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    sGerli got a reaction from Lightwreather in Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury hit by Conti Ransomware   
    I have a few updates now that some weeks have passed since the incident:
    A few local governments were compromised (Garabito, Alajuela) The Ministry of Treasury hasn't been able to restore any of their critical services and has launched a completely new website. Which is giving some weight to reports that said that they allegedly didn't have any backups of their data. Those critical services have been restored using the old ways (paper and banks). On sunday the new president as one of his first official acts declared the country on state of emergency due to the cyberattacks. News articles:
    The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/costa-rica-shows-damage-ransomware-can-do-country/ Time: https://time.com/6169890/cyber-attack-chaos-costa-rica/ Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-ricas-alvarado-says-cyberattacks-seek-destabilize-country-government-2022-04-21/
     
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    sGerli got a reaction from Rauten in Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury hit by Conti Ransomware   
    I have a few updates now that some weeks have passed since the incident:
    A few local governments were compromised (Garabito, Alajuela) The Ministry of Treasury hasn't been able to restore any of their critical services and has launched a completely new website. Which is giving some weight to reports that said that they allegedly didn't have any backups of their data. Those critical services have been restored using the old ways (paper and banks). On sunday the new president as one of his first official acts declared the country on state of emergency due to the cyberattacks. News articles:
    The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/costa-rica-shows-damage-ransomware-can-do-country/ Time: https://time.com/6169890/cyber-attack-chaos-costa-rica/ Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-ricas-alvarado-says-cyberattacks-seek-destabilize-country-government-2022-04-21/
     
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    sGerli got a reaction from Rauten in Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury hit by Conti Ransomware   
    Wednesdays update:
    More government institutions have been compromised, now also the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and the Social Development Fund and Family Allowances (FODESAF). It looks like most if not all of these government institutions had their servers in a datacenter run by RACSA that didn't had proper networking isolation between servers, that helped the ransomware to spread easily.  After the hackers offered a discount on their ransom the president published a statement saying that they wont pay the hackers anything. The hackers have started publishing large collections of sensitive data at an increasing pace.
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    sGerli reacted to BiotechBen in Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury hit by Conti Ransomware   
    Biggest oof? A real foot in mouth event for CR govt. best of luck to you all. Hope it doesn't affect you guys too badly.
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    sGerli got a reaction from Cyberspirit in Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury hit by Conti Ransomware   
    Summary
    The digital systems of Costa Rica’s ministry of treasury “Ministerio de Hacienda” we’re hit on Monday by the Conti Ransomware. This took down all of the countries tax reporting and payment systems on tax pay day. The hackers claim to have obtained 1tb of data that might include financial data from all organizations that operate in the country.
    The countries tax systems were digitalized and centralized a few years ago, so this data could include digital receipts for all reported transactions, and identifiable info from the parties involved in them, contact info, addresses and tax reports from all taxpayers.
    After denying the attack all day the Minister admitted the attack during a live interview with the local tv news channel Noticias Repretel at the end of the day.  He confirmed that currently all systems are down and the ministry of treasury is assessing the situation and working in getting the systems back up.
     
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    My thoughts
    Cyber security and tech in general has always been an afterthought for government entities (specially here in CR).
    The info that could be leaked from this attack is really sensitive as it could even include individual receipts. And during the live interview referenced in the summary, the Minister said that he doesn’t think of this as a real issue because he doesn’t consider any of this information as sensitive.
     
    Sources
    News articles (in spanish, sadly I couldn’t find one in english yet) https://www.crhoy.com/economia/presunto-hackeo-en-hacienda-plataformas-de-atv-y-tica-fuera-de-servicio/
    (Interview) https://www.repretel.com/noticia/ministro-de-hacienda-advierte-que-no-pagaran-a-hackers/
     
    News article in english: https://ticotimes.net/2022/04/19/costa-ricas-ministry-of-finance-website-was-hacked
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    sGerli got a reaction from Ph0enix_216 in DIY VPN Pritunl Setup Tutorial   
    No need to download an extra client like Putty if you are on Windows 10 1809+.
    Windows now includes OpenSSH, just open a cmd or powershell and type 
    ssh hostname  or
    ssh user@hostname  
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    sGerli got a reaction from Morad__T in DIY VPN Pritunl Setup Tutorial   
    No need to download an extra client like Putty if you are on Windows 10 1809+.
    Windows now includes OpenSSH, just open a cmd or powershell and type 
    ssh hostname  or
    ssh user@hostname  
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    sGerli got a reaction from IgorM in DIY VPN Pritunl Setup Tutorial   
    No need to download an extra client like Putty if you are on Windows 10 1809+.
    Windows now includes OpenSSH, just open a cmd or powershell and type 
    ssh hostname  or
    ssh user@hostname  
  9. Funny
    sGerli got a reaction from mohajem in asus z170a usb charging   
    In the bios go to Onboard devices then set USB battery charging support to enabled.
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    sGerli got a reaction from NoRomanBatmansAllowed in What are the limit to youtube uploads?   
    I think there's no upload limit, what can limit you is that your videos can be flagged as copyrighted content and you can get an unwanted advertisement on them or you might get strikes even if they are unlisted or private.
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    sGerli got a reaction from eera5607 in Correct use of CPU installation tool on Asus motherboard   
    I've never used it, I think that with it it's way more difficult.
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    sGerli reacted to MattyHeal in LTT Hosting Random channels on Twitch.tv   
    That was terrible, she built her own computer, forgot what RAM stood for, wasn't sure for a second if it was downloadable or not and then continued to say SLI as a word SLY and it means to have dual computers
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    sGerli reacted to jefferz in LTT Hosting Random channels on Twitch.tv   
    I would have rather listened to Dennis recite Shakespeare than watch that stream again.
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    sGerli got a reaction from Dat Guy in Best Programming Software?   
    If you need an IDE use Visual Studio, if you don't then use VS Code or Atom and probably the terminal or Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
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    sGerli reacted to Gofspar in What should I review next?   
    More Microphones, I feel like they are overlooked in someones setup but when you are a broadcaster or just even use TeamSpeak or Mumble a nice mic really draws people in.
     
    Also Windows on a iMac for some 5k gaming sounds really neat. Also very curious about the real world gaming performance of the  R9 295XM.
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    sGerli reacted to Tech_Dreamer in [update2]Razer laptop prototypes stolen at CES   
    Watch Out , It's Mr.Steal Yo Prototype
     
     

     
     
    #CEsStealingTips
     
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    sGerli reacted to Sauron in [update2]Razer laptop prototypes stolen at CES   
    Plot twist: Linus dropped them, broke them and hid them to avoid ripercussions.
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    sGerli reacted to Doramius in Streaming PC Upgrade   
    Awesome.  I'd love to see what your final decision turns out with.  Overall, I don't think you'll be disappointed with any of your current choices, considering what you're already working with.  But I know you also want to get the biggest bang for your buck, and right now encoding is driving you the processing power, overall.  Good luck on you decision.
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    sGerli got a reaction from paps511 in Planet Coaster!   
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/sgerli 
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    sGerli got a reaction from Thiback in Valve introduces "The Steam Awards"   
    Half Life 2 for "Game That Deserves a Sequel" Award
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    sGerli reacted to iamdarkyoshi in Idea for eliminating bent motherboard/cpu pins...   
    While taking apart some surface tablets at work, I noticed that they uses what I would call an "LGA to LGA" adapter to take the pads on the flat flex ribbon from the battery and join it to pads on the motherboard.
     
    It looked like this on both sides:

     
    Now I was thinking... what would happen if you made a motherboard and CPU, both with pads, and joined them with an LGA to LGA plate of similar style to this one?
     
    As long as cheap replacement plates are availible, this would eliminate the headaches of bent pins entirely.
     
    However, I don't know what the signal losses would be like with two pads of transfer per pin as opposed to one.
     
    Discuss.
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    sGerli got a reaction from johnt in Planet Coaster #1 in Steam   
    It was like a preorder edition in which you get extra stuff like the soundtrack, digital sketchbook, an exclusive in-game mascot, etc... but I think it's no longer available.
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    sGerli reacted to TheRandomness in Planet Coaster #1 in Steam   
    They couldn't be any different.. I started playing yesterday and now I can't stop
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    sGerli got a reaction from johnt in Planet Coaster #1 in Steam   
    No, It's an old video, we'll have to wait for that.
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    sGerli got a reaction from MoonlightSylv in HAL 9000   
    I present to you HAL 9000, my first PC build. This build is my change from Mac to PC after almost 3 years. It has:
     

     
    i5 6600K Gigabyte G1 Geforce GTX 1060 (6gb) Asus Z170-A G.Skill Ripjaws V 16Gb Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5" EVGA Supernova 650 G2 Cooler Master Master Case Pro 5 Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
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