Symantec, though its assisted enquiries from investigators, has said it would rather take on Microsoft in the marketplace than cry foul to regulators over Microsoft's entry into the consumer anti-virus marketplace. McAfee has made no suggestion it's about to object to Redmond's encroachment on it traditional turf, either.
We promise that we won't object to you bundling your anti-virus software with Vista, go ahead and launch it. ***fingers crossed***
We will however have a problem with it when you have tens of millions of copies released.
Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security. Yet Jim Allchin also told CRN in a recent interview that there will be no anti-virus software.
I wonder if their anti-virus software will come with anti-virus software?
I learned (not quickly mind you) that 14 hour days sometimes 7 days a week quickly suck the life out of you. Take time for yourself.
If you have to use vacation days to attemd interviews but ultimately you may have to find an agency to find jobs for you.
Besides, the agencies usually get word of upcoming positions before any job hunter would. Another tip, it's easier to make your demands when you already have employment and thus aren't desparate for a paycheck.
The laws are getting unrealistic and IMHO most are just a cash grab. How else would you explain having to buy a CD and then having to pay to play that cd as a DJ from a computer?
In Ontario it's illegal to play music in a public place without a licence, live or otherwise Performances of music in public, i.e. offices, stores, etc., require a licence. This licence is necessary whether the music is performed by live or recorded means. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
I imagine they're carrying spare batteries or something to that effect. If they didn't I don't think there would be towns every six miles to recharge the batteries.
one of the best articles I've seen on/. in recent memory. It really does make you feel good to belong to a group of people that would actually do something like this.
You know, I really can't see the Microsoft community banding together like this. Kudos to the open source community, you should really feel proud of everything you've accomplished so far and about the direction you're heading.
When firewalls don't do the jobMike Fratto, Sep 29 2003
Battle lines have been drawn, and volleys are being lobbed between the analyst and vendor camps. In dispute: Whether intrusion prevention is out of commission or the next network security salvation.
On one side, Gartner has cast intrusion detection into its "Trough of Disillusionment", saying the tech has stalled and calling for these functions to be moved into firewalls. Meanwhile, intrusion-prevention product vendor ForeScout Technologies vows to identify and block attackers "with 100% accuracy".
Call us Switzerland, but we say neither group has a lock on the truth.
Network intrusion prevention (NIP) systems probably will not protect your network from the next zero-day exploit or troublesome worm, but they are not a waste of time or money, either.
Our position puts us in the minority: Though we think NIP systems can enhance an existing security infrastructure, we do not consider integrating intrusion prevention and firewalls into a single unit a desirable goal.
Firewalls vs NID
Firewalls have a largely static configuration: firewall administrators define what is acceptable traffic and use the features of the firewall to instantiate this policy.
Some firewalls provide better protection features than others. For example, an HTTP application-level proxy is far superior to an HTTP stateful packet-filtering firewall at blocking malicious attacks, but the basic idea is the same: Your firewall administrator can be confident that only allowable traffic will pass through.
If you have doubts about your firewall, get a new one from a different vendor, send your firewall administrator to Firewall Admin 101, or get a new administrator.
Not surprisingly, when we asked you why you are not blocking traffic using network-based intrusion detection (NID) systems, 63% of you said you use a firewall to determine legitimate traffic.
But people make mistakes, so misconfigured firewalls are a common source of network insecurity.
This simple fact has been used as a selling point for both intrusion detection and prevention systems, with vendors claiming their products will alert you to, or block, attacks that do get through.
The answer: Instead of layering on more hardware, solve the fundamental problem of misconfiguration.
Think configuring is easy?
Unfortunately, though, it is not that simple. If you are enforcing traffic policy on your network using a stateful packet-filter firewall--such as Cisco Systems' PIX, Check Point Software Technologies' FireWall-1 or NetScreen's eponymous product--without security servers or kernel-mode features enabled, you should know that application-layer exploits, such as server-buffer overflows or directory-traversal attacks, will zoom right through. Stateful packet filters stop at Layer 4.
Application-proxy firewalls can block some attacks that violate specific protocols, but face the facts: protection is limited to a handful of common protocols.
The rest are not supported through a proxy, or are supported through a generic proxy, which is no better than a stateful packet filter.
Still, NIP is not a replacement for firewalls and will not be in the foreseeable future. Why? The fundamental problem is false positives--the potential to block
legitimate traffic.
Before you can prevent attacks, you have to detect them, but NIP systems rely on intrusion detection, which is hardly an exact science.
A properly configured firewall will allow in only the traffic you want. We need to feel this same confidence in IDSs before we can believe in NIP systems, but IDS vendors have employed lots of talented brain cells trying to raise detection accuracy, and they are nowhere close to 100%.
Incoming!
Despite these caveats, we believe a properly tuned NIP device can be instrumental in warding off most malicious traffic that gets past your firewall.
There are several ways to block malicious traffic: If the NIP device i
RIAA President Cary Sherman had this to say to any potential file swappers after the settlement...
"I want your heart. I want to eat your children. He is no match for me when I am right. I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him.
BBQ, giant beers and a tough stance on spam. God bless the Aussies.
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This can happen to anything. I ordered an APC UPS for a data center and this thing was a mess. First it had the wrong badging on it (said 8kVA instead of 4kVA) and after the electrician wired the data center for 8kVA i noticed the mistake. The elctircian wouldn't hook it up as 4kVA because of electric code issues. We had to ship it back and after much deliberation (APC says this never happens) they shipped us the 8kVA UPS at no extra cost. The only problem was that the 8kVA model they sent us was dead and APC was shocked. They said this never happens. The third they shipped was alright.
At my present company we use Nokia firewalls / checkpoint VPN software and we've never had a problem with them.
bulk club operators typically avoid using spam to publicize their sites and rely instead on word-of-mouth referrals and search engines to build membership.
...challenges the conventional wisdom that junk e-mailers are lone-wolf operators who lurk in the Internet's shadows
Heh......not anymore!
This gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Just knowing that these 'people' felt that they were so far out of everyone's grasp they didn't take the necessary precautions in locking down their website.
Slashdot Mirror
So Al Gore serves as an unofficial advisor to Google's senior management and now they want to create their own Internet?
Maybe the stories are true?
they have the Internet on Google now?
Symantec, though its assisted enquiries from investigators, has said it would rather take on Microsoft in the marketplace than cry foul to regulators over Microsoft's entry into the consumer anti-virus marketplace. McAfee has made no suggestion it's about to object to Redmond's encroachment on it traditional turf, either.
We promise that we won't object to you bundling your anti-virus software with Vista, go ahead and launch it. ***fingers crossed***
We will however have a problem with it when you have tens of millions of copies released.
Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security. Yet Jim Allchin also told CRN in a recent interview that there will be no anti-virus software.
I wonder if their anti-virus software will come with anti-virus software?
I learned (not quickly mind you) that 14 hour days sometimes 7 days a week quickly suck the life out of you. Take time for yourself.
If you have to use vacation days to attemd interviews but ultimately you may have to find an agency to find jobs for you.
Besides, the agencies usually get word of upcoming positions before any job hunter would. Another tip, it's easier to make your demands when you already have employment and thus aren't desparate for a paycheck.
Just my $0.02
Exactly. Eventually someone will steal one of these units and ppaint strips and put a giant wing on it to make it faster.
It does, any ambient music. It includes a band playing one of their original songs live.
The laws are getting unrealistic and IMHO most are just a cash grab. How else would you explain having to buy a CD and then having to pay to play that cd as a DJ from a computer?
In Ontario it's illegal to play music in a public place without a licence, live or otherwise
Performances of music in public, i.e. offices, stores, etc., require a licence. This licence is necessary whether the music is performed by live or recorded means.
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
should come with a badge now.
I imagine they're carrying spare batteries or something to that effect. If they didn't I don't think there would be towns every six miles to recharge the batteries.
I am old enough to remember the show but never watched it, is this so hard to believe?
In case you're like me and never watched "Robot Wars"
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We have geeks up here too! We're cold geeks but geeks nonetheless.
Yes, I agree Microsoft the Corporation does something like this but not Microsoft the community.
Big difference.
one of the best articles I've seen on /. in recent memory. It really does make you feel good to belong to a group of people that would actually do something like this.
You know, I really can't see the Microsoft community banding together like this. Kudos to the open source community, you should really feel proud of everything you've accomplished so far and about the direction you're heading.
When firewalls don't do the job Mike Fratto, Sep 29 2003
Battle lines have been drawn, and volleys are being lobbed between the analyst and vendor camps. In dispute: Whether intrusion prevention is out of commission or the next network security salvation.
On one side, Gartner has cast intrusion detection into its "Trough of Disillusionment", saying the tech has stalled and calling for these functions to be moved into firewalls. Meanwhile, intrusion-prevention product vendor ForeScout Technologies vows to identify and block attackers "with 100% accuracy".
Call us Switzerland, but we say neither group has a lock on the truth.
Network intrusion prevention (NIP) systems probably will not protect your network from the next zero-day exploit or troublesome worm, but they are not a waste of time or money, either.
Our position puts us in the minority: Though we think NIP systems can enhance an existing security infrastructure, we do not consider integrating intrusion prevention and firewalls into a single unit a desirable goal.
Firewalls vs NID Firewalls have a largely static configuration: firewall administrators define what is acceptable traffic and use the features of the firewall to instantiate this policy.
Some firewalls provide better protection features than others. For example, an HTTP application-level proxy is far superior to an HTTP stateful packet-filtering firewall at blocking malicious attacks, but the basic idea is the same: Your firewall administrator can be confident that only allowable traffic will pass through.
If you have doubts about your firewall, get a new one from a different vendor, send your firewall administrator to Firewall Admin 101, or get a new administrator.
Not surprisingly, when we asked you why you are not blocking traffic using network-based intrusion detection (NID) systems, 63% of you said you use a firewall to determine legitimate traffic.
But people make mistakes, so misconfigured firewalls are a common source of network insecurity.
This simple fact has been used as a selling point for both intrusion detection and prevention systems, with vendors claiming their products will alert you to, or block, attacks that do get through.
The answer: Instead of layering on more hardware, solve the fundamental problem of misconfiguration.
Think configuring is easy? Unfortunately, though, it is not that simple. If you are enforcing traffic policy on your network using a stateful packet-filter firewall--such as Cisco Systems' PIX, Check Point Software Technologies' FireWall-1 or NetScreen's eponymous product--without security servers or kernel-mode features enabled, you should know that application-layer exploits, such as server-buffer overflows or directory-traversal attacks, will zoom right through. Stateful packet filters stop at Layer 4.
Application-proxy firewalls can block some attacks that violate specific protocols, but face the facts: protection is limited to a handful of common protocols.
The rest are not supported through a proxy, or are supported through a generic proxy, which is no better than a stateful packet filter.
Still, NIP is not a replacement for firewalls and will not be in the foreseeable future. Why? The fundamental problem is false positives--the potential to block legitimate traffic.
Before you can prevent attacks, you have to detect them, but NIP systems rely on intrusion detection, which is hardly an exact science.
A properly configured firewall will allow in only the traffic you want. We need to feel this same confidence in IDSs before we can believe in NIP systems, but IDS vendors have employed lots of talented brain cells trying to raise detection accuracy, and they are nowhere close to 100%.
Incoming! Despite these caveats, we believe a properly tuned NIP device can be instrumental in warding off most malicious traffic that gets past your firewall.
There are several ways to block malicious traffic: If the NIP device i
Agreed, $20,000 in singapore would hardly cover you rent for a year at a decent condo. King? No way.
It's all beating a dead horse. PS. You're a rebel.
I agree, beating a dead horse. Read the article and post something relatively close to what it talks about.
I think they expose the media to Pauly Shore and Steve Guttenberg movies.
RIAA President Cary Sherman had this to say to any potential file swappers after the settlement...
"I want your heart. I want to eat your children. He is no match for me when I am right. I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him.
BBQ, giant beers and a tough stance on spam. God bless the Aussies.
This can happen to anything. I ordered an APC UPS for a data center and this thing was a mess. First it had the wrong badging on it (said 8kVA instead of 4kVA) and after the electrician wired the data center for 8kVA i noticed the mistake. The elctircian wouldn't hook it up as 4kVA because of electric code issues. We had to ship it back and after much deliberation (APC says this never happens) they shipped us the 8kVA UPS at no extra cost. The only problem was that the 8kVA model they sent us was dead and APC was shocked. They said this never happens. The third they shipped was alright.
At my present company we use Nokia firewalls / checkpoint VPN software and we've never had a problem with them.
This type of stuff can happen to any company.
bulk club operators typically avoid using spam to publicize their sites and rely instead on word-of-mouth referrals and search engines to build membership.
Because that would be annoying.
...challenges the conventional wisdom that junk e-mailers are lone-wolf operators who lurk in the Internet's shadows
Heh......not anymore!
This gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Just knowing that these 'people' felt that they were so far out of everyone's grasp they didn't take the necessary precautions in locking down their website.
Kudos. I hope this puts the fear of god in them.