Lt. Squirrel - Slashdot User

Comment Interesting...but (Score 2) 115

by Lt. Squirrel on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:36PM (#43884987) Attached to: NASA Wants To Test 3-D Printing Aboard ISS

...in all serious what of practical use could be made outside of plastic hand tools? Isn't most everything that is being used up there aside from a wrench and hammer dependent on some form of electronics? Don't get me wrong, like another poster said, the ISS is mainly to test to untested and uncertain - but what could practically be made out of nothing but plastics for use in space aside from hand tools?

Submission + - China behind 96% of all cyber-espionage data breaches, Verizon report claims (networkworld.com)

Submitted by colinneagle on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @10:10AM

colinneagle writes: Verizon's 2013 Data Breach Investigation Report is out and includes data gathered by its own forensics team and data breach info from 19 partner organizations worldwide. China was involved in 96% of all espionage data-breach incidents, most often targeting manufacturing, professional and transportation industries, the report claims. The assets China targeted within those industries included laptop/desktop, file server, mail server and directory server, in order to steal credentials, internal organization data, trade secrets and system info. A whopping 95% of the attacks started with phishing to get a toehold into their victim's systems. The report states that, "Phishing techniques have become much more sophisticated, often targeting specific individuals (spear phishing) and using tactics that are harder for IT to control. For example, now that people are suspicious of email, phishers are using phone calls and social networking." It is unknown who the nation-state actors were in the other 4% of breaches, which the report says "may mean that other threat groups perform their activities with greater stealth and subterfuge. But it could also mean that China is, in fact, the most active source of national and industrial espionage in the world today."

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