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Bob Morales posted:Sure, I would be happy to assist you with this question. To add to the list, she also keeps repeating these things: Kristen B: Thank you Kristen B: Gotcha! Kristen B: One moment to take a look into this for you. Kristen B: Great! Checking with you now Maybe she's a robot! Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Don't run mobile banking on wifi for a while. If your bank is susceptible to an HTTPS downgrade attack then change banks
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Oct 16, 2017 21:16
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I haven't read of any Windows patches that mitigate this. Don't trust wifi on windows, even fully up to date, until Microsoft dead-on confirms a certain patch resolves the Krack exploit. You're safe if you don't see a pimply kid nearby with KALI linux and a USB wifi dongle with an antenna nearby.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:19
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I haven't read of any Windows patches that mitigate this. Don't trust wifi on windows, even fully up to date, until Microsoft dead-on confirms a certain patch resolves the Krack exploit. How about this one from last week? MS silently included a patch for it in the October 10th package.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:35
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Thanks Ants posted:If your bank is susceptible to an HTTPS downgrade attack then change banks Well I guess technically your mattress isn’t vulnerable, but they aren’t very good about processing direct deposits.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:42
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Well I guess technically your mattress isn’t vulnerable, but they aren’t very good about processing direct deposits. Your direct mattress deposits tend to dry up over night I've heard.
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Posting from infosec thread:Proteus Jones posted:https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/ccs2017.pdf So, it sounds like windows was never vulnerable to the majority of the vulns since it didn't fully implement wpa2 spec, but was vuln to the group key attack hence that microsoft patch.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:00
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Irritated Goat posted:With the Krack poo poo going around, I was discussing it with the boss\admin. Idly discussing wireless security, he's insistent on hiding the SSIDs of the wireless APs. Here's a concise explanation from an authority: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/steriley/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids/ Here's one with more punch from a lesser authority: https://lifehacker.com/5636856/is-hiding-your-wireless-ssid-really-more-secure Good luck finding anything of repute that suggests hiding them is a good idea. At the very least, make him a wager on the increase in the number of tickets you expect out of this.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:01
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porkface posted:Good luck finding anything of repute that suggests hiding them is a good idea. Is Tony considered reputable? 
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Dick Trauma posted:Is Tony considered reputable? The Dunning-Kreuger effect means that in his own mind, he's the most reputable person around!
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Oct 16, 2017 22:13
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porkface posted:Here's a concise explanation from an authority: The worst part is, he knows drat good and well it isn't helping security so..  "It's always been that way" strikes again. It's real frustrating when you're in the financial sector, see obvious security issues and want to fix them but get stopped cause it isn't a hit on the audit for some reason.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:36
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I was just in the consultant/COO's office because he was having issues with Apple Mail and our Exchange server, and I noticed several copies of our floorplan were on his desk. He'd mentioned a little while ago that "major musical chairs" was coming up. I didn't look closely but he indicated the office he was thinking of moving me to. It was my original office! Except this time there would be furniture. No idea if Bill will end up next to me again but I was stoked to see that he wasn't intending to stick me in a punishment cube or some other drat thing. I much prefer the view from that office, and it was nice being near the server room, as well as in a place with actual foot traffic. Being at a dead end is too quiet, even for me.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:52
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Bob Morales posted:Rackspace's useless, yet 'fanatical' support reps are all spouting this line: this is literally true. I've worked those jobs, and you have a huge set of macros and triggered responses to save time. when i was at hostgator we had a quota of 55 tickets responses per hour.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:edit3: Android and Linux were the most vulnerable because they can be made to simply not encrypt their traffic (encryption key of all 0). Don't run mobile banking on wifi for a while. Your mobile banking application shouldn't be sending plaintext data in the first place, since the cellular networks are not meaningfully encrypted or robust against attacks like fake cell towers that relay your info. Everything you use on a phone should thus already be something you'd feel safe using on a completely open wifi network.
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Oh man I guess I missed out this morning. Apparently one of the trucking companies we do a ton of business with, a rep stopped by with a platter of donuts and apple cider from one of the local places that does $9 caramel apples and hayrides and all that poo poo in the fall. Owner came down and chewed the guy out for 'bringing that unhealthy poo poo in here, you should have just brought us some apples' 
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Oct 17, 2017 00:46
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Bob Morales posted:Oh man I guess I missed out this morning. Apparently one of the trucking companies we do a ton of business with, a rep stopped by with a platter of donuts and apple cider from one of the local places that does $9 caramel apples and hayrides and all that poo poo in the fall. I’m so angry that I don’t have a $9 carmel apple right now.
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Agrikk posted:I'm on vacation, gently caress you if you think I'm taking a work call. If there was a predefined understanding that the employee was on call or pageable while on PTO then the employee is a dumbass. A little late responding to this one but I wonder if he carried a printer all the way back into the office as well. Seriously though, a good manager would have run interference for the guy. A few years ago one of our sites had an outage and before our CIO got the full story (our side) she wanted me written up for it. My director refused and told our VP that he would take the heat if needed. My VP ran interference as well, another stand up guy I'm really happy to work for. Our side of the story was that we handed off the change info and the local IT team did not take it to the change board. Oh, and the site decided to not invest in a DR plan because they were trying to save money so we had nothing to fail over to while we were troubleshooting the issue.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:33
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RFC2324 posted:this is literally true. I've worked those jobs, and you have a huge set of macros and triggered responses to save time. When people open chats with our helpdesk, there are tons of canned responses. We weren't required to use them and almost no one did because typing is faster than scrolling through a giant list, but it definitely is A Thing. You get the same thing with ISPs and stuff that obviously use a script.
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MANime in the sheets posted:When people open chats with our helpdesk, there are tons of canned responses. We weren't required to use them and almost no one did because typing is faster than scrolling through a giant list, but it definitely is A Thing. The guys with the insanely high ticket counts would macro parts of of sentences and string those together. I could never get my mind to work that way tho.
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RFC2324 posted:this is literally true. I've worked those jobs, and you have a huge set of macros and triggered responses to save time. And, having done tech support, I call such folk "binder monkeys".
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porkface posted:Here's a concise explanation from an authority: The MS article is offline at the current time, so here's the latest Wayback Machine snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20170823020550/https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/steriley/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids/
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Bob Morales posted:Oh man I guess I missed out this morning. Apparently one of the trucking companies we do a ton of business with, a rep stopped by with a platter of donuts and apple cider from one of the local places that does $9 caramel apples and hayrides and all that poo poo in the fall. Did a surprisingly large number of staff suddenly take a quick break outside the front entrance at the same time?
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Bob Morales posted:Owner came down and chewed the guy out for 'bringing that unhealthy poo poo in here, you should have just brought us some apples'
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm starting to wonder if your boss had a girlfriend stolen by a baker in his youth or something. He knows the terrible secret of the Muffin Man of Mulberry Lane.
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Replying in a public chat room to a PM and not realizing it until the time to delete or edit the message has passed.
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Virigoth posted:Replying in a public chat room to a PM and not realizing it until the time to delete or edit the message has passed. The one good thing about Teams. You can delete a message at any time. How bad is the comment?
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Oct 17, 2017 18:37
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MANime in the sheets posted:The one good thing about Teams. You can delete a message at any time. Nothing bad. Someone was just asking me a question about something that happened yesterday and I was telling them who worked on it. I save my work bitching for Hangouts with loyal teammates who have been invited in and this dead, gay forum.
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Virigoth posted:Replying in a public chat room to a PM and not realizing it until the time to delete or edit the message has passed. I have a rule that I never say anything in any email, chat, messenger, or on a phone that I won't want our clients to see. Once at $AWFUL_JOB the owner/boss got me on the phone and asked me to talk about a client, they had just caused a huge production issue and were trying to pass the blame and not pay an invoice. At the time I happened to be logged into our phone system, and I noticed that there as another number called into the boss' line listening it, turned out the be owner the client in question, I recognized the Caller ID. I hemmed and hawed around answering directly, and my boss kept goading me to say something, but eventually I just said "this is going to sound weird, but I'm logged into our phone system and I see that this is a three way call with $CLIENT, is there like a hung channel or something?" Boss was silent for a minute, I asked again, and then he said "well, ok $CLIENT he got us, yeah, he's on the call." I was pretty stunned, I still don't know what he was trying to do.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I have a rule that I never say anything in any email, chat, messenger, or on a phone that I won't want our clients to see. Something about being under a bus comes to mind.
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Koskun posted:Something about being under a bus comes to mind. But how would one get under a bus?
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I have a rule that I never say anything in any email, chat, messenger, or on a phone that I won't want our clients to see. Also whoa, that scenario you described is very, very weird. I'd have been pretty upset about that, as I imagine you were.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:This is a lesson that everyone has to learn, unfortunately. I've been burned a few times. I'm never outright unprofessional in email, but I can be pretty flippant. And I've had a few times where I replied to an email with a small trusted group with a comment like "I'll be happy to do that as soon as customer stops blocking us at every turn", only to find that reply buried 4 deep in a chain that now includes the customer. I'll usually create a reason to reply all to the thread, while quietly removing the offending email from the chain. Also, you never put something in an email you wouldn't want someone other than the recipient to see. Because that recipient will forward and/or print out that email and other people will see it. And you'll be hosed. Say it in person.
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I've had a number of people mention / complain that my emails come off as very dry and toneless, as if I'm unaware or that I'm not doing it on purpose. I've had one vendor tell me I should lighten up and include some smilies so they can feel more comfortable with my emails. They got fired this year.
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Sounds like you need to send everything in comic sans and find a nice tiling pink background on a wallpaper site.
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I've got 100k to spend on a machine and one of the sales apes I've been subjected to only uses email to notify me that he's going to call, just called, or is calling now. I've repeatedly told him I prefer to stick to email and he keeps calling and calling and guess what dickhead I don't care if your machine gives handies and is way under budget, I'll never ever buy it from you 
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tactlessbastard posted:I've got 100k to spend on a machine and one of the sales apes I've been subjected to only uses email to notify me that he's going to call, just called, or is calling now. I've repeatedly told him I prefer to stick to email and he keeps calling and calling and guess what dickhead I don't care if your machine gives handies and is way under budget, I'll never ever buy it from you 100k on a single server? Why?
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I've had one vendor tell me I should lighten up and include some smilies so they can feel more comfortable with my emails. They got fired this year.
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Thanks Ants posted:It could be a CNC More or less, yes.
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