Comment: Security through legislation? (Score 1) 122
Connect your SCADA units to the Internet through VPNs running on embedded hardware. There, all it too was one sentence
ps: Stuxnet only runs on Microsoft Windows
+ - Slashdot has racist fortune file 1
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An anonymous reader writes "Found this on the bottom of the slashdot page:
Q: What do you say to a Puerto Rican in a three-piece suit? A: Will the defendant please rise?
Really? Is that supposed to be funny?"
Q: What do you say to a Puerto Rican in a three-piece suit? A: Will the defendant please rise?
Really? Is that supposed to be funny?"
+ - Who is Avunit? The Hunt for LulzSec's Mysterious Sixth Member->
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DavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit, has been able to remain unidentified despite the FBI having turned the group's leader Sabu into an informant. Who is Avunit? And does he hold the purse strings of the group's Bitcoin wallet which could have up to $180,000 in it?"
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Comment: Vaccines and side effects .. (Score 1) 272
"Although they have far fewer side effects, the new shots don't offer long-lived protection the way older vaccines do".
And there never was any danger with the old ones ...
Child compensated for damage from MMR Vaccine
And there never was any danger with the old ones
Comment: Generating revenue from social networks? (Score 1) 159
"Yahoo is a major corporation with a need to .. make the latter more of a significant cash generator"
Would anyone care to describe how any of these 'social` networks are making money?
Would anyone care to describe how any of these 'social` networks are making money?
Comment: 2003: The risks of a monoculture .. (Score 1) 42
"Government institutions are among the targets of an attack on Pakistani bodies, which originates in India, according to reports. The campaign is using vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to install the HangOver malware"
Sep 2003: CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
Sep 2003: CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
+ - 450 Million Lines Of Scanned Software Code Can't Be Wrong->
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CowboyRobot writes "The 2012 Coverity Scan Open Source Report details the analysis of more than 450 million lines of software code. Key findings this year suggest that code quality for open source software continues to mirror that of proprietary software. Defect density (defects per 1,000 lines of software code) is a commonly used measurement for software quality. Coverity's analysis found an average defect density of .69 for open source software projects that leverage the firm's own scan service. It also found an average defect density of .68 for proprietary code developed by the firm's own enterprise customers. Both have better quality as compared to the accepted industry standard defect density for good quality software of 1.0."
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+ - 10 things you may not know about Ethernet ->
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coondoggie writes "Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology."
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+ - Aaaar!!! Microsoft sues Ebix over software piracy->
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McGruber writes "The Atlanta newspaper reports that in a lawsuit suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Microsoft claims Ebix has been selling pirated Microsoft software.
In its lawsuit, Microsoft said Ebix enrolled in a licensing program that allowed it to license its software at a volume discount on a pay-as-you-go basis. The “Select Plus” program provides master copies of Microsoft products and clients can make as many copies of the software they wish provided they order and pay for it promptly, the suit says.
Microsoft said Ebix refused to submit license orders monthly, refused to keep records of products it used and would not agree to be audited, all terms of its agreement, the suit says. Ebix provides software products and e-commerce services to more than 100 companies in 50 countries. The companies include life, annuity, health and property & casualty insurance providers.
On May 1, Ebix agreed to be acquired by Goldman Sachs for $20 Per Share in Cash, a transaction valued at approximately $820 million, including the assumption of any outstanding debt. (http://www.ebix.com/pressrelease_text.aspx?artid=263)"
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In its lawsuit, Microsoft said Ebix enrolled in a licensing program that allowed it to license its software at a volume discount on a pay-as-you-go basis. The “Select Plus” program provides master copies of Microsoft products and clients can make as many copies of the software they wish provided they order and pay for it promptly, the suit says.
Microsoft said Ebix refused to submit license orders monthly, refused to keep records of products it used and would not agree to be audited, all terms of its agreement, the suit says. Ebix provides software products and e-commerce services to more than 100 companies in 50 countries. The companies include life, annuity, health and property & casualty insurance providers.
On May 1, Ebix agreed to be acquired by Goldman Sachs for $20 Per Share in Cash, a transaction valued at approximately $820 million, including the assumption of any outstanding debt. (http://www.ebix.com/pressrelease_text.aspx?artid=263)"
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Comment: Technology becoming easier to implement? (Score 2) 235
"technology is becoming easier to implement without having an IT professional, he said. Also, the option of turning to outsourcing creates less pressure to increase wages"
Such analysis dreamed up by delusional management everywhere, how to get rid of their own IT staff and since they don't understand IT, it must be easy !
Such analysis dreamed up by delusional management everywhere, how to get rid of their own IT staff and since they don't understand IT, it must be easy !
+ - Skype backdoor confirmed ..->
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An anonymous reader writes "I was disappointed the rumoured skype backdoor is claimed to be real, and
that they have evidence. The method by which they confirmed is kind of odd
- not only is skype eavesdropping but its doing head requests on SSL sites
that have urls pasted in the skype chat!
Now I've worked with a few of the german security outfits before, though not
Heise, and they are usually top-notch, so if they say its confirmed, you
generally are advised to believe them."
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that they have evidence. The method by which they confirmed is kind of odd
- not only is skype eavesdropping but its doing head requests on SSL sites
that have urls pasted in the skype chat!
Now I've worked with a few of the german security outfits before, though not
Heise, and they are usually top-notch, so if they say its confirmed, you
generally are advised to believe them."
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+ - Why do corporations still leak your personal details in plaintext?
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An anonymous reader writes "Having entered my personal details (full real name, home address) to websites with an "https://" prefix in order to purchase goods, I am still being sent emails from companies (or their agents) which include, in plain text, those same details I have entered over a secure connection. These are often companies which are very keen to tell you how much they value your privacy and how they will not pass your details on to third parties. What recourse does one have to tell them to desist from such behaviour whilst still doing business with them if their products are otherwise desirable? I email the relavent IT team as a matter of course to tell them it's not appropriate (mostly to no avail), but is there any legislation — in any territory — which addresses this?"
+ - Android kernel GPL violation continues to unfold->
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An anonymous reader writes "Prominent GPL violator, Chad Goodman, of Anthrax Kernels has published a new manifesto defending his shady practice of distributing Android kernels without sharing source."
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+ - RPiCluster: Yet Another Raspberry Pi-based Beowulf Cluster 2
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TheJish writes "The RPiCluster is a 33-node Beowulf cluster built using Raspberry Pis (RPis). The RPiCluster is a little side project I worked on over the last couple months as part of my dissertation work at Boise State University. I had need of a cluster to run a distributed simulator I've been developing. The RPiCluster is the result. I've written an informal document on why I built the RPiCluster, how it was built, and how it performs as compared to other platforms. I also put together a YouTube video of it running an MPI parallel program I created to demo the RGB LEDs installed on each node as part of the build.
While there have certainly been larger RPi clusters put together recently, I figured the /. community might be interested in this build as I believe it is a novel approach to the rack mounting and power management of RPis.
Further Information:
Press Release, Report (Technical Details), Demo Video"
While there have certainly been larger RPi clusters put together recently, I figured the
Further Information:
Press Release, Report (Technical Details), Demo Video"
Comment: When Ubuntu introduced Unity .. (Score 2) 133
I've been using lubuntu for a long time, so haven't noticed ...