No, assuming the malware isn't still actively chewing on data to encrypt, in theory, you could just copy the recovered/decrypted files to an external target (Share, USB, Online web-based dropbox...etc). Then, and only then do you shitbox the computer and burn it to the ground. What's important is the data, not the infected PC at that point!
IT Pros such as myself actually suffer PTSD. I've almost admittedly lost my shit working on a project that took well over 60s in a week, and hundreds of people depended on it. Wasn't my fault. It was a fucked up situation that I walked into as was tasked to deal with it. But yeah, now with this ransomworm going around, how would you like to deal with people literally dying on you as it ravages the medical industry?
As for the PTSD, it's grown worse. I can't tell you how many times I'm interrupted when trying to perform deep analytical troubleshooting in a complex environment. I love the work. Can't fucking stand the interruptions! I want to be placed in a box with just my computer, coffee, and NO FUCKING PHONE!!! I'll get the work done faster, and with less stress. But nooo, us IT Pros are getting constantly hounded. As for my boss, yeah, he has it worse. Somehow drinking helps him cope....
No, the parent poster is correct. In nature, you know what happens to an abundance of life that no longer serves a purpose in an ecosystem? They die, or fight back to survive. Nature would prefer they die. The optimal (not same as moral or ethical mind you) balance is an entire industry of AI and automation with 1/20th or even 1/100th the population we now have. And guess where we're headed. That's right, massive civil unrest. Bread and circuses is a stop-gap measure. And from where I can tell, the elite/political class is absolutely clueless. Meaning, we're all about to get fucked!
That's not what happened. It's an exploit in SMB. Meaning, the Ransomware is now a worm on the local subnet. Once someone behind the keyboard opens the malware in the form of an attachment to infect their PC, it then proceeds to scan the LAN and replicate to other computers via the SMB protocol exploit. Those computers in turn do the same thing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
FYI, SMB ports are open between client an server on any machine joined to a Windows Domain (Active Directory).
It's been posted online that this is a version of WannaCry v2.0 Ransomware. Apparently it's taking advantage of the SMB exploits that got released last week or so ago. It's probably doing an IP scan inside the LAN from an infected machine, and then attempting to exploit SMB at the other end. That machine gets infected, and so it spreads at an exponential rate. Short version, this is WW III starting level shit!! We'll know soon enough in the next 48 hours around the world
This is true. Poland is the only one that hasn't had a terrorist attack. But then again, they're the only one not accepting muzzies either. Smart move of them. If only the rest of Europe would take note!
I'm thinking you're right. There's already known SMB badness in the stack thanks to the CIA hacks. And, it doesn't have to be on the same LAN so long as you've got routes between your subnets. Meaning, being within the subnet (broadcast / "LAN") has nothing to do with it.
You know, I've always feared RPC ports being exposed, next to RDP and Remote Registry within a Domain trusted network (cause some bastard is bound to get a worm). However, I never suspected SMB would ever be an issue. That's like, core functionality of Windows!!
By default,the Remote Registry settings is set to "Automatic" for Windows XP. It's set to "Manual" for Windows 7. And for Windows 8 and above, it's set to "Disabled".
Taxation is a requirement to protect the political class; it's the console by which to social engineer society to their own success in obtaining and holding onto power.
It's far more efficient to have a single loaded truck provided multiple deliveries at once to an entire apartment/building complex. But for the suburbs, drone delivery might be more efficient if a single truck made the finally drop-off with drones. Sort of like a mobile drone carrier where you might have two or more simultaneous drone launches, drop off, then fly back to the truck where a recharge occurs automatically while docked inside.
This is a solved problem. For performance, scan all system files with an MD5 checksum and flag all suspects (but don't do anything yet). Scan multiple files at once multithreaded for extra performance. Now, go back and rescanned all suspect files with SHA-1 or SHA-256 to validate any potential false-positives that may have been flagged from the previous MD5.
Fuck you Microsoft. Fuck you for allowing OEM copies of Office to be purchased with a machine, but require it to be activated against an email address!!
Pro Tip: create an email distribution group of say software@domain.com and make IT staff members of it.
Fuck you for now allowing us to mix Office365 apps with OEM!
And Fuck you for making this such a miserable experience to deploy across the network as needed.
Oh, and FUCK YOU...just because for good measure!!!
I get where Apple is coming from. If the entire point is to prevent the reselling of used parts for profit, thus creating fraud among a market where truly validated refurbished parts exist, then the solution is to just mark them. Mark them with a logo (embossed, laser etched, etc) so that the end consumer knows willingly that the case is not new and not refurbished, rather reused as-is in current condition. I promise, there would be a market for those parts in 3rd world nations. Hell, might even acceptable in 1st world too. But we all know why Apple doesn't want to do this. It would flood and saturate the market adding to competition of bringing new products to market.
Actually, yes, it is about cycles and how efficient you are with them. In the case of Project Scorpio, it's really damn efficient; to the point of the GPU having Direct12 baked into the silicon more than a normal programmable GPU would. In many ways, having it closer to ASIC makes it move custom in many regards to how SGI workstations were in some levels, but now with modern technology.
"Roll call instructions on the CPU that would typically require thousands of instructions are now reduced to just 11" -Leadbetter
"not only can Project Scorpio hit native 4K 60FPS in original Xbox One games, but it can do so with GPU power to spare. Furthermore the stress test apparently only used 66% of the early kit's 5GB of memory, and the final Project Scorpio hardware will have 12GB of unified GDDR5 memory with a 326GB/sec bandwidth.
VR, easily capable. I mean, really really fucking got that shit down with cycles-to-spare capable!!!
On the grounds of it being a financial "burden". That was the same reason they shot down his executive for banning Muslims from a list of seven nations; and that was regarding National Security. You don't get more of a financial burden than putting up an Executive order involving H1B.
This is going to the SCOTUS. I don't see it going any other way.
No, a judge in California or Washington will shoot it down on the grounds of being discriminatory to Indians (dot, not feather). Also, and most importantly, it puts a "burden" on the tech sector for not having access to cheap global labor. I SHIT YOU NOT, that's how it will go down in flames. I'm 100% correct on this, just wait.
Update: Yes, I was able to update both my laptop and desktop from it. Insert the USB drive, and run the executable to start the upgrade process. Alternatively, you could perform a bare metal clean install as the USB drive is bootable. Process took about 45+minutes given both machines have SSD storage.
Yeah, no. What WILL happen is that in order to pander to both Universities and the students with loan debt, there will be legislation to make them have first access to jobs. Trump may veto, but it can get overridden by both parties in Congress. Also, never discount the close relationship between EDU and GOV.
Processor affinity has been around since the days of Windows NT back when you had dual Pentium Pro CPUs running on a single board. No, what "game mode" ostensibly does is make the kernel aware to not just load-balance running processes across all cores, rather, to preemptively clear out all other cores to make available exclusively for the game. When finished with "game mode", all running processes are load-balanced back across all cores again.
It's not that could couldn't do this with any modern operating system, rather, just that no one else does because what serious PC gamers play them on Linux and OSX?? It's a simple feature to implement really.
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No, assuming the malware isn't still actively chewing on data to encrypt, in theory, you could just copy the recovered/decrypted files to an external target (Share, USB, Online web-based dropbox...etc). Then, and only then do you shitbox the computer and burn it to the ground. What's important is the data, not the infected PC at that point!
IT Pros such as myself actually suffer PTSD. I've almost admittedly lost my shit working on a project that took well over 60s in a week, and hundreds of people depended on it. Wasn't my fault. It was a fucked up situation that I walked into as was tasked to deal with it. But yeah, now with this ransomworm going around, how would you like to deal with people literally dying on you as it ravages the medical industry?
As for the PTSD, it's grown worse. I can't tell you how many times I'm interrupted when trying to perform deep analytical troubleshooting in a complex environment. I love the work. Can't fucking stand the interruptions! I want to be placed in a box with just my computer, coffee, and NO FUCKING PHONE!!! I'll get the work done faster, and with less stress. But nooo, us IT Pros are getting constantly hounded. As for my boss, yeah, he has it worse. Somehow drinking helps him cope....
That's what Time Machine backups are for dummy. Of course you make backups. Right??
No, the parent poster is correct. In nature, you know what happens to an abundance of life that no longer serves a purpose in an ecosystem? They die, or fight back to survive. Nature would prefer they die. The optimal (not same as moral or ethical mind you) balance is an entire industry of AI and automation with 1/20th or even 1/100th the population we now have. And guess where we're headed. That's right, massive civil unrest. Bread and circuses is a stop-gap measure. And from where I can tell, the elite/political class is absolutely clueless. Meaning, we're all about to get fucked!
That's when members of a community go "fuck it", and start bartering. None of that labor then gets tracked and/or collected on in the form a tax.
That's not what happened. It's an exploit in SMB. Meaning, the Ransomware is now a worm on the local subnet. Once someone behind the keyboard opens the malware in the form of an attachment to infect their PC, it then proceeds to scan the LAN and replicate to other computers via the SMB protocol exploit. Those computers in turn do the same thing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
FYI, SMB ports are open between client an server on any machine joined to a Windows Domain (Active Directory).
Umm, why not wrap in disposable plastic bags? Then, once in awhile place old phones in a cabinet lit with UV lighting for 24 hours?
It's been posted online that this is a version of WannaCry v2.0 Ransomware. Apparently it's taking advantage of the SMB exploits that got released last week or so ago. It's probably doing an IP scan inside the LAN from an infected machine, and then attempting to exploit SMB at the other end. That machine gets infected, and so it spreads at an exponential rate. Short version, this is WW III starting level shit!! We'll know soon enough in the next 48 hours around the world
This is true. Poland is the only one that hasn't had a terrorist attack. But then again, they're the only one not accepting muzzies either. Smart move of them. If only the rest of Europe would take note!
I'm thinking you're right. There's already known SMB badness in the stack thanks to the CIA hacks. And, it doesn't have to be on the same LAN so long as you've got routes between your subnets. Meaning, being within the subnet (broadcast / "LAN") has nothing to do with it.
You know, I've always feared RPC ports being exposed, next to RDP and Remote Registry within a Domain trusted network (cause some bastard is bound to get a worm). However, I never suspected SMB would ever be an issue. That's like, core functionality of Windows!!
By default,the Remote Registry settings is set to "Automatic" for Windows XP. It's set to "Manual" for Windows 7. And for Windows 8 and above, it's set to "Disabled".
Taxation is a requirement to protect the political class; it's the console by which to social engineer society to their own success in obtaining and holding onto power.
It's far more efficient to have a single loaded truck provided multiple deliveries at once to an entire apartment/building complex. But for the suburbs, drone delivery might be more efficient if a single truck made the finally drop-off with drones. Sort of like a mobile drone carrier where you might have two or more simultaneous drone launches, drop off, then fly back to the truck where a recharge occurs automatically while docked inside.
This is a solved problem. For performance, scan all system files with an MD5 checksum and flag all suspects (but don't do anything yet). Scan multiple files at once multithreaded for extra performance. Now, go back and rescanned all suspect files with SHA-1 or SHA-256 to validate any potential false-positives that may have been flagged from the previous MD5.
Fuck you Microsoft. Fuck you for allowing OEM copies of Office to be purchased with a machine, but require it to be activated against an email address!!
Pro Tip: create an email distribution group of say software@domain.com and make IT staff members of it.
Fuck you for now allowing us to mix Office365 apps with OEM!
And Fuck you for making this such a miserable experience to deploy across the network as needed.
Oh, and FUCK YOU...just because for good measure!!!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. In that order.
I get where Apple is coming from. If the entire point is to prevent the reselling of used parts for profit, thus creating fraud among a market where truly validated refurbished parts exist, then the solution is to just mark them. Mark them with a logo (embossed, laser etched, etc) so that the end consumer knows willingly that the case is not new and not refurbished, rather reused as-is in current condition. I promise, there would be a market for those parts in 3rd world nations. Hell, might even acceptable in 1st world too. But we all know why Apple doesn't want to do this. It would flood and saturate the market adding to competition of bringing new products to market.
Actually, yes, it is about cycles and how efficient you are with them. In the case of Project Scorpio, it's really damn efficient; to the point of the GPU having Direct12 baked into the silicon more than a normal programmable GPU would. In many ways, having it closer to ASIC makes it move custom in many regards to how SGI workstations were in some levels, but now with modern technology.
"Roll call instructions on the CPU that would typically require thousands of instructions are now reduced to just 11" -Leadbetter
"not only can Project Scorpio hit native 4K 60FPS in original Xbox One games, but it can do so with GPU power to spare. Furthermore the stress test apparently only used 66% of the early kit's 5GB of memory, and the final Project Scorpio hardware will have 12GB of unified GDDR5 memory with a 326GB/sec bandwidth.
VR, easily capable. I mean, really really fucking got that shit down with cycles-to-spare capable!!!
Hardware-wise, it is oh so VR capable! How will the console be marketed?? That's another question entirely, and might not have VR at all.
Why buy one when you can get three for extra luck. 888
Shit, I need to buy Apple stock!
On the grounds of it being a financial "burden". That was the same reason they shot down his executive for banning Muslims from a list of seven nations; and that was regarding National Security. You don't get more of a financial burden than putting up an Executive order involving H1B.
This is going to the SCOTUS. I don't see it going any other way.
It's happened already. You think part 2 of this is going to be any different?! Don't doubt me!
http://m.slashdot.org/thread/5...
No, a judge in California or Washington will shoot it down on the grounds of being discriminatory to Indians (dot, not feather). Also, and most importantly, it puts a "burden" on the tech sector for not having access to cheap global labor. I SHIT YOU NOT, that's how it will go down in flames. I'm 100% correct on this, just wait.
Update: Yes, I was able to update both my laptop and desktop from it. Insert the USB drive, and run the executable to start the upgrade process. Alternatively, you could perform a bare metal clean install as the USB drive is bootable. Process took about 45+minutes given both machines have SSD storage.
Yeah, no. What WILL happen is that in order to pander to both Universities and the students with loan debt, there will be legislation to make them have first access to jobs. Trump may veto, but it can get overridden by both parties in Congress. Also, never discount the close relationship between EDU and GOV.
Processor affinity has been around since the days of Windows NT back when you had dual Pentium Pro CPUs running on a single board. No, what "game mode" ostensibly does is make the kernel aware to not just load-balance running processes across all cores, rather, to preemptively clear out all other cores to make available exclusively for the game. When finished with "game mode", all running processes are load-balanced back across all cores again.
It's not that could couldn't do this with any modern operating system, rather, just that no one else does because what serious PC gamers play them on Linux and OSX?? It's a simple feature to implement really.