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Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by v3ss0n »

bilekas wrote: post #128
v3ss0n wrote: post #111

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Thats why Infra as Code is very very important.

Not really, the OP was already using docker, but even with IAC on a small home lab like this you're going to modify one or two small things manually here and there over the years. Sure it can help, but it's just not a one fix solution people thing. If you want a good test of your IAC, just provisioning a brand new environment first time using only your iac.

If you hand modify the already IAC system , you are not doing IAC. IAC with CI/CD is what we do. We don't even use AWS Console , we do everything in terraform/opentofu code.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by v3ss0n »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #215
bilekas wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, the OP was already using docker, but even with IAC on a small home lab like this you're going to modify one or two small things manually here and there over the years. Sure it can help, but it's just not a one fix solution people thing. If you want a good test of your IAC, just provisioning a brand new environment first time using only your iac.

> you're going to modify one or two small things manually here and there over the years. Huh? This is a strange assumption to make. Is your premise that IAC can't ever be truly reproducible? If you are modifying things manually then you're not doing IAC.

Yeah as soon as you start hand tweaking the system it breaks IAC.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by johannes1234321 »

paganel wrote: post #94
sofixa wrote: post #68

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Czechia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_... Bulgaria: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/arms-dealer-10... Poland: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/poland-to-clos... And UK. Plus a million cyberattacks against all sorts of infrastructure.

So then how come hasn't Article 5 been activated yet? Does that mean that said Article 5 is not even worth the piece of paper it has been written on?

Aside from political reasons stated in other answers: Since Article 5 doesn't apply. article 5 states: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all [...]" Thist deliberately talks about "armed" attack. Cyber attacks and related aren't covered.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by toast0 »

725686 wrote: post #225
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #206

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Short version: Possibly the worst thing to be raided for: distribution of CSAM. Apparently based purely on the 'evidence' of my IP address being on some list - that's the only explanation I ever got. Funny thing is, they did so little background research they didn't even know to expect kids in the house when they raided at 6:30am. It still triggers me. This was in August 2022. I wrote pages and pages of my memories a…

In the USA? Where you can be sued if someone slips on your sidewalk? Can't you sue the gvmt?

You can sue the government, but the grounds for winning are much narrower.

Meerly suffering harm from government action is not sufficient. Having property impounded as part of an investigation, pursuant to a warrant, is likely not actionable, unless there was malice involved. Using slim evidence isn't really actionable.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by dmix »

lnsru wrote: post #2

Working for a company in Germany which is planing production 3 months in advance using printed Excel sheets. The migration of ERP system gone wrong and nobody knows how to fix it. Production management tries to hide this fact and does not talk to the engineering department. This will go for years, consultants will gather their fees for non functional system. Obviously IT infrastructure is not needed for manufacturing…

> The migration of ERP system gone wrong and nobody knows how to fix it.

I swear this is SAPs main business model

Just endless consulting bills to set it up then fix it when it's delivered in a broken state.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by TimorousBestie »

Muromec wrote: post #229
725686 wrote: post #225

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In the USA? Where you can be sued if someone slips on your sidewalk? Can't you sue the gvmt?

Why would you be able to sue the government for conducting a search authorized by a judge? It's expected that result of some searches is "Oopsie doopsie nothing found".

It’s even worse than that, in the US police have broad latitude to destroy property, kill pets, seize any cash or assets (theoretically related to the crime, but very easy to abuse) and etc. while executing a search, with little to no recourse.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by znpy »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #116
andrelaszlo wrote: post #79

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Just the other day one of my clients had a production critical server failing and we started restoring it from backups. Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server. It turns out that the company that made this important piece of software doesn't even exist anymore.

This is a nightmare kind of discovery. I had a similar one, but fortunately, it wasn't as impactful. This is why I like docker, if you keep the sources, you recover no matter what (at least until the "no matter what" holds water)

> This is why I like docker,

my understanding is that docker would not have helped in that scenario

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by QuiCasseRien »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

- i'm scripting at best the full setup of my servers (mostly Nixos and some debian).

- daily backup locale + remote (blackbaze with 60 readonly retention strategy, separated bucket by service)

- monthly offline backup

- a preprod server where my users can restore entiere environment for testing purpose (CI)

in case of full house fire, i can be back online in an working day.

PS: i have only some TBs of data so quite easy to do.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by Ray20 »

v5v3 wrote: post #51
vardump wrote: post #39

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China has been a big winner, it can now get cheap energy and it gets to set Russia whatever conditions it pleases. Russia is now utterly dependent on China for many imports. Russia itself has been the biggest loser. Massive budget deficits, massive inflation. 1M of its smartest people have moved abroad. 1M Russian casualties in the war. Demographics and economy are disastrous. That and Russia is now a pariah state. N…

Russians and foreigners travelling to Russia regularly blog live. Everyone there is doing fine. The world order is changing to a level you won't believe - Russia, Venezuela were reported by WSJ or similar to even be running journalist schools in Africa to break the media control there by western media brands.

>Everyone there is doing fine.

And if you say somebody doing badly, you will get 10 years in gulag.

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