How the coffee-machine took down a factories control room : talesfromtechsupport
A coffee machine was plugged into both a secure network and also connected to the main wifi network, and became a vector for malware to take down the factory’s control room. Security is hard
(tags: coffee-machines fail security networking wifi)
Ireland’s staggering hypocrisy on climate change | Environment | The Guardian
The national climate policy is a greenwash – the country is certain to miss its 2020 emissions target and still handing out drilling licences
(tags: guardian green greenwashing ireland politics energy future climate-change nmp oil fossil-fuels)
EBS gp2 I/O BurstBalance exhaustion
when EBS volumes in EC2 exhaust their “burst” allocation, things go awry very quickly
(tags: performance aws ebs ec2 burst-balance ops debugging)
Breaking open the MtGox case, part 1
Earlier today news broke of an arrest in Greece of a Russian national suspected of running a large-scale money laundering operation focused on Bitcoin. The man has since been publicly identified as Alexander Vinnik, 38, and over $4 billion USD is said to have been trafficked through the operation since 2011. We won’t beat around the bush with it: Vinnik is [WizSec’s] chief suspect for involvement in the MtGox theft (or the laundering of the proceeds thereof).