The full title being the United States International Trade Commission and in this case functioning as the lobbying arm of the native US solar power industry. What's this self serving political waffle doing on a technology forum.

"The United States International Trade Commission is an .. federal agency of the United States .. The President nominates and the U.S. Senate confirms the six commissioners who make up the USITC"

Yea, it's sad seeing Slashdot reduced to spouting these kind of clueless technically illiterate articles.

Anonymous Coward: "This article is bullshit and is written by a person with zero technical skills. Ransomware is not targeting 2 million users per hour. A spam botnet is sending 2 million emails per hour (which I don't believe either, average is 20K-100K per spam botnet). The emails carry file attachments that deploy ransomware. About 10% of spam emails are opened, and about 1% actually yield infections. ... I could go on breaking down every stupidity contained in that article.... but I actually have better things to do. This comment right here is more informative compared with the linked article.... which, btw, is based on reporting from a company that provides backup solutions. If this came from Bitdefender or Kaspersky, this would actually be credible."

Any idea as to the Operating System that is required in order for this customer attacking ransomware virus script to execute.

First off Bill Gates didn't invent crtl-alt-delete. That honor goes to David Bradley of the original IBM PC design team. The primary use of which is to perform a warm-boot of DOS, as that particular combination is hardwired into the IBM PC BIOS. In Windows NT it caused the NT login screen to be displayed. Given the quality of security in WinNT it was the only way to be sure you weren't running a fake login screen.

It's sad seeing a once respectable technology site reduced to being the Faux News of the technology media.

“We have this category that Equifax calls unhandled malware, [with] which traditional security approaches haven’t been very helpful. Putting in FireEye has really helped us detect this unhandled malware, then gives us the capability to take action to stay secure.” Tony Spinelli, SVP and CSO of Equifax

"Or does this strike anyone else as looking particularly desperate?"

Yea, you don't do any better on drugs, you just think you do. Besides this whole psychedelic thing was tried in the sixties and nothing of value ever came out of it. Ken Kesey wrote one good book then took to the road with his Merry Pranksters who daily groked on psychedelic soup and then self destructed. See also Timothy Leary, anyone even remember him?

"Censoring posts to -1 is effectively saying you disagree with someone's post, but you are too chickenshit to explain why. Moderation should be eliminated immediately, or at least it should be impossible to mod down posts."

And of course the down votes and the insults so patently demonstrate the mentality of the chickenshits that resort to down-voting.

The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post:

"Udev had mount event support but it was so buggy and wrong that they decided to remove it completely!"

Udev can detect mount events such as the DVD being ejected by the eject button on the front of the unit. From an old bug report in launchpad.net.

/etc/udev/rules.d/61-sr0-change.rules

KERNEL=="sr0", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/sr0_change.sh"

Do you mean that under the guise of educating children, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are brainwashing the future consumers of their product.

"AT&T Uverse modems were found to have several serious vulnerabilities, including a superuser account with hardcoded username/password"

Look it, most/all consumer grade equipment has built-in back-doors, by the various security services, get used to it.

@Trailer Trash: "The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."

Do you have a link to the exact contract and do you know who was responsible for developing the original apps that would have to to be totally rewritten for Windows 10?

"You can focus harder on protecting against breaches and defense in depth, but the enlightened approach is to assume breach and build the muscle on detection and remediation"

Translation: we can't even figure out how to protect Windows from security breaches.