As mentioned in an article by Mircea Popescu's on Clinton infosec failures, United States Air Force fraud and abuse investigations dating back to 2004 were lost when a database became corrupted. Lockheed Martin did not notify the Air Force of the catastrophic failure until two weeks after it occurred. Amongst the 12 years worth of lulz lost were files belonging to the USAF Inspector General’s office that detailed personal information and allegations of cases of fraud, waste and abuse. The involved parties are seeking assistance from outside data recovery forms to assess the situation and see if any of the information can be restored. Sorry for your loss.
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Gawker Media Files Bankruptcy Papers And Goes On Auction Block
Gawker Media Group has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection and has begun to auction its business with Ziff Davis1 opening the bidding. Assests are officially estimated2 to be in the 5o million to 100 million United States dollar range while liabilities are estimated to be in the 100 to 500 million United States dollar range. Gawker Media and certain affiliated persons owe 140.1 million United States dollars after losing a court case involving their public humiliation of the private person Terry Bollea (WOT:nonperson), a man who plays a character named "Hulk Hogan" (WOT:nonperson, also fictional character) on television. Proceeds from the sale will reportedly be used to promote this confusion in front of appellate courts following its failure during the trial. The filing of the lawsuit put founder Nick Denton's (WOT:nonperson) control of Gawker media on precarious footing and he ended up surrendering authority to various committees as his blogspam writers unionized. During its run under Nick Denton's management Gawker Media alienated any actual writers they managed to employ while working to normalize endemic morbid obesity with pro-Transmayo propaganda. Whoever acquires Gawker Media at auction will be burdened with a web "property" attached to a workforce protected by a Union contract. Sorry for you loss.
uTorrent Forum Hacked
The forum for file sharing software uTorrent was reportedly compromised on June 6, according to announcement on site. The forum was notified of the breach by Invision Power Services, Inc. which produces the software platform the forums run on. The site has approximately 385,000 users, and the uTorrent team believes that the entire user database containing hashed passwords was compromised. The attack highlights the problems with existing forum software, which has been highlighted by Mircea Popescu on trilema. Peace in our time.
Dr. Joseph Bielanski Reappointed to California Community Colleges Board of Governor
The amorphous blob of old woman to the left guarantees by zhir very presence Continued Leadership in Public Education for a bright future of Progressive Human Rights, Democracy and Other Good Things!
Fats of Fortitude & Pace in our Time!
Social Media App Interaction Times Decline
Time spent in interactions between users and their social media apps is in decline over a set of social media apps that consists of Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. Sorry for your loss.
US Newspapers Band Together In Defense Of Malware
The Newspaper Association of America has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, begging them to prevent users from blocking their often malware-infested ads and evade paywalls. (archived) Qntra is proud to offer an ad-free experience, preserving journalistic integrity and respecting user autonomy.
Mere 265 Bitcoin Sell Causes Flashcrash At Coinbase, Chronically Thin Orderbook To Blame
The reported price at fiat/Bitcoin interface Coinbase almost exactly one hundred United States dollars per Bitcoin after a single sell of 265 Bitcoins demolished their orderbook. The Coinbase "exchange" like the Winkelvii (WOT:nonpeople, possibly arbuscular mycorrhizal organisms) operated Gemini exchange manifests a hypothesis made famous by the late American philosopher Yogi Berra that a venue can be so popular no one patronizes it. Coinbase exchange and anything the Winkelvii touch generate substantial lamestream attention creating an appearance of popularity, but incidents where people actually try to use these platforms to trade seriously reveal that there actually isn't anyone using the places to conduct their business.
Remains Of Hewlett Packard Go All In On Remains Of Syfy Franchise
In a press release today Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a venture cast off from printer ink scam and former technology powerhouse Hewlett Packard1 in 2015, announced it had bought the plotline to "Star Trek Beyond" from producers of the film as a marketing vehicle for an upcoming product launch. Created by Gene Roddenberry (WOT:nonperson) the Star Trek Syfy franchise helped to kickstart Hollywood's shift to an annuitized business model2 which allows for a predictable return on investment by telling audiences "STFU, these stories are connected." The product driving the plot of the film is yet another Unix machine produced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (TM)(R) running with an odd build of Linux3 instead of HP-UX and a novel form of memory together united in the way the marketing department imagines it will work after 250 years of bug fixes.
The piece of the historical Hewlett Packard's corpse which most closely carries out the original's work was severed in 1999 and now goes by the name Agilient Technologies. ↩
At present the outwardly healthiest of these motion picture annuities is operated by Disney utilizing their acquired comic book properties. ↩
Correction: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (TM)(R) scrapped their oddball Linux portion of this product in favor of running a less peculiar flavor of Linux ↩
Teamviewer User Information Hacked
The summer of scams continues full swing with users of the remote access tool Teamviewer as the latest targets. Social media was abuzz late yesterday with reports of Paypal accounts being drained, email accounts being compromised and unauthorized purchases being made on Amazon and eBay, with many users speculating that TeamViewer itself had been hacked. The TeamViewer website also suffered an outage of around 3 hours, leaving users unable to connect to their PC's remotely. The company was quick to respond on their website stating that "the source of the problem, according to our research, is careless use, not a potential security breach on TeamViewer’s side." It was further stated that the website outage was due to a unrelated DNS issue and denial-of-service attack. Some users had reported seeing a Windows malware called webbrowserpassview.exe showing up in their logs, indicating that the scammers were possibly using a variety of methods to gain entry into the victim's computers. Continue reading
Social Media Warrior Follows LinkedIn Hack With MySpace Hack
The hacker known as Peace, who Qntra reported was responsible for the leak of LinkedIn data, has announced he is now in possession of passwords and emails for more than 360 million MySpace users and will be selling access for the price of 6 Bitcoin. Although unclear when the data was originally obtained, it is believed to be from an old unreported breach from June 2013. MySpace, once the dominant social media site a decade ago has shifted it's focus to becoming a music network and was purchased by Time, Inc. in February of this year. MySpace attempted to sooth fears on it's blog stating "No user financial information was therefore involved in this incident; the only information exposed was users’ email address and Myspace username and password." although research shows password reuse across sites generally leads to further incidents. MySpace claims they have almost one billion registered users and 50 million unique visitors per month.