Agreed. I go back a-ways and appreciate the upside of this for sure. The thing is, when it comes to 100% uptime for POTS, that's really only if you are picking up an analog phone to make a call. If you are connecting to any equipment (e.g. - fax machine, alarm panel, etc.) then unless you have a fueled generator then no electricity also means no service from a practicality standpoint.
...should be copper POTS alarm lines. Our line of business has strict insurance requirements. Among them requires independent copper POTS alarm lines. In addition to dedicated Internet and cellular radio as backup routes for our alarm panels. I know that US-based telcos have been gradually phasing out copper. Mainly by pricing it out of practicality. Even with some contract promos, we are paying around $70/month per copper line. Archaic requirements that are a PITA to include in my annual budget. Of course I could just hang some ATA's off our IP PBX and half-ass it. But semi-annual inspections would be a concern.
Not long after the story just broke, the laptop contents were published as an RAR file shortcut out in Reddit-world. Downloadable via Google Drive for maybe a week or so before finally being taken down.
All that being said, IIRC there were definitely some questionable e-mail threads regarding tax evasion. Basically a half dozen shell companies. Move money between them as taxes for each entity were being filed. Literally the shell game. But the doofus kept ignoring reminders from the tax attorney to follow through with the filings on time and in the correct order...lol.
I am playing around with GigSky's mobile data-only service. It utilizes an eSIM, and is part of a pilot test of the Helium network's 5G service. I have a small indoor cell, and the purchase came bundled with a few month's free trial service. It is handy, and configuring things wasn't terribly difficult. Seems a little more modern than using the old school SIM card, which had a secondary use back in the day for storing all of your phone contacts.
Yeah most review sites don't reflect too favorably on these guys --> https://www.sitejabber.com/rev.... Sorry you go put through the wringer!
I never even heard of this company, so I just looked them up. They are a publicly traded company. You'd think that they would have to undergo third party security audits, compliance audits, and whatnot. If that was the case then the ball was dropped by many different folks.
Hmm, I was under the impression that hackers gained access SolarWinds' network so in turn they had access to the source code repositories. For the SolarWinds Orion software (https://whatis.techtarget.com/feature/SolarWinds-hack-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know). Which is used for infrastructure monitoring.
You are 100% correct in that Microsoft Exchange has had several gaping security holes recently. That bad actors were actively exploiting like wild. Two different subjects however.
Microsoft's sloppiness? They aren't running the show when it comes to SolarWinds software. I know it's usually easy (and justified) to point fingers at them. Although in this case they were a SolarWinds customer, so they got dinged. Just as many larger organizations did as customers using the compromised SolarWinds software.
Totally agree. There are so many places in the supply chain where things have broken down. It goes back to last year when there were shutdowns pretty much all over the world. So the production factories were halting operations. Then when they cranked things back up later, few folks seem to realize that semiconductor chips aren't created in like a day or two. Execs from most semiconductor companies have explained how long it takes for production to get to the point of regularly completing large orders again.
Fast forward to production finally having shipments ready to go out. Well, now there are distribution constraints where transportation resources are short-staffed. The domino effect now goes to where we see the Port of Los Angeles with all of those cargo vessels sitting there waiting to dock. Why? Because there aren't enough longshoremen to unload the containers, much less enough truckers available to haul them off.
Yeah that and this Gina Raimondo lady sounds like a jackass. Don't need to open an investigation for something that most folks in power around the world are aware of.
On of the most amazing parts of the data dump is how the GitHub repos for the DB-centric source code had the username/password credentials stored directly in the files. Any rookie knows how to reference them as server-side variables piped in from an
Yeah it looks pretty legit. And pretty bad. Here's an initial analysis of some of the contents --> https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch.... I'm thinking their team is busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest right about now.
The space program reports on YOU!!!
As a Chile-head, I always extol the benefits of Chile peppers. And most importantly, their key chemical --> https://www.webmd.com/diet/hea.... Its use in this scientific application is just another reason. It's wild how that natural plant life was used thousands of years ago for different medicinal purposes, and we are still learning more and more about them!
So in this scenario...there are backup "tapes?" I recall putting my eggs into that basket years ago. Where you'd have the rotating jukebox rotating them. Yes, there is more immediate physical control, and likewise the physical encumbrances of media failure. You don't stream any backup sets to "the cloud?" If so, therein lies the rub too I suppose. Any larger company that doesn't stream their backup datasets offsite somewhere is leaving themselves open for a potential train wreck. And if not streaming the backup datasets to "the cloud" even streaming them to another on-prem location...well that's the dreaded Intrawebs, right?
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
