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Saudi Aramco Reveals Cyber Attack Hit 30,000 Workstations 65

Posted by timothy from the running-windows-for-workstations-I-guess dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. The group, calling itself the 'Cutting Sword of Justice,' claimed to have hacked Aramco systems in several countries before sending a virus across 30,000 computers, achieving a 75 percent infection rate of all the company's systems. It refuted suggestions that a nation state was behind the attack."

Comment Consider helping the visually impaired (Score 1) 301

by miguelfrommars (#41107439) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?

I'm in a Lions club and dabble in IT for the visually impaired.

If you want your smart phone to make a difference in the world, put some apps on the phone, connect to a TV, set it up and help a visually impaired child or adult who struggles to read their mail or a book. Best of all, it's free. Visually impaired people are the most financially strapped people you will meet.

A smart phone with a camera that can be attached to a television works much better than magnifying glasses. Besides zooming in and out, smart phones have accessibility options that can change contrast, colors, and other useful functions that work very well for the visually impaired.

Without cell or wireless you can sometimes manually install apps that are helpful. Unfortunately some apps I really like will not function without service.

My experience is droid (hdmi capable). Not sure about discarded iPhones but somebody else probably has experience with that.

You can do this in any community, anywhere in the world. You are guaranteed an endless supply of old smart phones and a lot of appreciative people.
Canada

Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones 154

Posted by Soulskill from the dino-mother-lode dept.
Cryolithic writes "The largest cache of dinosaur bones ever found has been unearthed in Alberta. From the article: '... officials at the Royal Tyrrell Museum say the Hilda site provides the first solid evidence that some horned dinosaur herds were much larger than previously thought, with numbers comfortably in the high hundreds to low thousands. ... Rather than picturing the animals as drowning while crossing a river, a classic scenario that has been used to explain bonebed occurrences at many sites in Alberta, the research team interpreted the vast coastal landscape as being submerged during tropical storms or hurricanes. With no high ground to escape to, most of the members of the herd drowned in the rising coastal waters. Carcasses were deposited in clumps across kilometers of ancient landscape as floodwaters receded.'"
Linux Business

How Facebook Runs Its LAMP Stack 111

Posted by Soulskill from the very-carefully-and-sometimes-not dept.
prostoalex writes "At QCon San Francisco, Aditya Agarwal of Facebook described how his employer runs its software stack (video and slides). Facebook runs a typical LAMP setup where P stands for PHP with certain customizations, and back-end services that are written in C++ and Java. Facebook has released some of the infrastructure components into the open source community, including the Thrift RPC framework and Scribe distributed logging server."

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