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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Zionists have been meddling in the Middle East since their ideology was created in the late 1800s.

The current Middle East situation dates back to at least the second millenium BCE.

Including the significant amount of recent European immigrants?

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#312

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Zionists have been meddling in the Middle East since their ideology was created in the late 1800s.

The current Middle East situation dates back to at least the second millenium BCE.

No it dates to the late 1800s with the creation of Zionism. It's important that we stay rooted in history and not religious mythology.

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That's pure Israeli propaganda, and as you see there is absolutely no "up rising" from Iranian citizens. They are however, uniformly against Israel and the US given that we started this illegal war by bombing a girls school and murdering over 170 children. Much like Israel has been doing since its creation in 1948.

"there is absolutely no "up rising" from Iranian citizens" This is an extremely bold lie. There have been many uprisings by Iranians against their horrible government that are extremely brutally suppressed by said government. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/589307/iran-police-chief-sa... Iranian protesters will be treated as enemies if they support Tehran's foes, the country's top police officer warned, as the Middl…

> Iranian authorities acknowledge more than 3000 deaths in the unrest,

This is a claim without evidence. Please post the Iranian statement where they say there were 3000 deaths.

> The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)

This is an anti-Iranian propaganda outlet.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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What are you asking? For Stryker specifically? We don't and probably won't know details. For companies in general? Background checks, security clearance etc are done if the company determines this necessary and are willing to pay for the process and higher salary.

I’m asking if it’s possible to secure the MDM process in a way that Iranian operatives can’t simply torture an administrator into pushing the big red MDM button.

https://xkcd.com/538/

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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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.

Does it serve the US military?

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"there is absolutely no "up rising" from Iranian citizens" This is an extremely bold lie. There have been many uprisings by Iranians against their horrible government that are extremely brutally suppressed by said government. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/589307/iran-police-chief-sa... Iranian protesters will be treated as enemies if they support Tehran's foes, the country's top police officer warned, as the Middl…

> Iranian authorities acknowledge more than 3000 deaths in the unrest, This is a claim without evidence. Please post the Iranian statement where they say there were 3000 deaths. > The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) This is an anti-Iranian propaganda outlet.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Iranian...

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-says-3117-killed-in-...

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260122_07/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62v248xkl5o

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/middleeast/iran-supreme-leade...

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I hear zero-trust is a trendy buzzword at the moment, so let's apply the basic idea here: having a hard shell and a soft and chewy center is not a security posture that works, in practice. You need to harden at every level. RMM uber-admin credentials are the ultimate soft center: you compromise those, you can kill the entire IT infrastructure. The only alternative is to distribute access: have multiple smaller IT tea…

Can you like I did name a company or technology that works like this? Companies use M365 or Gsuite. Go. I can type words too but they dont mean anything. "Make it good zero trust wowo"

Everyone doing it doesn't make it a good idea. The big tech companies and governments are I think a little more paranoid about rouge admins, so they do at least try to limit the blast radius of any given credential, but almost no-one else has that level of maturity, which creates this pretty big chasm in the resiliance of IT organisations as you go from small to large.

(There's also a certain irony about IT complaining that a change to improve security would mean they can't do their job as easily)

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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The current Middle East situation dates back to at least the second millenium BCE.

Including the significant amount of recent European immigrants?

Obviously the recent immigrants are recent. Anything that is recent is recent.

Was there a time in the last several thousand years when there was not a "significant amount of recent X immigrants"?

No there was not. The whole region is layers upon layers upon layers of waves of immigration of different groups.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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The current Middle East situation dates back to at least the second millenium BCE.

No it dates to the late 1800s with the creation of Zionism. It's important that we stay rooted in history and not religious mythology.

The Middle East had plenty of wars, religious violence, etc long before the late 1800s. The Crusades are not religious mythology. The Mongols are not religious mythology. The Rashidun Caliphate was not religious mythology. These are just three entries in a very long list of non-peaceful power shifts in the Levant.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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

Stryker holds monopoly supplier positions for a number of medical products, esp including surgical implants and associated OR tools. If Stryker stays down, supplies of some things will run out soon and many people will find themselves without medical procedures available.

Yet another reason monopolies are bad.
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