laurier57 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hmmmm (Score 1) 248

by laurier57 on Thursday May 01, 2008 @12:13PM (#23264474) Attached to: Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court

Powell's Technical is like a candy store for computer books. I think I'll go there today and support them. And to give some context to the whole thing, Powell's is easily one of the top Portland hangouts for the bookish, and is thoroughly well respected in the city--and with this being a city where people actually pay attention to current events, they have some serious political clout. Rock on.

Submission + - 130 stolen laptops show lax security (blorge.com)

Submitted by

destinyland

on Monday October 29, 2007 @07:17PM

destinyland writes: ""The khaki bandit" posed as an office worker at several corporations and successfully stole over 130 laptops which he later sold on eBay. The ease of theft from the corporate offices (including FedEx and Burger King) shows just how bad corporate security can be. (In some cases, the career thief just walked into the office behind an employee with a security badge.) Two million laptops were stolen just in 2004, and of those 97 percent were never recovered. Ultimately it was the corporate headquarters of Outback Steakhouse who caught the thief with a bugged laptop that notified them when he re-connected it to the internet."

Submission + - NBC Chief, "Apple 'destroyed' music pricing (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29, 2007 @07:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: With the most colorful description yet, NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker on Sunday urged colleagues to take a stand against Apple's iTunes, charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online.

"We know that Apple has destroyed the music business — in terms of pricing — and if we don't take control, they'll do the same thing on the video side,"

Submission + - OS X Leopard firewall flawed 1

Submitted by cycoj on Monday October 29, 2007 @05:29PM

cycoj writes: German IT magazine Heise takes a look at the new OS X Leopard firewall. They find it flawed. When setting access to specific services and programs for example to only allow SSH access, they found that a manually started service was still accessible. From the article:

"So the first step after starting Leopard should be to activate the firewall. The obvious choice to do so is the option to "Set access to specific services and programs", which promises more control over network traffic. Mac OS X automatically enters all shared resources set up by the user, such as "Remote login" for SSH servers, into the list of accessable resources.

However, initial functional testing quickly dispels any feeling of improved security. A service started for testing purposes was able to be addressed from outside without any difficulty. The firewall records this occurrence."

Even with the firewall set to "Block all incoming connections" ports to netbios, ntp and other services were still open.

"Specifically these results mean that users can't rely on the firewall. Even if users select "Block all incoming connections," potential attackers can continue to communicate with system services such as the time server and possibly with the NetBIOS name server."

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