And sadly, it looks like the replacement I got off Amazon has a manufacturing defect, boooo

Maybe I could swap the board from the new one to the old screen, which is fine?

Problem is, I have no idea how difficult that would be and don’t see anyone doing this repair online, which means it probably isn’t worth it.

We’ll see if the seller sends me a replacement.

@xabean lololol, true

Repair time!

Today, it is a Macbook Air that had some Arizona Mucho Mango spilled into the keyboard.

A thermal event burned out the display board, which can’t be replaced without replacing the entire screen (boooo)

Long ago, in my practitioner career, I remember thinking

"wow, employees in 8 countries can access 1521 on the datawarehouse server, where we've got over 7 billion rows of credit card transaction data, flat networks are a really bad idea"

it still is

@da_667 it is an extremely important skill

especially on LinkedIn

I don't think I've even THOUGHT about TCP 1521 in at least 15 years. It has always been the #1 spot to create Oracle database mayhem and that doesn't change today.

It has a vulnerability, but that shouldn't even matter - access to 1521 on Oracle DB servers should be SERIOUSLY restricted these days. If you've got a flat/flat-ish network, you should jump on this soonish.

https://www.scworld.com/news/oracle-database-tns-vulnerability-could-leak-data-to-further-attacks

@wendynather ooooh, I've got my copy on my reMarkable, but haven't dug in yet

@mattjay I cannot WAIT to get rid of mine. This is one of the worst-designed devices I've ever owned.

Eagerly waiting on my new Pebble to arrive. 30 days battery life is what they're saying.

Let me set the scene: it has been a LONG week, 60 hours wrapping up an incident. You caught up on a little sleep last night, but still very fatigued when you get up on Saturday morning.

You decide to go to a friend's BBQ anyway. They're cooking up both hamburgers and hot dogs - yet another decision to make, UGH

But no! Some unnamed hero has saved you from having to make that decision!

Another classic from @Javvad — the Work Trip: https://youtu.be/pi93TSwqd4A

So judging by the $256 million dollar sale of 23andMe, your genetic data is worth like $17

https://www.404media.co/23andme-sale-shows-your-genetic-data-is-worth-17/

Organisations still don’t know what is at their network border, don’t have a CMDB, can’t patch, getting owned by children etc etc. Leaders:

Framing is important

@Chip_Unicorn It is nuts. The idea was a full keyboard in an ergonomic handheld form factor. I ran the community for them and used to chat with the inventor regularly. We sadly never saw a wireless version released.

I still have three of them, part of my weird keyboard collection.

@GossiTheDog I was doing product testing full time for a bit back during the pandemic. I haven’t tested the product they mention, but I tested some of their competitors who make similar claims (using self-learning ML tech), and… they didn’t work.

Like, straight up, didn’t detect the most basic, noisy, routine stuff we threw at them.

Sigh. It's possible to remotely, physically locate any O2 mobile customer at any time over the internet with a trivial method using their mobile phone number, due to O2's poor implementation of 4G Calling which, by design, gives away the Cell ID.

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

@GossiTheDog to be fair, IIRC, Coop Sweden went down because their payment provider used Kaseya.

So, it was ransomware on a fourth party, nothing Coop Sweden had any direct control over

@hrbrmstr even Mike Judge wasn’t bold enough to suggest something like this in the script for Idiocracy

@Chip_Unicorn I learned QWERTY and Alphagrip’s layout

Coinbase filed an 8K with the SEC for a breach. They believe multiple insiders have sold customer information to a threat actor who is now extorting them.

It looks like a very significant breach as it includes customers passport scans.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm

#threatintel