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Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'
dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at Symantec's Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'"
Every five minutes or so, a giant, illuminated globe appears on the central screen and starts to rotate, displaying the locations worldwide where hackers are launching the most attacks.
Yep.. most of it is new york, and most of the hits they are aiming for are that giant flashing thing on the rotating illuminated globe labeled "The Gibson".
Then all the Symantec people skateboard around listening to Orbital.
maeryk
Feminine Protection? What is that? A chartreuse flame thrower?
Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure
It would be a tragedy should the terrorists win, destroy all the porn sites on the Internet. They think the US was pissed off with 9-11? Wait until we have no porn... They won't have a chance!
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Peter Norton running around screaming "SOMEBODY ATE MY UNDERWEAR!!!" It really is a sight to behold.
So that's where all of those viruses have been originating from! Symantec has to justify their product's yearly updates somehow.
... three guys, two cases of beer, one bag of pretzels, and an NFL playoff game, neither of whom gives a crap about the latest virii because their operating system doesn't support them.
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No strutting around attempting to ripple their undeveloped geek muscles and saying we are the best will keep the bad guys out. See we have degrees and the hackers don't, we are better, we have the paper to prove we fell into line, and sucked up what our professors spewed forth and regurgitated it for the exams. No independant, untrained, unorthadox person can get by our security....no-way.
Sitting in a raised, rotating cubicle with built-in computer monitors and its own heat and light controls, Smishko pores over logs
I'm astounded. I want a rotating cubicle. With a big knob marked 'angular velocity'. In radians per second.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
"Natalie Smishko, 25, is typical of the analysts. Sitting in a raised, rotating cubicle with built-in computer monitors and its own heat and light controls."
Rotating cubicle with built in computer monitors? Sounds devious to me. Probably just down the hall from the room where they create and distribute the viruses that make their business so important... j/k
clearly anybody that has a giant map of the world is trying to take it over.
but billg is doing better because his is 3-d projected.
22:30 Universal Time, Symantec Security Central, Alexandria, Virginia...
.gr.ts!.!" can be seen..
Techie 1: "We're seeing massive traffic going into Washington.. it looks like an attack is happening."
Techie 2: "Uh oh.. prepare anti-ddos measures. Where is it coming from?"
Techie 1: "All over the world.. hmm, wait.. oh my god, most of it is coming from the US itself!!This is bad.. I'm tapping into their communication.."
Techie 2: "What can you see?"
Techie 1: "I can see some words, but they're not complete.."
The screen blinks, the words "f.rs..p.st! Ea..ho.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I think this should be part of the default apache httpd.conf file:
RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://www.microsoft.com
Now, on the first few seconds you see the top manager entering his pin number while being filmed! How userfriendly is that to hackers? ;)
Although in fairness he did provide this reporter with sugar from his pocket and the Denver Broncos.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
All the blackhats will voluntairly label their packets as blackhat attacks so firewalls can drop them.
What the heck do the staff there do? Couldn't they just replace the staff with a perl script?
Maybe the banning of encryption at your workplace has more to do with the "what if the only person with our critical data gets hit by a bus?" kind of scenario.
That problem is overhyped. A friend who works at a local software company got hit by a bus recently and he only broke an arm.
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