Tyrsal - Slashdot User

Comment People still watch TV? (Score 1) 203

by Tyrsal on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:59PM (#55549943) Attached to: Ads May Soon Stalk You on TV Like They Do on Your Facebook Feed

This is the real headline, in my opinion.

Comment Offers to see code (Score 5, Insightful) 173

by Tyrsal on Saturday August 19, 2017 @08:39PM (#55050145) Attached to: FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky

Considering Kaspersky has been distressed enough about this negative publicity to directly offer both the FBI and CIA access to it's source code and these offers have been rebuffed, I'm not exactly sold on anything the FBI has to say here as being anything more than a stunt

Comment I forgot this existed (Score 1) 55

by Tyrsal on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:41AM (#54542255) Attached to: Pioneering Link-Sharing Site Del.icio.us Shuts Down

Been a while since I've seen it. Just hopped on their homepage to look at it.. Good lord is it uninviting.

Comment Re:Hollywood (Score 1) 94

by Tyrsal on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:37AM (#54541999) Attached to: JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years

I hate how true this is.

Submission + - Russian Extradited To US For Cyberattacks (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:15PM

itwbennett writes: A Russian man accused of high-profile cyberattacks on Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Heartland Payment Systems and 7-Eleven has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in court in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday. Vladimir Drinkman, 34, of Syktyykar and Moscow, Russia, was charged for his alleged role in a data theft conspiracy that targeted major corporate networks and stole more than 160 million credit card numbers, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release. Drinkman appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and entered a plea of not guilty to 11 counts he faces. His trial is scheduled to begin in April.

Submission + - How "omnipotent" hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years and were found at last (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by Advocatus Diaboli on Monday February 16, 2015 @03:35PM

Advocatus Diaboli writes: The money and time required to develop the Equation Group malware, the technological breakthroughs the operation accomplished, and the interdictions performed against targets leave little doubt that the operation was sponsored by a nation-state with nearly unlimited resources to dedicate to the project. The countries that were and weren't targeted, the ties to Stuxnet and Flame, and the Grok artifact found inside the Equation Group keylogger strongly support the theory the NSA or a related US agency is the responsible party, but so far Kaspersky has declined to name a culrit. NSA officials didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment for this story. What is safe to say is that the unearthing of the Equation Group is a seminal finding in the fields of computer and national security, as important, or possibly more so, than the revelations about Stuxnet.

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