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Opening new products when old ones aren’t empty is wasteful – and he does it to avoid cleaning up

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Apocalypse dumps contestants in an abandoned town without essential supplies. Is it a serious test of endurance or just titillation? Our writer is parachuted in to find out

I have no shame confessing that I’d be a crap companion during the apocalypse. My practical skills are limited, I’d be a right Debbie Downer and I don’t respond well to sharing food. Still, last November, two survival experts spent a morning making a valiant effort to prepare me for Armageddon deep in the rural Indiana countryside.

I had ventured to the US midwest to see the making of Apocalypse, an ambitious new Channel 4 reality series: an eight-parter following 16 people attempting to sustain themselves after an unexplained catastrophe from which only they appear to have survived.

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PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight examples of how not to handle your security. This week’s tale of woe comes from a very unhealthy part of the healthcare sector. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes courtesy of Chris Kirksey, founder and CEO of Direction, a digital marketing and SEO company that works in the healthcare industry. He also does security audits of his clients’ systems. Last year, Kirksey was checking out a dental practice’s systems and noticed something strange. There were three accounts that had admin access to the patient database, including one that belonged to a scheduling company the dentists had stopped using all the way back in 2021. The account had been active for at least three years and could access 4,000 patient records. Leaving an unnecessary account with access to protected health information created a potential HIPAA compliance risk, particularly if someone no longer authorized to view the data could still get to it. The office manager responsible for using the system didn’t even know that this dangerous login existed. Apparently, a contractor who set up the account never told anybody, then left the company. Because no one knew that the account existed, no one knew to kill it. Kirksey immediately set about getting rid of all three admin accounts he found on the dental practice’s system. He then set up new policies for his client. “I built a permanent rule after that,” he said. “Every vendor relationship that ends now triggers an automatic access shutdown and the full list gets reviewed twice a year no matter what.” Since the incident, Kirksey has found similar security holes at six other healthcare practices he has worked with. Yikes! “Everyone worries about the sticky note with a password on it or the file just called passwords.xls, because those get caught fast and make a good story,” he told us. “Nobody worries about the login they forgot even exists, and that is usually the one still wide open years later, causing real, unseen damage.” The lesson here is pretty straightforward. You need to see all of the accounts that have access to your data and make sure that they all have a reason to exist. Conduct regular audits, even if nothing seems wrong. And, as we’ve seen before, zombie accounts can kill. When an employee or contractor leaves, check not only which accounts they used, but also which accounts they created while doing the job. ®

Een salesmedewerker pakt zijn eigen salarisperspectief voortvarend aan. Zijn voorstellen stuurt hij naar de HR-afdeling. Als hij daadwerkelijk een hoger loon claimt, reageert de chef met een duimpje omhoog. Maar meer loon blijft uit. De rechter mag de strijd beslechten.

Elle Cordova (previously, previouslier) has another delightful video about fonts, this time set to the tune of a certain light opera patter song [slyt]

Pretparkeigenaar Wim Beelen heeft doorgezet met zijn dreigement een rechtszaak aan te spannen wegens smaad tegen hem. De ondernemer en het Rotterdamse raadslid Kevin van Eikeren (PRO) treffen elkaar dinsdag 6 oktober in de rechtbank. Beelen sleept de politicus voor de rechter vanwege smaad. De zakenman werd 'spijkerharde speculant', 'patjepeeër' en 'proleet' genoemd door Van Eikeren.

BONGURI has added a photo to the pool:

山が開けると突然巨大な鳥居。赤い橋の向こうに神社がある。この橋を渡ったら帰ってこれなさそうな気がしてしまうのは某映画の見過ぎか。
Photo taken Neo area, Motosu city, Gifu pref.

Duitsland betaalt de hoogste rente op staatsobligaties met een looptijd van tien jaar sinds 2009. Dat komt doordat investeerders een hogere vergoeding, oftewel rente, eisen vanwege de hardnekkige inflatie en toegenomen politieke onzekerheid in het land.

Duitsland is buitengewoon kredietwaardig. Dus als dat land al steeds meer rente moet gaan betalen, zal dat ook gelden voor landen die er hetzelfde of slechter voor staan, zoals Nederland. Die oplopende rente zie je over een tijdje terug in je hypotheekrente.

De Duitse overheid verkocht woensdag via een veiling voor 4,2 miljard euro aan staatsleningen met een looptijd tot augustus 2036, tegen een gemiddeld rendement van 3,39 procent. Dat is de hoogste rente op 10-jarig staatspapier in zeventien jaar.

Wereldwijd zijn de rentes op langlopende staatsleningen de afgelopen weken sterk gestegen door zorgen over overheidsuitgaven, hoge staatsschulden en aanhoudend hoge inflatie. Dat maakt het voor overheden duurder om geld te lenen. Investeerders in Duitse staatsobligaties eisen mogelijk ook een hogere vergoeding door de zware nederlaag die de regeringspartij van bondskanselier Friedrich Merz zondag leed bij lokale verkiezingen.