The real reason the BBC is cutting back on its online presence is hidden pressure from the commercial sector who have always seen it as a threat to their revenue. "News Corporation's James Murdoch has said that a "dominant" BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK". Of course we all know what kind of 'independent' journalism he really means. One where some Australian pornographer decides who gets to be president or Primeminister.
"James Murdoch, son of Rupert and the man in charge of BSkyB has criticised the BBC iPlayer, insisting that the popular online VOD service is squashing competition" link
"Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios. Most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service, but others are meant for Google employees
Is there a link to these MPAA infringement warnings addressed to Google employees?
Anyone care to post a demo of this Linux autorun vulnerability, one that will compromise my system by inserting a USB device, and with no user confirmation required, and doesn't prompt for the root password..
"Google's Bing sting, reported in Slashdot just days ago and subsequently denied by Microsoft, is now being called 'silly' and 'petty' by search industry analysts and execs. The reason: it would be impossible for Microsoft to use the copied results to reverse engineer Google's search algorithms"
Except Google never accused them of reverse engineering Google's search algorithms. What was proved was that the Bing Toolbar scooped-up the endusers Google searches and feed them to Bing. Who exactly are these 'industry analysts and execs', and what are their affiliations in the tech industry.
You can install a full working system to a USB device using the Ubuntu Live USB creator. You can configure it so save your configuration to a separate partition and make it readonly using a physical read-write switch. Your session runs from memory and so is flushed at each reboot. There are various desktop environment available, one of the lightest is Lubuntu. Any business out there doing online Banking should produce their own customized Live CD and hand them out to their employees, there are various systems out there that can be customized such as the Knoppix distro..
I see, it's either computer malware, Internet malware or now banking malware. How much PR effort must have gone into inserting that particular viral marketing meme into the blogosphere..
"It’s difficult for me to feel a sense of injustice or outrage with any of the big search engines, because their products have so clearly immitated each other for so long. Google isn’t at all pure in this area" Chris Silver Smith
Do please provide veriable examples of Google copying Microsoft?
"Even your criticism of Google seems aimed at ‘lesser’ offences", Badams
Please provide verifiable examples of Googles greater offences?
"Google aren’t entirely blameless when it comes to being a little bit too creepy about the amount of data they aggregate about users" James Lowery
It's about Bing stealing Google search results to boost their own ranking. Provide verifiable citations where Google does the exact same.
"@Danny I agree and think this will cost Google some credibility and am curious how Google will respond to this situation as well! Great article and thank you for sharing!" Ashley Sellers link
What are you on, or even on about, Microsoft gets caught stealing Google search results and using it to boost Bing search results.
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a call for proposals this week in a $40m program to encourage research and development in a wide range of topics related to cyber security: from designing more resilient software, to alternatives to passwords and CAPTCHA technology to prevent automated attacks"
Run your software from read-only hardware and don't allow execution of downloaded code, the exception being scripts that run in the browser context. This is run from RAM and gets flushed at reboot. Devise an automated one-time pseudo password system for identity management. This will defeat key loggers and identity theft.
"This shouldn't be surprising - an organization's purpose is to do what it does, to quote somebody or other. TJX is making money off transactions; security is only incidental"..
"Take for instance the TJX Cos. data breach, where insecure wireless networks were compromised for months, revealing millions of personal records, before they were pinpointed and finally secured. Once made aware of the issue, it took TJX an additional few months until the situation was completely in control and secured"
Don't you mean the data breach that went unnoticed for over eighteen months (or possible up to two years) until their bank informed them of the huge number of fraudulent transactions. Which all began with an antenna and a laptop computer.
"There are a few things consumers and small businesses can do if they're unsure about e-mail attachments. The safest is to delete the attachment and write back to the sender asking for a plain text version. Alternatively, they can open the document in Google's Gmail to see if it appears legitimate" link
"A team of security researchers has created a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android handsets that is capable of listening out for credit card numbers -- typed or spoken -- and relaying them back to the application's creator.
Once installed, Soundminder sits in the background"
How does this 'trojan' get onto the handsets in th first place?
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone here read the financial press, what exactly caused Nokia financial returns to be so bad?
"Theres a very noticable left wing bias at the BBC, especially on Radio 4. We need right wingers like murdoch to provide balance"
Snort .... !!!!!!
"At some point the responsibility shifts from Microsoft to VMWare. Where the responsibility for alerting customers lies is maybe not clear yet"
At what point did VMware, invent a time machine, go back in time, inflitrate Microsoft and hack out a Windows 7 security patch that broke VMware.
"VMware is telling customers that two Windows 7 security patches have left VMware View users incapable of accessing their Windows desktops"
Snoooooze ....
The real reason the BBC is cutting back on its online presence is hidden pressure from the commercial sector who have always seen it as a threat to their revenue. "News Corporation's James Murdoch has said that a "dominant" BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK". Of course we all know what kind of 'independent' journalism he really means. One where some Australian pornographer decides who gets to be president or Primeminister.
"James Murdoch, son of Rupert and the man in charge of BSkyB has criticised the BBC iPlayer, insisting that the popular online VOD service is squashing competition" link
"Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios. Most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service, but others are meant for Google employees
Is there a link to these MPAA infringement warnings addressed to Google employees?
Egypt is not a cyber security issue.
The article confuses things.
Egypt has a US-sponsored dictator for reasons of 'stability'.
People don't count.
This new 'cyber' 'security' issue is a new fake reason to limit peoples' freedoms.
Now also in the USA and worldwide. link
Both Slashdot and the presenter should have been more accurate in the title of the presentation. ( I mean you by CmdrTaco )
"Linux still has the antiquated "user, group, everyone" security model from the 1970s"
Apple OS X is based on Unix and uses the same antiquated security model as Linux :)
Anyone care to post a demo of this Linux autorun vulnerability, one that will compromise my system by inserting a USB device, and with no user confirmation required, and doesn't prompt for the root password ..
"Google's Bing sting, reported in Slashdot just days ago and subsequently denied by Microsoft, is now being called 'silly' and 'petty' by search industry analysts and execs. The reason: it would be impossible for Microsoft to use the copied results to reverse engineer Google's search algorithms"
Except Google never accused them of reverse engineering Google's search algorithms. What was proved was that the Bing Toolbar scooped-up the endusers Google searches and feed them to Bing. Who exactly are these 'industry analysts and execs', and what are their affiliations in the tech industry.
You can install a full working system to a USB device using the Ubuntu Live USB creator. You can configure it so save your configuration to a separate partition and make it readonly using a physical read-write switch. Your session runs from memory and so is flushed at each reboot. There are various desktop environment available, one of the lightest is Lubuntu. Any business out there doing online Banking should produce their own customized Live CD and hand them out to their employees, there are various systems out there that can be customized such as the Knoppix distro ..
I see, it's either computer malware, Internet malware or now banking malware. How much PR effort must have gone into inserting that particular viral marketing meme into the blogosphere ..
Would Googles 'click fraud' have still worked on machines without the Bing Toolbar installed and enabled to send data back to Microsoft?
Martin Guitars
Jet City Amps
"It seems like this is publicly available information. Were there any stipulations, even if informal, on how that information could be used?"
What occurred was the Bing Toolbar peeked at client user Google search results and sent them back to Redmond.
"It’s difficult for me to feel a sense of injustice or outrage with any of the big search engines, because their products have so clearly immitated each other for so long. Google isn’t at all pure in this area" Chris Silver Smith
Do please provide veriable examples of Google copying Microsoft?
"Even your criticism of Google seems aimed at ‘lesser’ offences", Badams
Please provide verifiable examples of Googles greater offences?
"Google aren’t entirely blameless when it comes to being a little bit too creepy about the amount of data they aggregate about users" James Lowery
It's about Bing stealing Google search results to boost their own ranking. Provide verifiable citations where Google does the exact same.
"@Danny I agree and think this will cost Google some credibility and am curious how Google will respond to this situation as well! Great article and thank you for sharing!" Ashley Sellers link
What are you on, or even on about, Microsoft gets caught stealing Google search results and using it to boost Bing search results.
"The London Stock Exchange's new open source trading system may have been hacked last year"
And where's the evidence, the article is technically erroneous and totally short on any verifiable facts.
"Unlike US exchanges, the LSE platform is not based on the internet ..
"The new Linux system, based in a C++ environment"
Please define a 'C++ environment', and provide examples?
link
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a call for proposals this week in a $40m program to encourage research and development in a wide range of topics related to cyber security: from designing more resilient software, to alternatives to passwords and CAPTCHA technology to prevent automated attacks"
Run your software from read-only hardware and don't allow execution of downloaded code, the exception being scripts that run in the browser context. This is run from RAM and gets flushed at reboot. Devise an automated one-time pseudo password system for identity management. This will defeat key loggers and identity theft.
"The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being notified of the issue:
1. Lock down access to the compromised account
2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems the account had access to
(pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org)
3. Audit SSH, FAS, Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present
Here, we found that the attacker did:
* Change the account's SSH key in FAS
* Login to fedorapeople.org
The attacker did not:
* Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way
* Generate a koji cert or perform any builds
* Push any package updates .."
"This shouldn't be surprising - an organization's purpose is to do what it does, to quote somebody or other. TJX is making money off transactions; security is only incidental" ..
Except the transactions were handled by Heartland Payment Systems, an organization supposedly charged with securing credit card transactions.
"Take for instance the TJX Cos. data breach, where insecure wireless networks were compromised for months, revealing millions of personal records, before they were pinpointed and finally secured. Once made aware of the issue, it took TJX an additional few months until the situation was completely in control and secured"
Don't you mean the data breach that went unnoticed for over eighteen months (or possible up to two years) until their bank informed them of the huge number of fraudulent transactions. Which all began with an antenna and a laptop computer.
Is this the state of Cyber Security in the twenty first century?
The Zeus botnet only targets Windows machines
"There are a few things consumers and small businesses can do if they're unsure about e-mail attachments. The safest is to delete the attachment and write back to the sender asking for a plain text version. Alternatively, they can open the document in Google's Gmail to see if it appears legitimate" link
> Microsoft said its investigation found that most problems were caused by a unnamed "third party" service ..
In other words, we're making this shit up !!!
"A team of security researchers has created a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android handsets that is capable of listening out for credit card numbers -- typed or spoken -- and relaying them back to the application's creator. Once installed, Soundminder sits in the background"
How does this 'trojan' get onto the handsets in th first place?