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Comment You're all doomed! You'll be killed by your PC! (Score 5, Insightful) 135

by euyis (#42459961) Attached to: Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices"
An "Infosec" vendor that no one knows and cares makes big prediction about how future hackers would kill you with compromised Internet devices. You need protection! We offer it! Remember our name so we stay relevant!

I would probably consider this news (that is in no way interesting and informative) if this prediction is made by Symantec, McAfee or Kaspersky. Put some obscure "IID" here and it just smells so slash-PR.

Comment Re:Laws of country (Score 4, Informative) 113

by euyis (#41957277) Attached to: Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China

The fact is, Google is not struggling because the Great Firewall or because the government makes competition hard. Google is struggling on their own regards and only by themselves. They seem not to be able to justify their existence in China and doesn't seem to offer Chinese citizens what they want.

Hmm, it only takes one paragraph to tell that you're talking out of your ass. Have you ever tried to use any Google service from China? Do you have the faintest idea how long does it take to load one page of search results, or how often does the Wall reset all connections to Google from your IP for one full minute, for some censorship filter was triggered by the most ordinary and unoffensive search terms? And these things are not exactly good for business.
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What to do when finding a Security Breach on Shared Hosting 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A few months ago i stumbled across an interesting security hole with my webhost, where I was able access any file on the server, including other users. When I called the company they immediately contacted the server team and stated that they will fix the problem that day. Since all you need when calling them is your username, and I was able to list out all 500 usernames of the server, this was rather a large security breach. Which to there credit they did patch the server, not 100% of the way but close enough where moving to a new web host was moved down the 'list' a little.

Jump a head to this week, they experienced server issue, and we requested being moved to a different server. First thing I did was run my test script, and I was able to list out everyone's files again. They only applied the patch to old server. We are now moving off from this web host all together. However I do fear for the thousands of customers that have no clue about this security issue, along with about 10 mins of coding someone could search for the sql connection string and grab the username/password required to access their hosting account.

Whats the best way to handle this type of situation?

Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 140

by euyis (#37916714) Attached to: China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated
From my first hand experience: Wrong. Internal networks of many Chinese educational institutions are total hell with all kinds of worms and trojans roaming around.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

Comment Not the browser that I'm used to... (Score 1) 554

by euyis (#35576560) Attached to: Firefox 4 Released!
Maybe I'm gettting nostalgic... but I really can't get comfortable with the new layout. Is there an addon bringing back the entire pre-4.0 UI of Firefox? Or most of it if not everything.

Perhaps the UI designers would say that this shiny new thing is more efficient at browsing pages or whatever... However I just don't like it.

Also: I get Bing in my search bar after the upgrade. Removed, but what's that doing there? Did Mozilla get paid to put it here?

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