But rocketing demand and a lagging supply of skilled hackers is boosting salaries and driving the defense industry’s war for talent into the open, says Alan Paller, the director of research at the cybersecurity education-focused SANS Institute. He cites SANS’ statistics that highly skilled cybersecurity staffers were paid as much as $175,000 in 2011, up 25 to 30 percent from two years before, and points to comments from the Booz Allen Hamilton executive Patrick Gorman to Bloomberg last year that the company tries to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts a year, and struggles to find them.
Gentlemen, the next new fad. Here's a trick question: how many script kiddies does it take to develop an exploit?
Depends.. how many bug writers does Microsoft employ? 10,000? 20,000?
We can get even simpler and easier, MS already gives the military access to their source code so that it can be reviewed. This is a requirement for all the software used on the most secure systems.
It has always been viewed as a joke around here, because unless they are going to fix the bugs themselves, having the source isn't going to make windoze take extra care about your data.
So the simplest and most obvious answer is, they didn't need to sneak in, and they didn't need to make threats either.
That explains some of the mental breakdown of returning veterans...
Scott had trouble with a pager, it wouldn't work and wouldn't work. He took out the battery, put it back in, tried a different one and still no success. Finally took the pager to a service center where the tech looked at it for about 10 seconds, took out the battery, flipped it around and put it back in - so the pager worked.
It's a question of competency at some things does not translate into a competency at all things.
A shift in usage from desktops to mobile will not take down Google; if anyone were in a position to embrace this sort of change, Google would be a top contender. As for Facebook, I would venture to say that it is reaching the end of its life-cycle.
Google is like a Road Map, which collects a little bit from any gas station, restaurant or hotel you ask about along the way. They are a starting point and make money on referal.
facebook is a destination. You go there to share pictures, natter a bit or nose around your connections connections connections. If you want to research anything to buy you go back to Google.
So... Interesting and compelling comment you've posted.
I don't think Chrome knows what's best for us -- I keep finding changes I find anywhere between no-care to highly-annoying. Too bad the default setting in every rollout is "ON" and sometimes you really have to dig to find ways to disable them.
Imagine making the decision to standardize on a browese, across your enterprize and then find every user is suddenly stuck on morning because some update to Chrome broke the application everyone runs. Not a plus.
I would agree, I am french educated and I have a perfect french(more or less), and been living here in France for the last 4 years. I can't say I ever heard something worth it. Long live classic rock!
Well, there you put your digit upon it.. by now we've had decades of music of many genres, forms, alloys and so forth.. more songs than have probably been written or sung in the entire history of mankind. We've even experimented with awful music, where some people have become major stars and quite rich as a result of the public's appetite for something different.
Where I have a decent collection of classic rock, I find my interests have wandered from todays desperate offerings to music of incredible craft from the 1940's and 50's. Amazing stuff, when you can find good recordings. Even heard Edith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" from 1946 and was quite impressed with her talent.
With digital preservation of music we've got a lot of it and interests are no doubt diverging. People will listen to whatever, once they break free of following what the crowd does.
Kip was a decent boss at Skyway, too bad they didn't say 'No' to the jerks who bought out the company and ran it into the ground, while skimming money off the top, every stinking month.
I did. I will tender my Slashdot resignation immediately. The editors should get to it in 5-10 years.
If you are looking for particles which travel faster than light, you should be researching Kingons. When Elizabeth's father, Geoge VI died in Norfolk, despite being in a treehouse in Kenya, she became queen faster than even light could travel.
What do you expect when the parties that can best improve security (banks, VISA, Mastercard) have made sure that merchants (who can do very little about security) carry most of the liability from security failures?
Banks, VISA, and Mastercard make tons of money from transaction fees, so they want to make transactions as easy as possible. They don't have to pay much for security breaches, so they are willing to sacrifice security for more transactions and more fees.
If a buyer goes into a store with a stolen card, there is practically nothing a merchant can do to detect the fraud and stop the buyer from walking out the door with merchandise. Who pays for the fraud? The merchant.
Until banks are on the hook for this fraud, nothing will change.
Every time the Banks expose something like this I wish they would be punished. Punishment discourages repeats of behavior. Force they to have an audit or their system architecture, procedures, processes and who has access to what and then perform these audits on a regular basis.
Who the heck is Tanya Steele, and how could she be so dumb as to claim that she owns the copyright over a film maker's video???
The director of the film in question. Quite possibly she was someone who felt she was owed a share in the film or silly enough to attempt to claim copyright for work done on contract (or perhaps withough a contract, which is very silly indeed) in the USA. Or never rule out the prospect of someone thinking they could get away with it (the approach of most big media companies.)
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What makes you think they only hack Windows boxes?
Because Windows is easier to pirate, which is why Iran was running so many copies of it on .. I love this part .. Nuclear Centrifuges!!!
It's like feeding your army at McDonalds
But rocketing demand and a lagging supply of skilled hackers is boosting salaries and driving the defense industry’s war for talent into the open, says Alan Paller, the director of research at the cybersecurity education-focused SANS Institute. He cites SANS’ statistics that highly skilled cybersecurity staffers were paid as much as $175,000 in 2011, up 25 to 30 percent from two years before, and points to comments from the Booz Allen Hamilton executive Patrick Gorman to Bloomberg last year that the company tries to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts a year, and struggles to find them.
Gentlemen, the next new fad. Here's a trick question: how many script kiddies does it take to develop an exploit?
Depends .. how many bug writers does Microsoft employ? 10,000? 20,000?
meanwhile, Jawa seen at Euro 2012
the only downside... can't smoke weed at work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMtl79atFs
Problem with that stuff is it doesn't make you smarter or more creative, it just makes you think you are.
The original name was the Department of War, which sounds way cooler.
Yeah, and it was called Eastern War Time, before this Daylight Savings Time malarky.
Don't respond!!! It's a trap!!
*cough* *wheeze*You were right.. The imperial forces were arrayed against us*cough*
Best advertising you could ask -- for Linux or Mac.
We can get even simpler and easier, MS already gives the military access to their source code so that it can be reviewed. This is a requirement for all the software used on the most secure systems.
It has always been viewed as a joke around here, because unless they are going to fix the bugs themselves, having the source isn't going to make windoze take extra care about your data.
So the simplest and most obvious answer is, they didn't need to sneak in, and they didn't need to make threats either.
That explains some of the mental breakdown of returning veterans...
Through obscurity
Throw in a buch of gobble-de-gook and only know which bit is meaningful, that's the answer.
What next? Donald Trump?
Scott had trouble with a pager, it wouldn't work and wouldn't work. He took out the battery, put it back in, tried a different one and still no success. Finally took the pager to a service center where the tech looked at it for about 10 seconds, took out the battery, flipped it around and put it back in - so the pager worked.
It's a question of competency at some things does not translate into a competency at all things.
A shift in usage from desktops to mobile will not take down Google; if anyone were in a position to embrace this sort of change, Google would be a top contender. As for Facebook, I would venture to say that it is reaching the end of its life-cycle.
Google is like a Road Map, which collects a little bit from any gas station, restaurant or hotel you ask about along the way. They are a starting point and make money on referal.
facebook is a destination. You go there to share pictures, natter a bit or nose around your connections connections connections. If you want to research anything to buy you go back to Google.
ll mk mllns!
Some information was withheld by OP, I'm suing!!!
Yeah, if Microsoft were held to that particular standard they would have been out of business a long time ago.
Microsoft has hardly been an innovator. I wonder who they bought the patent from.
On this day and always.
I thought this would be having another go at The Sun.
I'M KING OF THE WORLD!?!
Only when his wife lets him.
Yeah, that would be hilarious. Oh, wait, the Italians beat him to it.
I believe Chrome knows what's best for us.
I believe Mozilla does not.
So... Interesting and compelling comment you've posted.
I don't think Chrome knows what's best for us -- I keep finding changes I find anywhere between no-care to highly-annoying. Too bad the default setting in every rollout is "ON" and sometimes you really have to dig to find ways to disable them.
Imagine making the decision to standardize on a browese, across your enterprize and then find every user is suddenly stuck on morning because some update to Chrome broke the application everyone runs. Not a plus.
Without youtube most of these people's works would have faded from public view or remained obscure.
I would agree, I am french educated and I have a perfect french(more or less), and been living here in France for the last 4 years. I can't say I ever heard something worth it.
Long live classic rock!
Well, there you put your digit upon it .. by now we've had decades of music of many genres, forms, alloys and so forth .. more songs than have probably been written or sung in the entire history of mankind. We've even experimented with awful music, where some people have become major stars and quite rich as a result of the public's appetite for something different.
Where I have a decent collection of classic rock, I find my interests have wandered from todays desperate offerings to music of incredible craft from the 1940's and 50's. Amazing stuff, when you can find good recordings. Even heard Edith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" from 1946 and was quite impressed with her talent.
With digital preservation of music we've got a lot of it and interests are no doubt diverging. People will listen to whatever, once they break free of following what the crowd does.
Kip was a decent boss at Skyway, too bad they didn't say 'No' to the jerks who bought out the company and ran it into the ground, while skimming money off the top, every stinking month.
I did. I will tender my Slashdot resignation immediately. The editors should get to it in 5-10 years.
If you are looking for particles which travel faster than light, you should be researching Kingons. When Elizabeth's father, Geoge VI died in Norfolk, despite being in a treehouse in Kenya, she became queen faster than even light could travel.
What do you expect when the parties that can best improve security (banks, VISA, Mastercard) have made sure that merchants (who can do very little about security) carry most of the liability from security failures?
Banks, VISA, and Mastercard make tons of money from transaction fees, so they want to make transactions as easy as possible. They don't have to pay much for security breaches, so they are willing to sacrifice security for more transactions and more fees.
If a buyer goes into a store with a stolen card, there is practically nothing a merchant can do to detect the fraud and stop the buyer from walking out the door with merchandise. Who pays for the fraud? The merchant.
Until banks are on the hook for this fraud, nothing will change.
Every time the Banks expose something like this I wish they would be punished. Punishment discourages repeats of behavior. Force they to have an audit or their system architecture, procedures, processes and who has access to what and then perform these audits on a regular basis.
Who the heck is Tanya Steele, and how could she be so dumb as to claim that she owns the copyright over a film maker's video???
The director of the film in question. Quite possibly she was someone who felt she was owed a share in the film or silly enough to attempt to claim copyright for work done on contract (or perhaps withough a contract, which is very silly indeed) in the USA. Or never rule out the prospect of someone thinking they could get away with it (the approach of most big media companies.)
Sucks to be her.