It is known that the heart has a certain 'beat limit', animals like mice have fast heart beat hence their short life span, where as animals such as elephants have slow heart beats hence a longer life span.
Now, if you spent more time sleeping in your life, that means more time at a lower heart rate (while sleeping) hence longer life span (in terms of heart beats anyway, you might die from something else). Is there some truth in this?
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
It is more true of IT companies than others, mainly because a lot of IT workers are anti-social, and there is a big mix of personality types in the industry. A lot of IT workers (read: geeks) often take personal opinion too far resulting in IRL flame wars.
im lucky to be an IT person in a small and new non-IT company, so ive got good work with great people.
Current copy protection methods for CD's will always be client-side.
ie. both the mechanism to "decrypt"/"decode" the copy protection and the contents are avaliable to the user.
Since the player is actually playing the CD and extracting the data and playing it this puts all the peices together for a "cracker" to be able to replicate the environment.
the only solutions for full copy protection are tamper proof CD players where algorithms/the process cannot be analysed (highly unlikely) or a distributed copy protection scheme where every machine has to communicate with a central server and establish sessions or some other similar idea (this will move the vulnerbility to this central server).
who wants to copy NSync anyway? i doubt there are many 12 year old female slashdot/new scientist readers.
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It shouldnt be left up to Microsoft patches, there *are* alot of IIS servers out there that DIDNT get infected.. 95% of the vulnerabilities with IIS rely on default directories (the eEye iishack overflow is one that didnt).
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If you are talking about mail viruses, and if your workstations are picking up their mail from your linux server. Then you can install a mail scanning package on the server that scans all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses and can generically block certain file extensions (.vbs etc.)
Amavis (http://www.amavis.org/) works with most major virus scanning software and mail servers (sendmail, Qmail, postfix etc.) and i find that it works well.
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Alot of companies have spent large amounts of money on IIS based websites that cant just be moved over to an Apache or other webserver. I think there has been too much hype about IIS being insecure, perhaps companies should just stop leaving the responsobilities of webserver security to clueless admin's with microsoft certs.
With a few easy steps, you can setup an IIS server so that it wont be vulnerable to a large number of new vulnerabilities and worms taking advantage of these vulnerabilities.
- Take the time to do a custom install of the option pack, and remove what you wont need (transaction server, frontpage extensions etc.)
- Setup the webroot on another drive (not C:), and make the filesystem NTFS.
- Remove all sample directories
- Remove all associations to default ISAPI objects (webhits.dll, ism.dll) from the
management console
- Apply the latest service pack
- Apply all the latest hot fixes since the latest Service Pack (only those that apply to your server).(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security )
- Monitor Microsoft alerts and security mailing lists for latest bugs
- Turn off verbose error output from the server, and have a customer error (404) page, a custom 404 page still returns a 200 OK response and confuses alot of scanners
- Install an IDS (snort has been ported to win32, http://www.snort.org)
All this shouldnt take too long, and will give you a much better chance of surviving a worm outbreak.
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It is known that the heart has a certain 'beat limit', animals like mice have fast heart beat hence their short life span, where as animals such as elephants have slow heart beats hence a longer life span.
Now, if you spent more time sleeping in your life, that means more time at a lower heart rate (while sleeping) hence longer life span (in terms of heart beats anyway, you might die from something else). Is there some truth in this?
I, CmdrTaco, take you Kathleen, as my lawfully wedded ICQ buddie. Through IPO's and stock busts, till Microsoft tear us apart. Amen.
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
Shut-Up. Just shut-up. You had me at SUBMIT..
do i have enough moderator points to attend the wedding?
dont forget 'fight club' for its seamless special effects.. well woven in, think back to the movie now..
might not be that bad, since to do the calcluation on the number it will have to be XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX format, so it has to be converted regardless
a lot of, not all, and its from my experience so stfu
its tempting just to drop them the 'i read your email' line while yous are drunk
It is more true of IT companies than others, mainly because a lot of IT workers are anti-social, and there is a big mix of personality types in the industry. A lot of IT workers (read: geeks) often take personal opinion too far resulting in IRL flame wars.
im lucky to be an IT person in a small and new non-IT company, so ive got good work with great people.
just my opinion.
It would be better to grep for "root.exe" and "dir+c:\" for nimda, just WINNT could be indicative of any scan.
id add
21. Hiring admin's with no clue about security
isnt every security hole important? seems like a pretty bad attitude..
Current copy protection methods for CD's will always be client-side.
ie. both the mechanism to "decrypt"/"decode" the copy protection and the contents are avaliable to the user.
Since the player is actually playing the CD and extracting the data and playing it this puts all the peices together for a "cracker" to be able to replicate the environment.
the only solutions for full copy protection are tamper proof CD players where algorithms/the process cannot be analysed (highly unlikely) or a distributed copy protection scheme where every machine has to communicate with a central server and establish sessions or some other similar idea (this will move the vulnerbility to this central server).
in other words, all this effort is useless...
who wants to copy NSync anyway? i doubt there are many 12 year old female slashdot/new scientist readers.
It shouldnt be left up to Microsoft patches, there *are* alot of IIS servers out there that DIDNT get infected.. 95% of the vulnerabilities with IIS rely on default directories (the eEye iishack overflow is one that didnt).
If you are talking about mail viruses, and if your workstations are picking up their mail from your linux server. Then you can install a mail scanning package on the server that scans all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses and can generically block certain file extensions (.vbs etc.)
Amavis (http://www.amavis.org/) works with most major virus scanning software and mail servers (sendmail, Qmail, postfix etc.) and i find that it works well.
Alot of companies have spent large amounts of money on IIS based websites that cant just be moved over to an Apache or other webserver. I think there has been too much hype about IIS being insecure, perhaps companies should just stop leaving the responsobilities of webserver security to clueless admin's with microsoft certs.
y )
With a few easy steps, you can setup an IIS server so that it wont be vulnerable to a large number of new vulnerabilities and worms taking advantage of these vulnerabilities.
- Take the time to do a custom install of the option pack, and remove what you wont need (transaction server, frontpage extensions etc.)
- Setup the webroot on another drive (not C:), and make the filesystem NTFS.
- Remove all sample directories
- Remove all associations to default ISAPI objects (webhits.dll, ism.dll) from the management console
- Apply the latest service pack
- Apply all the latest hot fixes since the latest Service Pack (only those that apply to your server).(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/securit
- Monitor Microsoft alerts and security mailing lists for latest bugs
- Turn off verbose error output from the server, and have a customer error (404) page, a custom 404 page still returns a 200 OK response and confuses alot of scanners
- Install an IDS (snort has been ported to win32, http://www.snort.org)
All this shouldnt take too long, and will give you a much better chance of surviving a worm outbreak.
There is a mirror of the book at:
http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/books/
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Gore has Slashdot ?
VOTE KEVIN!, now that he is free
I wonder when we will see DeCSS in YABASIC on the PSX2? code your own mod-chip