Comment: Re:Dear lord, not Deckard Cain (Score 1) 423
Common you can tell who ever did his voice was just trying to sound like Sean Connery. It makes me laugh every time i hear him.
In a world of trolls isnt a filter needed?
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An anonymous reader writes "With all the countless trolls here on slashdot wouldn't it be nice to have a filter so there is a way to avoid some of the anonymous posters that say the stuff that makes this site hard to view in the presence of some? A simple option of say filtering any posts that drop the n bomb for instance. Don't you think its time that shashdot implemented something like this?"
stop talking about ubuntu 2
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An anonymous reader writes "I find it funny how people who can't use a real vers of linux go to Ubuntu brag about how they use linux and how great of an OS it is. Guess what its horrible no one cares that you run it and you dont need to refer to the fact that you run it in every fucking post on slashdot. STOP POSTING NO ONE CARES WHAT UR OS IS."
Phishing group caught stealing from other phishers-> 1
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An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft has written about a website offering free phishing kits with one ironic twist — they all contain backdoors to steal stolen credentials from the fraudsters that deploy them.
Deliberately deceptive code inside the kits means that script kiddies are unlikely to realize that any captured credit card numbers also end up getting sent to the people who made the phishing kits. The same group was also responsible for another backdoored phishing kit used against Bank of America earlier this month."
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Employees find Privacy Leak, then punished->
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DeeQ writes "University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have advised more than 200 employees their personal information was inadvertently released on the Internet.
The information included e-mail addresses, phone numbers and Social Security-based campus ID numbers of faculty and staff who made purchases from a campus computer shop. It had been accessible on a campus Internet site for at least a year.
Spokesman Brian Rust said the university learned of the potential exposure after a staffer found information about his own purchase during a routine online search. He said employees involved in the exposure were reprimanded but declined to say what their punishment entailed. He said there's no indication the information was misused.
The revelation is the third privacy breach disclosed by state government agencies this month."
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Spokesman Brian Rust said the university learned of the potential exposure after a staffer found information about his own purchase during a routine online search. He said employees involved in the exposure were reprimanded but declined to say what their punishment entailed. He said there's no indication the information was misused.
The revelation is the third privacy breach disclosed by state government agencies this month."
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The State of Security in MMORPGs
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Anonymous writes "Security researchers Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw poked around in World of Warcraft and other online games, finding vulnerabilities and exploiting the system using online bots and rootkit-like techniques to evade detection. Their adventures in online game security became fodder for the book,
Exploiting Online Games. McGraw
discussed with securityfocus the state of security in modern video games, cheating and anti-cheating systems, how the market for cheats, exploits, and digital objects is growing, what we could learn from the design of these huge systems, and how game developers react to submissions of security vulnerabilities."
Has Microsoft Learned Anything from Vista Failure?->
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abudd writes "With Windows 7 on its way, has Microsoft learned anything from its mishaps with Vista? According to this article, "I'm a former Windows user and despite me being appalled at Vista being called "ready for prime time," I believe that considering the painfully obvious lessons on compatibility Microsoft had to learn with Vista, it's quite possible that Windows 7 may indeed be a solid OS release. If indeed, Microsoft does decide to start over completely (MinWin anyone?) and this time, make sure that both hardware and software compatibility are running well out of the box, there is no question that MS can save face with a well thought out Windows 7 release."
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Norwegian Air to offer in-flight phone service ->
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DeeQ writes "OSLO (Reuters) — Budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA said on Tuesday it will offer mobile phone and wireless Internet services on flights later this year.
The company will also provide travel information for passengers, broadband telephone services and mobile banking.
The on-board services, to be launched in the fourth quarter, will be provided by a new subsidiary, Call Norwegian AS.
"Call Norwegian will be an Internet-based mobile telephone company, and the products will be focused on primary mobile telephone services (network service)," Norwegian Air Shuttle said in a statement."
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The company will also provide travel information for passengers, broadband telephone services and mobile banking.
The on-board services, to be launched in the fourth quarter, will be provided by a new subsidiary, Call Norwegian AS.
"Call Norwegian will be an Internet-based mobile telephone company, and the products will be focused on primary mobile telephone services (network service)," Norwegian Air Shuttle said in a statement."
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FCC clears Google to bid in wireless auction->
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DeeQ writes "Communications regulators have cleared Google to bid in an upcoming auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according to auction documents released by the Federal Communications Commission on Monday. Google was among a list of potential bidders released by the FCC that have made a required up-front payment and have been cleared to take part in the high-stakes 700MHz wireless auction.
The auction is scheduled to begin on January 24 and expected to raise at least $10 billion for the U.S. government from airwaves being returned by television broadcasters as they move to digital from analog signals in early 2009. As expected, the list of qualified bidders also included U.S. wireless providers AT&T and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone, as well as ventures involving EchoStar Communications, Cablevision Systems, Qualcomm, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen."
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The auction is scheduled to begin on January 24 and expected to raise at least $10 billion for the U.S. government from airwaves being returned by television broadcasters as they move to digital from analog signals in early 2009. As expected, the list of qualified bidders also included U.S. wireless providers AT&T and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone, as well as ventures involving EchoStar Communications, Cablevision Systems, Qualcomm, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen."
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MuleSource readies open source SOA governance->
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DeeQ writes "San Francisco — Branching out in the SOA space, MuleSource will introduce Tuesday its Mule Galaxy software, an open source SOA governance platform with an integrated registry and repository.
The company also will refresh its Mule open source ESB (enterprise service bus) and offer Mule Saturn, a lightweight BAM (business activity monitoring) tool that works with the ESB.
Mule Galaxy 1.0 stores and manages SOA artifacts and provides governance and lifecycle management. MuleSource is positioning Galaxy, Mule, and Saturn as products that make SOA infrastructure software more accessible to enterprises. The Community edition of Galaxy is available now, and a fully tested enterprise edition is due in the second quarter of this year.
"I think that's a great idea because the fact that it's open source allows a lot more transparency into what the code is doing and how it is doing it," said the user, Eugene Ciurana, director of systems infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, makers of LeapFrog educational toys. LeapFrog has no plans to use Galaxy because its transactional systems do not leverage its Mule software."
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The company also will refresh its Mule open source ESB (enterprise service bus) and offer Mule Saturn, a lightweight BAM (business activity monitoring) tool that works with the ESB.
Mule Galaxy 1.0 stores and manages SOA artifacts and provides governance and lifecycle management. MuleSource is positioning Galaxy, Mule, and Saturn as products that make SOA infrastructure software more accessible to enterprises. The Community edition of Galaxy is available now, and a fully tested enterprise edition is due in the second quarter of this year.
"I think that's a great idea because the fact that it's open source allows a lot more transparency into what the code is doing and how it is doing it," said the user, Eugene Ciurana, director of systems infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, makers of LeapFrog educational toys. LeapFrog has no plans to use Galaxy because its transactional systems do not leverage its Mule software."
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New Hack Attacks Can't Be Blacklisted->
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DeeQ writes "The security firm Finjan says it has discovered a major new type of malware that has infected more than 10,000 Web sites in December alone. Deemed "random js toolkit," it is a Trojan that infects end users' PCs and sends data from the infected machine to the "master" hacker. It can be used to steal passwords, documents and other sensitive information.
The malware dynamically creates and changes JavaScript code every time it is accessed, Finjan said. Thus, traditional anti-malware programs can't identify it.
Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak said in a release, "Signaturing a dynamic script is not effective. Signaturing the exploiting code itself is also not effective, since these exploits are changing continually to stay ahead of current zero-day threats and available patches. Keeping an up-to-date list of 'highly-trusted-doubtful' domains serves only as a limited defense against this attack vector.""
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The malware dynamically creates and changes JavaScript code every time it is accessed, Finjan said. Thus, traditional anti-malware programs can't identify it.
Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak said in a release, "Signaturing a dynamic script is not effective. Signaturing the exploiting code itself is also not effective, since these exploits are changing continually to stay ahead of current zero-day threats and available patches. Keeping an up-to-date list of 'highly-trusted-doubtful' domains serves only as a limited defense against this attack vector.""
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DELL UK: Linux more expensive than Vista 1
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NdotNdot writes "Setting out to configure a Linux notebook at Dell UK, I discovered a special £50 discount that is offered for the equivalent Vista notebook but not for the version with Ubuntu installed. Adjusting the main memory to the same size, the otherwise identical notebook is then £10 cheaper if Windows is installed. Starting to wonder who is behind this special discount?"
Google bans Incredimail from using AdSense 3
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An anonymous reader writes "Web search giant google has decided to stop giving adsense services to software company Incredimail. This has resulted in Incredimail's shares going down more than 45 percent. For those who don't know, Incredimail is a company which based it's revenue on a rich mail client which allows it's users to embed messages with animations. More info can be read here"
The Register: Brighton professor bans Google->
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And don't even think about Wikipedia
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The professor of media studies at the University of Brighton has had enough of students turning in "banal and mediocre work" and decided that Google and Wikipedia must go.
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The Register: Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo spiel spied on web?->
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Real or fake - read the outline then decide...
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Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote has been leaked. Well, sort of, and assuming it's not Fake Steve Jobs' Fake Macworld Expo Fake Keynote, of course. Here's the transcript - you decide...
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