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Most "hacks" involve insiders.
a) The hacker is an existing employee
b) The hacker is a former employee
c) The hacker is a contract employee that was subcontracted by the employer
d) The hacker is a former employee of a subcontract
e) The hacker socially engineered someone they know who works there (see previous 4 points)
f) The hacker claims to have hacked the site and wants to talk to someone who can pay them to reveal what they did/have, even if they don't have that information, and then once that person's name is revealed, they pretend to be that person to other employees.
g) The hacker phished the customer support/tech support
 
It's rare to have a hack that was just done without some insider being the hacker or being socially engineered to let the hacker in.
 
Usually other styles of hacks involve dumping databases of security-weak products (eg NoSQL databases) or the programming language (eg PHP, Javascript (Node.JS), Python) because of the ol "bobby;drop tables" type of problem.
 
 

I believe him. 
Nuvia is mainly comprised of ex-Apple engineers that built the foundation of Firestorm, which do in fact beat CPUs from the likes of AMD and Intel. 
If Qualcomm are actually investing into PC-class hardware this time then I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out pretty good. Too bad the PC ecosystem would also need good software for ARM to take off, and I won't be holding my breath than Microsoft delivers on that. 

our infrastructure is made up of 1960's rusting bridges and a patchwork network of isp providers held together with bubblegum and twine . cars dont even have to pass inspections here , so yeah it makes sense nothing here is modern.

When the home server rack has a better environment than the office server rack....
 
Looks great though. Curious to see how it looks once all of the ethernet is patch paneled in. 
 
This really makes me want a ubiquiti 10Gb switch now. 

Please DO NOT EVER look into lit fiber especially single mode fiber!! Plus the fact that single mode isn't visible anyway it's a very dangerous thing to do regardless of mode. Multi-mode is "safer" if you view it off angle but never look directly into lit fiber!

Samsung has just announced its new laptop!
 

 
The Samsung Galaxy Book 360 S3
 
Features new notch design to fit a 1080p camera with Windows Hello facial recognition and Bixby Microphone Technology (TM)
It also feature 2 forward facing speakers on the display via its side display notches.
 
Samsung says that not only they have this new 3 notch design, they are also 50% larger than the newly announced MacBook Pro
 
The company will release it, right after its coming up ad campaign making fun of the notches on Apple new MacBook Pro.
 
 

My body is ready.
 
I have a feeling people are not ready for the power of the M1X though.

Not gonna lie: I've seen WAY too many first years just absolutely cripple trying to figure out where their pycharm projects are
 
This checks out

Which is a perfect oxymoron since cryptos whole raison d'etre is that its decentralised and therefore no single entity is supposed to be able to affect it in this way. Just goes to show that the decentralised nature of crypto is nothing but an illusion, when governments decide its becoming a problem they can and will shut it down if they really want to.

Depends who you are.
 
I actually get better and more consistent results from bing these days compared to google, i've never had any real success with duck duck go, the results are so over the place, that i generally just go back to bing or google shortly after trying to switch to DDG

I skipped straight to CCNA, but I had plenty of experience first. It really depends on how comfortable you are with networking fundamentals right now. If you are new to networking, my guess is that CCNA will be very overwhelming. I haven't done the newer, reworked cert but from what I've seen it seems to have gotten broader (compared to the old routing and switching cert).
It's a shame Cisco stopped doing CCENT because it sounds to me like that would have been a good start for you.
 
If you feel comfortable with the fundamentals, go for CCNA. If not, I'd probably do some self studying and then take a CCNA bootcamp. I don't think it's wise spending time, money and effort on an instructor lead CCT course.
The 5 day CCNA bootcamp held by for example Global Knowledge requires you to know quite a bit of the fundamentals before taking the class. If you don't know the fundamentals already, you will get lost and have a hard time keeping up.
Here is a test they have (please note that you do not need to submit real info at the end to get your result).
 
 
I've been to a few courses at "Global Knowledge" and they have been really good. They are a Cisco certified partner so I do believe they count as "official training courses". I don't have any experience with non-Cisco certified in-person courses but there are plenty of great resources online that are from third parties. INE is one of my favorites.
 
 
Is that for the 5-day bootcamps? If so, I think they are worth it. Honestly, 800 dollars sounds pretty cheap, but maybe Swedish prices are higher than Canadian prices. Pretty sure the certification test itself is around 300 dollars, so please keep that in mind. I'd only recommend it if you get your boss to pay for it though.
 
 
I don't know about LinkedIn Learning or Gale Courses, but they are probably fine. 
 
 
Google is your friend. I just searched "free CCNA course" and found this site that, at a glance, seems pretty good. I also did a search on Youtube and found this playlist which seems pretty good too.
I am working on a "networking primer for nerds" but sadly that will not be done anytime soon.

I'm pretty sure the screen assembly is no different than the 2020 13" Intel MacBook Pros. Either way, glass does not "spontaneously crack." Glass fails for a reason, either it was twisted or it was pierced. 
 
What is a main cause of display shatters for MacBooks? (Keep in mind the gap between the display and the keyboard deck is about a mm) Debris and webcam covers. Apple explicitly states not to use webcam covers or keyboard covers for your Mac....it's also best practice to make sure that when you close your display that there isn't a small rock that you're about to slam your display on.
 
You could argue that small hard debris getting on the keyboard deck being enough to induce a shatter is bad design. There is definitely an argument to be made there...but I don't thing "glass can be broken" is a valid lawsuit. 
 
To me, it seems like a bunch of people have broken their displays by not listening to Apple and putting webcam covers and keyboard covers on their laptops and are now trying to blame Apple for user error. 
 
You are literally "holding" it wrong 😑 

The internet is a collection of networks that are all connected in some way. An intranet on the otherhand is a network with local connectivity within an area/organization/etc.
Your ISP has connections to many different interconnects which in turn connect to other places/companies/etc. higher up until you get to a Tier 1 provider that has connectivity to all major interconnects (more or less). The internet is FAR more than just some big cables.
The modem or router or ONT or other device your ISP gives you is basically to convert the signal from one medium to another. (coax, fiber, RJ11 copper, etc. to copper RJ45 usually). That device authenticates you with their network allowing you access and from there it gets really complicated.

Line of sight is not enough when dealing with long range radios. If you want to do it properly, you need to calculate the Fresnel zone as well.
Radio waves do not travel in a straight line. They will form a kind of "American football shaped" zone between the two antennas, and this zone should have at least 80% clearance in order to get a good signal quality.
 
In order to calculate the Fresnel zone, you take the line of sight distance between two antennas, and divide it by two. You now have the point (exactly in the middle) where the radius of the "football" will be the largest. In order to calculate how wide the "football" is in the middle, you do this:
Radius in meters = 8.656 x sqrt(d/f) 
Where d is the distance between the two antennas, and f is the frequency of the signal in GHz.
 
So if we take OP as an example. He is 10 miles (roughly 16km) away from his ISP. Let's say he get an AirFiber (operates at roughly 5GHz).

 
d = 16 (because there are 16 kilometers between OP and the ISP)
f = 5 (because AirFiber operates at 5GHz)
 
The radius of the Fresnel Zone at its thickest point (d/2) would be:
Radius = 8.656 sqrt(16/5)
Radius = ~15.5 meters
 
 
If OP instead goes for a 2.4GHz antenna we get:
Radius = 8.656 sqrt(16/2.4)
Radius = 22.3 meters
 
 
So OP would need line of sight between the antennas, plus around 15 meters of additional clearance in the middle.

Having a certificate is one thing but demonstrating that you can actually troubleshoot and work with actual Cisco routers, switches and phones is different. You also need to remember, you need to renew your certificate every 3 years, do you want to do that?

CCNA or Juniper equivalent (I forget the name off hand) would be a great addition to your resume. Also being able to talk to your certifications as to how you might apply it to real life is going to blow any interviewer away. I've turned down tons of people who have certs coming out of their ears and can't talk to squat like they cheated their way through it just to have the piece of paper.

haha sorry, this just struck my awful sense of humor.

i'm so glad Australia doesn't have an equivalent of an SSN, too much power is given to a single number and is always the target in attacks like this.

I hope Intel has addressed the FPS micro-stutter that plagued their Iris Xe DG1 as reviewed from GN. Granted, it wasn't marketed for gaming specifically, but a low cost entry as a dGPU.

seems like someone at Intel is into DnD

Where I used to work broke things down into three levels: vision, strategy, execution. Vision was the role of senior management, CEO and direct reports giving input. They have to move the company in the right direction for the future. Strategy was translating that into something more tangible. Execution is doing the hands on work to make it happen. In other words, what do you want to do?, how do you do it?, and then actually doing it.

Summary
Ever the headline of news articles the world over, cryptocurrency, is yet again in the news for large swaths of funds getting stolen.
 
Quotes
 
and maybe my favourite quote from the article
 
Yes because people who went through the trouble of stealing $611m worth of crypto is really going to just return it because you asked them nicely (see: begged)
 
 
My thoughts
I find it interesting that the released the wallet address of where the funds ended up, not quite sure what they think people are going to do with them, except hope that someone will try and hack the money back. For being lauded as "decentralized" and "safe" this sure happens lot.
 
is this going to stop people from using it and praising the block-chain? lol no. But don't kid yourself thinking that your money is protected because of the technology behind it.
 
There need to be vast improvements to security if cryptocurrency ever wants to be treated seriously.
 
Sources
https://www.newsweek.com/611-million-cryptocurrencies-stolen-massive-hack-1617999

ah yes, because there has never been a false positive in any AI detection or algorithmic process.
 
it's the classic "think of the children" excuse.
any other company would be crucified on the spot for using anything as a justification to scan through your devices and photos, so Apple should too.
 

The fact that they're based on Chromium makes them not a real choice.
 
Microsoft's abandonment of Edge is one of those cases that made me go "OK but that's cedeing control to google in a big way"
 
Opera, was understandably never competition because it never did something different that other browsers did other than an integrated vpn system... WAY late in it's life after adopting the chromium engine.
 
Firefox has always been a #2, an alternative to being controlled by Google, but then they kowtow to google things and it's like ... what is even the point?
 
These companies are too big for their britches and keep trying to get their users to do things they don't want to do:
- The incomplete H2 upgrade that resulted in pretty much nobody turning it on in their servers
- The forcing of HTTPS everywhere that was unnecessary, and spreading FUD about 
- The removal of FTP support that was mean-spirited and makes access to a lot of legacy systems impossible.
- Constant changes to require cloud accounts for absolutely awful privacy-destroying reasons
- Making the disgusting change to enable WASM by default, thus re-introducing every flaw we got rid of Java and Flash for. The malware/webminers took advantage of it, and it's a constant problem now.
- Changes to EMCAScript (JavaScript) that make it difficult to maintain legacy code.
- Attempting to depreciate cookies for alternatives
- Attempting to depreciate javascript API's to make it harder to block ads
 
Meanwhile:
- Still no h264, h265, VP8/VP9, AVC or AV1 support across devices
- Still no uniform AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, or Opus support across devices
- Inconsistent support of animated PNG's, GIF, WebP, WebM
- No content-protection mechanisms, instead relying on "app"'ification of webapps.
 
You literately can not build a website that works on everything... the problem we've had since 1995. It's getting worse, not better.
 
Websites are getting super-bloated with garbage because of things like javascript and WASM being used to create the site rather than actually using the HTML5. At least when pages were server-side generated, the client was only sent the code they needed. Now it seems like every website needs you to download MB's of framework/libraries and if you turn javascript off, the site doesn't even load.
 
That is where we are at. We're basically overdue to abandon "the web" for something that isn't controlled by google, but people don't want to give up convenience.
 

What makes things even worse is that those 50 million users were not just random uneducated people who just switched to Chrome because Google's website said "download Chrome, it's fast". The people who switched were informed users who had gone out of their way to use Firefox before, but switched for some reason(s). 
 
Personally I switched to Edge. Mozilla spent too much time and money on giving their executives massive bonuses and "woke" campaigns and not enough on actual development of their browser. They started constantly falling behind on new features and performance. 
When they laid off all the people on the MSDN team, the dev tool team and the people working on their new engine I felt like it was time to abandon ship as well. They were already behind before, but with less developers they would just keep falling behind even more. 
 
Doesn't help that their horrible CEO said that she wouldn't cut C-suite salaries to 500K a year because it would put too much burden on those people. Imagine paying yourself 2.5 million dollars a year, publicly saying other leaders within the company deserve more than 500K a year (because a 500K salary would apparently be a "burden" to live on), and then firing a large portion of your programmers because "Boo hoo the pandemic has lowered our incomes".