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+ - Debate On China Hack Attacks: Play Offense Or Defense? ->

Submitted by kierny
kierny writes "How should U.S. businesses respond to allegations that the Chinese government has been waging cyber espionage using advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks since at least 2006? Shawn Henry (who was America's top cyber cop at the FBI) and John Pescatore (who was America's top cyber security analyst at Gartner) debate the question of whether businesses should focus on information-sharing, identifying their adversaries and providing this information to law enforcement agencies; or whether the attacks should instead drive businesses to not waste time trying to ID their attackers (leave that to the government), but instead focus on better defending against all attacks by shoring up their defenses."
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Printer

+ - This is a one piece 3D printed crossbow->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Lots of interesting things are being made (or printed) using 3D printers. Take this crossbow for example, printed entirely in one piece, including the trigger and catch. The only part that was not printed was the string."
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+ - Backdoor Found in HP LaserJet Pro Series Printers->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "US-CERT has warned users about a backdoor present in HP LaserJet printers that would allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to data. A total of 10 models of HP’s LaserJet Pro series of printers are affected by this vulnerability. The printers can be accessed through a telnet session without requiring a password thereby giving remote attackers access to unencrypted data. According to the advisory, users who own the affected printers should update the printer’s firmware to patch the vulnerability."
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Comment: OS/2 was XP A decade earlier (Score 1) 94

by Nick (#43045431) Attached to: eComStation 2.2 Beta, the Legacy of OS/2 Lives On
OS/2 was XP a decade earlier, IBM just dropped the ball in their marketing department. I have fond memories of dual booting Warp with Slackware. Good to see eComStation is at it still. I might just have to pay the $159 or whatever it is for a personal license now that it can be ran inside VirtualBox.

Comment: What I did was... (Score 1) 247

My situation was a little different. When Linuxworld.com launched back in '98 or so, it was it's own site and didn't redirect to networkworld.com. Not too long after launch they made user registrations available. For some reason I was screwing with the URL in the address bar and accidentally hit enter.. they had left 'directory browsing' enabled and stored the username/email/password list in clear text inside the webroot. I emailed them and didn't get a response. The next day I emailed them the list and within an hour they disabled all user registrations, the feature was completely removed from the website but still didn't ever get a response. I never visited the site that much so I have no idea if they ever went back to it, but I still can't believe someone would develop something that stored passwords, email adresses and usernames in clear text in a flat file, inside the webroot.

Comment: Nope, just following normal procedures. (Score 1) 232

by digitalmonkey2k1 (#41785237) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy?

"Several people I know in the mid-Atlantic region have been ordering generators and stocking up on flashlight batteries and easy-to-prepare foods."
Emergency supplies are always on site, including satellite phones (for some reason the idiots in charge think they'll work in a hurricane) and generators undergo monthly testing.

"Are you in the projected path of the storm?"
Yep!

"If so, have you taken any steps to prepare for it? (Are you doing off-site backup? Taking yourself off-site?)"
Automatic nightly incremental backups to a server that is automatically backed up to SAN, which has an off site mirror. Combine that with good vendor response times, and you're set.

Q: What do you say to a Puerto Rican in a three-piece suit? A: Will the defendant please rise?

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