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Comment The Best of Both Worlds I & II (Score 1) 634

Not sure if you could start with this two part episode from season 3/4, but this is TNG that still holds up for me. One of the darker storylines, also one of the strongest female characters (Shelby) in the series. The ship graveyard scene still gives me shivers. I suppose you have to start though with a pitcher of margaritas and the Wrath of Khan, preferably on VHS.
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Submission + - ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users (infoworld.com)

snydeq writes: "Check Point Software appears to be ripping a page from the 'scum it claims to fight,' according to a report from InfoWorld, running a scare-tactic warning dialog to frighten users into upgrading to a paid version of the company's ZoneAlarm firewall product. Preying on fears of ZeuS.Zbot, the Check Point warning dialog tells users their PCs 'may be in danger' without having found ZeuS.Zbot, nor having checked to see whether you're running an antivirus product. 'The program doesn't care if you're infected with ZeuS.Zbot, or if you have protection in place. It just wants to sell you an upgrade to the firewall that may or may not detect future ZeuS.Zbot variants' activities — some day.' Check Point's customers have inundated the ZoneAlarm forums with complaints."

Comment Re:Not all that surprising (Score 2, Informative) 77

It seems to me that what the article points out is that we are moving beyond the phone call impersonation to get a password (Mitnick style) to more sophisticated exploitations of trust relationships and social engineering attacks. We are looking at attacks that can get by many power users - am I going to take the time to question requests and attachments from any of the 20,000+ identities I have in my client datatbase and address book whose requests I must handle same business day and who I must assume are to be trusted? Probably not. Will my IT staff have the resources and the time to properly configure countermeasures? I sure hope so...

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