Weekly Security Recap: Yet Another Shitshow of Vendor Incompetence
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. Another week, another barrel of digital sewage dumped on us by the brain-dead morons who call themselves “security professionals.” I’ve seen smarter organisms growing on week-old pizza, and those aren’t actively trying to sell me SD-WAN solutions that have more holes than a cheese factory in a shotgun testing range.
So apparently these fuckwits decided that authentication was just a “suggestion” rather than a requirement. SD-WAN 0-day? More like SD-WAN 0-fucks-given. Your branch office network is currently being rimmed by every script kiddie from here to Vladivostok because some developer thought “hardcoded credentials” was a feature, not a career-ending mistake. I’d tell you to patch it, but let’s be honest, you’re still running Windows 7 and think “password123” is high security.
And don’t get me started on the critical CVEs. Fortinet? Cisco? Juniper? Same shit, different logo. These boneheads release patches slower than a sloth on Valium, meanwhile the CVEs are being exploited faster than I can say “I told you so.” If I had a quid for every time some muppet ignored a security bulletin because “the system is critical and can’t be rebooted,” I’d have enough money to buy a baseball bat to beat some sense into you lot.
Then there’s this Telegram probe bollocks. Oh no, the authorities want to read your encrypted messages? Shock fucking horror. You were sharing state secrets and illegal pornography on a platform literally developed by a Russian entrepreneur, and you’re surprised when governments come knocking? Grow a pair and use Signal, or better yet, don’t use your phone to plot the overthrow of civilization while sitting on the toilet. The metadata alone could choke a horse, you absolute weapons.
And the icing on this shit cake? Smart TV Proxy SDKs. Your television isn’t just spying on you anymore—now it’s a full-blown proxy for every botnet herder east of the Danube. You bought that 85-inch surveillance device because “the picture quality is amazing,” and now it’s DDoSing a hospital while you’re watching Love Island. I hope you’re proud, you technologically illiterate meatbags. Maybe stick to reading books, except you’d probably find a way to get ransomware on a paperback.
Patch your shit, monitor your logs, and for the love of all that is unholy, stop clicking on emails promising free iPads. Or don’t. I get paid either way, and frankly, watching you burn is the only entertainment I have left.
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Back in the day, we had a user who complained his “SD-WAN” was slow. Turns out he’d plugged his router into a toaster because “they both had slots.” I “fixed” it by moving his desk to the parking garage and replacing his chair with a cactus. The toaster had better security than his firewall anyway, and at least it made decent toast while it burned his house down.
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