The Obama Administration signaled the end of support for the ISS back in 2014 when funding for only another 10 years was authorized. That's right, he wanted to end US financial support for the ISS by 2025. While it might be convenient to blame this on the Trump administration, continuing to fund a mission that is well past its life expectancy is a losing proposition. Amazing how readers get sucked into the narrative that news organizations want you to believe just by the inflammatory headlines.

Talk about a tiny brain. Does yours only work when it can post divisive comments with no relevance to the topic? It's posters like you that have turned this once useful forum into a wasteland of useless, infuriating drivel.

Trying to tie forced arbitration as part of a contract, to lawsuits against Equifax, where no contract exists, is quite ridiculous. I doubt many of the 140M people impacted by the Equifax breach have a previously accepted contract with a mandatory arbitration clause, or any clause for that matter.

NoScript in FireFox provides an Application Boundary Enforcer with a rule to block access to Local resources from the WAN. The rule looks like this:

# This one guards the local network, like LocalRodeo
# LOCAL is a placeholder which matches all the LAN
# subnets (possibly configurable) and localhost
Site LOCAL
Accept from LOCAL
Deny

I have not tested, but I think this will prevent a malicious website from exploiting this vulnerability

You might not be able to do anything about these intrusions. But, you should share your firewall log file with other network admins by sending it to DShield.org. This is the Distributed Intrusion Detection System. For those who have never seen DShield.org, it maintains a list of IP addresses of known/suspected intruders. They can be direct abusers or zombies.