Kris

#DigitalMedia / #DigitalMarketing Specialist |#Playstation

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@WarMonitor3 The fulton air recovery system...

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

Onimusha: Way of the Sword was amazing..! Capcom brought back an old franchise and it's one of the best action games I've ever played.

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@jackal27 The FMV also had Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. It was a treat to listen to if you had your ps2 hooked up to 5.1 speakers.

[The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27]

TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One!

Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy!

[The Witcher @thewitcher]

11 years after launch, more witchers are now walking the Path across the Continent than ever before.

Seeing so many of you set out on this journey for the very first time, or relive it once more, means the world to us.

Thank you for putting your trust in us, all these years later. ❤️

[AMERICAN NEWS @TrumpWorld_QQ]

The way he grabs the barrel after stopping it from spinning and burns his hand… how did I only just notice that? 😂

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@SanRokTheBlade @geoffkeighley It turned out surprisingly good.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

Asha also signed our signboard. Thank you so much 🙏🙇🏻🫶@asha_shar

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@Zia57713635 That'll be on the 2nd playthrough!

[Onimusha: Way of the Sword @OnimushaGame]

Onimusha: Way of the Sword has sold over 1 million copies globally on launch day! ⚔🎉

To everyone who has picked up the game and anyone who supported Onimusha throughout the years - thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

#Onimusha

Illustration by Mope Suzuki

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN Im afraid it's been more than.. 9 years

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@Afevis Are cutscenes affected?

[Charly Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Ch4rl13 @milktst]

Me on a date explaining metal gear solid

[Kris @SolidMGSnake]

@ArkhamDreamer @johnjohanas and his team nailed it.

[Kapt'n Krunch 🛠️⚓ @KaptainKrunch97]

I played every Max Payne 3 encounter like this

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan says one problem with modern amateur criticism for films is people recognizing a narrative trope & seeing that as a negative.

“To be able to identify the mechanism doesn’t invalidate the mechanism.”

(Source: @ZhugeYY)

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

The inside of my brain when someone starts explaining rules of a card game