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Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data
**$tarDu$t** recommends a Washington Post Security Fix blog post dissecting the Tigger.A trojan, which has been keeping a low profile while exploiting the MS08-66 vulnerability to steal data quietly from online stock brokerages and their customers. An estimated quarter million victims have been infected. The trojan uses a key code to extract its rootkit on host systems that is almost identical to the key used by the Srizbi botnet. The rootkit loads even in Safe Mode. "Among the unusually short list of institutions specifically targeted by Tigger are E-Trade, ING Direct ShareBuilder, Vanguard, Options XPress, TD Ameritrade, and Scottrade. ... Tigger removes a long list of other malicious software titles, including the malware most commonly associated with Antivirus 2009 and other rogue security software titles ... this is most likely done because the in-your-face 'hey, your-computer-is-infected-go-buy-our-software!' type alerts generated by such programs just might ... lead to all invaders getting booted from the host PC."
You mean the record-low unemployment and explosive economic growth years? The economy only turned sour when the Democrats gained control of Congress and started forcing banks to ease credit restrictions so that people who shouldn't have been able to qualify for a home loan could do so. It's called buying votes.
Its interesting to see the kind of effects as otherwise shown in the competitive worlds of microbes. Aside from host - parasite interactions, the competition between parasites is real and may create a selection force toward host integration as seen with mitochondria and chloroplasts, the precise method of symbiosis being unknown.
The limitation and illusion of security derives from the equivalence or asymmetry of roles. In one case you have parasite where the host interaction is equivalently called parasitic. In the three types of biological interactions, mutualistic, commensalistic, antagonistic; they represent ultimately modes of transition or phase. There is no difference between parasite and client, but the mirage of shared objective.
There is a seduction called the cooperative world view. It influences how parasites, virii and the concept of life itself is researched and represented. It shapes human social science, and the majority of human institutions devoted to human ideals and fiction. It categorically appears in every philosophy and religion created prior to the fossil fuel surplus of mid 20th century.
2 places where cooperative world view fails is physical reality, and games or the mechanical pursuit of simulation science.
The reason it fails is because it consistently requires more than free energy to propagate and for this, should be considered advertizing and inherently false.
Science conducted during the fossil fuel surplus is not hard, but slick. Its called Oil Science and it is possible not through the nobility of ideals, but the availability of combustion and ultimately the exploitation of a shared planetary respiratory system.
If competition between parasites creates an equilibrium, then the payoff function for the host may shift to include not only advantage, but perhaps predictability, which will bias a vaccuum. And suck them in.
When we consider how our own white blood cells, the macrophages, know how to behave as fully autonomous single celled agents in our immune system, we can ask how that intelligence came to be. Could it be evidence of a past symbiotic event? Menagerie, but where there is a market there will be specie.
The challenge faced by microbiologists to explain the period of life on earth called molecular evolution is increased by the cooperative world view. Molecular evolution was a period where cooperation could not be described in anything but chemical terms. Perhaps this is profoundly challenging for those who would make a story for text books that is not based on scientific description or evidence.
In classic irony, the metabolism of the past is used to brute force sequence genomes with computers and chemistry, in pursuit of cooperative fiction. The science of the surplus will self optimize to exploit the fuel and the agents of exploitation, in highly eusocial fashion will cooperate to consume all fuel until the surplus is exhausted. Fictions like NIH OPEC and SEC will decrease host function until a period of duress will trigger a cataclysm which is a non reproductive exchange of genetic information or change in gene frequency. If you herd sheep and cannot fend off wolves, then modify the wolf through domestication to form a wolf response. Such domestication of potential predators or parasites is a mark of success for any host.
The same consequences occur in some cold space like computers where 0 and 1 are highly deterministic and identity preserved.
Temperature is a measure of an objects internal rate of change. This applies to physical ie thermodynamic simulations and cold simulations ie digital. A simul is a shared instant. I have become 2,416 times smarter since then. Lets see how you do on the gaming grid.
"And much, much more effective than your English class." -
A little news for you/some FYI:
This is not English Class, first of all!
(& it's also not his last will and testament, nor a legal document etc. et al, either so "perfect writing" (whatever THAT is really when you come down to it, about as subjective as what beauty is almost) is not an issue or of great import, imo @ least).
CLUE: It's a forums on computing, and your b.s. is thus off topic.
APK
P.S.=> So, in the end now that that has all been said & put aside? Well - Above all else? It's your problem if your brain is afflicted with some malady like dyslexia, not ours, becaues I found his reply easy to read, understand, and appreciate (unlike yours due to your attempt @ being an English Professor here - that brings up an important point also: So, Where is your PhD in English that qualifies you to be a critic of others' writings here?? OH, that's right - YOU DON'T HAVE ONE (another /. "expert in his own mind" who feels his opinion of others' writing style is "THE" only one that matters))... apk