Entries by Rayne

Friday Morning: Damned Long Week Done

If another artist of note has died, don’t tell me. After losing David Bowie and now Alan Rickman this week, I can’t deal. We should have had another 20 years with these guys. I can think of some people I’d trade to have them back, can’t you? JetBlue had a boo-boo: temporary data center service […]

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Thursday Morning: Fast and Furious Edition

Insane amount of overseas news overnight. Clearly did not include me winning $1.5B Powerball lottery. Attacks in Jakarta and Turkey are no joke. Let’s move on. Some U.S. utilities’ still wide open to hacking Dudes, how many times do you need to be told your cheese is still hanging out in the wind? Some heads […]

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Wednesday Morning: Wonderful, Just Wonderful

I debated about posting Jonny Lang’s Lie to Me. Nah, we’re lied to every day, might as well ask for the truth for once, even if it’s ugly. The truth is that nothing’s okay though we wish like hell it were otherwise. That said, let’s forge on into the fraught and frothing fjords… ‘Nope.’ That’s […]

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Tuesday Morning: The Week’s Peak Crey

I cannot with the unexpected engagement picture in my Twitter timeline of news oligarch Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall, on the heels of losing David Bowie and in the wake of El Chapo-Penn. Tell me this is the craziest it will get this week. D-Day for Microsoft’s earlier Internet Explorer versions In case you […]

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Ukraine’s Power System Hacking: Coordinated in More than One Way?

Analysis by industrial control team SANS determined hacking of Ukrainian electrical power utilities reported on 23-DEC-2015 was a coordinated attack. It required multiple phases to achieve a sustained loss of electricity to roughly 80,000 customers. SANS reported they “are confident” the following events occurred: The adversary initiated an intrusion into production SCADA systems Infected workstations […]

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Monday Morning: So — We Meet Again

Monday: the bad penny we never escape, turning up once again beneath our cart’s wheels just as we set in motion. Just give a hard shove, push on, and don’t look back. Volkswagen’s bad news, good news as Detroit’s auto show opens Bad news first: In news dump zone on Friday afternoon, we heard Volkswagen […]

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NOT Trash Talk: Watch This Space

Most unsportsy member of the Emptywheel team here, throwing up a placeholder post to catch the sports stuff. Commenter Lefty665 “seeds the kitty”: How about them Redskins? Gonna kick some Cheesehead butt. Rogers has all the history, but since the bye Cousins has been the better QB. GM Scott McCloughan has turned the ‘Skins around, […]

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Friday Morning: Looks Like We Made It!

Looks like we survived the first business week of the year, made it through floods and fire and other apocalyptic events. Can’t imagine what next week will bring at this rate. Saudi Arabia may sell shares in oil producer Aramco Listing Aramco could create the most valuable company in the world, worth over a trillion in […]

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Wednesday Morning: Otherwise Known as Mike-Mike-Mike Day

My condolences to the poor Mikes among us who have suffered every Hump Day since Geico’s TV commercial became so popular. North Korean nuclear test detected by ‘earthquake’ About 10:00 a.m. North Korean local time Wednesday, an event measured at 5.1 on Richter scale occurred near the site of recent underground nuclear testing. South Korea […]

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