@thanksaj said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj no, AJ. Not ironic. Not at all.

Ironic means something is the opposite of the way you'd expect. I'd say this is slightly ironic.

It means a little more than that, that's the new "hipster" definition that people starting using because actual irony was too hard and they wanted to be able to call coincidental things ironic to sound cool. But it is completely incorrect both as a linguistic usage and, in the way that you are attempting to use it, it is not at all ironic, it is at best coincidental - it is used in a very expected way, not in any way surprising or unexpected or opposite, in a way that coincidentally has something to do with you.

It's actually so expected and so unrelated to you, that even calling it coincidence is a stretch and for something to be irony requires coincidence and then a cause/effect inverted intention relationship. This lacks all three requirements for irony. The coincidence piece is just a word appearing in one place that also appears in another. That's stretching coincidence to the limit. That's like saying that you went to the grocery store today and... so did some other people! What a coincidence!

I love that they have an Easy button with the word "oops" on it on the page the article is on. Too funny!

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

e that term a lot, after 9/11 in the US "orange alert" is what they meant when there was no danger at all. When everything is an emergency, nothing is. So orange status became the new green and instead of making people more alert, we simply eliminated the ability to warn people at all. Now red means orange, orange means green and there is no way to make people actually pay attention as nothing is the new red.

Yeah I saw another report this morning about Staples having a breach, and it was malware this malware that, and not really on how they probably pulled a Home Depot and hired a hack for their head of IT security. (speculation yes).

I prefer to be always vigilant, instead of always afraid.

Staples got hacked? I'm not surprised. Their infrastructure is ancient!

We've seen this a bit. Printers are just not very secure.

I will assume you have tried more than one network/gateway. I have had some overprotective gateways block actions like this in the past.

A vulnerability in legacy standards?! WHO KNEW?!

@ambarishrh said:

I think we need to start a new section for vulnerability and security related news! 🙂

Just use the "News" section and tag "security".

Way to go Open Source!

That only applies to the government. Credit agencies are liable for false reporting, of course, but that they choose to use non-identifying traits as identifiers is up to them. You can identify people by anything that you want if you are private.

@JaredBusch love it!

@StrongBad said:

@ajstringham said:

I literally just got off the phone with a customer wanting to know more about this very issue.

Thankfully you have ML to inform you before you get those calls 🙂

They didn't want to know more about the vulnerability itself, but rather when MVM would have a script that could scan for it.

Scott, what are you using for HIPAA compliant online storage?

@IRJ said:

Sorry for abandoning this thread. My fiance is having some complications with her pregnancy and its been keeping us busy. She is doing much better today, though.

Completely understandable! We only had to deal with fairly typical morning sickness for both of my wife's pregnancies. I count myself so lucky on that front. I have known many people with varying issues.

@Reid-Cooper said:

You probably need to do something. Safe to assume that your data is compromised.

I'll keep an eye on my account, as I always do, but there isn't much else I can do. If my data was in the breach, nothing I can personally do about it.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller I've never heard them recommend antivirus products though, it's mostly just things that parents can do to protect their kids while online.

That's a little better. Same issue, lower threshold.

Unfortunately there have been a lot of pervs in the area over the past few years, and their numbers are growing. Parents get scared, some do their own research, some don't. That's why the PD gets involved and tries to remind people to be parents and try to watch for these things, and become educated.

"We're Sorry" = Don't sue us!

@thecreativeone91 said:

There is never such a thing as true security with anything online. Its just logging and more levels to break through. nothing isn't breakable.

Even offline. There is no security. I'll take online security over offline security any day.

All the more reason to keep your tech up to date. Obsolete stuff is obsolete for a reason: It's obsolete.