Comment You need it installed (Score 1) 167
You need it installed to receive communications, don't you? If you're hurt by what you see, why not uninstall it?
Comment Grandma on Ubuntu (Score 1) 287
My grandma's fine with Ubuntu running Gnome 2, with LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, SimpleScan, Shotwell, and VLC.
Comment Turn off wifi (Score 1) 253
And get a 3rd party router.
Comment Re:I love it! (Score 1) 114
Yeah but in this case the crooks are not footing the bill, it's us taxpayers. :( Can't believe we pay to let those creeps spy on us.
Comment That's cool! (Score 2) 20
Thanks for taking the time to read our questions! I enjoyed reading your answers, and enjoyed your game soundtracks!
New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers 105
nk497 writes "Florida-based security firm Team Cymru said it was examining a widespread compromise"of 300,000 consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) routers in Europe and Asia. The DNS server settings were changed to a pair of IP addresses, which correspond to Dutch machines that are registered to a company that lists its address in central London. The attack highlights the flaws in router firmware, the researchers said. 'It's not new as an issue to the InfoSec community but this is one of the biggest we've seen recently as it's quite insidious,' Cymru's Steve Santorelli said, adding the hack could let the attackers conduct man in the middle attacks, impersonating your bank, for example."
Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For Internet of Things Security Apps 62
alphadogg writes "Cisco today kicked off a contest with $300,000 in prize money that challenges security experts around the world to put together ways to secure what's now called the 'Internet of Things,' the wide range of non-traditional computing devices used on the electric grid, in healthcare and many other industries. A Cisco SVP concluded his keynote at this week's RSA Conference by announcing what he called the 'Internet of Things Security Grand Challenge.' Christopher Young said the idea is 'a contest of experts around the world to submit blueprints' for how security issues created by the Internet of Things could be addressed. It's expected that up to six winning entries would be selected and the prize money awarded at the Internet of Things Forum in the fall."
Comment "hardware will be free" (Score 1) 392
I remember him saying that it was the hardware that would be free...
Comment Culture is not something set in stone (Score 1) 506
If Quebec is protecting its heritage, why don't they require everything to be in a language Native Americans understand? Because culture is a constantly evolving thing, and you can't just mandate or regulate it. Quebec needs to realize this. They sound like facists.
Comment "Language Police"? (Score 1) 506
Sounds like something crazy out of North Korea! Does anywhere else in the world have something similar to this?
Comment Easy to get (Score 1) 89
will cause problems for citizens and businesses who use office suites which don't support ODF
It's pretty simple to get one... For businesses, wouldn't MS want people to update Office to a version that supports ODF? Means more money for MS when businesses do that.
Comment The Game (Score 1) 66
I still remember listening to this song on the "The Fat Man" sampler that came with The 7th Guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m5SDmVNo-I
DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors 65
An anonymous reader writes "DARPA officials say the Defense Department must train 4,000 cybersecurity experts by 2017. Meeting that goal requires building a pipeline for training and education, especially for future officers who'll oversee protection of the cyber domain. During a winter weekend in Pittsburgh, more than 50 cadets and midshipmen from three service academies sat elbow to elbow at nine round tables in a packed room. They'd been training since November to compete in a pilot program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called the Service Academy Cyber Stakes. From the article: 'This involves skills such as being able to reverse engineer binary, or machine-readable, files and, Ragsdale said, finding source-code-level vulnerabilities that could be exploited, and doing so with software source-level analysis and with automated tools that perform functions such as fuzzing, the informal name for automatic bug finding."
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 367
Precisely, thanks.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 367
No, this is from game ratings that are made within the game, not game ratings made on the app store. Ratings made on the app store get posted directly, ratings made within the game get emailed. Otherwise, don't you think there would be *no* 1 star ratings on the app store? They're there, go take a look!
