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Submission + - Thousands of Hacked Servers from Fortune 500 Companies Available for Rent (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: Hacked systems inside the networks of Fortune 500 companies are being offered on rent by hackers with and without administrative privileges it has been revealed. There are about 17,000 systems available on rent and many Windows servers are available for access through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Surprisingly one of the systems with such access is from Cisco Systems’ network with administrative privileges and was available for as low as $4.55. Members of Cisco security team have confirmed that the server is indeed part of the network but is a bad lab system.
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Submission + - Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others (networkworld.com) 1

BButlerNWW writes: "Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others.

AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes." It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. AWS later reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and its Elastic Beanstalk application plaform also experienced failures on Monday afternoon."

Comment Re:You think this is a Game? (Score 1) 483

Considering GoDaddy didn't give a rats ass when they kept our website down for 2 weeks because they couldn't figure out how to manage ColdFusion (this happened right before they announced giving it up)....during this process in which they convinced us to PAY FOR 2 more years of ColdFusion hosting...in which 4 months into it they announced they were discontinuing ColdFusion.

It doesn't matter if you like or hate ColdFusion, the point was they offered it, we paid for it, and they spent 2 weeks dinking around getting it back up running after they moved the site around to non-ColdFusion servers (without our request or approval.). I didn't choose GoDaddy to begin with, I was just stuck having to support it until those decision makers were kicked to the door. Good thing the website isn't that important, in our business. (We host our own email.)

I personally grinned. Nothing annoys the shit out of me more than IT people that treat other IT people like crap and feed us full of crap (and we know it the minute they say it) and get paid so much to do it when you know damn well they don't do their job worth a crap.

Sorry. Off tangent. Maybe I am still a little bitter from the whole experience with them.

Comment Re:The PC is Dying (Score 1, Insightful) 622

Go to the airport. Look at an airplane. Now look at your tablet. Now back at me. Now back at your tablet. Sadly, you can't read the specifications and dimensions listed on the blueprint for that airplane on that tiny ass screen. Look at the Internet, and now back at me. Your ISP has blocked retrieving that file from the iCloud because it's "too large/over bandwidth limit/insert other MPAA/RIAA restriction".

I'm telling you. Schools need to haul kids out to the field again. Let them get a real sense of what the rest of the working world has to deal with before they are allowed to make any decisions.

Comment Re:The PC is Dying (Score 5, Insightful) 622

Stop that. Please, I beg of you. Stop saying PC dying. I have yet to see a tablet that can handle the Autocad/Mastercam/Catia drawings that we work with. I don't want to be stuck having to build this shit from scratch, or purchase a server just so people can use the software they have to use every day.

Before you all go off on 'virtual server/blahblah' I'm telling you, we have tried, and nothing beats having each user have a PC at their desk using the software to do their work. Just because we can make the PC last 5 years before having to replace it, doesn't mean that the PC is dying.

Keep your stupid investor hands off the PC market. Seriously. - Love, Aerospace Manufacturing

Comment That's All Fine And Dandy.... (Score 5, Interesting) 163

I would prefer to see someone research radical changing of desktop configurations possibly indicating brain aneurysms. I have noticed twice in my working career that people that suddenly change their background color to something like magenta, or fiddle around with the size of their text non-stop (aka one day they contact support because the text is too small, next day they contact support because the text is too big.) end up within 6 months being in the hospital because of a brain aneurysm. No Joke.

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