Non-IT News Thread
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@StuartJordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
People want to leave the EU due to stopping free movement and to be able to manage our own laws, bring back our fisheries which the EU limits.
Some do, but no vote to determine how many has been taken. The vote that was taken covered a lot of other things. A lot of false things. Sure, there are great reasons to leave, and great reasons to stay. The issue is that no vote based solely on reality has been put forth. So getting a democratic feel for how many want to stay or leave isn't something that's been done.
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@StuartJordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
But by taking no deal off the table we have lost all our bargaining power.
Not really, it's not actually off of the table. Right now, it's still the most likely thing because unless 27 other nations all decide to cave in the UK is going into no deal as that's what they made the initial referendum trigger as a default.
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Christchurch mosque shootings: Several dead after New Zealand attacks
There are multiple fatalities after shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand police have said.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as a terrorist attack, and one of the country's "darkest days".
Three men and one woman are in custody, police commissioner Mike Bush said, but warned more suspects may be at large.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said one of those arrested was an Australian citizen.
He described the suspected attacker as an "extremist right-wing violent terrorist".
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Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.
I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?
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Iran pumps up “massive” offensive exercise with as many as 50 drones
Knock-offs of US RQ-170, Predator drones included in coordinated strike test.
170 Sentinel. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Division staged what Iranian state media described as "massive drone drills" on March 14, including coordinated offensive operations with dozens of flying-wing drones based on the Lockheed RQ-170 Sentinel, captured by Iran in 2011, and Iranian copies of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator.
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New Zealand Shooting Live Updates: 49 Are Dead After 2 Mosques Are Hit
Forty-nine people were killed in shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, in a terrorist attack that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.”
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.
I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?
My 1st thought. 7zip anyone?
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.
I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?
@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.
I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?
My 1st thought. 7zip anyone?
"When a vulnerable version of WinRAR is used to extract the contents...."
The vulnerability is within the WinRAR application. Not the compressed file itself.
The answer here is don't use WinRAR and actively uninstall it.
Here is an example of how to remote uninstall winrar:
Invoke-Command -Credential domain\user -ComputerName (Get-Content D:\Powershell\computernames.txt) -ScriptBlock {Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Product -Filter "name like '%winrar%'" | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName Uninstall} -
And here is the solution: "Another solution is to switch to 7zip."
Meaning that WinRAR's application is the issue. Not the file, even if the file itself is payloaded with a virus.
Literally the last sentence in the article. . .
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@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:
My 1st thought. 7zip anyone?
First thought should be either.... "WinRAR still exists?" or "What's WinRAR?"
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:
My 1st thought. 7zip anyone?
First thought should be either.... "WinRAR still exists?" or "What's WinRAR?"
LOL.
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At quick Los Angeles event, Tesla announces the 300-mile-range Model Y
The SUV will seat 7 and be a successor to the Model 3.
Tonight in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off a prototype version of the Model Y, the fourth mass-produced vehicle that the electric car maker will bring to market. As expected, the vehicle will be a larger SUV take on the Model 3, much like the Model X was the larger, SUV version of the Model S.
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After pushing addictive OxyContin, Purdue now pursuing overdose antidote
Purdue still blames the crisis on illicit drugs but says it won’t profit from antidote.
Notorious OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma—which has been widely criticized for deceptively marketing its highly addictive painkiller and for its role in spurring the current nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose deaths—is moving ahead with a new, potent drug, one said to be an antidote to opioid overdoses.
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How hackers pulled off a $20 million bank heist
Efforts were enabled by sloppy and insecure network architecture in Mexico.
In January 2018 a group of hackers, now thought to be working for the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus, attempted to steal $110 million from the Mexican commercial bank Bancomext. That effort failed. But just a few months later, a smaller yet still elaborate series of attacks allowed hackers to siphon off 300 to 400 million pesos, or roughly $15 to $20 million from Mexican banks. Here's how they did it.
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Behind the Curve a fascinating study of reality-challenged beliefs
The documentary tracks how people form and maintain bizarre beliefs.
There's a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as a metaphor for so much that surrounds it. Two of the central figures of Behind the Curve are visiting a spaceflight museum that pays tribute to NASA, an organization that they believe is foisting a tremendous lie on an indoctrinated and incurious public. One of them, Mark Sargent, sits in a re-entry simulator that suggests he should press "Start" to begin. He dutifully bangs away at the highlighted word "Start" on screen, but nothing happens.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Behind the Curve a fascinating study of reality-challenged beliefs
The documentary tracks how people form and maintain bizarre beliefs.
There's a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as a metaphor for so much that surrounds it. Two of the central figures of Behind the Curve are visiting a spaceflight museum that pays tribute to NASA, an organization that they believe is foisting a tremendous lie on an indoctrinated and incurious public. One of them, Mark Sargent, sits in a re-entry simulator that suggests he should press "Start" to begin. He dutifully bangs away at the highlighted word "Start" on screen, but nothing happens.
I loved this one! Highly entertaining.
