If you are like me and have some systems with fully encrypted disks, where you can’t or don’t want to be physically present for a system (re)boot, or which don’t have OOBM/KVM/CIMC access, this might be for you!

Pirates Mikulas Peksa and Patrick Breyer worked until the last minute to try and fix at least some of the numerous risks of the EU digital identity scheme. In a major victory, Member States will not be obliged to assign a single unique ID number to every citizen. Signing up for the eID app will be voluntary, and it will remain possible to access public and private services by other existing identification and authentication means. The app client will be open source.

A Simple and static blog generator in manpage design - written in Python.

And no tour of the idiocracy is complete without mentioning Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire CEO of Facebook, who blew through ten billion dollars trying to create the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, only for it to turn out that his ambitious commercial virtual reality environment had no legs.

Speaking as a science fiction writer, I'd like to offer a heartfelt apology for my part in the silicon valley oligarchy's rise to power. And I'd like to examine the toxic role of science fiction in providing justifications for the craziness.

Es gibt keine Spuren mehr, die wir aktiv verfolgen. Die, die wir hatten, sind alle im Sand verlaufen.“

Und Apropos "Hackerangriff": Die Hacker waren über ein Phishingmail in das System gelangt und hatten so Zugang auf einen Fileserver erlangt.

“Slow Horses” is darkly funny espionage drama that follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. In season three, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman) and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself.

Wie der WDR berichtet, steckt hinter dem Hackerangriff auf den IT-Dienstleister Südwestfalen-IT (SIT) die Ransomware-Gruppe Akira. Ihr soll es gelungen sein, Daten auf Servern von SIT zu verschlüsseln. Die Forderung nach einem „hohen Lösegeld“ wollen die betroffenen Kommunen indes nicht erfüllen.

Der IT-Dienstleister meldet indes erste Fortschritte. So soll die erste Phase der forensischen Analyse inzwischen abgeschlossen sein. Darauf basierend will das Unternehmen noch in dieser Woche eine Priorisierung der wiederherzustellenden IT-Systeme für spezifische Fachverfahren der kommunalen Verwaltungen fertigstellen.

Geplant seien für das kommende Jahr ein Relaunch der App Digitales Amt und neue digitale Ausweise. Der digitale Personalausweis und der digitale Zulassungsschein sollen schon im kommenden Jahr kommen, „das ist fix“, so Tursky.

Wer das neue Outlook ausprobiert, riskiert die Übertragung seiner IMAP- und SMTP-Zugangsdaten zu Mailkonten sowie sämtlicher Mails an Microsoft-Server. Zwar erklärt Microsoft, der Wechsel zurück auf die bisherigen Apps sei jederzeit möglich – die Daten liegen dann aber schon beim Unternehmen.
Microsoft kann dadurch die Mails mitlesen.

Ein Verhalten, das Outlook für mobile Endgeräte schon länger praktiziert ...

“So it says here you’ve held executive positions at Theranos, FTX and most recently, WeWork.”

“That’s right, I’ve dedicated my career to non-profits.”

Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Thursday won backing from Europe's top court in their fight against an Austrian law requiring them to delete hate speech or face fines of up to ($10.69 million).

The Austrian law, enacted in 2021 and which obliges Big Tech to publish regular reports of illegal content, comes amid mounting concerns worldwide about hateful posts.

Karl Lauterbach hat gerade ein sehr langes Synonym für "riesige Datenbank mit Patienteninformationen" erfunden, das am Ende wieder nur eine Datenbank ist.

In addition to public services, Very Large Online Platforms designated under the Digital Services Act (including services such as Amazon, Booking.com or Facebook) and private services that are legally required to authenticate their users will have to accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet for logging into their online services. In addition, the wallets' features and common specifications will make it attractive for all private service providers to accept them for their services, thus creating new business opportunities. The Wallet will also facilitate service providers' compliance with various regulatory requirements.

Recently, I became aware that Exim has a relatively aggressive list of message headers to sign with DKIM, and as a result we somewhat reduced the list of headers to sign in our environment. As it happens, Exim has several options for how it signs headers, which are briefly covered in the documentation for the dkim_sign_headers setting in (DKIM) Signing outgoing messages. The effects of these options aren't really clear until we understand the various meanings of DKIM signing message headers.

some day you try to connect to some new system and get rudely disconnected before you get prompted for a password. The direct answer to what's happening is that you've run into the server's limit on how many different authentication options it will let you try

When a tech bro tries to understand life through his techbro-glasses, he comes up with this "batch vs. event loop culture" allegory.

"Modern tech, meanwhile, is pure event loop" - not the tech you want to be able to rely on, trust me. ;)

In AT hatten wir dazu ja schon 2015 den Realitätsabgleich, als der "Vertrauensdiensteanbieter" A minus Trust (A-Trust.at) vergaß, sein root Zertifikat in den Browsern zeitgereiht zu erneuern und damit eGovernment in AT zum erliegen brachte,
https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/behoerden-websites-keine-vertrauenswuerdige-verbindung/147.690.445

To pull off all those revelatory and often highly controversial actions, Direct Action Everywhere (which uses the abbreviation DxE) has also spent years evolving its toolkit and operational rigor—from communications security and physical stealth, to penetration tactics for getting inside factory farms and slaughterhouses. It has also long maintained a manual of its own methods for those operations. Now, for the first time, it's publicly releasing that guide.

Despite the “how-to” tone of the guide itself, do not try this at home. DxE investigators frequently face criminal charges, and DxE's critics in the agriculture industry and in law enforcement describe the group as radicals with extreme tactics.

Ein landesweitere Ausfall bei Australiens zweitgrößtem Telekomanbieter Optus sorgte dafür, dass mehr als 10 Millionen Australier*innen weder Telefon- noch Internetverbindung hatten. Die Störung zog sich am Mittwoch über Stunden. Dadurch wurden Zahlungssysteme und der Online-Betrieb lahmgelegt. Auch gab es Chaos im morgendlichen Berufsverkehr, da Zugnetze und Mitfahrdienste in einigen Städten kurzzeitig ausfielen.

EU policymakers should have the “courage and fair-mindedness” to pursue a sovereign cloud and regulate American cloud providers under the EU antitrust law on digital markets, Michel Paulin, CEO of the leading French provider OVHcloud, told Euractiv in an interview.