Miscellaneous Tech News
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Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.
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AMD says its Ryzen 3000 isn’t just cheaper—it’s better
AMD's Travis Kirsch says there's no reason to buy an Intel CPU anymore.
AMD's new line of Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs will benefit from the same 7nm manufacturing process as the company's new Navi-powered GPUs. -
Veeam Backup and Replication v10 Sneak peek: Cloud Tier Copy Mode
https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode.html
"Copy Mode is an additional policy you can set against the Capacity Tier extent of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR), which is backed by an Object Storage repository. Once selected, any backup files that are created as part of any standard backup or backup copy job will be copied to the Capacity Tier. This fully satisfies the 3-2-1 rule of backup, which asks for one full copy of your data off site." -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.
LabCorp was affected too, 7.7M customer records exposed.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/labcorp-7-7m-consumers-hit-in-collections-firm-breach/ -
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Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.
I simply don't connect my TV to the internet. That's what my Roku is for.
Preach it man! I connected my TV so I could update it's firmware, then instantly disconnected it. TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.
Once you start calling that IoT, so is your laptop. IoT means everything now.
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A smart TV is like a smart phone.... a computer. So if we call smart TVs IoT, then we have to call smart phones IoT, what's the difference? And since we cant tell the difference between a smart phone and a laptop, or a laptop and a desktop, or a desktop and a server. Now servers are IoT.
The problem is, things like Smart TVs have no logical barriers to make them IoT, they don't qualify as IoT the way IoT was created as a term to mean.
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If you read the descriptions and definitions, Smart TVs are definitely not IoT by any industry definition, meaning, or intention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
IoT refers to ordinary things connected to the Internet. There are loads of ways to describe this, but common sense should be enough. IoT mostly refers to sensor style devices, things that have always existed, but not can be controlled or monitored via a network. That's totally different than "network / compute centric devices" like laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones, smart TVs, etc. that are Internet / computer products at their core.
IoT is about connecting non-compute / non-network objects. Thermostats, for example. They don't need the Internet to function, but you can use the Internet to monitor them. It is IoT because it is an everyday, non-compute object that has been connected to the Internet.
A smart TV is absolutely the opposite. A Smart TV doesn't work if it is not on the Internet, it's function as a Smart TV is to stream network content.
IoT requires that the primary function(s) of a device not be compute or network based, and that those abilities be ancillary.
This has always, from day one, been the intent of the definition, and it has never varied.
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What would be IoT is a non-smart TV that is monitored from the Internet, but is just used for watching local content. These exist, but are not what was being discussed. Smart TVs, as with any "Smart" product, cannot be IoT. Smart = Not IoT.
An IoT TV would be weird, but plausible. Like you could turn it off with an Internet remote, or change the channel from Canada while on vacation. But it isn't Smart, just a normal TV with a nearly senseless Internet option.
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OK fine - I'll give you all that.
People need to look at their TVs just like how they look at their smart phones and laptops/desktops, etc.
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Managed switch and vlan all the IoT devices off of the regular network.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Managed switch and vlan all the IoT devices off of the regular network.
Is there an article or are you just telling us?
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Managed switch and vlan all the IoT devices off of the regular network.
great idea - definitely not something for the typical home user to do.
Also - much of that crap out there requires putting the phone/computer on the same network as the devices to work - broadcast crap and all, so this would break a ton of shit assuming you put your phone/laptop on the protected/safe network, and all that other crap (including the TV) on the segregated one.
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@Dashrender or you manage them 'out of the home' every time.. as good as this solution sounds, it's very cumbersome in real use.
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Linux Kernel Panic bug
https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/netflix-finds-bug-creates-linux-kernel-panic
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@DustinB3403 That's what I do at my house. I have an IoT vlan and all that stuff goes in it. Firewalled off in my edgerouter too. Those devices can still communicate with the internet but not with my home network. Works great.
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Exchange Server June Cumulative Updates Arrive, but with Red Tape
Microsoft released its quarterly cumulative updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019 products this week.
The patching model for most Exchange Server products is based on the quarterly delivery of CUs. -
Microsoft Previews Azure Bastion Service for Private VM Access
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the Azure Bastion service
This new managed service was created as an additional safeguard for organizations that don't want to connect to Azure VMs using public Internet connections -
OpenMandriva Linux 4.0 Operating System Officially Released, Here's What's New
The OpenMandriva community announced the general availability of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0
operating system, a major release that brings numerous new features, updated components, and lots of improvements. -
Microsoft Previews New Edge Browser on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
Microsoft announced this week that it has released previews of its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Web browsers for use on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 systems.
