on my comfort given the time I spend staring at screens. The transition points at sunrise and su…

I'd guess that they're unique passwords taken from plain text password dumps that ended up in dictionaries.

I can't even imagine what my life would be like without T1D. I've had it for almost 20 years now. The constant monitoring, the general feeling of crappiness, the extreme costs. I s…

Physically qualify I believe, but either really works. Everyone would just grumble about all the health visits they would have to do in September and October to be ready.

Look at the job linked at the start of the article. There's always a few positions being floated either with IceCube, UW SSEC, or UW AOS that end up down there every year. That is …

I used to work at UW Space Science and Engineering Center, which did lots of remote support for the projects down on the ice. We would often be communicating with IceCube to plan s…