Posts by From the States

Not a surprise

Microsoft hasn't added any features to WSUS in *years*. Azure Patch Manager is getting all the juicy enhancements. Nobody should have been caught off-guard by this. Even then, it will be quite a few years before WSUS is gone, since they are supporting it in Windows Server 2025.

Incredibly sleazy.

Do the people at the top have a conscience at all? As my long-dead grandmother would say, "They'd take the pennies off a dead man's eyes."

Yes, NTLMv1 is old and should be disabled, but...

...NTLMv2 is still widely used. For a large corporation, I assume it would take years to eliminate all software and user activity that uses NTLM in some way.

They bought MF for the Novell IP. LOL

Micro Focus has dropped the hatchet plenty of times with its acquisitions. Now, the tables are turned.

Bad link?

The link to the workaround article doesn't work.

Missing item in the series?

"Debian, Fedora and are confirmed as suffering from this problem." We breathlessly await the Linux distribution that should be following "and".

Amazon Web Services also affected.

The WSJ story at http://www.wsj.com/articles/denial-of-service-web-attack-affects-amazon-twitter-others-1477056080?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f mentioned that AWS has affected for 90 minutes, so I wonder how many of the affected sites run out of AWS.

What Juvenal said centuries ago still applies today.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Boris Johson?

Get the editor an extra cup of coffee - stat!

And the Chinese are known for being truthful, of course.

No reason to doubt their numbers, right?

Microsoft support will get buried tonight...

...by all the people who super-procrastinated on the upgrade offer.

I can't say I'm surprised if a home-grown system can't be upgraded. If it's an older system, Microsoft is still supporting Windows 7 with security updates through the end of 2019.

You can now call her O.J. Clinton.

Just wait until Vlad starts blackmailing her.

1984, anyone?

Stuff like this would make me vote for BREXIT in a heartbeat (but I don't live in the UK).. That business of the United Nations hinting that they might want to control the oceans is along these same lines.

GWX Control Panel might help here

I have not used GWX Control Panel but have heard it recommended for stopping this behavior.

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

“If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risks.”

I get that, but in a financial services environment, mistakes don't go over well, or at least repeated mistakes don't, especially if gain/loss is involved.

"...reportedly exists"

For the sake of his family and Mr. Mills himself, I hope so!

Do I need a cup of coffee?

"The inaugural figures, in April, saw net sales of $1.5m versus $1.05m in 2014. Two quarters later that number was $2m versus $1.1m – a change of 42 and 181 per cent respectively."

$1.5m? Sounds like chump change but maybe I need coffee (and I don't drink it).

I wonder if he has ever changed a TV channel

Ask the Ad Age guy if he has ever changed the channel on this TV. So that's not stealing? I fail to see the difference.

He also completely absolves his industry of any responsibility for malvertising networks, with no concern about infecting people's machines. All we need is a bowl of clean, warm water and a fluffy towel so he can wash his hands of everything.

Framed?

Any chance that those addresses belonging to regular blokes were really frame jobs done by someone else?

IE6 just died on Tuesday.

Though XP died last year, IE6 lived on in Server 2003 until Black Tuesday of this week. You guys should be devoting a separate filler article on the death of IE6. Grab a screenshot from any movie where the bad guy dies due to arrows, etc.

Beaten?

The US Navy may have been bruised, even battered, but this is the first time I have ever seen it listed as "beaten" in August, 1945.