Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by supportengineer on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:57PM (#45661616)

If a company provides a Mac laptop, that to me is a green flag, if it provides a Windows laptop, that is a red flag.

The best company I ever worked at, provided every software engineer both a Mac laptop and a Linux desktop as standard equipment.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by dataflow on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:46PM (#45663223)

What if they provide both?

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by gubicle on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:24PM (#45663546)

My calculations tell me that would be a yellow flag.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by SapporoChris on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:34PM (#45663606)

My knowledge of colors tells me red and green make brown.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by Yokolos on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:06PM (#45663815)

What does a brown flag tell us?

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by mrheosuper on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:03PM (#45664498)

proceed with caution

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by pezezin on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:23AM (#45665485)

#ffff00 is a pretty bright yellow color.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by FireBeyond on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:55PM (#45663296)

My employer provides a Mac laptop with the Office suite. Red flag, green flag, or yellow?

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by nicoburns on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:02PM (#45664145)

Word, Excel, and arguably PowerPoint are still the best tools im their respective classes, so if you mean those then very much a green flag.

If they're also making you use Outlook or especially Teams then they're going to start losing "points".

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by bflesch on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:43AM (#45665628)

Both are a red flag

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by qwertytyyuu on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:28AM (#45667490)

being provided a laptop is a red flag...? unless you get hp or cheap dell, then yeah red flag

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by bflesch on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:47AM (#45680753)

No for me both Microsoft and Mac devices are a red flag.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by esalman on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:00AM (#45668411)

My workplace let's me choose Mac or Dell laptops.

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