I've worked for many card companies and I can assure you they know a lot less about IT and security than you think.
Most "high" end banking institutions DO have their revenue processing systems directly connected to the other areas of their environment.
If a cracker had the right tool and a little social engineering skill, it would not be difficult at all.
Simple scenerio is to gain access to a less secure DB and then spoof the card DB's into thinking your session is just another R/W from an trusted DB.P.Actually this sort of thing happens all too frequently and the card companies just right it off as bad debt. It's unfortunate, but in the long run, they would much rather keep the fraud FUD down, it is much more dammaging than having a high bad debt number. Most issuing comanies run between 4-8% written off as bad debt.
This whole proposal is inherently flawed and another true recipe for disaster. This will give struggling script kiddies and l33t Haxors who cant find real employment a home. Our tax dollars at work.
he will propose on Feb. 7, will request $91 million from Congress for computer security as part of an overall $2 billion budget "to meet our security challenges."
91 million? This seems like an awful lot of money for a program like this. Not that it isn't important, but for a "start up" it sure seems like much of this will be dedicated to administrative overhead and not to paying the "consultants"
"I will continue to work equally hard to uphold the privacy rights of the American people as well as the proprietary rights of American businesses," he said.
His previous decisions and policy on privacy rights blows chucks, I hope whatever he introduces for business proprietary, and intellectual property rights is solid. Now there is way too much confusion, law suits, etc.
The scholarship program would be modeled after the military ROTC program, aides said. College students would receive education subsidies to develop computer-security skills if they agree to work for the government after graduation.
Lets see here. If I were a computer science major or some flavor of, and was looking for opportunities upon leaving school, what would I do?
1. Take a GS 4 job with uncle Sam and make 30K on the high end, or 2. Take a job in the private sector making substantially more than 30K and enjoy the flexibility that comes with it.
I worked fairly extensively with educators,(K-12) on a pilot program on PC's in every classroom etc. The main reason I see why the efforts failing is that the kids know more about technology than the teachers and the teachers feel outgunned. This is really too bad.
As those teachers retire and newer ones are hired (or not, depending on whether your community believes in passing school levies), this problem should diminish, slowly, iff the new teachers understand that the computer is nothing more than another tool to be put to good use.
If the computer as a used tool is ever going to have success in the classroom:
1. The teachers need to be trained better 2. The courses need to be better defined and managed 3. The government and other entities need to get out of the way and just let it happen. Get over or better manage the "The kids might see pron" Crap 4. Business needs to step in and help with funding and help build the infrastructure. These kids will be their employees soon.
Ever since they came up with that stupid jingle thats supposed to be all warm and fuzzy! The music is really subliminal messages and the Folgers Nanites will slowly creep and reproduce eventually infecting all humanity!
Then the real Mr. Echelon will have all the power!
It really doesn't matter, the point being I was trying to make was that the trades will see "Linux being touted as the OS of choice.
I felt this was a good thing,press exposure is good and having it milled about in the business, specifically financial communities is great, because thats where business Sr. management is and they are the decision makers on platforms for their IT shops.
"Another way in which electronic circuits can increase their complexity while maintaining speed is to copy the human brain. This does not have a single CPU [the central processing unit of a computer] that processes each command in sequence, rather, it has millions of processors working together at the same time. Such massive parallel processes will be the future for electronic intelligence as well."
Makes a lot of sense. Bill Gevarter, of Artificial Intelligence at NASA was on the same track back in the late eighties with the book Intelligent Machines: An Introductory Perspective of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Intelligent Machines. The concept of making machines mirror the complex architecture of the human brain is explained very well. Making computers that can learn, see and understand smell etc is all based on this basic architecture. Pretty fascinating reading. He wrote many books on AI and computer intelligence prior to his death, some are listed here.
I don't know if this was "kicking them while they are down". If I lived in CA I sure would have taken their rebate. I'm currently an MSN customer, (no flames please, old e-mail acct. and my wife uses it) and although their service generally sucks, free stuff is free stuff.
I really dont beleive this was a "some lawyer"(Singular) mistake. There had to have been many marketing, co-branding and sr. management types involved with this. This was a full blown project in my view and unfortunately for the, a pretty poor one.
"Application-specific servers...are going to be really an explosive market opportunity in the next two years, and Linux is probably going to be the operating system of choice on them," Ferlazzo said. "It sounds like (CyberNet is) right in the sweet spot."
If nothing else, the fact that CyberNet is saturating the financial community with press releases to pump their IPO, with comments like this our exposure is growing by the day!
will we ever see the end of the/. use of the 'non-sexy slahdot'(TM) chars ?
stuff like BSOD, IANAL,LOL and the oh-so-popular ANAL.
i work for @IANAL(no flames please) and even *I* am getting sick of it. hopefully as the net-craze will sweep past the consumer, leaving only painfull memories of CAPATALIZED abbreviations and 'IAMAL.com-everywhere'
I'm in the field of information security and from first hand experience the guys at l0pht have done more to educate and raise awareness on security issues than any other organization.
Firms like ISS and the like are great but all are mostly reactive not proactive like l0pht.
I dont agree with giving away stuff like l0phtcrack and tools which seem to have no real legit value, but overall they do in the long run serve a purpose.
The 300-pound Parenti was heading to a neighborhood in Tocopilla, 960 miles north of Santiago, to deliver boxes of candies that the local government planned to give out later.
300 lbs, and 960 miles in the back of a truck, wearing a Santa suit? Whats wrong with this picture? Can you imagine how bad he would have looked when he finally arrived? Would have scared the little ones half to death!
This is just an opportunity for more regulation(read more government). However it is only a budget proposal at this point.
"The plan, which is to be announced later on Tuesday and will be included as part of President Clinton's 2001 budget request, would have to be approved by Congress."
Why don't we wait until it actually gets submitted in the budget and approved by congress.
Sounds like "Cut Bait" to me. Just fodder for them to be able to cut when they really have to get to their fiscal mark at budget crunch time.
Yeah, but as posted here almost daily, the name is only the starting point. Who would have thought 5-8 years ago that Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon and etoy/etoys would be household names?
Granted having LinuxX.com will help with a little branding and some hits off of searches, but any real value will come from content and content alone.
but these statements sound less like they came from a dispassionate seeker of the most secure OS and more like your garden variety GNU/Linux-advocating name-dropper.
This alone was the flavor I couldn't shake while reading it. It made the whole commentary seem very shaded. I thought the Troughton was pouring on more of an "ad campain" than anything else.
Slashdot Mirror
Most "high" end banking institutions DO have their revenue processing systems directly connected to the other areas of their environment.
If a cracker had the right tool and a little social engineering skill, it would not be difficult at all.
Simple scenerio is to gain access to a less secure DB and then spoof the card DB's into thinking your session is just another R/W from an trusted DB.P.Actually this sort of thing happens all too frequently and the card companies just right it off as bad debt. It's unfortunate, but in the long run, they would much rather keep the fraud FUD down, it is much more dammaging than having a high bad debt number. Most issuing comanies run between 4-8% written off as bad debt.
Could be a difference in culture and dialect meaning the Flavour of "correct" spelling and grammer.
he will propose on Feb. 7, will request $91 million from Congress for computer security as part of an overall $2 billion budget "to meet our security challenges."
91 million? This seems like an awful lot of money for a program like this. Not that it isn't important, but for a "start up" it sure seems like much of this will be dedicated to administrative overhead and not to paying the "consultants"
"I will continue to work equally hard to uphold the privacy rights of the American people as well as the proprietary rights of American businesses," he said.
His previous decisions and policy on privacy rights blows chucks, I hope whatever he introduces for business proprietary, and intellectual property rights is solid. Now there is way too much confusion, law suits, etc.
The scholarship program would be modeled after the military ROTC program, aides said. College students would receive education subsidies to develop computer-security skills if they agree to work for the government after graduation.
Lets see here. If I were a computer science major or some flavor of, and was looking for opportunities upon leaving school, what would I do?
1. Take a GS 4 job with uncle Sam and make 30K on the high end, or
2. Take a job in the private sector making substantially more than 30K and enjoy the flexibility that comes with it.
I worked fairly extensively with educators,(K-12) on a pilot program on PC's in every classroom etc. The main reason I see why the efforts failing is that the kids know more about technology than the teachers and the teachers feel outgunned. This is really too bad.
As those teachers retire and newer ones are hired (or not, depending on whether your community believes in passing school levies), this problem should diminish, slowly, iff the new teachers understand that the computer is nothing more than another tool to be put to good use.
If the computer as a used tool is ever going to have success in the classroom:
1. The teachers need to be trained better
2. The courses need to be better defined and managed
3. The government and other entities need to get out of the way and just let it happen. Get over or better manage the "The kids might see pron" Crap
4. Business needs to step in and help with funding and help build the infrastructure. These kids will be their employees soon.
Sounds like a pretty * Up Front* comment to me.
Ever since they came up with that stupid jingle thats supposed to be all warm and fuzzy! The music is really subliminal messages and the Folgers Nanites will slowly creep and reproduce eventually infecting all humanity!
Then the real Mr. Echelon will have all the power!
Precidents been set, hasn't it?
Ernie
I felt this was a good thing,press exposure is good and having it milled about in the business, specifically financial communities is great, because thats where business Sr. management is and they are the decision makers on platforms for their IT shops.
"Another way in which electronic circuits can increase their complexity while maintaining speed is to copy the human brain. This does not have a single CPU [the central processing unit of a computer] that processes each command in sequence, rather, it has millions of processors working together at the same time. Such massive parallel processes will be the future for electronic intelligence as well."
Makes a lot of sense. Bill Gevarter, of Artificial Intelligence at NASA was on the same track back in the late eighties with the book Intelligent Machines: An Introductory Perspective of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Intelligent Machines. The concept of making machines mirror the complex architecture of the human brain is explained very well. Making computers that can learn, see and understand smell etc is all based on this basic architecture. Pretty fascinating reading. He wrote many books on AI and computer intelligence prior to his death, some are listed here.
I really dont beleive this was a "some lawyer"(Singular) mistake. There had to have been many marketing, co-branding and sr. management types involved with this. This was a full blown project in my view and unfortunately for the, a pretty poor one.
Could be a good opportunity if you like cold weather.
"Application-specific servers...are going to be really an explosive market opportunity in the next two years, and Linux is probably going to be the operating system of choice on them," Ferlazzo said. "It sounds like (CyberNet is) right in the sweet spot."
If nothing else, the fact that CyberNet is saturating the financial community with press releases to pump their IPO, with comments like this our exposure is growing by the day!
Although I do wish I got paid like one.
Jeez, Isn't it obvious?
stuff like BSOD, IANAL,LOL and the oh-so-popular ANAL.
i work for @IANAL(no flames please) and even *I* am getting sick of it. hopefully as the net-craze will sweep past the consumer, leaving only painfull memories of CAPATALIZED abbreviations and 'IAMAL.com-everywhere'
DON'T hire hackers to be youyr security consultants! They will install back doors and steal your data!
Yet, when you and now big names like compaq want real security insight and vision without the bull, they turn to L0pht.
I'm in the field of information security and from first hand experience the guys at l0pht have done more to educate and raise awareness on security issues than any other organization.
Firms like ISS and the like are great but all are mostly reactive not proactive like l0pht.
I dont agree with giving away stuff like l0phtcrack and tools which seem to have no real legit value, but overall they do in the long run serve a purpose.
300 lbs, and 960 miles in the back of a truck, wearing a Santa suit? Whats wrong with this picture? Can you imagine how bad he would have looked when he finally arrived? Would have scared the little ones half to death!
Damn glad I dont live in Chile.
What's a frist??
Take it for what it's worth. Would you have done the same?
Don't know if I would, I more than likely would have just bitvhed about it and done nothing.
If nothing else, it's keeping Linux in the headlines, and that for sure is worth 35 bucks.
"The plan, which is to be announced later on Tuesday and will be included as part of President Clinton's 2001 budget request, would have to be approved by Congress."
Why don't we wait until it actually gets submitted in the budget and approved by congress.
Sounds like "Cut Bait" to me. Just fodder for them to be able to cut when they really have to get to their fiscal mark at budget crunch time.
Clean 'em manually. ?!?
Granted having LinuxX.com will help with a little branding and some hits off of searches, but any real value will come from content and content alone.
This alone was the flavor I couldn't shake while reading it. It made the whole commentary seem very shaded. I thought the Troughton was pouring on more of an "ad campain" than anything else.