Posts by Adam JC 299 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2012
I'm pretty sure they'd have had to manually circumvent protections in place to acheive this, e.g Androids 'Allow installation from untrusted sources'. This wasn't something they downloaded from the Google Play store... they've likely tried sideloading something on the TV, the punter isn't 100% innocent in this fiasco....
FYI, I suffer from Crohn's disease. My last relapse was due to drinking a soft drink containing aspartame and is a known trigger for me as is gravy. Instead of the word 'allergic', would you prefer I used the words 'My digestive system cannot tolerate'? I don't quite understand why I got downvoted here, my clinicial dietician told me I'm allergic to aspartame, it's not something I just made up.
Draytek kit is mustard. Some Cisco fanboi's mock the kit as being pony, but I've ran a 4-star hotel with 80 rooms and 12 VLANS off of a 2830 with absolutely no issues whatsoever. (Doing DHCP for all 12 VLANs too!) - Very capable bits of kit for the money and they keep models in service for a very sensible amount of time. Their rackmount kits are ridiculous though, you can find them much cheaper from third-parties :)
Try disabling power management on the network adaptor, should keep it alive in sleep:
Control Panel > Network & Sharing Centre > Local Area Connection > Properties
'Power Management' Tab - Untick 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power', usually does the trick :-)
(Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs!)
Well yeah, not allowing four different orders of food within the same evening to four separate addresses more than 100 miles away would be a start. I can't imagine it's that hard to add some sort of warning/sanity check! That's a pretty darn easy to spot red flag there.
Yikes. I take it you missed the whole Microsoft palaver back in 2014 then...?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Seizes-No-IP-Domain-Names-Without-Notice-448981.shtml
23 of No-IP.com's domains were nulled overnight. Caused absolute carnage, took weeks to fully recover.
That's... kinda how it works even if ipv6 *was* being distributed on your LAN side.
For all the internal LANs where ipv6 is being offered by a DHCP server, ipv4 is also being dished out - As some devices do not support it. This is the correct way for it to function, you may have to enable IPv6 DHCP manually on the LAN side in most cases, if it even supports that. (The Drayteks I use do, some of the TP-Links do on the LAN side, some WAN only though.)
Try http://ip6.me for a true test, I wouldn't rely on whatismyip.com to accurately report your ipv6 WAN IP address.
What a complete load of Tosh. G.fast means I can now have 80/20 FTTC to my house which is more than enough and I work from home remotely - throw several VoIP phones over it, VoD, IPTV, you name it. It's far from dead, and copper is far from impractical for the 'last mile', at least. (See Virgin Media, pumping 200Mbps+ over coaxial copper....)
Your second point I do agree with though, perhaps sticking another 0 on the USO and dropping 10 years off of the time-scale would be about right. 10Mbps USO in 2030 is downright bloody ridiculous.
It's interesting you say that, the mrs got a Huawei P9 instead of the iPhone 7 and I got to play with it before she got her hands on it. (She's a bit of a technophobe) - Awesome camera on that, trumps my Samsung Galaxy S6 (which I found very impressive from day one) but they seem to have left out 4K video recording, this is a shame. The screen is only 1080p as well, but it's extremely quick. (Oh, and I ripped the Huawei launched out and put the Google one back on... Huawei's is awful).
I have flashbacks to my Note 3, which had 4K video recording (60Fps as well?) I believe, absolutely blinding bit of kit considering the age of that handset now. (MicroSD, removable battery....)
Our local NHS Trust uses Cisco Ironport's for everything outbound, not sure about the rest.
ANY email that's sent out is encrypted by default. If you want to send non-sensitive e-mails you have to placed [DONOTENCRYPT] anywhere in the subject. They also had DLP keyword triggers which placed the email in a queue if it contained any number of patterns (e.g NHS Patient numbers, and so on).
"....while any anti-Mirai worm could disrupt inexperienced users who would be locked out of remote device access."
I'm sorry, but GOOD. Any self respecting network/sysadmin needs to be shot in the head for leaving anything internet-facing on default admin/admin admin/password credentials, though I doubt this is anywhere near the majority included in the botnet. I would imagine 99% are home users with no clue that their device is even a part of the attack, in which case I'm all for a bit of 'white-hat hacking'. At worst, it'll mean the device in question gets some attention that would have otherwise gone un-noticed perhaps forever.
Apologies Mr Fox, didn't mean to come across quite how I did, I completely forgot they'd moved to Type-C now. I've seen all sorts of shenanigans on the interwebs about dodgy cables, not adhering to standards and some manufacturers completely flaunting the standards and making it up as they go with regards to charging. I wonder if Samsung did the same!
(Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ )
In buildings where CAT5e has been ran between comms cabinets. I have a business park in mind that could do with this as they're getting close to saturating the trunk cables, jumping from 1Gb to 5Gb with nothing more than an SFP would be a nice little bonus and give some breathing room I guess.
I answer every single one, do my best to get through to a human being of some description and swiftly tell them to foxtrot oscar with some ferocity.
A colleague of mine keeps answering them and then hanging up, he always gets return calls - I however, do not :-)
"As Bazza says, the fact this is possible in the first place shows a fundamental HARDWARE issue, that can not just be fixed in software"
Actually, it's a software exploit, thus a software problem and was subsequently fixed in a SOFTWARE update. Also, this was using WiFi so unless someone's following you down the motorway with a WiFi hotspot and the driver manually connected to this hotspot, it requires extremely precise conditions to pull off. (Not that I'm detracting from the seriousness of exploiting this - Although I would be an order of magnitude more concerned if they had exploited it over 3G).
They were absolutely w*nk.
I sold 13 of their multifunction CXXXX Series laser MFP's and EVERY SINGLE ONE suffered the same, catastrophic failure even after multiple replacements from Dell. (Horrific grinding noise deep inside the printer, no particular cause or fix might I add).
I wouldn't touch another Dell printer with a 10ft barge pole, between them and Lexmark.... urgh, sorry if I sound like I have an axe to grind. I do!
Office 365 is cloud e-mail, would you prefer to host your own exchange server, on premise? Think about that for a second... (And your office 365 locally installed software doesn't immediately stop working the second the internet cuts out).
At least if your internet fails and you have hosted exchange/365, you can still hop onto the internet via a 4G hotspot with your phone and continue like nothing has changed. Try failing your on-premise exchange over to a 4G connection... best of luck!
Not surprised, PlusNet have (Or did when I was with them a few years ago) absolutely brutal traffic shaping/bandwidth management. P2P, HTTP downloads, FTP downloads, torrents, all capped to ridiculously low speeds unless you pay way over the odds for their 'unrestricted' service.
Switched to sky fibre unlimited, never looked back...
This is purely a guess, but I'd say the kinds of people advocating and selling these kinds of 'software bundles', if you will, are quite 'well known' in the underground scene and therefore considered 'trusted' (I use the term loosely!). If a new user with no reputation popped up offering an all singing all dancing piece of malware and nobody had ever heard of them before, the chances of miscreants dismissing it as a sting would be fairly high. As I say, just a thought!
I'm afraid the only reason my partner and I were re-imbursed for the £2300 we spent on the 'holiday of a lifetime' at all after lowcostholidays recently went bust, was due to me booking on a credit card. If I'd have booked it on a debit card, I'd be sobbing right now..
Not everyone uses credit cards like an irresponsible 18 year old, they can be extremely useful when used *correctly*!
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