Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20th September 2024

20th September, 2024.

Right … it’s officially Friday … and I’ve got time on my hands!

Or, at least, enough time on my hands to have a phone appointment, this afternoon: with my surgery’s diabetes nurse.

Hopefully?

My sugar levels will have gone down: and I’ll be able to watch the next episode of The Celestial Toymaker with some good news.

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Just as a pointless piece of news?

Did you ever hear of Subbuteo?

It’s a tabletop version of football: where you flick miniature footballers around as part of the game.

I’ve not seen or heard or it: since working in a toy-shop, many years ago.

Until this morning!

It turns out the Subbuteo World Cup starts today: in Tunbridge Wells.

That’s very retro!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20th September, 2017

Hmmm … 

I don’t know if you were aware, but, quite some time ago, news about potential security attacks on computers running the various iterations of OS X — or macOS, as it now is — hit the (Technology) headlines.

Hackers had managed to issue Mac specific malware: by sneaking spiked versions of popular utilities onto the utilities own download pages.

I, and most of the Mac users I know?   Made sure we weren’t infected.   And kept our eyes peeled for other similar attacks.

I think we can say they have.   Between then and now, a major malware attack — aimed at Windows based PCs — took place: spread by spiked version of popular Ukrainian accounting software.

And, only a few days ago?

Another attack on Windows PCs was spread.

By attackers who spiked a version of Piriform’s popular CCleaner utility, and sneaked it onto Piriform’s own site.

I think the worry I and others had — about more malware for Macs — seems to not have happened.

I think that hackers have nicked the idea that was used: sneaking spiked software onto the official sites, in order to spread it.

I think if spiked versions of the big bits of software — Microsoft Office, iTunes, Adobe Acrobat, what have you — there’s going to be hell to pay.

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