The mystery around a cyberattack against Venezuela's state-run oil company last December deepens with the discovery this week of a "highly destructive" wiper that may have been used in the attack. Previous reports had indicated that the December attack was a ransomware incident. But the wipr found this week was compiled last September, and hard-coded into it is the domain for Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) , the state-run oil company. The hard-coded domain means the attackers had designed their precision weapon to only destroy data on the oil company's systems, not on any other system outside the company's domain. My story is below. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber if you like my work.

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/hwiper-targeting-venezuelas-state-oil-company-discovered/

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#Books

so i have been learning #sam and #acme properly and oh my god. acme is the best editor i have ever used. i love the fact that it really is an os interface in its own right. i have been completely underutilising it. i now have a setup on my second desktop at all times.

sam just seems like ed on steroids with a lot of the acme benefits of the mouse interface.

i am using acme for actual work or writing and i use sam for quick edits or config files.

#plan9 #plan9port #texteditor