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Comment Re:Solution: Public Key Auth (Score 1) 327

Ah, that makes sense.

My comment about secure password treatment stands true for enterprise applications, but for a honeypot it makes total sense to log passwords.

But, suppose you had an administration console to the honeypot that you did NOT want hackers to have access to - like some honeypot report/statistical sub-application - well, for that sub-app you would want to take my advise about password treatment.

Comment Re:India (Score 1) 386

Oh comon - Bangalore College is a degree farm. That one college pumps out more grad's than all of the US probably. It's not the college or the education - it's the individual. Can you play in the world of computers and discrete math? Can you deal with 6 different programming languages to build a modern website? Some folks with PhD's cant play in this world - while some who never went to school are software engineering masters. The only thing my CS degree got me is a piece of paper - and some practice in learning about computers. All that knowledge is not mostly useless - but the understand that CS is all about constantly learning new stuff - priceless.

Bug

Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit 308

Shipment Date writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog has some new information on what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash. The threat, called Clickjacking, was to be discussed at the OWASP conference but was nixed at the last minute at hte request of affected vendors. From the article: 'In a nutshell, it's when you visit a malicious website and the attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits. The problem affects all of the different browsers except something like lynx. The issue has nothing to do with JavaScript so turning JavaScript off in your browser will not help you.'"
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Robotics

Submission + - Robotic suit amplifies human strength (cnn.com)

Heembo writes: "CNN is reporting that Sarcos Inc. from Salt Lake City has been demonstrating a suit can multiply a person's strength and endurance as many as 20 times. This project is a result of a two-year contract US Army worth up to $10 million, and initial field tests are planning to start next year. Although the The Army's exoskeleton research dates to 1995, this is the first project to yield results so astounding that Raytheon bought Sarcos' robotics business last November.

"It takes no special training (to use the suit), beyond learning to relax and trust the robot.""

Security

Submission + - My merchant is not even close to PCI compliant (slashdot.org)

Heembo writes: One of my merchants is storing all credit cards for the last 10 years in a password protected MS Access database that is on their poorly managed active directory network as well as in their custom, poorly coded registration system. What do I do besides stop doing business with them and change my card?
Businesses

Dell Rethinking the Direct-Sales Market 278

Dell has always sold directly to consumers via their web site and phone operations; it's a basic element of their business. Chairman and chief executive Michael Dell is now conceding that the company may need to rethink basic practices by considering alternative methods of selling their products. While initially no specifics are given, the thought seems to be than eventually the company will begin working with a retail chain. "Dell's direct model came under pressure as the market for PCs shifted to notebooks from desktops last year. It is harder to custom configure notebook computers, so they had to be manufactured in advance, which lost Dell some of its cost advantage. In addition, consumers were showing a preference for touching and feeling a notebook PC before buying it."

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