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Submission + - Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Final Flight (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1 on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:38AM

Velcroman1 writes: Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center, led by mission commander Mark Kelly on the final mission for the youngest vehicle in the space fleet.

Over 6 million pounds of thrust from the shuttle's rocket booster carried Endeavour into orbit, at speeds of up to 19,000 miles per hour, for an expected meeting with the International Space Station on Wednesday.

"It's incredible how you can see this machine hurled into space like the fastest fastball ever thrown, going to Mach 25 — 25 times the speed of sound — and it's an incredible race to orbit," former NASA astronaut Tom Jones said. "It's one of the greatest physical sensations an human can experience," he added.

Submission + - Old Steel Mill to Become Green Data Center (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by

miller60

on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:34AM

miller60 writes: "An old steel plant near Trenton, New Jersey might seem an odd location for a "green" data center. But not to Steel Orca, a company developing a data center that plans to tap the Delaware River for its cooling system and power its servers using electricity from landfill gas and solar panels. The project is being built on the site of a former U.S. Steel plant."

Submission + - Obama Administration Reveals Cybersecurity Plan (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:28AM

Orome1 writes: The Obama administration has issued a new legislative proposal that contains a number of steps it thinks critical to improving cybersecurity for U.S. citizens, the nation's critical infrastructure and the Government's own networks and computers. The proposed steps for protecting U.S. citizens include clarifying the penalties for computer crimes, synchronizing them with other crimes, and setting mandatory minimums for cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure.

Submission + - First Mobile Wireless Storage for iOS (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:22AM

Orome1 writes: Seagate announced GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device. With 500GB and Wi-Fi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, it provides the ability to carry an entire library of files with you. Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the GoFlex Satellite drive by use of the free GoFlex Media app — available now on iTunes and the Apple App Store — or a web browser.

Journal Journal: Return of the Modus

Journal by modus_operandi on Saturday May 14, 2011 @12:35AM

Well, I'm back. I just logged in to Slashdot for the first time since ... well, I honestly don't remember, but the last time I posted a comment was in the summer of 2002. (My first comment was in February of 2001 -- good grief, have I been lurking for a decade?)

Note to Self: "Do not read your old comments from 10 years ago." What a rank n00b I was! Luckily, I somehow managed to find employment as a Linux sysadmin. Hopefully I've learned something along the way.

Submission + - Unicode Control Characters May Camouflage Malware (h-online.com)

Submitted by modus_operandi on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:49PM

modus_operandi writes: (via FARK.com): Clever malware authors have come up with a way to disguise malicious executable files as innocuous data types by writing the file name backwards. On May 11, analysts at Norman ASA (anti-virus software vendor based in Sweden) published details of the exploit in "The RTLO unicode hole — sequence manipulation as an attack vector". The trick is accomplished by using Unicode control characters such as 0x202E (right-to-left override) and 0x202B (right-to-left embedding). Although the payload is likely to be targeted at users of Microsoft Windows operating systems (which rely on filename extensions to determine whether a binary is executable) the exploit also works on any operating system which handles Unicode correctly. That means Linux and UNIX-based operating systems, including Mac OS X, will also be fooled into displaying a deceptive filename. Luckily, it is not possible to set chmod +x as a default in your umask! Could this technique be used in other, heretofore unsuspected, social engineering attacks?

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