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Ignite 2019: Microsoft details its efforts to level the playing field against cyber attackers. Because Linux never gets any viruses?
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With the old market share was not that attractive, so attacking it was not that worthy.
Windows 10 has changed that (the market share of Linux), so I expect to see an exponential increase in the attacks that Linux is going to suffer.
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ATTACK HAPPENED ON SATURDAY
SmarterASP.NET, an ASP.NET hosting provider with more than 440,000 customers, was hit yesterday by ransomware.
The company is the third major web hosting firm this year that went down because hackers breached their network and encrypted data on customer servers.
At the time of writing, SmarterASP.NET said it's working to restore customers' servers. It is unclear if the company paid the ransom demand, or is restoring from backups.
SmarterASP.NET is the third hosting provider that was hit this year. The first was A2 Hosting in May. A2, a well-known provider of Windows Servers, had servers in Asia and North America encrypted by a version of the GlobeImposter 2.0 ransomware strain.
The second web hosting provider hit this year was iNSYNQ, a cloud computing provider of virtual desktop environments. The company was infected in mid-July by a version of the MegaCortex ransomware.
Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware | ZDNet[^]
Update 1
SmarterAsp.Net had posted an announcement saying that they had paid the ransom. Following is their statement posted at facebook[^]:
"Dear customers, as you have been notified via email, we got hacked and we have been working on this issues. Ransom has been paid and we are trying to fix everything. There’s no way for afffected customer to download anything at this point. Please stay tuned. We will keep eveyone posted here."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SmarterASP[^]
modified 10-Nov-19 20:59pm.
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So.... They had no backups after all?
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Apparently not offline at least
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Interesting rotating sphere UI: [^], article about it on PetaPixel: [^].
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Very cool!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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If you're always scoring 100%, you're probably not learning anything new. Research found that the 'sweet spot' for learning is 85%. And here I thought it was when you fail 85% of the time
Pareto was so close...
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Sweet. Now just a way to predict failure so we can optimize to reach 85%.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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There's failing, and, then, there's flailing.
When I am focused and on track towards a generalized solution, and fail ... perhaps a vitamin.
When I am gnashing my teeth figuring out some weird quirk in a WinForm Control, or searching incomprehensible, disorganized, incomplete, erroneous, MSDN docs for a work-around for some Win issue: I am flailing, and it has no future value.
To use an agricultural metaphor: learning occurs in a (potentially) fertile context. However, there are times when getting your ego totally crushed because you realize your arrogance or assumptions caused you to waste a lot of intellectual capital on a dead-end ... has a salubriously sobering value 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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B students of the world unite!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And here I thought it was when you fail 85% of the time
That only applies to management. 
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Trend Micro has revealed a "security incident" leading to the theft of personal data from customers caused by a former employee. Nevermind the hackers, fear the employees
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Oh wow, that is one hard working to sell to 120,000 customers... oh, wait he did ... ah ... how did not sell more, company claims to have 12 million clients?
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maze3 wrote: how did not sell more, company claims to have 12 million clients?
Other department responsibility? Privilege restrictions?
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It’s like having a newbie version or Ableton—or some web-based tool for creating simple beats—right on your desktop. It's better sounding than my last budget forecast spreadsheet
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The institute originally announced the system, GPT-2, in February this year, but withheld the full version of the program out of fear it would be used to spread fake news, spam, and disinformation. So it's only "kind of dangerous"? Dangerish?
Anna Karenina it's not[^]
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well crap talk was always dangerous.. this needs to be shutdown... I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It looks like Microsoft could finally bring Chromium-powered Edge, the revamped browser with dark mode and a set of exciting features to Linux. Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux?
... and they either come with Chrome pre-installed, or already have a tool to download Chrome.
I'm really not seeing the point of this.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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/shrug. Checkmark programming I guess, or to prove they're "The New Microsoft(tm)"
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or to prove they're "The New Microsoft(tm)"
And they should have staid with the "old microsoft"... things would go better  
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux?
No!
Because Linux needs yet another skin over Chromium!
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Teachable Machine 2.0 lets you train your own machine learning model with the click of a button, no coding required, and export it to websites, apps, physical machines and more. Teach... your machine well...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with the click of a button, no coding required, and...
in other words... no understanding needed and it might be accesses / used / spread by every moron...
What can go wrong?
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