Cyber Attack
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Software development is not the only area affected. AI is quite happy to come up with phishing e-mails for you!Leroy Ambrose said:
AI is, in fact, having an enormous impact on the IT industry, particularly in software development. Most places that would have taken on graduates, for instance, have either cut back drastically or completely cut their grad intake for the year. I work for one if the largest independent software vendors in Europe and we are taking a slightly different approach - embedding AI in the design and release process rather than using it as an opportunity to cut roles - but AI allows development houses to massively accelerate their release cycles. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that they'll use that as an opportunity to cut roles.BigRedEvil said:
Probably a bit but the AI I've seen is more of a useful help tool than one who could replace a full time staff member.CaptainRobbo said:Is AI having any effect on the job market?
From what I've seen though offshoring to India seems to be the preferred method currently rather than hire in country. Add on interest rates have been high, taxes on business plus no doubt IT budgets have been slashed due to Cloud costs and subscriptions rising year on year
Don't make the mistake of thinking AI is a 'help tool'. As far as you can see it, that might be the case - but in the background, it's already replacing huge swathes of mostly entry and low level jobs.
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A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex "as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace".
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Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain.
The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India.
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Many of the world's biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services
Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom and Roblox have all been impacted, as well as customers of banks including Lloyds and Halifax - here's what else has been hit
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I have loads of things deployed on Vercel (which in turn relies on AWS), not the best morning so far!0
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sort it out @Leroy Ambrose0
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Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down in global Microsoft outage
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AWS and now Microsoft. The shift back to on prem will gradually happen over the next 5/10 years imo.1
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🤣🤣🤣BigRedEvil said:AWS and now Microsoft. The shift back to on prem will gradually happen over the next 5/10 years imo.
Not. A. Chance. For so many reasons it's not possible to list them.0 -
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Three major UK airports have been hit by a "cyber security incident" in which criminal hackers accessed the data of almost nine million people and demanded a ransom.
Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns Manchester, East Midlands and London Stansted airports, said customers' contact details, vehicle registrations and postcodes were obtained by hackers at the weekend.
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We’re contacting you about a recent cyber security incident involving customer data.
Our investigation has identified that some of your personal information relating to airport car parking, lounge, Fast Track bookings and on-airport WIFI sign-ups has been accessed by an unauthorised third party.
Neither MAG nor the system accessed hold customers’ bank or payment details. The data that has been accessed includes customers’ email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations and postcodes.
We took immediate action to secure the affected system and are working with cyber security specialists and the relevant authorities. We would like to reassure you that Manchester Airport Group takes the security of customer information extremely seriously and we are taking appropriate actions to manage the incident.
We would urge you to be particularly cautious of unexpected emails, calls or text messages claiming to be from us. We will never contact you unexpectedly to ask for payment or banking information.
We apologise for any inconvenience or concern this may cause.
For further information about the incident, please visithere.
Received the above yesterday , for parking at Stansted in recent times .
Good to see they waited till it was released in the press before sending a warning 🙄
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Bah! I keep accidentally partaking in thread necromancy.
Need to remember to look at the dates of the posts that I reply to.
It's exactly this sort of sloppy behaviour that results in cybersecurity incidents.2 -
Asos: 'Basic personal information' may have been accessed
Asos has just released an update following the cyber incident.
It says an "an unauthorised customer notification" was sent to customers at around 10:00 BST today.
"Basic personal information including name and contact details may have been accessed," the statement says.
It adds: "We do not believe that payment-card information or account passwords, were impacted."
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Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Hackers reportedly gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight.
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Something something network segmentation, mumble mumble SCADA system airgaps, rhubarb rhubarb Internet Of Shitclive said:Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Hackers reportedly gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight.
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This is causing a few ripples in the insurance market. Property cover typically excludes cyber attacks and cyber policies typically exclude physical damage, so there's potentially a gap in cover that nobody is insuring.0
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From what I've heard, these freezers were open on the internet with no meaningful security and pretty much had a sign up saying "please hack us, here are the login details". So this specific incident probably wouldn't get paid even if it was covered.Rizzo said:This is causing a few ripples in the insurance market. Property cover typically excludes cyber attacks and cyber policies typically exclude physical damage, so there's potentially a gap in cover that nobody is insuring.
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Sounds about right. They probably weren't even 'hacked' - I suspect some third party company was responsible for installing them, left a default username and password on them, and whatever company is responsible for the network just allows access directly out to the Internet without a proxy. They probably advertise themselves via a management port that wasn't blocked as well, and are discoverable using a banner grab with a specific text string. That all might sound complicated, but believe me, it isn't.Swindon_Addick said:
From what I've heard, these freezers were open on the internet with no meaningful security and pretty much had a sign up saying "please hack us, here are the login details". So this specific incident probably wouldn't get paid even if it was covered.Rizzo said:This is causing a few ripples in the insurance market. Property cover typically excludes cyber attacks and cyber policies typically exclude physical damage, so there's potentially a gap in cover that nobody is insuring.
I can't believe it's 2026 and this shit is still going on.0 -
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For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o2
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Good that it found the issue. Still some fairly big issues to come out of it tho. Some governments have completely taken down their public facing websites as a result. I think the only UK one is NHSBSA so far but the impacts could be huge.CafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o0 -
Had a busy afternoon/evening yesterday off the back of thisCafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o0 -
Unfortunately it does Leroy. This is all smacks of legacy software which nobody could be bothered to update. If it ain't broke don't fix it.....until it breaks or somebody breaks it for you. My last contract in 2016 was with a large government organization who were still running XP on their PC's with no MS support. It took them until 2019 to upgrade them.Leroy Ambrose said:
Sounds about right. They probably weren't even 'hacked' - I suspect some third party company was responsible for installing them, left a default username and password on them, and whatever company is responsible for the network just allows access directly out to the Internet without a proxy. They probably advertise themselves via a management port that wasn't blocked as well, and are discoverable using a banner grab with a specific text string. That all might sound complicated, but believe me, it isn't.Swindon_Addick said:
From what I've heard, these freezers were open on the internet with no meaningful security and pretty much had a sign up saying "please hack us, here are the login details". So this specific incident probably wouldn't get paid even if it was covered.Rizzo said:This is causing a few ripples in the insurance market. Property cover typically excludes cyber attacks and cyber policies typically exclude physical damage, so there's potentially a gap in cover that nobody is insuring.
I can't believe it's 2026 and this shit is still going on.1 -
I'll see your 'busy afternoon' and raise you '300+ products running PHP in various forms, with over 100 on unsupported releases and less than half behind a WAF'hermann said:
Had a busy afternoon/evening yesterday off the back of thisCafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o
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I've had two hours' sleep1 -
I think you should invest some of your future time looking into moving stuff behind a WAF and getting all products supported before release !!Leroy Ambrose said:
I'll see your 'busy afternoon' and raise you '300+ products running PHP in various forms, with over 100 on unsupported releases and less than half behind a WAF'hermann said:
Had a busy afternoon/evening yesterday off the back of thisCafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o
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I've had two hours' sleep
PS mate I have no clue what any of that means but I genuinely feel for you if it meant that little sleep x1 -
We took our tech offline for a couple of hours yesterday while our tech team applied the patch that’s been prepared. We took it offline as soon as news broke which was 3 hours before we got the fix….. that three hour period pre fix was the danger zone when the news was out but people were still at risk..0
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Fkn glad I'm now retired.
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Ouch, sorry to hear that - you did well to get 2 hours! Still ongoing I guess?Leroy Ambrose said:
I'll see your 'busy afternoon' and raise you '300+ products running PHP in various forms, with over 100 on unsupported releases and less than half behind a WAF'hermann said:
Had a busy afternoon/evening yesterday off the back of thisCafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o
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Almoat done now. Just mopping up the tail end. Unfortunately, they're sticking around like Aussie number 9s, 10s & 11s in an Ashes series down under...hermann said:
Ouch, sorry to hear that - you did well to get 2 hours! Still ongoing I guess?Leroy Ambrose said:
I'll see your 'busy afternoon' and raise you '300+ products running PHP in various forms, with over 100 on unsupported releases and less than half behind a WAF'hermann said:
Had a busy afternoon/evening yesterday off the back of thisCafcWest said:For once, seemingly, AI actually does some good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o
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I've had two hours' sleep2
