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nacos··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
I used to manage an enterprise fleet of mobile devices.

This AppCloud crap has also been pushed to devices in the Europe Open Market.

I also know that this shouldn't have been installed on enterprise devices (either Android Enterprise managed by MDM or E-FOTA managed - don't remember exactly). We had an akward conversation with some Samsung representatives..

nacos··on OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out
"Bricolo" is kind of a slang term for "Bricolage" which can be translated to DIY / Tinkering.

-cracy as in the ancient greek word that is used in democracy/meritocracy/...

In this specific context, I believe parent is hinting (in a negative way) about the internal culture of OVH that could be interpreted as not up to professional standards ?

nacos··on WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history
Since January 2016. You have to upgrade to Windows 8.1 to be supported and up to date.
nacos··on New Brazilian Banking Trojan Uses Windows PowerShell Utility
As a "corporate" sysadmin using Powershell everyday, I was always surprised that PS is not so used in the malware industry.

By the way, I find that this article[0] linked in the original post is much more interesting if you want to know more about how brazilian malwares work (BHO injection, 2FA bypass, etc.)

[0] https://securelist.com/blog/research/74325/the-evolution-of-...

nacos··on IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes
I don't know how they decommission a zSystem.

But from what the mainframe guys at work told me, hardware between 2 z boxes are pretty much the same and it's kind of licensed by load usage or components usage.

So if you want to downgrade or upgrade memory/CPUs/etc. (to a certain degree), it's just a matter of having an IBM tech to enter the right license in the console.

nacos··on ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP
Some banks would have liked to migrate a long time ago but some ATMs vendors are not very cooperative : their XFS [1] interfaces were not compatible with new versions of Windows .... That's the problem when you are stuck with a locked down plateform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN/XFS