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Heartbleed One Year Later: Has Anything Changed? 53

Posted by Soulskill from the vulnerability-names-have-gotten-a-lot-more-annoying dept.
darthcamaro writes: It was on April 7, 2014 that the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability titled "TLS heartbeat read overrun" in OpenSSL was first publicly disclosed — but to many its a bug known simply as Heartbleed. A new report from certificate vendor Venafi claims that 76% of organizations are still at risk, though it's a statistic that is contested by other vendors as well as other statistics. Qualys' SSL Pulse claims that only 0.3 percent of sites are still at risk. Whatever the risk is today, the bottom line is that Heartbleed did change the security conversation — but did it change it for the better or the worse? A related article explores how Heartbleed could have been found earlier.

Comment Older Games (Score 1) 669

by xwildph (#46283697) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?
I find myself playing what are now older games these days. I tend to play stuff like X-Plane, GRID, F1. I replayed Halflife2 recently. I don't like what the industry are doing, it's very dishonest to sell part of a game and then require DLC's or in-game purchases. There's plenty of good, existing content out there, I'll plan to stick with that for the time being.

Comment Re:Step 1. (Score 1) 1197

by CodeInspired (#31237554) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?
It's because health care is not as black and white as fire rescue and policing services. For the most part, everyone needs the same level of fire and police protection. Individuals are equally likely to need police protection, or to need the fire department to put out a fire. It is also not logical for an individual to hire their own police/fire departments to protect them.

The same cannot be said when it comes to health care. The level of health care needed depends on many factors that are within an individuals control (i.e. lifestyle, eating habbits, exercise, etc. etc) It is also reasonable, and logical to have your own personal doctor and pay them as neccesary when you get sick. It has been done like that since the beginning.
News

LHC Successfully Cools To 1.9K In Lead-Up To Restart 177

Posted by Soulskill from the say-your-goodbyes-folks,-the-end-is-nigh dept.
Smelly Jeffrey writes "The BBC is reporting that the LHC has had all eight of its sectors cooled to 1.9 Kelvin. Their tagline is that it is now 'colder than deep space,' referring to the CMB. LHC engineers have spent nearly $40,000,000 USD on a new system to prevent the 'quench' condition that caused the LHC to be down for warming, repairs, and re-cooling over the last year. The LHC is now cold enough to begin colliding particles in search of the Higgs Boson. High power collisions won't be started until late December, or perhaps early January. However, a low-power beam through parts of the collider could be tested as early as next week!"
The Military

Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 208

Posted by Soulskill from the tommy-lee-jones-comes-forward dept.
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the LA Times: "... the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. Well, now, for the first time, someone is ready to talk ... Colonel Hugh 'Slip' Slater, 87, was commander of the Area 51 base in the 1960s. Edward Lovick, 90, featured in 'What Plane?' in LA's March issue, spent three decades radar testing some of the world's most famous aircraft (including the U-2, the A-12 OXCART and the F-117). Kenneth Collins, 80, a CIA experimental test pilot, was given the silver star. Thornton 'T.D.' Barnes, 72, was an Area 51 special-projects engineer. And Harry Martin, 77, was one of the men in charge of the base's half-million-gallon monthly supply of spy-plane fuels."

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