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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by heraldgeezer »

pjc50 wrote: post #123
heraldgeezer wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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All the Linux kernel development work is organized around a mailing list, and some private IRC chats for the core people. It's the technology of the nineties but it works for them. A lot of corporate stuff seems to be much worse than even a random vibe coded web app. I have to book holiday through something called "HR Connect", watching pages load laboriously and redirect every login through several very long URLs. S…

Yes, the Linux kernel people can be trusted to manage their own machines. Random corp employees cannot. Also corp machines are corp property, not the employees own. If you have 1000 or 10,000 machines you need to manage them. Full stop.

Yes, many corporate websites are bad. Like ERP or HR systems. None of that has to do with device management, RMMs/MDMs or Intune.

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Post by heraldgeezer »

pjc50 wrote: post #119
heraldgeezer wrote: post #70

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On HN, if you have a valid point but get unnecessarily aggressive about it, people will downvote you for attitude. This mostly keeps the forum under control.

I am sorry and I get carried away sometimes but it is frustrating seeing comments from cowboy devs saying to just give everyone admin, have an excel sheet of software and have people manage their own PC and to get rid of IT just because as here they got phished or breached.

That works for a 5 person company but not a 1000 person company. Or a 10 person company with 1000 machines.

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Post by Dowry9092 »

marijan_div wrote: post #7

Stryker is far more than ambulance gurneys. They’re one of the largest med-tech suppliers, with equipment in operating rooms, ICUs, and surgical departments everywhere. If a wiper actually hit internal systems, the bigger concern isn’t consumer data but disruption to manufacturing, logistics, and hospital support. That kind of outage could ripple through a lot of hospitals pretty quickly.

Go and switch your suppliers my friends, talk to purchasing now.

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Post by thyristan »

FreakLegion wrote: post #12
bingogo wrote: post #2

Medtech firms consistently underinvest in corporate network cybersecurity because almost all their security and compliance spending goes to device safety requirements, not IT hardening. This is exactly the kind of gap wiper attacks target.

This was more likely an Intune admin getting phished. Intune has a built-in wipe action: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remo... .

Which in itself wouldn't be too bad, if mobile platforms had proper backup facilities that allowed individuals and enterprises to easily get all their devices to the exact backed up state they were before being wiped. But that seems to be unwanted by Apple and Google...

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Post by trhway »

RobertoG wrote: post #114
trhway wrote: post #107

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> The Iranian goal is very clear: they don't want to sign an agreement and be attacked again in three months or one year. Yes, of course they want to continue to do what they've been doing and not be attacked for that. Yet it is just not possible. Iran's current regime overall main goal is the spread of Islamic Revolution. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - these are typical metastasis of that spread. Terrorist acts, highly…

There is little evidence of what you say. On the other hand, there is a country in the region that it's using any excuse that it find to expand itself to great cost to the civil population there. Anyway, it's kind of funny that the USA have military posts more than 7000 miles away from its borders, but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. We are in a fantasy propaganda land where Iran is attacked in the middle…

>There is little evidence of what you say. ... but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran.

if you aren't familiar with Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - i highly recommend reading on it, even if just in Wikipedia.

>How many people have to die in those USA wars? I mean, enough is enough.

I think most important isn'h how many, the most important is who. Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civilians and uncountable many have been tortured. That is a crime against humanity. So, the top of Iran's regime and its IRGC has to be punished. I'm fine with that punishment being US and Israel's missiles.

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Post by logicchains »

pjc50 wrote: post #126
dominicrose wrote: post #106

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Trump and republicans are now all-in in this war and this administration can tolerate a huge amount of chaos if it allows them to keep winning. It doesn't matter wether Israel pressures the administration or not. I'm not confident that the regime will fall but I am confident that it will be put in its place internationally even if it means closing the iranian borders from the outside indefinitely. BTW the US and Isra…

Trump is never all in on anything. There's a reason that "TACO" became a meme. This administration is much more likely to lose interest and declare victory while oil facilities in the gulf states are still on fire. > closing the iranian borders from the outside indefinitely Are you proposing to disrupt China-Iran shipping? Intercept even Chinese-flagged oil vessels? (not that there are many, most are still under flag…

>There's a reason that "TACO" became a meme. This administration is much more likely to lose interest and declare victory while oil facilities in the gulf states are still on fire.

Do you think Trump's going to lose interest and declare victory while bombs are still flying over Bibi's head?

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Post by gpderetta »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #134
jacquesm wrote: post #85

I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.

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> Can we get a flag feature?

there is one already, and you would know if you weren't a new account complaining about "What happened to this site" after a comment from a 20yo account.

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Post by CapricornNoble »

trhway wrote: post #136
RobertoG wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is little evidence of what you say. On the other hand, there is a country in the region that it's using any excuse that it find to expand itself to great cost to the civil population there. Anyway, it's kind of funny that the USA have military posts more than 7000 miles away from its borders, but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. We are in a fantasy propaganda land where Iran is attacked in the middle…

>There is little evidence of what you say. ... but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. if you aren't familiar with Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - i highly recommend reading on it, even if just in Wikipedia. >How many people have to die in those USA wars? I mean, enough is enough. I think most important isn'h how many, the most important is who. Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civili…

> Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civilians and uncountable many have been tortured. That is a crime against humanity. So, the top of Iran's regime and its IRGC has to be punished. I'm fine with that punishment being US and Israel's missiles.

Israel's regime has killed twice that many in Gaza. Shouldn't they be prioritized for "punishment"?

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Post by RobertoG »

trhway wrote: post #136
RobertoG wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is little evidence of what you say. On the other hand, there is a country in the region that it's using any excuse that it find to expand itself to great cost to the civil population there. Anyway, it's kind of funny that the USA have military posts more than 7000 miles away from its borders, but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. We are in a fantasy propaganda land where Iran is attacked in the middle…

>There is little evidence of what you say. ... but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. if you aren't familiar with Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - i highly recommend reading on it, even if just in Wikipedia. >How many people have to die in those USA wars? I mean, enough is enough. I think most important isn'h how many, the most important is who. Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civili…

Why was Hezbollah created? From wikipedia: "Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon"

Why was Hamas created? From wikipedia: "was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987 after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation"

What about the Houthis? From wikipedia: "The formation of the Houthi organisations has been described by Adam Baron of the European Council on Foreign Relations as a reaction to foreign intervention."

But sure, the problem is Iran.

There is not evidence about that 20-30k civilians dead. I could say it was 3 and I would have the same proof that you have.

This rationale of 'Iran is not democratic enough' (despise they have a constitution, a parliament and elections) but I will support Saudi Arabia (that light of human rights in the middle east) is nonsense.

All this is done for the geopolitical interest of USA, the oil and Israel. Anyone that say otherwise is taking us for idiots.

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