'Domain Factory' Confirms January 2018 Data Breach (theregister.co.uk) 14
German hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after someone posted messages alleging to have compromised the company. From a report: Acknowledging the attack, the GoDaddy-owned (via Host Europe, acquired in 2016) company has advised customers to change their passwords and detailed the extent of the data breach claimed by the hackers. "While we investigate this data breach, we already know that third parties could have had unauthorised access to the following categories of data: Customer name; Company name; Customer number; Address; E-mail addresses; Phone number; DomainFactory Phone password; Date of birth; Bank name and account number (eg IBAN or BIC); and Schufa score." The company says it has secured the systems the attacker accessed.
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"It entirely eliminates several attack vectors and attack surfaces that software written in C or C++ are vulnerable to."
That only happens when you're a n00b-ass that never picked up a proper programming book - e.g. most Rust programmers.
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If the problem were that simple, everyone would have moved to Rust or similar languages decades ago.
Simple fact, your (evangelical) choice of language does not change how you're forced to express your desires, or fix problems associated with the vast majority of programming errors.
Though there are languages where being "misconstrued" is less likely in a minority of cases, most programming problems are caused by expressing totally the wrong thing and not what you intended at all, not a simple ambiguity of ex
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No, as the fault lies in the underlying Intel MMU [theregister.co.uk] hardware
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"Listen as I relive my glory days of being a college athlete"
The guy ain't no Al Bundy, come on. He's too physically retarded to have ever made it onto a football team with all that time spent sitting down and being a nerd.
The vulnerability appears to coincide with... (Score:3, Interesting)
... the outsourcing of the 24/7 operational server supervision to "LvivIT!", a Ukrainian IT service. Up to 2015, Domainfactory advertised "Hosting made in Germany". Prices increased when DomainFactory was sold to HostEurope and again when HostEurope was sold to GoDaddy.