World Wide Internet Disruption Caused By A Cyber Security Glitch

Beholder said:
For laser control, I typically use a minimal Linux system (just to give me dynamic memory allocation, multiple threads and recovery from crashes), combined with bare metal communication with the laser instead of relying on drivers. There are assembler instructions that can be used to raise and lower specific output pins on the CPU.
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I'm not an IT guy @ work.....and I sincerely doubt that they, our IT staff, have this kind of knowledge.

Unfortunately.
 
Num7 said:
All platforms and systems are built on top of previous ones. They all grow larger and larger. I can only imagine what will happen when a critical item of this massive ecosystem fails, and the whole thing tumbles down.
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Micro$oft does this the most. They just put a patch on top of a patch on top of a patch on top of another patch, and then they call it good and push it out to everyone. (The WINE translator project has some negative comments about this.) Macs are a Net BSD clone, linux is a unix clone, and these tend to follow the unix philosophy of write a small utility, make it good, and make it so it doesn't need constant updating with every release. There are some deviations to this philosophy, but they tend to get heavy rewrites with major version changes. Sometimes these are for the better, sometimes worse. Sometimes developers will get fed up and fork the project to fix it. The GNU core libs in linux are getting kinda fat and could use a rewrite.

Crowdstrike causing a boot loop in windohs is a major bug that M$ needs to fix. If the update didn't correctly apply, the program should have just aborted the upgrade, which would stop the program from running, and let the OS continue to boot. M$ is chatty about failures, so have a failure pop up screen once the OS is running.
 
PaulaJedi said:
I'm a traitor. I use Kaspersky and stopped having virus attacks since I installed it several years ago.
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Or you can use Arch Linux with a locked filesystem on an intranet with your own update server where each line of code is inspected manually and compiled from source, after being fetched from your demilitarized zone, which connects to the internet once a year, behind a hardware firewall, constantly changing IP address, and multiple layers of encrypted tunnels. You will need to physically cut off any wireless antenna and only use well insulated cables. Your personal cloud server can be located in an incinerator to burn all your personal files if someone triggers the alarm.
 
Num7 said:
Kaspersky is fine. Its Internet Security can be a little intense and block legit stuff, especially when used for business computers with commercial apps. But otherwise it's a good AV.
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Have you ever heard of Trend Micro ?
 
Num7 said:
Kaspersky is fine. Its Internet Security can be a little intense and block legit stuff, especially when used for business computers with commercial apps. But otherwise it's a good AV.
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I received an email saying that the U.S. is blocking Kaspersky by the end of the month and to download Bitdefender. I asked my cousin who works at Homeland in cybersecurity and he said Bitdefender has shady practices and wanted to see the email. It could be fake. So, I am going to wait until the alleged deadline of Sept. 30 to see what happens.
 

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