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Submission + - South Korea Suffers Massive Network Attack 1

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: South Korea is trying to figure out the cause of massive computer network failures at major TV stations and banks today. At least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN, and two banks Shinhan Bank and Nonghyup, reported to the National Police Agency (NPA) that their computer networks were entirely halted around 2 p.m. for unknown reasons, police said. The suspects unsurprisingly include North Korea, but nothing has been determined yet, officials have said. Warnings reportedly appeared on some computer screens from a previously unknown group calling itself the 'WhoisTeam', showing skulls and a message stating it was only the beginning of 'our movement'.

Comment Re:With all the stolen businesses from other state (Score 2) 116

by akboss (#43112945) Attached to: Spaceport Development Picks Up Steam In Texas
We dont want your unwashed masses, if we did we get them cheaper just over the border (or home depot). We do want all your businesses to relocate here sans employees (we will provide). Gun makers should move here too as the rest of you really dont want or need them but they are part of our heritage. I bet we could swing a deal and send say Houston to Detroit and you give us Ford.

Comment Re:Politics, still they don't get it (Score 1) 172

by akboss (#43082175) Attached to: Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style
Yeah thats it we booted him because of us. Not because he wasnt a good president. Not because even cute little bunnies tried to attack him while he fished. Not because he told us that for our own good we need to quit doing the things we want because it will make us safer.

I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel.

This one had to hurt when he said it.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning....

Not to say that it was that very same movie actor that ended up bringing down the Berlin wall freeing all those East Germans. Nah Jimmy telling us how he beat that rabbit with his oar was just soooo much better. Or Jimmy leaving me to sit on Diego Garcia 11/5/79 loaded for war because he couldnt pull the trigger.
Privacy

Submission + - Hospital unresponsive to multiple alerts about stolen data (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "Security experts trying to tell a rural hospital that sensitive data belonging to its staff and possibly patients sits exposed on the Internet have been stymied since last week by the fact that no one at the medical facility will respond to their repeated warnings. “This is more commonplace than you might suspect,” says a healthcare professional who volunteers for the Open Security Foundation and blogs about privacy issues under the pseudonym Dissent Doe. “I've gone through hoops trying to notify various city agencies at times, and have gotten no responses to attempts to alert a major Canadian newspaper, a major U.S. health insurer where patient info was available on the web if you knew where to look, and a number of small businesses. And those are just the ones I can recall offhand.”"

Submission + - DOJ admits Aaron's prosecution was political (tumblr.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The DOJ has told Congressional investigators that Aaron’s prosecution was motivated by his political views on copyright.
I was going to start that last paragraph with “In a stunning turn of events,” but I realized that would be inaccurate — because it’s really not that surprising. Many people speculated throughout the whole ordeal that this was a political prosecution, motivated by anything/everything from Aaron’s effective campaigning against SOPA to his run-ins with the FBI over the PACER database. But Aaron actually didn’t believe it was — he thought it was overreach by some local prosecutors who didn’t really understand the internet and just saw him as a high-profile scalp they could claim, facilitated by a criminal justice system and computer crime laws specifically designed to give prosecutors, however incompetent or malicious, all the wrong incentives and all the power they could ever want.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: VPN reviews and the new ISP six strikes Agreement (pcmag.com) 1

Submitted by Whorhay
Whorhay writes: In view of the news that many of the major ISPs in the USA are enacting a six strike agreement this week, I have developed a keen interest in using a VPN for my home internet connection. My google foo skills though are apparently lacking as I was not able to find much in the way of reviews for VPN services that didn't appear to be marketing chaff. So I'm turning to Slashdot to ask: What VPN services do you recommend and why?
Security

Submission + - Stuxnet's Earliest Known Version Discovered and Analyzed (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Symantec researchers have discovered an older version of the infamous Stuxnet worm that caused the disruption at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz: Stuxnet 0.5. According to a whitepaper released by the researchers at RSA Conference 2013, Stuxnet 0.5 has first been detected in the wild in 2007 when someone submitted it to the VirusTotal malware scanning service, but has been in development as early as November 2005. Unlike Stuxnet versions 1.x that disrupted the functioning of the uranium enrichment plant by making centrifuges spin too fast or too slow, this one was meant to do so by closing valves.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is there honestly a reason to use Ubuntu anymore? 6

Submitted by Trilkin
Trilkin writes: I recently installed Linux Mint on my (non-technically savvy) grandmother's netbook and she's responded very well to it. I'm considering doing the same for her desktop, but my question is this: being that Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, is there any real compelling reason to actually use Ubuntu anymore? It seems so much more bloated. I'm aware that, under the surface, it's basically just a fork of Debian and Linux overall is a OS that can be tinkered with to be the exact environment you need. As an out-of-the-box desktop distribution, though, from my own testing, Ubuntu seems to be the weaker of the two thanks to its continuously growing amount of bloat in order to push its paid-for services. Is there really any real reason to use it over Mint? Outside of the paid-for services, is there anything it offers out of the box that Mint simply doesn't?

Submission + - European Court of Human Rights finds against copyright law (falkvinge.net) 1

Submitted by admiral snackbar
admiral snackbar writes: The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with fundamental Human Rights, as defined in the European Union and elsewhere. This means that as of today, nobody sharing culture in the EU may be convicted just for breaking the copyright monopoly law; the bar for convicting was raised considerably.

Submission + - Radical new Space drive (wired.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Noctis-Kaban
Noctis-Kaban writes: Scientists in China have built and tested a radical new space drive. Although the thrust it produces may not be enough to lift your mobile phone, it looks like it could radically change the satellite industry. Satellites are just the start: with superconducting components, this technology could generate the thrust to drive everything from deep space probes to flying cars. And it all started with a British engineer whose invention was ignored and ridiculed in his home country.

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