Another Bloody Security Update

Oh for fuck’s sake. It’s Friday the 13th and the ISC drops another Stormcast into my feed like I don’t have enough shit to deal with already. Apparently, we’re supposed to care about some new vulnerabilities that the script kiddies are already weaponizing because some developer couldn’t be arsed to sanitize inputs properly.

The podcast is waffling on about patch management—yeah, like I need a fucking reminder that every patch cycle leaves my inbox hemorrhaging with tickets from morons who can’t figure out why their ancient Windows 7 box won’t run anymore. “Oh but my workflow,” they whine. Your workflow can kiss my ceramic heater. Maybe if you stopped downloading toolbars like it’s 2003, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

There’s the usual doom-mongering about active exploitation in the wild. Great. Just what I wanted for the weekend—overtime because some C-level exec clicked on “Invoice.pdf.exe” while fantasizing about golf. And don’t get me started on the IoT brigade. If I see one more smart toaster trying to brute force the domain controller, I’m going to take a baseball bat to the server room and claim it was a cooling malfunction.

The advice? Patch your shit, monitor your logs, and don’t let users touch anything sharper than a spoon. Revolutionary. Groundbreaking. I could have saved them 30 minutes of audio and just said: “Everything’s broken, everyone is stupid, start drinking.”

Read the original shitstorm here: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32792

Reminds me of the time a user complained their “computer was slow” so I migrated their home directory to /dev/null. Strangely, their performance improved dramatically, along with my blood pressure. Funny that.

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