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Submission + - Exposed RDP servers see 150K brute-force attempts per week (techrepublic.com)

Submitted by Cameyo
Cameyo writes: From TechRepublic (https://tek.io/30aGVCm) — Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is—to the frustration of security professionals—both remarkably insecure and indispensable in enterprise computing. The September 2019 Patch Tuesday round closed two remote code execution bugs in RDP, while the high-profile BlueKeep and DejaBlue vulnerabilities from earlier this year have sent IT professionals in a patching frenzy. With botnets brute-forcing over 1.5 million RDP servers worldwide, a dedicated RDP security tool is needed to protect enterprise networks against security breaches.

Cameyo released on Wednesday an open-source RDP monitoring tool—appropriately titled RDPmon—for enterprises to identify and secure against RDP attacks in its environment. The tool provides a visualization of the total number of attempted RDP connections to servers, as well as a view of the currently running applications, the number of RDP users, and what programs those users are running, likewise providing insight to the existence of unapproved software. RDPmon operates entirely on-premise, the program data is not accessible to Cameyo.

Comment Re: Summary (Score 1) 725

by Aserdaten (#59206164) Attached to: Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT
I'm here defending Richard Stallman, who's a communist, and also Brendan Eich, who's a conservative Christian. I'm doing that on the principle that people shouldn't be driven from their careers and lives as a result of offending a totalitarian conformity that you seem completely fine with, as long as it happens to overlap with your viewpoint. And if you're actually worried about oppression, you'd be worried about the spread of that totalitarian mindset, because it's actually a crumbling of the cultural foundation that makes liberal democracy, and a government of laws, possible.

Submission + - Trump Will End California's Authority To Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to formally revoke California’s legal authority to set tailpipe pollution rules that are stricter than federal rules, in a move designed by the White House to strike twin blows against both the liberal-leaning state that President Trump has long antagonized and the environmental legacy of President Barack Obama. The announcement that the White House will revoke one of California’s signature environmental policies will come while Mr. Trump is traveling in the state,where he is scheduled toattend fund-raisers in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. The formal revocation of California’s authority to set its own rules on tailpipe pollution — the United States’ largest source of greenhouse emissions — will be announced Wednesday afternoon at a private event at the Washington headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, according totwo peoplefamiliar with the matter.

The move has been widely expected since last summer,whenthe Trump administration unveiled itsdraft plan to roll backthe strict federal fuel economy standards put in place by the Obama administration. That draft Trump rule also included a plan to revoke a legal waiver, granted to the state of California under the 1970 Clean Air Act, allowing it to set tougher state-level standards than those put forth by the federal government. The revocation of the waiver would also affect 13 other states that follow California’s clean air rules. In recent months, the administration’s broader weakening of nationwide auto-emissions standards has become plagued with delays as staff members struggled to prepare adequate legal, technical or scientific justifications for the move. As a result, the White House decided to proceed with just one piece of its overall plan — the move to strip California of its legal authority to set tougher standards — while delaying the release of its broader rollback, according to these people.

Comment Re: Summary (Score 1) 725

by Aserdaten (#59203986) Attached to: Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT
Brendan Eich came up with JavaScript. You can disable it on most browsers in the security settings, if you want to make sure you're not symbolically supporting his infamous deed of giving $1000 to support a California referendum you don't like.

Submission + - Massive, blimplike experiment lowers weight limit on neutrino (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Physicists have set a new limit on the mass of nature’s lightest particle of matter. The neutrino can weigh no more than 1.1 electron volts (eV)—less than one-500,000th the mass of an electron—say experimenters with the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Reported on 13 September at a meeting in Toyama, Japan, the new result halves the previous limit of 2 eV.

Submission + - The ozone layer is on track to completely repair itself in our lifetime (sbs.com.au) 2

Submitted by pgmrdlm
pgmrdlm writes: The world's ozone layer is on track to be completely healed by the 2060s, according to modelling by the UN's environmental agency (UNEP).

In the past 19-years, parts of the ozone layer have recovered at a rate of one to three per cent every ten years, UNEP has found. If this continues, the Northern Hemisphere's ozone layer is set to heal completely by the 2030s, the Southern Hemisphere by the 2050s, and the polar regions in the following decade.

As we rightly focus our energies on tackling climate change, we must be careful not to neglect the ozone layer and stay alert to the threat posed by the illegal use of ozone-depleting gases," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Monday.

"The recent detection of emissions of one such gas, CFC-11, reminds us that we need continued monitoring and reporting systems, and improved regulations and enforcement."

Comment Re: Summary (Score 5, Insightful) 725

by Aserdaten (#59202966) Attached to: Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT
He was forced out and said so. Apologizing or not apologizing wouldn't have saved him, because the totalitarians work to destroy anyone who dissents, and any expression of weakness just whets their appetite. Defiance is a moral imperative, and Stallman seems to be following that approach to the extent it's available to him. I can't help but be struck by the similarities to Brendan Eich's situation –two individuals who have made enormous, deep contributions to the existence of the internet as we know it, tossed aside like garbage by people using what they helped create.

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