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OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm 175

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 08, 2009 @08:22AM from the no-phone-home dept.

Linker3000 writes "According to The Register, OpenDNS plans to introduce an new service that will prevent PCs infected with the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware from contacting its control servers, and will also make it easy for admins to know if even a single machine under their control has been infected by Conficker: 'Starting Monday, any networks with PCs that try to connect to the Conficker addresses will be flagged on an admin's private statistics page. The service is available for free to both businesses and home users.' With the amount of trouble this worm has caused, perhaps this is a good time to take a look at OpenDNS if you haven't done so already."

Comment Re:Encouraging scientific education (Score 1) 479

by dlur on Saturday August 16, 2008 @03:09PM (#24628595) Attached to: McCain Releases Technology Platform

Did you even read the article?

From the article:

No extreme hazards found in basement workshop that alarmed authorities

None of the materials found at 81 Fremont St. posed a radiological or biological risk,

No mercury or poison was found.

Some of the compounds are potentially explosive, but no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products.

That's right, nothing he had was ANY more dangerous than typical household cleaning products. The authorities confiscated all of his equipment and chemicals. This guy wrote books and taught children. He was not making meth or explosives. He'll likely be charged thousands of dollars to "clean up" his home lab when not a single thing in his lab was illegal or particularly dangerous. At most he was up against a zoning violation, which does not warrant wholesale confiscation of materials.

To me this is a perfect example of how the US government overreacts to even the slightest thing out of the ordinary ever since "9/11". You can't take pictures of public buildings, or even a hotel lobby even anymore. Just being a little different is apparently a crime these days.

And to me this is what's scary, because I can't think of a single instance of someone doing something extroidinary when that person was just a mundane drone following the sheep herd. No, inspiration and innovation are much more likely to occur in "out there" settings with "out there" people. Conformity is not the answer.

Smart Phones "Bigger Security Risk" Than Laptops 174

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:46PM from the low-hanging-fruit dept.

CWmike writes "A recent survey of 300 senior IT staff found that 94% fear PDAs present a security risk, surpassing the 88% who highlighted mobile storage devices as a worry. Nearly eight in 10 said laptops were an issue. Only four in 10 had encrypted data on their laptops, and the remainder said the information was 'not worth' protecting. A key danger with PDAs was that over half of IT executives surveyed were 'not bothering' to enter a password when they used their phone. A VP at the company that performed the survey said: 'Companies need to regain control of these devices and the data that they are carrying, or risk finding their investment in securing the enterprise misplaced and woefully inadequate.' Is this just iPhone fear-mongering? Do you think the passwords execs could remember would help with securing PDAs and smart phones?"

Journal Journal: Homeland-Toril Merger

Journal by dlur on Tuesday June 28, 2005 @07:31PM

Recently we of Homeland MUD merged with Toril MUD to form one great big MUD. We're in the process of converting all of our Homeland areas/zones over to Toril's format and expanding Toril's code base with what we have. Should be fun.

Journal Journal: Homeland MUD is now Open to the public

Journal by dlur on Tuesday July 29, 2003 @10:40AM

Homeland MUD is is open to all players and is located at http://www.homelandmud.org or via telnet at telnet://mud.homelandmud.org:6666

Comment So like is it a troll? (Score 1) 724

by Mytzle on Thursday April 17, 2003 @03:17PM (#5754118) Attached to: "Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading

Did Taco put this up as like some sort of mega-master-super-gigantic troll to see people over and over sputter angrily about how this was a WWN article? Or does it go deeper? Maybe he lost a bet? Perhaps Slashdot is taking part in a government conspiracy to spread disinformation and take the eyes of the people off of their dereliction s of duties?

Nah, prolly just something to give us a chuckle.

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