Comment Re:Patentable?? (Score 1) 70
It's absurd that something so simple and obvious would be patentable in the first place.
Submission + - SPAM: Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are in 'Pandemonium' After Ransomware Attack
An anonymous reader writes: In the early hours of Sunday morning, hackers took down the corporate servers and systems of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a giant U.S. TV conglomerate that owns or operates more than 600 channels across the country. Days later, inside the company, “it's pandemonium and chaos,” as one current employee, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Motherboard. Sinclair has released very few details about the attack since it was hacked Sunday. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that the group behind the attack is the infamous Evil Corp., a ransomware gang that is believed to be based in Russia and which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury department in 2019.
The ransomware attack interfered with several channels’ broadcast programming, preventing them from airing ads or NFL games, as reported by The Record, a news site owned by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. It has also left employees confused and wondering what's going on, according to current Sinclair workers. “Whoever did this, they either by accident or by design did a very good job,” a current employee said in a phone call, explaining that there are some channels that haven’t been able to air commercials since Sunday. “We're really running in the blind [...] you really can't do your job.” The employee said that he was working on Sunday and was able to get two emails out to colleagues. “And one of them got it, and the other one didn’t,” they said.
Employees did not have access to their emails until Tuesday morning, according to the two employees and text messages seen by Motherboard. The office computers, however, are still locked by the company out of precaution, and Sinclair told employees not to log into their corporate VPN, which they usually used to do their jobs. Until Thursday, the company was communicating with employees via text, according to the sources, who shared some of the texts sent by the company. In one of them, they called for an all hands meeting. The meeting, according to the two current employees, was quick and vague. Both sources said that the company should be more transparent with its own employees.
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The ransomware attack interfered with several channels’ broadcast programming, preventing them from airing ads or NFL games, as reported by The Record, a news site owned by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. It has also left employees confused and wondering what's going on, according to current Sinclair workers. “Whoever did this, they either by accident or by design did a very good job,” a current employee said in a phone call, explaining that there are some channels that haven’t been able to air commercials since Sunday. “We're really running in the blind [...] you really can't do your job.” The employee said that he was working on Sunday and was able to get two emails out to colleagues. “And one of them got it, and the other one didn’t,” they said.
Employees did not have access to their emails until Tuesday morning, according to the two employees and text messages seen by Motherboard. The office computers, however, are still locked by the company out of precaution, and Sinclair told employees not to log into their corporate VPN, which they usually used to do their jobs. Until Thursday, the company was communicating with employees via text, according to the sources, who shared some of the texts sent by the company. In one of them, they called for an all hands meeting. The meeting, according to the two current employees, was quick and vague. Both sources said that the company should be more transparent with its own employees.
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Comment Re:On the plus side... (Score 1) 354
Really? I'd love to know how to get music to and from my iPhone 3G without iTunes. As far as I can tell, there is no way to do that.
Comment Re:Beta "99" (Score 2, Informative) 202
That's incorrect. That is the Release Notes page for the RC, but the download link (mislabeled) actually leads you to Beta 4, which obviously predates Beta 99. If you install Beta 4 after Beta 99, you'll corrupt some files that you'll need to delete manually afterward. I learned this the hard way today.
If you already have Beta 99, just check for updates from within the browser.
Comment Re:TCP/IP Optimization (Score 1) 515
Precisely. This is nothing more than differences in the default TCP settings. XP does not handle high speeds very well without further tuning. Vista is much, much better about that and you don't really need to tweak it at all. Unix/linux-based systems have better TCP stacks with more appropriate settings for handling high speed connections, which is why Ubuntu beats XP but does not beat Vista in speed comparisons.
Comment Re:the new way (Score 1) 232
Yeah, true. I just ordered a Core i7 system with 6GB of RAM and an nVidia GTX 260. It wasn't that expensive.
Comment Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. (Score 0) 482
Since when is Buddhism out of date? The world would be a FAR better place if the Christians, Jews and Muslims were magically converted to Buddhism, especially if it were one of the more secular flavors of Buddhism. In many cases, it's more of a philosophy toward life than a religion.
