James Kilton - Slashdot User

Comment Re:epic lol (Score 5, Informative) 332

by James Kilton on Friday April 25, 2008 @11:57AM (#23198738) Attached to: 500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked

Wow. The responses on the forum http://forums.iis.net/t/1148917.aspx?PageIndex=1 are sad indeed. Windows Security patches DON'T protect against shittily built websites. My favorite:

I also have been hit by this attack on Saturday 4/12/08. It compromised our database and overwritten that script into all of your products. Luckily a database restore fixed the problem. Two days later the same thing happened, I have changed all the database and login passwords and did another db restore. Now today 4/18/08 we got hit again by the same thing but this time as the pages are loaded ActivX is activated and wants to run but of course I did not allow it. Anybody has successfully solved this situation?

It truely sickens me how many web developers STILL don't know about SQL Injection.

Submission + - Google eyeing its own 'Second Life?'

Submitted by Nashsen on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @10:52AM

Nashsen writes: For some time now, CNET News.com team has been hearing whispers that Google might be looking to get into the virtual world space, particularly in light of the increasing interest of existing environments like Second Life, and the success of Google Earth and the search giant's purchase of the Sketchup technology.

According to TechCrunch, Google may already be testing its own 3D virtual world technology, in a secret experiment at Arizona State University.

Submission + - Amazon DRM-Less Music Store goes Beta 2

Submitted by LowSNR on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @09:25AM

LowSNR writes: Amazon this morning moved their DRM-Free music store into open beta. According to the release, "Since all our digital music downloads are DRM-free, you can play them on anything that plays mp3s including PCs, Macs(TM), iPods(TM), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM), iPhones(TM), RAZRs(TM), and BlackBerrys. Plus, our Amazon MP3 Downloader application makes it easy to add your downloads to iTunes(TM) and Windows Media Player(TM), so you can sync up your devices or burn your music to CD hassle-free." Not to mention Linux.

Submission + - Firefox 3 Antiphishing sends your URLs to Google 1

Submitted by

iritant

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @03:04AM

iritant writes: "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso or the latest version of Firefox, is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."

Submission + - Space Shuttle Fuel Powers New BMW Luxury Sedan (local6.com)

Submitted by Rio on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:37AM

Rio writes: A first-ever liquid hydrogen-powered luxury sedan was tested by NASA at Kennedy Space Center this week. The new BMW Hydrogen 7 sedan uses the same fuel powering the space shuttle to reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent, according to a news release. "It is the high-energy density of liquid hydrogen that allows the space shuttle to be accelerated into space," said Karl Heinz Ziwica, vice president of engineering at BMW. "The same concept is used to power the BMW Hydrogen 7."

Submission + - Linspire CEO leaves (informationweek.com)

Submitted by

Robby Russell

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:15AM

Robby Russell writes: "It appears that Kevin Carmony, CEO of Linspire, has left or stepped down days after the company signed a patent deal with Microsoft. News of the departure was spotted with the release of Freespire 2.0 earlier today when a press released mentioned a different CEO, Larry Kettler."

Submission + - Google shows cell phone prototype to vendors

Submitted by taoman1 on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:42PM

taoman1 writes: Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications, according to a story published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

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