The QuickBooks/Adobe pattern is a commercial vendor using an update to change the deal - force a subscription, force the cloud, install a persistent agent you can't remove. The hooks are money and control, and the coercion is the mechanism: comply or lose access to your own data.
2022 Speakers - we're happy to participate in the Ohio Linuxfest this year making the first time that @RedHatPartners and @RedHat are at the same show! https://t.co/ZNaUG6m5tQ via @ohiolinux
The excellent show begins Friday morning and concludes Saturday, with Jon "MadDog" Hall
tl;dr summary of United States government (and associated entities) vs ALPHV ransomware group
December 10th, 2023: ALPHV primary domain goes offline, administration saying it is hardware failure
December 10th, 2023: Rumors circulate that is it LE taking down ALPHV
December 11th, 2023: ALPHV denies allegations
December 19th, 2023, 7:26AM EST: ALPHV domain seized
December 19th, 2023, 7:42AM EST: ALPHV states this is the old domain and it doesn't matter
December 19th, 2023, 9:56AM EST, United States Department of Justice releases official statement on the seizure of ALPHV as well as compromising of their servers
December 19th, 2023: 12:34PM EST, ALPHV unseizes domain and threatens retaliation against United States (and associated entities) by allowing attacks against critical infrastructure
PSA: we have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability.
After responsible investigation *we have no evidence that suggests this vulnerability is real* nor has any additional info been shared via our official reporting channels.
Based on the location of CVN-78 and CG-60, we can estimate the radar range for both ships out to the horizon for possible targets up to 100km altitude. These ranges cover nearby ships (10-100m), aircraft (1-10km), and ballistic missiles (100km).
"We didn’t have a solution at first — we just knew that this was a big problem, and the solutions out in the market weren’t solving it. " https://t.co/G6BwIFmdQ3
@markrussinovich We received these three to four times a day from ... not necessarily #Japan - similar to the @vxunderground we have a collection of these artifacts to research trends.
@discord_support - the owner of @cethommeici had an email and mobile tied to an account. The email has been fully deleted years ago. Attempts to create a new account with a current alias fail as the mobile number is still in the account and is the account reset is not possible.