This seems to be happening a lot more lately...
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Microsoft Cracked
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This is exactly the same thing that happened to AOL a few months back. A trojan opened up a connection from the inside of the company.
Working for a blue chip company I can tell you that users are responsible for virus protection here (and very few use it). Are there any IDS systems that detect these trojans?
If the trojan sent out an encrypted email it would make finding it very difficult. I'm sure they just establish a connection through port 80 or some other common port. When I was an exchange admin. we caught trojans incoming on the server before they got to users.
I have on average 30 people a week from @home.com IP's scanning my netbios ports. @home actually had the nerve to tell me they are filtering their users from doing this. If your smart and you have DSL or cable you will setup a firewall like I did. I just had someone tell me last week his computer got erased because someone on napster got mad at him.
When I'm talking to people and I say I received mail from someone they assume I mean email e-mail. I vote for mail, my second choice would have to be email.
My question is "why are you asking why are we here?". Maybe there isn't a reason or maybe it's 42. It's your emotions that make you constantly worry and ask, "why this and why that". Its not odd to me that six numbers hold everything together. If you analyze something you will find that a set of coincendences makes it work. It's funny that the same adults who get frustrated at children for asking "why?" are always asking, "why am I here?".
First off this is just a case of social engineering. This method of manipulation has been around long before the internet and computers. Its sad that so many people like the news wire take security as an after thought.
The internet is still in its wild west days. People are so quick to blame system administrators for not securing their machines. While this is certanitaly a bad practice its not the real problem. The locks on 99.9% of Americans homes would take me under a minute to pick. I learned to pick locks in less than an hour and could probably teach anyone to do it in the same amount of time. The only reason there isn't thousands of teenagers picking locks is because they are scared they will get caught. These guys are thieves (stealing your resources) and vandals. I've spent hours upon hours cleaning up because people failed to take my security advise.
ISP's (especially cable and dsl) need to become more pro-active. I've helped clean up 100's of hacks and yet not one person has had to pay for their actions yet. Right now with it's almost impossible to track down these guys because people don't get it. Taking their account away doesn't solve anything it just moves them to another ISP. System administrators need to work together to get these guys put in jail. Once they realize their actions have consequences the "waves" of attacks will diminish.
Re:This sounds like it's EXACTLY what a newbie nee
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I know where your coming from. I started with slackware in 94' and sometimes for the first couple of years i felt exactly like you. Now however I administer 3 flavors of Unix and 4 flavors of Linux for IBM. I can tell you the only difference between me now and then is hours of practice and reading (and a deep inner questioning of how things work). The reason "guru's" get tired of newbies is because we suffered and RTFM and asked how things worked. MSDOS has very little features so of course it didn't take you long to learn. If you don't have time to sit down and figure it out your not going to hurt my feelings. The less people who know how Unix works the more money sys admins will make;).
About the writer Paulina Borsook is the author of the forthcoming "Cyberselfish: A critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high-tech" (Spring 2000/Public Affairs).
"Terribly libertarian culture"? I would say you are right, she seems to be anti-libertarian. I am a libertarian and you are correct when you say we represent getting the goverment off our backs. Its all about Liberty and freedom. I really hope the title of her book isn't trying to say that wanting your personal libertys is selfish.
I agree with the first thing you said, legalized prostitution is something that Libertarin's do support and doesn't support her stance at all.
She never said Libertarians were anti-union. She said "libertarianism and union-loathing rife" which could obviously are two seperate values. However, I'm not sure prostition and unions really go hand and hand. I mean, are sex workers in San Fransico really "organized" into unions. This lady sounds pretty whack to me.
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This is exactly the same thing that happened to AOL a few months back. A trojan opened up a connection from the inside of the company.
Working for a blue chip company I can tell you that users are responsible for virus protection here (and very few use it). Are there any IDS systems that detect these trojans?
If the trojan sent out an encrypted email it would make finding it very difficult. I'm sure they just establish a connection through port 80 or some other common port. When I was an exchange admin. we caught trojans incoming on the server before they got to users.
Very simple... If you want to change the game you have to first play it.
I have on average 30 people a week from @home.com IP's scanning my netbios ports. @home actually had the nerve to tell me they are filtering their users from doing this. If your smart and you have DSL or cable you will setup a firewall like I did. I just had someone tell me last week his computer got erased because someone on napster got mad at him.
When I'm talking to people and I say I received mail from someone they assume I mean email e-mail. I vote for mail, my second choice would have to be email.
My question is "why are you asking why are we here?". Maybe there isn't a reason or maybe it's 42. It's your emotions that make you constantly worry and ask, "why this and why that". Its not odd to me that six numbers hold everything together. If you analyze something you will find that a set of coincendences makes it work. It's funny that the same adults who get frustrated at children for asking "why?" are always asking, "why am I here?".
First off this is just a case of social engineering. This method of manipulation has been around long before the internet and computers. Its sad that so many people like the news wire take security as an after thought.
The internet is still in its wild west days. People are so quick to blame system administrators for not securing their machines. While this is certanitaly a bad practice its not the real problem. The locks on 99.9% of Americans homes would take me under a minute to pick. I learned to pick locks in less than an hour and could probably teach anyone to do it in the same amount of time. The only reason there isn't thousands of teenagers picking locks is because they are scared they will get caught. These guys are thieves (stealing your resources) and vandals. I've spent hours upon hours cleaning up because people failed to take my security advise.
ISP's (especially cable and dsl) need to become more pro-active. I've helped clean up 100's of hacks and yet not one person has had to pay for their actions yet. Right now with it's almost impossible to track down these guys because people don't get it. Taking their account away doesn't solve anything it just moves them to another ISP. System administrators need to work together to get these guys put in jail. Once they realize their actions have consequences the "waves" of attacks will diminish.
I know where your coming from. I started with slackware in 94' and sometimes for the first couple of years i felt exactly like you. Now however I administer 3 flavors of Unix and 4 flavors of Linux for IBM. I can tell you the only difference between me now and then is hours of practice and reading (and a deep inner questioning of how things work). The reason "guru's" get tired of newbies is because we suffered and RTFM and asked how things worked. MSDOS has very little features so of course it didn't take you long to learn. If you don't have time to sit down and figure it out your not going to hurt my feelings. The less people who know how Unix works the more money sys admins will make ;).
"Terribly libertarian culture"? I would say you are right, she seems to be anti-libertarian. I am a libertarian and you are correct when you say we represent getting the goverment off our backs. Its all about Liberty and freedom. I really hope the title of her book isn't trying to say that wanting your personal libertys is selfish.
I agree with the first thing you said, legalized prostitution is something that Libertarin's do support and doesn't support her stance at all.
She never said Libertarians were anti-union. She said "libertarianism and union-loathing rife" which could obviously are two seperate values. However, I'm not sure prostition and unions really go hand and hand. I mean, are sex workers in San Fransico really "organized" into unions. This lady sounds pretty whack to me.