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Comment Re:They never were sufficient (Score 1) 125

by SnugglesTheBear (#35651652) Attached to: Are the Days of Individual Security Over?
But what good would be alerting the common person that they are infected? Most modern malware comes coupled with a rootkit of some sort that subverts AV protection so just running AV would be out of the question. Asking a standard user to reformat their own machine is also out of the question as most users aren't comfortable with that. So basically I feel that you would have to relinquish control of your machine to the ISP for any type of effective treatment to take place. Not that I agree with such big brother antics.

Comment Re:Playing Rock Band is not similar to Playing Mad (Score 2) 180

by m0dul4r (#34850166) Attached to: How To Use a Real Guitar With Rock Band 3
This. The criticism that Rock Band doesn't improve musical ability or chops is simply not true anymore. I have my friend's Casio keybaord hooked up to the game (albeit right hand only charts). I have my Alesis edrums working with the game and even mapped over the MIDI notes for the hi-hat to work. There is a Squier coming out for the game in March. Aside from this, what's with the prevalent condescension towards music games? I personally don't like most FPS games, but I don't consider everyone who plays them a numbskull.
Open Source

Submission + - Lightspark 0.4.2 open source Flash player released (h-online.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.2 of its free, open source Flash player. According to Lightspark develoepr Alessandro Pignotti, the alternative Flash Player implementation is "designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hope fully) future hardware".

The latest release of Lightspark features better compatibility with YouTube videos, sound synchronisation support and the ability to use fontconfig for font selection. Other changes include plug-in support for Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser and support for Firefox's out of process plug-in (OOPP) mode, which was added in version 3.6.4 of the browser.

H-online: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Lightspark-0-4-2-open-source-Flash-player-released-1042757.html
Google

Submission + - Nexus One A Failed Experiment In Online Sales 1

Submitted by shmG
shmG writes: The demise of the Google Nexus One phone is fairly straightforward: a lack of sales killed the product While it will continue to sell through Vodafone in Europe, KT in Korea and a few others, the experiment of Google selling a phone direct to consumers online is dead. "The bottom line is people like to look at phones in the store. Google has a lot to learn about phone sales, this is one lesson they learned,"

Submission + - Facebook: man claiming ownership has no case (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Attorneys for Facebook and a New York man claiming majority ownership of the site faced off in a Buffalo courtroom Tuesday, and if Facebook gets its way there won't be too many more days in court. The site wants to get Paul Ceglia's claim thrown out of court. He claims a seven-year-old agreement with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg entitles him to 84 percent of the company. Facebook acknowledges Ceglia and Zuckerberg worked together, but says the contract Ceglia submitted was full of "things that don't make sense".
Security

Submission + - Is open source SNORT dead? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead?

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ, and in fact, calls the OISF's first open source IDS/IPS code, Suricata 1.0 released this week, a cheap knock-off of Snort paid for with taxpayer dollars.

The OISF was founded about a year and a half ago with $1 million in funding from a DHS cybersecurity research program, according to Matt Jonkman, president of OISF. He says OISF was founded to form an open source alternative and replacement to Snort, which he says is now considered dead since the research on what is supposed to be the next-generation version of Snort, Snort 3.0, has stalled.

"Snort is not conducive to IPv6 nor to multi-threading," Jonkman says, adding, "And Snort 3.0 has been scrapped."

According to Jonkman, OISF's first open source release Suricata 1.0 is superior to Snort in a number of ways, including how it can inspect network packets using a multi-threading technology to inspect more than one packet at a time, which he claims improves the chances of detecting attack traffic
IT

Submission + - 'Robin Sage' Duped Military, Security Pros (darkreading.com)

Submitted by ancientribe
ancientribe writes: A social networking experiment of a phony female military security professional known as"Robin Sage" (named after a U.S. Army Special Forces training exercise) worked way too well, fooling even the most security-savvy professionals on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It also led to the leakage of sensitive military information after an Army Ranger accepted "Robin's" friend request on Facebook and his photos from Afghanistan exposed geolocation information accessible to "Robin." The researcher who conducted the experiment will show off his findings at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, where the real woman pictured in the profiles is scheduled to introduce him for his presentation.

Submission + - Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by SnugglesTheBear
SnugglesTheBear writes: "New research pours scorn on the comforting but erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the web are likely to avoid exposure to malware.

A study by free anti-virus firm Avast found 99 infected legitimate domains for every infected adult web site. In the UK, Avast found that more infected domains contained the word "London" (such as the blog section of http://kensington-london-hotels.co.uk/ than the word "sex". Among the domains labelled as infected by Avast was the smart phones section of the Vodafone UK website. The mobile phone operator's site contained a malicious JavaScript redirect script that attempted to take advantage of an unpatched Windows Help and Support Centre flaw (CVE-2010-1885) to infect the machines of visiting surfers."
Open Source

Submission + - The unusual, obscure and useful Linux distros (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Most people will be familiar with some of the big names when it comes to Linux — distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian and Mandriva. Most of the well-known Linux distros are designed to be used as general purpose desktop operating systems or installed on servers. But beyond these distros are hundreds of others either designed to appeal to very specific audiences or to fulfil the somewhat niche needs of some users. We rounded up some of the most interesting Linux distributions out there that you might not have heard of."
Censorship

Submission + - UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist (wordpress.com)

Submitted by IonOtter
IonOtter writes: In what seems to be a common occurrence, and now a costly one, Metropolitan Police in the UK still don't seem to be getting the message that assaulting photographers is a bad idea. UK press photographer Jules Matteson details the event in his blog, titled The Romford Incident. The incident has already been picked up by The Register, The Independent and the British Journal of Photography, which contains an official statement from the Metropolitan Police.

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