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Corn-Based Plastic
SolemnDragon writes "CNN.com is offering up an article about the new corn-based plastic-like product being used at Wild Oats Natural Markets. The product looks like plastic, works like plastic... and then turns into compost. Dubbed the 'corn-tainer,' it's being used to serve foods, etc. Available only in the Pacific Northwest stores (of course) or you can make your own at home. And here's more info on Bio-plastic from MSU." Our older story.
I knew plastic was a corny site.
Thanks,
Bill Stevens
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Linux losing ground on security front: Study
By JACK KAPICA Globe and Mail Update
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Linux, the operating system that has become the darling of its security-conscious promoters, came out second-best to Microsoft's Windows Server in a new survey released Wednesday.
Security experts at London-based mi2g who have been tracking digital attacks closely for the past three months, specifically because of increased tensions over the war in Iraq, say that Linux-based servers recorded most of the successful breaches.The company said that in May, 19,208 successful breaches worldwide were recorded against Linux-based systems (76 per cent) and 3,801 breaches were recorded against Microsoft Windows systems (15 per cent). Both corporate and government servers were counted.Microsoft Windows-based servers proved to be the more resilient during the war months from March through to May.This is an abrupt change from January, when 53 per cent of all successful and verified hacker attacks were recorded against Microsoft Windows-based systems (10,435) and 34 per cent against Linux (6,688).The company recently reported that three security records were set in May: the highest number of overt attacks in one day (May 4, with 2,576 attacks); the greatest number of attacks for one month, (May, with 23,009); as well as the highest number of attacks in one year (91,088 overt attacks).The company has been tracking attacks since 1995 and maintains its records in its Security Intelligence Products and Systems (SIPS) database. The information is used to estimate economic damage, such as loss of business, productivity, management time, intellectual property rights violations, customer and supplier liabilities and share price decline (where applicable). The database has information on more than 220,000 overt digital attacks and 7,000 hacker groups.The company said there are three main reasons for the increased numbers of successful attacks against Linux systems.First, they said that improperly configured systems running a combination of Linux and third-party applications are vulnerable because they are either too old, do not come with sufficient default security configurations, or the appropriate patches have not been applied.Next, mi2g said that there is a lack of a coherent trustworthy computing initiative within the open-source community. Microsoft, on the other hand, has recently been taking the initiative to inform customers specifically about server management.Finally, Linux is being targeted simply because of its dominant position in the server market. Companies and government agencies are buying Linux to cut the costs of site licences, but are not factoring in the heavy fire from transnational hackers.Open-source software is not cost-effective if the technical experience used to protect the systems is inadequate, and if training costs are not factored in at the start, mi2g said."As automatic attack tools scanning for vulnerabilities become ubiquitous, the on-line system security is heavily dependent on settings and when the last patch was applied," mi2g chairman D.K. Matai said."There are plenty of instances where the server administrator assumes that just because they are running open source they are somehow going to be more secure. There is no such thing as secure computing without following rigorous procedures for monitoring the system software and keeping track of enterprise-wide system configuration."The SIPS database defines successful hacker attacks as incidents in which a hacker group has gained unauthorized access to an on-line system and has made modifications to any part of it while executing data attacks (compromising the integrity of data) or command-and-control attacks (Simple Network Management Protocol control of computers).
tastes like.... corn!
your sandwich, tastes just like corn
your pasta, tastes just like corn
your chicken, tastes just like corn!
corny... corn dogs... octo dogs! http://www.octodog.net/index.htm (offtopic, i know... sorry.)