maybe thats why israel will be surprised at an attack from the north. not believing the bible. believing an agreement is in place More information on the conflict: Things are getting very serious, very quickly. Heavenly Father please de-escalate this conflict and protect the innocent on both sides. :prayer-hands: Warning ... just a heads up caution (republicworld.com) is not secured. As I was trying to read the article a pop-up screen appeared saying congratulations I won a prize with Verizon to claim my gift press this button yada yada yada ... so I ignored the hackers request and shut down my iPad completely and cleared out all cookies and re-signed in again. I’m still in the dark as to why Turkey wants Armenia? Do they have oil/gas fields? Speaking about hacking ... check out what happen to the coffee machine ... hooooooow .... tragic! B-) K Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be ... its best to drink lovely tea, yes tea ... :whistle: Coffee Machine Hit By Ransomware Attack—Yes, You Read That Right Forbes My office is full of gadgets and gizmos, as you might expect of a technology journalist. Among them, one stands proud of all others when it comes to my productivity: the coffee machine. Perhaps that is why I have opted for an old-fashioned, dumb, and disconnected device to brew my morning expresso. As security researchers from Avast discovered, smart coffee machines can not only be hacked but can be hacked with ransomware. In a September 25 blog posting, Martin Hron, a senior researcher with security vendor Avast, described how he set about discovering if he could hack a smart coffee machine without first compromising either the network it was connected to or the router itself. The short answer is yes, yes he could. And how. Upon switching on the coffee machine in question, the researcher discovered that it acted as a Wi-Fi access point, establishing an unencrypted, unsecured connection to a companion app. This enabled him to start investigating the firmware update mechanism employed. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the updates were also unencrypted, without any authentication or code-signing involved. Hron did what any good hacker would do and proceeded to reverse-engineer the firmware stored within the Android app. Initially, Hron was looking to turn the device into a cryptocurrency mining machine rather than one that churned out coffee. It was possible, he discovered but would be rather pointless given the speed of the CPU. Having spent some time on the problem, Hron managed to produce a working ransomware attack that was both persistent and hard to ignore. The trigger for the attack was the command that connects the machine to the network, and the payload some malicious code that "renders the coffee maker unusable and asks for a ransom." But Hron didn't stop there; he also got that triggered code to permanently turn on the hotbed and water heater as well as the coffee grinder. The only way to silence the now manic machine being to pay the supposed ransom or, of course, pull the plug from the mains. Plug it back in, however, and the onslaught continues anew. OK, so the chances of any malicious hacker discovering that you had an internet-connected coffee machine of the right make and with the relevant vulnerabilities is, to say the least, pretty slim. The chances of that hacker then deciding it would be worth the time and risk as this would still be a cyber-attack, for potentially little reward even slimmer. I mean, how much would you pay to get your coffee machine back? Certainly no more than the cost of just replacing it, and that's hardly prohibitive in the overall scheme of things. As noted by Ars Technica, more concerning would be a reversal of this hack with the coffee machine being programmed to attack the router or other network-connected devices. Something, Hron said, could likely be achievable with more work. The smart coffee machine used was an older generation, no longer supported, model according to Hron. I have reached out to the vendor for a statement and will update this article in due course. - Fair Use - Hmmm... I never got that warning. Sorry about that. 🙁 Turkey and Azerbaijan are closely related culturally and linguistically. They have spoken in the past of a union of nations. Armenia basically stands in the way of that, geographically. Well, Armenia and Georgia, both Christian nations. Turkey has around 90 million people. Azerbaijan has about 10 million. Both authoritarian countries. Armenia, a democracy.... about 3 million. Armenia does not have any oil and gas, as far as I know. A rather poor country economically as they are blockaged by a hostile Azerbaijan and Turkey. There has long been tensions since the Turkish people invaded about 1,000 years ago. It's quite complicated, really. :wacko:
Davey Winder
9/27/20
