Comment The difference - it's enormous (Score 2, Informative) 309
Republic of Korea != Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
Submission + - 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable to UPnP Flaws (threatpost.com)
Gunkerty Jeb writes: In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are vulnerable to at least one of three known attacks.
A Rapid7 white paper enumerated UPnP-exposed systems connected to the Internet and identified the number of vulnerabilities present in common configurations. Researchers found that more than 6,900 product models produced by 1,500 different vendors contained at least one known vulnerability, with 23 million systems housing the same remote code execution flaw.
"This research was primarily focused on vulnerabilities in the SSDP processor across embedded devices," Rapid7' CSO HD Moore told Threatpost. "The general process was to identify what was out there, make a list of the most commonly used software stacks, and then audit those stacks for vulnerabilities. The results were much worse than we anticipated, with the most commonly used software stack (libupnp) also being the most vulnerable."
A Rapid7 white paper enumerated UPnP-exposed systems connected to the Internet and identified the number of vulnerabilities present in common configurations. Researchers found that more than 6,900 product models produced by 1,500 different vendors contained at least one known vulnerability, with 23 million systems housing the same remote code execution flaw.
"This research was primarily focused on vulnerabilities in the SSDP processor across embedded devices," Rapid7' CSO HD Moore told Threatpost. "The general process was to identify what was out there, make a list of the most commonly used software stacks, and then audit those stacks for vulnerabilities. The results were much worse than we anticipated, with the most commonly used software stack (libupnp) also being the most vulnerable."
Comment Why... (Score -1) 350
is this on the YRO section of /.?
Comment Re:In other words, (Score 1, Insightful) 368
You are in danger the second you enter a country with a failing justice system and the death penalty, including the U.S....
Comment Obvious (Score 5, Funny) 416
Turn it into a water-cooled data center.
Comment Re:Sopa (Score 5, Informative) 495
SOPA reversed is APOS, which stands for A Piece Of Shit.
Even more clever, "Sopa" in Swedish means trash.
Comment Wait a second... (Score 1) 59
Haven't I seen the same thing a couple of weeks ago in Pioneer One Ep5?
Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands 1855
Reader Tom Hudson, and now several others, have submitted the news that Osama Bin Laden is reportedly dead, and that his body is in the hands of the US military. A statement from President Obama is expected shortly. Watch this space for more details. Update: 05/02 04:01 GMT by T : More coverage at ABC News, at CNN, and at Al Jazeera. The reports say that Bin Laden was actually killed about a week ago by a bomb in Pakistan, and the time taken to confirm his identity via DNA testing helped delay the news. In downtown Austin, Texas, in the time since the story broke I've heard what sound like numerous celebratory gunshots.
