Miscellaneous Tech News
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Anyone else seeing like everything online super slow today?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Anyone else seeing like everything online super slow today?
Yes.
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@scottalanmiller I haven't noticed a huge difference
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Horse too (just an FYI why would I know that. . . )
I did know that (grew up on a horse farm.)
Living in one of, if not the, largest Amish population in the US, I can tell you that we see buggies pulled over for drunk driving a lot.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Horse too (just an FYI why would I know that. . . )
I did know that (grew up on a horse farm.)
Living in one of, if not the, largest Amish population in the US, I can tell you that we see buggies pulled over for drunk driving a lot.
That's because the Amish tend towards reckless rule breakers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Horse too (just an FYI why would I know that. . . )
I did know that (grew up on a horse farm.)
Living in one of, if not the, largest Amish population in the US, I can tell you that we see buggies pulled over for drunk driving a lot.
That's because the Amish tend towards reckless rule breakers.
And tend to one-up each other. The last local Rumspringa saw around 53 arrests for underage drinking.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm still dumbfounded how ingrained solarwinds was to so many different businesses.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm still dumbfounded how ingrained solarwinds was to so many different businesses.
Other than they shit sales tactics... why do you say that? Their products seemed to be pretty good.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm still dumbfounded how ingrained solarwinds was to so many different businesses.
Other than they shit sales tactics... why do you say that? Their products seemed to be pretty good.
Because this is starting to look like one absolutely massive IPOD from an outside perspective.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm still dumbfounded how ingrained solarwinds was to so many different businesses.
Other than they shit sales tactics... why do you say that? Their products seemed to be pretty good.
Because this is starting to look like one absolutely massive IPOD from an outside perspective.
You're going to have to explain that one to me?
Assuming you mean something like the world moving toward a homogenous tool and that a single flaw screws the world... I don't see that as an IPOD at all, it might qualify as a SPOF...
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@Dashrender Because all of these outside organizations used and relied on Solarwinds, and when Solarwinds was compromised everyone who relied on SolarWinds was also compromised.
Everything looks great from the top down "we manage everything for you with magic" but in reality these organizations were farming out their work to third parts such as SolarWinds.
Causing a large cascade of failures all the way up to the US government.
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So you're saying that no one anywhere should use centralized anything.. pretty sure that's not what you are saying...but maybe.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
So you're saying that no one anywhere should use centralized anything.. pretty sure that's not what you are saying...but maybe.
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that these services need to be vetted and have backup systems outside of a single source, such as SolarWinds.
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Covid-19: Amazon offers to help with US vaccine delivery
Amazon has offered to help distribute Covid-19 vaccines in the US, in a letter to new president Joe Biden.
The letter, penned by the firm's chief executive Dave Clark, said that the e-commerce giant stood "ready to assist you in this effort". Amazon has come in for criticism about its handling of the pandemic, with some staff claiming conditions in its warehouses were not safe. But it is also asking for vaccines for its workers to be prioritised. The firm has signed an agreement with an unnamed healthcare provider to administer vaccines on site at its warehouses around the US. It has requested that its 800,000 workers around the world be among the first to receive the doses, because they are unable to work from home. President Biden has vowed to deliver 100 million Covid-19 vaccinations to US citizens in the first 100 days of his administration. In the letter, Mr Clark wrote: "We are prepared to move quickly once vaccines are available." -
Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations - January 2021
... just in case you know of anyone with 3389 exposed. Apologies if someone has already posted this elsewhere
" When enabled on UDP/3389, the Microsoft Windows RDP service may be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks with an amplification ratio of 85.9:1. The amplified attack traffic consists of non-fragmented UDP packets sourced from UDP/3389 and directed towards the destination IP address(es) and UDP port(s) of the attacker’s choice. In contrast to legitimate RDP session traffic, the amplified attack packets are consistently 1,260 bytes in length, and are padded with long strings of zeroes. Approximately 14,000 abusable Windows RDP servers have been identified, to date. "
from Netscout
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@warren-stanley only 14,000? Seems low..
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@DustinB3403 agreed!
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@warren-stanley only 14,000? Seems low..
That's probably 90% of them though lol
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@Obsolesce haha are you being serious?
