"Most hospitals invest significant resources into security. Vendors may limit local IT staff in terms of how well a turnkey solution is designed to prevent infection. In short, hospital IT staff seem to be in the position of having to respond to rather than prevent these types of incidents."
That would be news to me that Hospitals invest in security. If so then how do they keep getting hit. And would this MedStar Health malware be a Windows executable that only runs on Microsoft Windows.
"Many years ago I worked in a University. All devices, printers included, had public IP addresses (and open ports). It was a hang-over from a previous time"
I recall a distributed campus of up to twenty locations, where the printers were connected through Novell Netware servers running on IPX and they had no such problem. Then they 'upgraded' to Win NT:(
@Anonymous Coward: "Notice how all the genuinely interesting articles are submitted by Anonymous Cowards, but the bullshit SWJ and shill articles get submitted by the same 5 regulars?"
It's sad to see the once great slashdot reduced to shilling for the Microsoft organisation. They post 'Anonymous Cowards' in the hope of bypassing slashdots trigger that automatically bins the post. but they're not anonymous to the slashdot monitors. There is definite bias in what is accepted, given the strange choice from the submitted article queue. For that reason, I can't be bothered posting new submissions. I do find myself bypassing the main page and going directly to https://slashdot.org/recent in search of interesting technical articles.
That whole article an interesting piece of speculative fiction. The real reason is most likely the lack of spending on maintenence and someone is trying to deflect the blame elsewhere. For instance given the reliance of the business on thyristors it would make sense to keep a supply on hand, rather than having to order one in each time a train breaks down. It's also curious that the article compares BART to a 747 aircraft as they hadn't yet come into service.
"Haupter told Caixin that it features fewer of Microsoft's consumer-targeted apps and services.. while including more management and security controls, in accordance with the needs of China's government."
If you don't want the Chinese Government or Microsoft telling you what to do with your own computer then move to Open Source Linux. Ubuntu
"Now and again, system administrators have to try and fix the problem for people who are actually named “Null” – but the issue is rare and sometimes surprisingly difficult to solve."
Not really difficult at all, as “Null” is a text string and NULL is a datatype usually encoded as Ø, that is the numeric value of zero and not "0". Any database that read a string and converts it to a datatype isn't worth the bits it's written in.
Hey, slashdot, the technical site how about telling us the name of the Operating System and the Hardware Platform this ransomware runs on? hint Windows and Intel..
@frnic: "Gotta love Slashdot now days, it doesn't matter what the story they can always come up with a way to be negative."
OK, I'll be positive and propose a practical solution. Don't run your critical infrastructure or security apparatus on Intel hardware running Microsoft Windows and connected to the Internet. The current security infestation is largely self inflicted, mainly due to bad design decisions made decades ago.
The micro:bit designed to try and keep the Raspberry Pi out of UK schools. See also how Microsoft acted to sabatage the OLPC initiative. ref.. brand new millennium, same old MICROS~1:)
"I can visualise, for example, a world ten years from now where every activity of one's life will be constantly recorded.. Great portions of our waking state will be spent in a constant mood of self-awareness and excitement, endlessly replaying the simplest basic life experiences." ref
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Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
"The vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by attackers with low skills"
Then what the f**k are these devices doing even directly connected to the public Internet?
"Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries."
Does that mean that users of Microsoft Ubuntu will be paying Microsoft for the use of the native Windows libraries?
Will these libraries be incorporated into the Ubuntu that the rest of us use?
"Most hospitals invest significant resources into security. Vendors may limit local IT staff in terms of how well a turnkey solution is designed to prevent infection. In short, hospital IT staff seem to be in the position of having to respond to rather than prevent these types of incidents."
That would be news to me that Hospitals invest in security. If so then how do they keep getting hit. And would this MedStar Health malware be a Windows executable that only runs on Microsoft Windows.
"Many years ago I worked in a University. All devices, printers included, had public IP addresses (and open ports). It was a hang-over from a previous time"
:(
I recall a distributed campus of up to twenty locations, where the printers were connected through Novell Netware servers running on IPX and they had no such problem. Then they 'upgraded' to Win NT
Sending a one-line Bash command to an open port isn't hacking.
@Anonymous Coward: "Notice how all the genuinely interesting articles are submitted by Anonymous Cowards, but the bullshit SWJ and shill articles get submitted by the same 5 regulars?"
It's sad to see the once great slashdot reduced to shilling for the Microsoft organisation. They post 'Anonymous Cowards' in the hope of bypassing slashdots trigger that automatically bins the post. but they're not anonymous to the slashdot monitors. There is definite bias in what is accepted, given the strange choice from the submitted article queue. For that reason, I can't be bothered posting new submissions. I do find myself bypassing the main page and going directly to https://slashdot.org/recent in search of interesting technical articles.
It is my understanding that Microsoft owns Android, else why is it extorting revenue out of the hardware manufacturers.
That whole article an interesting piece of speculative fiction. The real reason is most likely the lack of spending on maintenence and someone is trying to deflect the blame elsewhere. For instance given the reliance of the business on thyristors it would make sense to keep a supply on hand, rather than having to order one in each time a train breaks down. It's also curious that the article compares BART to a 747 aircraft as they hadn't yet come into service.
When did the United States of America become the basketcase of Nations? God Bless America
"Haupter told Caixin that it features fewer of Microsoft's consumer-targeted apps and services .. while including more management and security controls, in accordance with the needs of China's government."
If you don't want the Chinese Government or Microsoft telling you what to do with your own computer then move to Open Source Linux. Ubuntu
"Everything is stored securely in the Microsoft Azure cloud and even our loan agreements are signed electronically, handled by Docusign."
:)
The solution is obvious, the banks should put all their backend processes on the industry standard Microsoft Azure cloud
"Now and again, system administrators have to try and fix the problem for people who are actually named “Null” – but the issue is rare and sometimes surprisingly difficult to solve."
Not really difficult at all, as “Null” is a text string and NULL is a datatype usually encoded as Ø, that is the numeric value of zero and not "0". Any database that read a string and converts it to a datatype isn't worth the bits it's written in.
Hey, slashdot, the technical site how about telling us the name of the Operating System and the Hardware Platform this ransomware runs on? hint Windows and Intel ..
Curious how you failed to mention that Locky requires Windows & Office to work ..
@frnic: "Gotta love Slashdot now days, it doesn't matter what the story they can always come up with a way to be negative."
OK, I'll be positive and propose a practical solution. Don't run your critical infrastructure or security apparatus on Intel hardware running Microsoft Windows and connected to the Internet. The current security infestation is largely self inflicted, mainly due to bad design decisions made decades ago.
Design your computers with a built-in READ/WRITE switch, such that it is impossible to overwrite the OS with the switch in the OFF position.
Phil Schiller, the VP of Apple makes fun of Windows computers over five years old - well fucking DOH! ref
Is this a joke, some kids deface websites, nothing of value to see here, moving on.
The micro:bit designed to try and keep the Raspberry Pi out of UK schools. See also how Microsoft acted to sabatage the OLPC initiative. ref .. brand new millennium, same old MICROS~1 :)
"I can visualise, for example, a world ten years from now where every activity of one's life will be constantly recorded .. Great portions of our waking state will be spent in a constant mood of self-awareness and excitement, endlessly replaying the simplest basic life experiences." ref