Daily Archives: 2020-03-08

ESR banned from OSI over this email

Posted on 2020-03-08 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Phrases I say from time to time and always feel a little gross about: "I think ESR is right."
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Computer systems at UK and UK HealthCare hobbled by massive, month-long cyber attack

Posted on 2020-03-08 by pappp

Source: Kentucky.com -- State

Article note: HL article has _considerably_ more detail than UK's PR pap. UK clearly got hit by cryptocurrency mining malware like a month ago, thinks they finally kicked it this morning, and it sounds like it probably infected the big probably-licensed-from-SAP administrative systems. ...now if only we could get a trim for some of the administrative bloat those systems are selected by and entirely for the benefit of.

The University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare conducted a major reboot of their computer systems early Sunday morning in an effort to end a month-long cyber attack that university officials … Click to Continue »

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