evacideFeb 2
Notepad++ publishes a blog post saying they caught a probably-Chinese state actor hijacking their product in an attack against highly-selective targets that began last June: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++

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@evacide It's ironic that my company blocks anything with that domain in it. Including the SMB share we're supposed to download it from...

In this case, I'm a sysadmin and won't be able to read and react to this because IT has it blocked.

These are the same people who allow access to the Daily Mail, but not The Guardian...

Show threadBredrollFeb 3
@agreeable_landfall @evacide omg what morons do you work for? how is the sabotage going?
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@Bredroll @evacide LOL. It's a large company, and IT has always believed "all computers belong to us." So whenever a rule gets in the way, the answer is always, "We should take over management of that machine."

I run off-net systems, which are unique to the specific contract we are developing hardware and software for. So...they don't have the skills to manage that.

Even the DSS on-site guy thinks they are morons. ;)

That said, we *do* have people who are sharp. Just no one I've met.

Feb 3 at 2:01amWeb
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Feb 3

@agreeable_landfall

You remind me of a big company (~130k) that I had worked for about 15 years ago. In my department (R&D), we were pretty free to run whatever we liked, so most of us ran Linux. I recall going over to corporate IT for something and someone there asked "What's Linux?" (I must give some credit for at least asking.)