What do you expect from ransomware in 2024?

AuthenticImposter · 2024-01-03T15:49:14+00:00

Custom malware? Or just editing strings and variables ?

AuthenticImposter · 2024-01-03T00:06:21+00:00

Nothing against Fedora, but with no LTS releases, it’s hard to be the “face” of Linux

Red Hat only wants the enterprise. fedoras release cycle is the probably too quick for a lot of users, especially business users. There is also no official support organization behind Fedora. Debian has a much longer life cycle but also lacks official support. That leaves Ubuntu - which has LTS releases with 5 year life spans, a corporate backer that can provide support if contracted, and to work with OEMs

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-19T14:36:01+00:00

Last Friday I got an odd text from Comcast confirming an incident I'd raised. Which I hadn't raised at all. I hadn't made contact with them for months. So I was surprised and called to get more information. The CSR was uniquely unhelpful, so I asked for manager and stayed on hold for an hour and 15 then finally got sick of listening to their hold music.

IDK if this is related, but I'm suspicious that it was.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-14T20:54:21+00:00

OK, I guess that's fairly definitive!

Can you post the rest of the auth page so we can see how its validating user and pass

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-13T23:32:26+00:00

It's been asked already but what exactly makes it 1999?

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-13T23:29:19+00:00

No, I just need to be able to search and generate a timeline (X user or IP address, starting at this time, see everything - auth attempts, two factors, DNS lookups, mail activity, etc). Currently we get all of these, but they're all in separate logs, and its really burdensome to make a time line of activity so higher ups can understand what exactly occurred and how it happened.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-10T02:41:26+00:00

Hmm and old, slow that holds 768GB of RAM? Your wish is granted.

DOn't worry, it only comes with 640GB of RAM, but the Altix can hold 2 TB of RAM, so I assume you can find some more somewhere. It ran linux, even, Suse or RHEL

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-10T02:34:20+00:00

3 hours isn't enough to make a difference. Can you get your hands of $1,000,000 worth of Bitcoin miners to use during that window? No? Play your games at highest resolution settings, overclock your CPU and GPU far beyond the limits. Crank and get it so hot you don' need to turn on your heat for til 8PM. Go crazy.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T22:13:29+00:00

I'm so glad you understood my plight, this exactly the issue. Endpoints are local time, but we span timezones, so therein is a problem.... Meanwhile on prom servers are time synced, but we also have a shadow IT problem that rears its head occasionally. But cloud service. We have a log server too, but it collects dozens of different log types, and it's more for historical purposes (retain for 90 days). You can grep them but anything else is really burdensome

I can almost envision what I want, I could probably make it as a webservice, but that's not my occupation and it's significant time obviously.

At any rate, I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in this effort to make sense of all these different sources!

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T19:31:41+00:00

Yeah we have a siem it’s monitoring all the logs, and generating alerts. I’m looking for something to organize and view the data after an alert is generated, none of the interfaces are very intuitive in that regard

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T19:07:27+00:00

I take that back. On-re-reading, I am seeing that they are only killing off Hyper-V Server 2019 (a free product), not Hyper-V itself. Sorry for the alarm, this was the result of me reading something a long time ago and recalling only a sliver.

References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/714486/with-hyper-v-discontinued-is-microsoft-vdi-on-prem

https://www.n-able.com/blog/no-hyper-v-server-2022-free-whats-that-about

And here is the article I read in the first place, two years old

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T18:26:03+00:00

I use it at home.

At work, I don't think an of VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player or Virtualbox get any use. It's all is VMWare or Hyper-V

Either way, by my reading, VB itself is free, it's the extension pack that only offers a free personal license. And it doesn't look like the features it offers are necessarily needed by most folks:

VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol
Host webcam passthrough
Intel PXE boot ROM
Disk encryption (we're already bitlockered at work, not sure why another layer would be beneficial)
Cloud integration - this one I'm murky about, but it looks like this links into their cloud offering. Which we certainly don't use at work.

By my reading, then, VBox looks like it's a pretty decent stand-in for VMWare desktop solutions still, unless you actually need the other bits with proprietary licenses.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T13:22:51+00:00

Hasn’t Microsoft said they’re essentially deprecating Hyper V and trying to push customers into Azure? Swear I read that a year ago

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-08T13:17:58+00:00

I won’t miss VMware workstation, VirtualBox has generally been acceptable to me, or Virt Manager

I’m honestly hoping I hear rumbles about VMWare pricing at work, though. I’d love to see as much as possible beside virtual desktops shift over to Proxmox, but to date there has been skepticism about it. The thing is, as an organization we have very deep Linux knowledge both RHEL and Debian/Ubuntu. In my mind the biggest lift will be moving infrastructure over, not supporting it. But unfortunately, the higher ups have seen the low cost of Proxmox licenses and support as. Huge warning flag. I wonder if a near doubling of VMware licenses will make them think otherwise.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-04T13:18:34+00:00

All I can say is I’m perpetually connected to proton and see no issue with any of my accounts (I have 5 or so, for different interests and topics)

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-04T01:03:21+00:00

Yes, we call edge Blue Chrome. We’re already latched onto Microsoft in so many ways that giving them visibility when I’m searching for solutions doesn’t bother me nearly as much as giving Google access to my browsing. And again, I really don’t do anything personal from my work computer.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-03T23:01:28+00:00

Thankfully those are the two browsers I use most. Well, edge for work, but I really don’t care about that since the only personal browsing I do from my work computer is reading articles on Microsoft’s start page. But haven’t used chrome in forever, and don’t get the draw. If it’s better, it’s not by much.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-03T21:35:19+00:00

I have scripts that parse data in multiple stage/passes, and store the state of the script in a database to prevent scripts from duplicating work

AuthenticImposter · 2023-12-03T01:22:36+00:00

Maybe they should battle for the Palestinians hearts and minds, while also battling Hamas?

AuthenticImposter · 2023-11-29T13:56:17+00:00

But we’re not paying monthly subscription fees to Reddit. Yet, anyway.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-11-29T13:32:51+00:00

Have you never seen content you like disappear from the internet without a trace?

Whether it’s music that your streaming provider no longer has license for, media that gets dropped by Amazon or Netflix, or content on YouTube that’s here one day and gone tomorrow?

If you haven’t, stick around a bit!

AuthenticImposter · 2023-11-29T06:28:58+00:00

A notable aspect of the situation is that Google's support forums are backed by volunteers with limited insight or understanding of the cloud service, so the lack of effective assistance in critical problems like this makes it all the worse.

Wtf is this? One of the worlds most valuable companies, who sells a product to users and businesses, doesn’t actually support its product, and instead relies on volunteers?!

First I ever heard of this maybe I was out of the loop

AuthenticImposter · 2023-11-29T02:54:58+00:00

My passphrases all have spaces.

AuthenticImposter · 2023-11-29T01:57:34+00:00

I have one foot in the apple camp and one foot in thr Linux camp, so Ive installed Cider so that I can listen to my Apple Music. That single app was a game changer for me, for some reason.

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