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  1. Re:How to Check a LAMP Server? on 2M New Websites a Year Compromised To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    what you would have to do is set up a script to take a local mirror of the website that has every authorized file, in it authorized form with their appropriate hashes and compare it to what is on the website via FTP and report any additions, deletions or changed files. This would tell you that the site proper is what you uploaded and unchanged. Other problems seems to be that some big server farms have been rooted which is probably out of your control, that why I wouldn't trust a script running on the website's server.

  2. Re:Ripple Effect on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1
    3 million people a year die from Malaria, mostly children, another 2 million a year die from the resulting economic and geopolitical chaos; the mosquitoes that carry Malaria can be stopped by,
    1. Genetically modified mosquitoes being released,
    2. Wide spread use of DDT,

    get some fucking priorities.
  3. Re:Ripple Effect on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    Malaria kills 3 million people a year and it is spread by mosquitoes so your concern for saving lives is obvious. Hell if we got rid of malaria, Sally Struthers might have to find a new job.

  4. Re:Ripple Effect on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1
    So, how does safety lead to the "death of millions [of people]"?
    Well lets see Silent Spring which advocated encouraging responsible and carefully managed use which lead to the effective ban on the use of DDT for any purpose,rather than carefully managed approach advocated by Carson herself. The result is

    Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, it causes disease in approximately 515 million people and kills between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Malaria is commonly associated with poverty, but is also a cause of poverty and a major hindrance to economic development. Malaria

    a disease that was in steep decline before Silent Spring is more prevalent than before. Malaria has probably killed more people than are alive.
  5. Re:Ripple Effect on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    There are over 2500 species of mosquitoes, we'd like to eliminate 33 to stop various diseases. would hardly put much of a dent in the food chain.

  6. Re:Software sucks. on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 1

    Any software company that isn't in the fortune 500 won't even be able to consider entering the market.
    Seems perfect for small disposable companies to me, it's not like IBM or Novel is going to get anything from SCOX.

  7. Re:Ubuntu as well? on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 2, Informative

    What that means is that probably every server in the data center had the same root password and somebody leaked it or sold it. We had a server that was managed by command dental system, and every system they sold had one of 5 root passwords which quickly became common knowledge in the industry.

  8. Re:Ubuntu as well? on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 1
    As Ubuntu is indeed Linux, I'd venture to guess that it is affected.
    UBuntu is a Debian derived distro so it's likely not to be affected, or they may just be lucky and haven't a lot of penetration in the commercial server market.

    Targeted Systems
    A Linux server virus has recently been reported targeting multiple platforms such as: RedHat Enterprise, Centos v4.x/v5.x, and Fedora Core v5/v6. This Rootkit is not believed to be specific to any one control panel and/or Php application(s). Unfortunately, there are still many unknown details. Malecious random JS Rootkit

    As you may note all of these OS's are Redhat based Linux, but it's also thought that the initial penetration is through social engineering, i.e. root password leaked, rather than an OS vulnerability but time will tell.
  9. Re:More Interesting... on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    I think we'll see Ron Paul on the ticket as a libertarian come election time; and from what I know of him He's pretty literal about the constition, they nick named him Dr. No in congress.

  10. Re:More Interesting... on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    Actually he was on the radio the other morning, one of those via satellite and trying to impersonate a station with local programming, so I'd expect that the "Bob and Lorie show" got heard a little wider than just our little town.

  11. Re:I wish it were possible to zoom in... on Phishing Group Caught Stealing From Other Phishers · · Score: 1

    Check this out, I lost the code in a hard-drive failure but it's only one notch past "hello world" anyways so if you can't both learn Perl and rewrite chummer.pl in an half hour you don't belong in IT anyways.

  12. Re:Share on Phishing Group Caught Stealing From Other Phishers · · Score: 1

    I was trying to find the download site, I'd like to see state of the art phishing code myself; if they want data, i could send them a few TB for fun.

  13. Re:How times have changed: you can't trust.....wai on Phishing Group Caught Stealing From Other Phishers · · Score: 1

    What I want to see is financial institutions starting to use my chummer program; catch a phishing site and send the sharks a couple GB of stinking fish guts quality data, until the computer crash and burn from the strain.

  14. Re:1 in 2000 people on The 1000 Genomes Project · · Score: 1
    You do realize that genomic data is extremely noisy; they take the DNA and break it into pieces that start with a known sequence of base pairs and end with a known base. Then the problem is to reassemble the broken pieces into the most likely way that is not the only way. It's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that has pieces missing, extra pieces present, wrong pieces that go together and no picture on any of the pieces.

    The first pilot will involve sequencing the genomes of two nuclear families (both parents and an adult child) at deep coverage that averages 20 passes of each genome. This will provide a comprehensive dataset from six people that will help the project figure out how to identify variants using the new sequencing platforms, and serve as a basis for comparison for other parts of the effort.

    That means the are going to sequence the the genomes of 6 people 20 times each to be sure they get it right.
  15. Re:Selection on The 1000 Genomes Project · · Score: 1

    I don't know why everyone is so sensitive about Scientists and Medical Professional have access to your medical information, the real problem is usually the high school educated billing clerk in the basement of the hospital or your insurance company. If a hospital told the average six-pack Joe that they'd rebate half his co-pay if he let them send in his medical info and DNA for research and longitudinal study he'd jump at it.

  16. Re:Uh Huh on Bandwidth Caps May Be Critical Error For Broadband Companies · · Score: 1

    nothing stops two neighboring wireless networks from exchanging packets directly, without going through the backbone, or relaying each others packets towards third parties. Naturally this is slower in the latency sense than going through the backbone,
    The two networks will frequently route packets now and without any latency penalties, we call them tier two networks. Frequently tier 2 networks work better than a tier 1 network that is directly connected to the "backbone"

  17. Re:Still dreaming of an aggregated connection on Bandwidth Caps May Be Critical Error For Broadband Companies · · Score: 1
    Sounds like your talking about bonding,

    The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical bonded interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends upon the mode; generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, link integrity monitoring may be performed. Net:Bonding

    I've never did it but its supposed to do what your talking about.
  18. Re:What about our kidneys? on 'Safe Ebola' Created for Research · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if somebody poked themselves in the eye with a grapefruit spoon while peeing on an electric fence during a full moon their kidneys might start making the protein!

  19. Re:cancer and vaccines on 'Safe Ebola' Created for Research · · Score: 1

    And for the vast majority of human MRSA isn't any different from "regular" Staphylococcus aureus, which we all probably carry. Now if your imuno-compromised and the staph population reach pathological levels, that when MSRA is a problem, but I do think that constant exposure to some "germs" helps keep the immune system tuned so the bad stuff gets taken care a bit quicker.

  20. Re:Before you panic on 'Safe Ebola' Created for Research · · Score: 1

    because it's contagious and has an 80% fatality rate and every once in a while there is a breakout and a whole bunch of people die horrific deaths bleeding from everywhere imaginable orifice, and we'd like to stop that.

  21. Re:Gee... on FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets? · · Score: 1

    farther down thread someone was talking about some erroneous nuclear "secrets" that were planted as part of a counter-espionage operation, which sounds much more plausible than what the article was talking about.

  22. Re:Well-It's all relative. on RIAA Website Hacked · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a flechette round shot from the grenade launcher more like a standard shot gun shell rather than the HEDP, High Explosive Dual Purpose, grenade.

  23. Re:Gee... on FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets? · · Score: 0

    Let me get this straight the Turk and the Israelis paid US nationals for nuclear secrets, so they could sell the secrets to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia; now the FBI is covering up that investigation as well as UFO anal probings, cattle mutilation, crops circles investigations. Iran-Contra made sense in a convoluted kind of way, but Israel selling Nuclear secrets to Muslims, that really strains credibility.

  24. Re:wow on RIAA Website Hacked · · Score: 1

    Muhahahaha, we planted exploding dye pellets in the web site, now the attackers are marked!

  25. Re:Why wipe it? on RIAA Website Hacked · · Score: 1

    or just redirecting to jamedo.com or Dmusic.com that offer CC licensed music.