lol. I couldn't care less.

That's nice, but you'll have to convince me that this is news. Fiber network taps have been around for almost as long as fiber. With fiber you can monitor the drop in signal. That's always been the real differentiator, the fact that you can tell you've been tapped.

This really changes the state of "will companies be willing to pay." When it is $300, people are quick to jump on the "of course you have to pay it" bandwagon. But when it is millions, it is much harder to decide that it is worth paying the ransom.

Here is a more import question about that stat, it's what I call the "Influenza Stat Problem."

Sure, 60% of hacked SMBs will be out of business in six months. But how many would have been out of business anyway? Meaning there are two factors not considered in the statement:

Are companies about to go out of business more likely to be hacked in the first place? Are all SMBs roughly about 60% likely to go out of business in six months?

With influenza when we had a huge epidemic in the US a few years ago they stated the rate of flu deaths and people started to panic. The number was crazy. But only to the clueless.

What they didn't point out, and should never have needed to, was what the death rate was in the general population. It was as if people just forgot that people die naturally too.

If you looked, influenza did not increase your average chance of death... it lowered it. Presumably because people with the flu stopped doing dangerous things, stayed in bed, were constantly monitored, etc. People are most likely to die from things like car accidents, but car accidents are much less likely when you are home sick!

@scottalanmiller said:

And would a campus agreement cover them after they leave school?

Don't know, I don't work there.
I'm not defending either party. I do think one party has shot themselves in the foot while the other has shot their mouth off.

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Yeah I read that the same way @Kelly .

That's like being paranoid about catching some tropical rain forest virus when you live in the tundra, so you just stay home all day and night.

Can't you give Mandrill your DKIM private key? Of course that's probably not wise. In which case I'd setup a sister domainname for this purpose.

DKIMs seem interesting. Though without Secure DNS I'm not sure what good it really does, the Public Key listed in non Secure DNS can be spoofed by a MITM attack - though I'm not sure how much of a real concern that is.

@RojoLoco said:

@BRRABill you'll need lots of pencils.

I brought my pencil!
Gimme somethin' to write on, man.

@scottalanmiller You should also include cloud-init

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

@dafyre said:

FTA, this looks like it only affects the SSH clients... Right?

"The problem involved a bug that exposed a memory leak to a malicious SSH server," Cox explained. "Because the data in question didn't cross any trust or execution boundaries, the malicious server could get the client to possibly leak sensitive authentication key data."

I think it's both. I ran my update playbook and everything was patched within about 3 minutes 🙂

Yes, that would work well. Also checking in the same version should not trigger a new version to be created. So the encryption malware would need to alter the file in addition to encrypting it each time or else it would fail even with the incrementing numbers.

http://fossforce.com/2016/03/linux-distros-look-insecure-even-though-theyre-not/

that's just laughable!

@art_of_shred said:

Correct. MS account is totally separate from O365 account.

Unless you use the same account for everything. Well, then it is still separate, but seems the same and is very confusing.

Don't ask me how I know. 🙂

As with any system, you should always swing back around and re-visit issues.

With the help of the group here, and other resources i hope to go over the GPP and see what I can clean up and improve.

About 🔥 💩 time and good on MS