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For C-suite execs and security leaders, discovering your organization has been breached by network intruders, your critical systems locked up, and your data stolen, and then receiving a ransom demand, is probably the worst day of your professional life.

But it can get even worse, as some execs who had been infected with Hazard ransomware recently found out. After paying the ransom in exchange for a decryptor to restore the encrypted files, the decryptor did not work. //

Headley_GrangeSilver badge
"For C-suite execs and security leaders, discovering your organization has been breached, your critical systems locked up and your data stolen, then receiving a ransom demand, is probably the worst day of your professional life."

Third worst, surely.

Second worst is finding out that your bonus is reduced because of it.

First worst is discovering that someone can prove that it's your fault. //

lglethalSilver badge
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Paying the Dane Geld
Pay the Geld, and you'll never get rid of the Dane...

What was true so many years ago, remains true to today... //

Doctor SyntaxSilver badge
These guys are just getting ransomware a bad name. //

ThatOneSilver badge
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Hope springs eternal

pay the extortionists – for concerns about [obvious stuff]

...Except that you're placing all your hopes on the honesty of criminals!...

Once you've paid them, why would they bother decrypting your stuff? Why wouldn't they ask for even more money, later (or immediately)? Why wouldn't they refrain from gaining some free street cred by reselling all the data they have stolen from you?

Your only hope is that they are honest, trustworthy criminals, who will strive to make sure to repair any damage they've caused, and for whom your well-being is the most important thing in the world...

I think you would be better advised to avoid clicking on that mysterious-yet-oh-so-intriguing link, but that's me. //

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Re: Hope springs eternal
Doesn't matter whether they use the same name or a different one for each victim, the point is that if word gets around that a ransomware group is ripping off people who've paid up, then people are going to be increasingly unlikely to trust any ransomware group.

And at that point, there's a fairly good chance that at least one of the "trustworthy" groups may well decide to take whatever action is needed to deal with this threat to their business model - given the nature of such groups and the dark underbelly of society in which they operate, it's not unreasonable to consider that such action may well be rather permanent to the recipients...

Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accused the “media” of ignoring evidence surrounding claims Springfield, Ohio residents are having their pets abducted and eaten. //

Yost’s office is also researching legal avenues to stop ‘the federal government from sending an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities,’ particularly the city of Springfield. //

Meanwhile, it is interesting to note that it was President Donald J. Trump who signed into law a 2018 farm bill that made the consumption of cats and dogs illegal.

And if you want to know how much she "won" the debate, look at the fact that largely every media report from the debate is about what Trump said. No one cares about what Harris said because she never really said anything. //

The campaign clearly knows that, despite the hype, it's a neck-and-neck race between Harris and Trump, and swing state polling gives Trump the advantage still. That's why they're bringing out the old tried and true out of the reserves.

That's right. The Obamas and the Clintons are hitting the campaign trail.

Retired Professor
10 hours ago
Fascinating. Defamation was one of the subjects I used to teach in Law School, and as you know, the general rule is that attorneys have immunity for extra-judicial remarks made in connection with cases they are involved in, but this can be overcome by a showing of malice (in the technical Defamation sense of "reckless disregard"). But, win or lose, it is fun to see the liberals get a taste of the "lawfare" that they so love to use themselves.

metalheaddoc Retired Professor
10 hours ago
Can you explain why attorneys have immunity for extra-judicial remarks? and immunity from what specifically?

Retired Professor metalheaddoc
9 hours ago
Very good question. The immunity is from civil liability for money damages for such things as defamation of character, invasion of privacy, or intentional infliction of emotional distress. (I can assure you, if you've ever been cross-examined by a good lawyer, that'll be some of the worst "emotional distress" you'll ever suffer). What are the policy justifications for this?

First, it arises out of the free speech we all enjoy.

Second, out of the right to counsel, which of course is a Constitutional right in criminal cases, and in most states is part of your constitutional "right of access to the courts," even in civil cases (although of course the state doesn't pay for it).

Third, society has an interest in attorneys being able to zealously represent their clients, and not have attorneys being dragged into court personally because of their advocacy, which obviously would be a tactic open to a lot of abuse, as well as inviting invasion of the attorney-client privilege.

Fourth, attorneys are subject to professional discipline for false or misleading statements, so the system polices itself in that respect.

Fifth, an attorney who makes a statement that he/she knows to be false or is made with reckless disregard for truth or falsity IS subject to liability, just like any public figure would be, so it is by no means an absolute immunity.

There are other considerations, as well, but those are the most common.

Please remember that 98% of the attorneys give the other 2% of us a bad name....

stickdude90 Retired Professor
9 hours ago
Sixth, attorneys wrote the rules.

Retired Professor anon-ho3e
10 hours ago
Kinda interesting having sympathy for an IRS agent, isn't it?

The above exchange can be seen online by going directly to ABC 6's website. Guess who didn't see it? That would be the network's television audience. According to Tom Elliott, who runs Grabien, a media service that archives news coverage, ABC 6 and Taff made an astonishingly dishonest edit to the interview before playing it on the nightly news.

Specifically, the above word salad was completely cut out of the interview, and instead, a later portion was spliced in. In the recording of the live broadcast, you can hear Taff ask the question posed in the above excerpt, yet the answer Harris is shown giving was not her actual answer in the interview.

Here is the comparison between the actual interview and what ABC 6 put on air.

Tom Elliott @tomselliott
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Maybe someone has already mentioned this, but the rambling answer Kamala Harris gave last night on inflation is not what @6abc actually aired. Instead they edited her response so that it went straight to her "policies." Compare/contrast the two clips below
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Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck
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.@6ABC and Brian Taff shilling for Kamala.

And btw WPVI isn't just the Philly ABC affiliate. It's an ABC-Disney owned-and-operated station. //

What Taff and his network did is not journalism. It's activism, and they had no excuse to mislead people by chopping up the interview in that way. Harris is a vapid empty suit, and voters deserve to know that.

Lochel's Bakery in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, had some big news in their big cookie poll as of Friday morning.

Every four years, they hold a poll where people can buy red cookies or blue cookies--with the candidates' names on them and the election year--to indicate their choice for president. And the current count in the poll, based on how many have been bought for each candidate, is not looking good for Kamala Harris.

As of Friday morning, the shop has sold a whopping 5,200 Trump cookies vs. 500 Harris cookies. //

Lochel's correctly determined three of the four elections since 2012, The only one that didn't turn out was in 2020. Then they ultimately sold 31,804 Trump cookies vs. 5,750 Biden cookies before the election. That was six times as many, but they're ahead of that pace so far this time.

In any field of endeavor where one is gathering data, like, say, temperature, it's important to first determine if your measurements will be valid. If you are measuring the temperature inside an oven used for curing ceramics, you would not place your thermocouples in the lunch room. That wouldn't make any sense.

Nor does it make sense to place temperature-monitoring stations gathering data to prove global climate change, say, within a few feet of a tarmac on which jet airliners taxi for takeoff. But the United Kingdom's Met Office seems to have done just that. At the Daily Sceptic, Environment Editor Chris Morrison has brought photos: //

Teddington Bushy Park is a junk class 4 station with internationally-recognised “uncertainties” of 2°C. Joke class 4 station might be a more apt description. How anyone can think information taken at this site is suitable for scientific work that ultimately produces a global mean temperature is a mystery.

It is a mystery, unless, of course, you contemplate the idea that it may well be deliberate. I'm generally more inclined to accept incompetence rather than malice, but there sure seems to be a pattern here.

This website was created in response to the realization that very little physical site survey data exists for the entire United States Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN) surface station records worldwide. This realization came about from a discussion of a paper and some new information that occurred on Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog.

Mid term census report of the Surface Stations Project: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? - click cover image at left to download a PDF document. Now at 80%, and with a majority sample that is spatially well distributed, a full analysis will be coming in the next few months. We will however continue to survey stations in the hope of locating more CRN1 and CRN2 stations due to their rarity.

The upcoming papers will feature statistical analysis of the nationwide USHCN network in the context of siting.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport_spring09.pdf

When I first hit play, I was expecting some typical TikTok political video with a person on a coach saying some funny one-liner. What I wasn't expecting was for the camera to pan and show multiple U.S. servicemembers, currently serving in a combat zone, ripping Harris for her misleading statement:

Where these troops are deployed is not something we can know (or should know), but somewhere in Iraq or Syria is a decent enough guess. So, do those places qualify as combat zones? When I posted the video, I had a few people snipe in the replies that because America isn't in an active, large-scale war, Harris wasn't lying. That's not how combat zones are defined, though, and the United States government still recognizes much of the Middle East as an active combat zone.

To pretend otherwise is to play a ridiculous, insulting game of semantics that should be ruthlessly mocked into oblivion. American service members are still serving in combat zones where they are being injured and killed by rocket attacks and during active operations. Those people didn't cease to exist because Harris needed a talking point on Tuesday night.

Script to create (1) a local certificate authority, (2) a host certificate signed by that authority for the hostname of your choice

While Let’s Encrypt and its API has made it wonderfully easy for anyone to generate and install SSL certificates on their servers, it does little to help developers with HTTPS in their development environments. Creating a local SSL certificate to serve your development sites over HTTPS can be a tricky business. Even if you do manage to generate a self-signed certificate, you still end up with browser privacy errors.

In this article, we’ll walk through creating your own certificate authority (CA) for your local servers so that you can run HTTPS sites locally without issue. //

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I put this all together in a shell script you can run: https://gist.github.com/dobesv/13d4cb3cbd0fc4710fa55f89d1ef69be

The WSL commands below are listed in a format supported by PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt. To run these commands from a Bash / Linux distribution command line, you must replace wsl with wsl.exe. For a full list of commands, run wsl --help.

Kathy Hochul joins a growing list of prominent Democrats plausibly compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, up to and including Joe Biden and Tim Walz. //

The Chinese have compromised the Democrat Party in ways Democrats dream the Russians have infiltrated Republicans.

Two indictments this week shook the nation, revealing the lengths to which foreign adversaries have gone to compromise the integrity of the American political system. One indictment, however, was not like the other. In fact, one was far worse in just about every way imaginable. //

Yet the Russian interference effort to buy off a couple of oblivious influencers pales in comparison to Chinese operations that are targeting elected leaders who are actually in office.

Another indictment unsealed this week revealed the far more devastating details of a foreign rival compromising one of the most powerful governorships in the country. On Tuesday, the former deputy chief of staff for New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged with a laundry list of offences, including crimes under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Federal prosecutors say Linda Sun, whose 14 years in the state government also included time under Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was actually working on behalf of the Chinese government. Sun was charged along with her husband, Chris Hu, for myriad financial crimes compromising the governor’s office in the nation’s fourth most populous state.

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors: An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined
Robert Hargraves, Ralph Moir
American Scientist, Vol. 98, No. 4 (July-August 2010), pp. 304-313 (10 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27859537

By Robert F. Hargraves, Ralph Moir

An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined

What if we could turn back the clock to 1965 and have an energy do-over? In June of that year, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) achieved criticality for the first time at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.

The Citizen Outreach Foundation is questioning a memo from Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar telling local officials to reject certain voter roll challenges.

Georgia’s controversial Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state Republicans are trying to stop the State Elections Board from doing their job. //

Many Georgians still have strongly-held reservations about the integrity of the state’s elections. To help assuage those concerns, the State Election Board should be fully funded immediately by Governor Kemp’s OPB, so it can execute its responsibilities on behalf of Georgia’s citizens. Time is of the essence.