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+ - Beating Attackers After They Compromise Unix Systems->

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes "The average advanced attack on a computer system results in the attacker having access to the compromised machine for nearly eight months. Your security plan needs to determine not just how to keep bad guys out but how to detect and repulse those who get in. Sandra Henry-Stocker outlines the steps you need to make sure an attacker's stay on your Unix machine is short and unproductive."
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+ - Sony touts 25 hour battery life for Haswell-equipped Vaio Pro->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Sony claims that both the new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models of its Haswell-equipped Vaio Pro ultrabooks are the world’s lightest. The 11.6-inch model weighs in at 1.9lb (0.87k , where as the 13.3-incher is a little heavier at just 2.33lb (1.06kg). But it's the battery life on offer here that really makes the new Pros stand out.

The 11.6-inch Vaio Pro offers 11 hours of battery life as standard, while the 13.3-inch achieves 8 hours. However, Sony is also offering a sheet battery you can connect to the base of the ultrabooks. On the 13.3-inch Pro that increases battery life to 18 hours, but on the 11.6-inch you get a true day-long amount of juice with 25 hours of battery life claimed."
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+ - Temporal cloak erases data from history->

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes "Electrical engineers have used lasers to create a cloak that can hide communications in a 'time hole', so that it seems as if they were never sent. The method is the first that can cloak data streams sent at the rapid rates typically seen in telecommunications systems. It opens the door to ultra-secure transmission schemes, and may also provide a way to better shield information from noise corruption (abstract). The researchers manipulated laser light in time to create regular periods with zero light intensity (a Talbot carpet) in which to hide data. Unfortunately, the current set up erases the data-adding event entirely from history. Though they are confident that future modifications will allow them, or others, to send secret messages successfully, the more immediate use of the technology will be to cut down crosstalk when multiple data streams share the same fibre."
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+ - Groklaw on ten years of Linux legalities: ->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn't know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela "PJ" Jones and her Website Groklaw, executives who wanted to know what was really what with SCO's multitude of lawsuits soon learned of the FUD behind SCO's claims. SCO and its silent backer Microsoft hope for profits and slowing down Linux's corporate success would come to nothing, and SCO ended up in bankruptcy."
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+ - Ethernet Turns 40 Years Old->

Submitted by alancronin
alancronin writes "Four decades ago the Ethernet protocol made its debut as a way to connect machines in close proximity, today it is the networking layer two protocol of choice for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and everything in between. For many people Ethernet is merely the RJ45 jack on the back of a laptop, but its relative ubiquity and simplicity belie what Ethernet has done for the networking industry and in turn for consumers and enterprises. Ethernet has in the space of 40 years gone from a technology that many in the industry viewed as something not fit for high bandwidth, dependable communications to the default data link protocol."
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Ubuntu

Ubuntu For Tablets Announced 148

Posted by timothy
from the it-does-look-sweet dept.
hypnosec writes "Keeping its promise from yesterday Ubuntu has announced an operating system for tablets dubbed 'Ubuntu for Tablets' that it says will work on tablets of any size. Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features." The tablet version of the OS will also be presented at Mobile World Congress later this month. Also featured at SlashCloud.

Comment: Re:Fix the people not the tool! (Score 3, Insightful) 248

by multisync (#42083653) Attached to: Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all

Today I have mod points. And I would have modded you up for this. Go make an account and be part the /. community.

If you use whether the poster was logged in as a factor in your moderation decisions, you're missing the point of moderation. The goal is to promote worthwhile comments, while burying some of the useless "noise." I'd rather read the former by an AC than the latter by a logged-in user.

ACs *are* part of the /. community.

Facebook

+ - Facebook lying about its friend finder

Submitted by brdsutte
brdsutte writes "So we've come to accept that Facebook knows a lot about us and our friends, and uses that to target ads. But how about them lying about what we do or like and mispresenting our behavior? Every now and then these friend finder ads show up, in which it is claimed that this and that friend already used friend finder. I've checked my mentioned friends, and none of them actually used it. If Facebook is lying about this, why wouldn't it be lying about other user behavior? Any other bad experiences like this? Or any suggestion on how to make them stop?"

Comment: Re:Have you ever considered being on topic? (Score 2, Informative) 157

by multisync (#40801615) Attached to: Facebook Invites Hackers To Attack Its Network

Do you have a PhD in English? Are you a certified and licensed instructor in that language in written form with many years of professional experiencing teaching it?? I doubt it. Go away troll.

I don't have a PhD in English, but I don't need one to tell you "broadened" is the wrong tense. The second sentence should read, in part,

they made an unprecedented choice by broadening the scope of the bug bounty program

instead of the way it is currently written.

This has nothing to do with language "evolving" or grammar police; they made a mistake that breaks one of the syntax rules of the language, and it should be corrected.

Comment: Re:U turn (Score 1) 472

shortscruffydave said

just heard an interview with the council on BBC Radio 4, and it sounds like they've reversed the decision.

It's also in one of the articles linked to in the summary:

But council leader Roddy McCuish later told the BBC he had instructed senior officials to lift the ban immediately.

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