"Security researchers have come across a worm that is meant specifically to steal.. files created with the AutoCAD software. The worm, known as ACAD/Medre.A, is spreading through infected AutoCAD templates.. ACAD/Medre.A was written in AutoLISP, a specialized version of the LISP scripting language that's used in AutoCAD".
Does this 'worm` run on any other system except Microsoft Windows?
"This is of course entirely co-incidental. Microsoft is an ethical company that would never stoop to breaking its own software in order to defeat a competitor.
"PC Pro's Davey Winder has written a first-hand account of how he overhauled his PC workstation to cope with a sudden deterioration of his eyesight.. He also explains why he had to swap his favourite Chrome browser for Internet Explorer"
That wasn't entirely necessary, ctrl | + or ctrl | mouse-wheel-up zooms in quite all-right, works on Firefox and Chrome, and you can set the default font size in either.
"You might not be so happy to find out that from now, every single thing you do online will be recorded and stored by the good old Internet Service providers (ISP)".
I thought they were already recording everything, of course this won't affect the online crooks, what it will do is suppress online discent, a watched population is a compliant one, a bad day for democracy.
Microsoft Innovation, a ship without a rudder. That they have to go out and buy such 'innovation` merely demonstrates the paucity of any real innovation at One Microsoft Way... --
pauÂciÂty/ËpÃsitÄ"/ Noun: The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity.
"Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies
Just who in their right minds connects a SCADA unit directly to the Internet. Lets have a contest too see how long someone can write about Internet security without once mentioning Microsoft Windows.
"In Digitlbond's case, the file is called "Leveraging_Ethernet_Card_Vulnerabilities_in_Field_Devices.pdf.exe" and when it's opened, the file installs a Trojan downloader called spoolsvr.exe"
"What exactly was there to 'invent' here? Once you conect two computers to each other sending messages is one of the most obvious uses for the ability; probably occuring within seconds of the notion of transferring documents/files"
Such msgs were sent using UUCP and the !BANG path, as in machine1!machine2!machine3. A minor defect was that adding/deleting or moving a machine rendered the whole path invalid. That's why someone invented routers and DNS.
`Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar."'
`It seems doubtful that "QWERTYIOP" will make it into the history books. And Tomlinson's name hardly lives in the public mind. When he is remembered at all, it is as the man who picked @ as the locator symbol in electronic addresses. In truth though, he is the inventor of e-mail, the application that launched the digital information revolution'
"I'm being told that I'll be worth less to the organization as a supervisor than what I'm making now, but the earning potential is greater if I accept the management position. Out of the kindness of their hearts, they're offering to start me in the new position at the same wage I'm currently making. Does this make any sense, Slashdot?"
It makes perfect sence, they don't want to pay the market rate and figure they can get you to do the same job on the cheep, the only costs being vague promises of future earnings and denigrating your currrent contributions. Right now, start looking for employment at a different company. In the meanwhile, don't tell your current company, but make sure you get some kind of printed reference out of them.
Only because 'history' gets to be re-written by the Gates' of this world. Only the other day I read in a book on the history of the Internet that people didn't get to browsing until 'Internet Explorer` was created by Microsoft - neither of which is true.
"cyberweapons are relatively cheap.. The blowback comes when those viruses get loose and inflict unintended damage or provide templates to terrorists or enemy nations that some experts think could lead to disaster and argue that cyberweapons are like bioweapons, demanding international treaties to govern their use"
The only reason cyberwarfare is even possible is the vast numbers of Windows computers connected to the Internet. And `international treaties' won't protect you from malware, what will is not downloading and executing code from some anonymous source on the Internet.
"Six weeks after Hollywood lost a landmark internet piracy case in Australia, it appears the film studios have gone cold on the idea of helping develop legal avenues to access copyrighted content as a way to combat piracy. Instead, they've produced research to show people will continue pirating even if there are legitimate content sources available.
That's not strictly trie, I downloaded AVATAR and was so impressed I then went to see it at a Cinema...
"Everyone these days knows that you have to double- and triple-check your code for security vulnerabilities, and make sure your servers are locked down as tight as you can. But why? Because our underlying operating systems, languages, and platforms do such a crappy job of protecting us from ourselves".
That's not true, if the underlying Operating System is designed with build-in security, then any potential security vulnerabilities in the applications are very much mitagated and baring software bugs, the Linux security model does the job.
"Bo Zhang.. said.. he did so that the code would be available to him in the event of losing his job, and to use it for his private business, which is teaching computer programming".
'The software in question keeps track of money exchanged between US government agencies and, according to the authorities, its development cost nearly $10 millionsM`.
"Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access.. In fact, chances are that everything will carry the Microsoft key."
It's always what Microsoft wanted, complete control over the Desktop PC. The lawyers have won yet again and in the process forced up the cost of Open Source through the cost of legalistic nonsense such as 'compliance`.
"Once Windows 8 is released, hardware manufacturers will be forced to ship machines that refuse to run any software that is not explicitly approved by Microsoft"
Well, a job well done, the lawyers have won yet again and in the process forced up the cost of Open Source through the cost of legalistic nonsense such as 'compliance`.
Slashdot Mirror
"Security researchers have come across a worm that is meant specifically to steal .. files created with the AutoCAD software. The worm, known as ACAD/Medre.A, is spreading through infected AutoCAD templates .. ACAD/Medre.A was written in AutoLISP, a specialized version of the LISP scripting language that's used in AutoCAD".
Does this 'worm` run on any other system except Microsoft Windows?
"There's speculation that their accepting of Bitcoin inadvertantly categorised them as a gambling website"
Does the speculation have any idea why no other site using bitcoin were equally labeled?
He said control - not write your own code. The rest of your piece is just one gigantic strawman.
"This is of course entirely co-incidental. Microsoft is an ethical company that would never stoop to breaking its own software in order to defeat a competitor.
Net greeting card company alleges Microsoft is trying to destroy them
When did MS patent crappola?
If this malware ran on Windows then the main article would keep referring to 'financial malware` or 'computer malware`, anything but use the M word :)
"PC Pro's Davey Winder has written a first-hand account of how he overhauled his PC workstation to cope with a sudden deterioration of his eyesight .. He also explains why he had to swap his favourite Chrome browser for Internet Explorer"
That wasn't entirely necessary, ctrl | + or ctrl | mouse-wheel-up zooms in quite all-right, works on Firefox and Chrome, and you can set the default font size in either.
"You might not be so happy to find out that from now, every single thing you do online will be recorded and stored by the good old Internet Service providers (ISP)".
I thought they were already recording everything, of course this won't affect the online crooks, what it will do is suppress online discent, a watched population is a compliant one, a bad day for democracy.
Microsoft Innovation, a ship without a rudder. That they have to go out and buy such 'innovation` merely demonstrates the paucity of any real innovation at One Microsoft Way ...
--
pauÂciÂty/ËpÃsitÄ"/ Noun: The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity.
"5 years ago I worked at a Defense contractor and we had a carefully crafted spear phishing attack .. A fake site was crafted"
A Defense contractor that can be compromised by a click-and-download-this-executable hack shouldn't be in the defense industry.
"Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies
Just who in their right minds connects a SCADA unit directly to the Internet. Lets have a contest too see how long someone can write about Internet security without once mentioning Microsoft Windows.
"In Digitlbond's case, the file is called "Leveraging_Ethernet_Card_Vulnerabilities_in_Field_Devices.pdf.exe" and when it's opened, the file installs a Trojan downloader called spoolsvr.exe "
"What exactly was there to 'invent' here? Once you conect two computers to each other sending messages is one of the most obvious uses for the ability; probably occuring within seconds of the notion of transferring documents/files"
Such msgs were sent using UUCP and the !BANG path, as in machine1!machine2!machine3. A minor defect was that adding/deleting or moving a machine rendered the whole path invalid. That's why someone invented routers and DNS.
The Invention of Email from Pretext Magazine (1998),
`Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar."'
`It seems doubtful that "QWERTYIOP" will make it into the history books. And Tomlinson's name hardly lives in the public mind. When he is remembered at all, it is as the man who picked @ as the locator symbol in electronic addresses. In truth though, he is the inventor of e-mail, the application that launched the digital information revolution'
"I'm being told that I'll be worth less to the organization as a supervisor than what I'm making now, but the earning potential is greater if I accept the management position. Out of the kindness of their hearts, they're offering to start me in the new position at the same wage I'm currently making. Does this make any sense, Slashdot?"
It makes perfect sence, they don't want to pay the market rate and figure they can get you to do the same job on the cheep, the only costs being vague promises of future earnings and denigrating your currrent contributions. Right now, start looking for employment at a different company. In the meanwhile, don't tell your current company, but make sure you get some kind of printed reference out of them.
Only because 'history' gets to be re-written by the Gates' of this world. Only the other day I read in a book on the history of the Internet that people didn't get to browsing until 'Internet Explorer` was created by Microsoft - neither of which is true.
"cyberweapons are relatively cheap .. The blowback comes when those viruses get loose and inflict unintended damage or provide templates to terrorists or enemy nations that some experts think could lead to disaster and argue that cyberweapons are like bioweapons, demanding international treaties to govern their use"
The only reason cyberwarfare is even possible is the vast numbers of Windows computers connected to the Internet. And `international treaties' won't protect you from malware, what will is not downloading and executing code from some anonymous source on the Internet.
"Six weeks after Hollywood lost a landmark internet piracy case in Australia, it appears the film studios have gone cold on the idea of helping develop legal avenues to access copyrighted content as a way to combat piracy. Instead, they've produced research to show people will continue pirating even if there are legitimate content sources available.
...
That's not strictly trie, I downloaded AVATAR and was so impressed I then went to see it at a Cinema
"Everyone these days knows that you have to double- and triple-check your code for security vulnerabilities, and make sure your servers are locked down as tight as you can. But why? Because our underlying operating systems, languages, and platforms do such a crappy job of protecting us from ourselves".
That's not true, if the underlying Operating System is designed with build-in security, then any potential security vulnerabilities in the applications are very much mitagated and baring software bugs, the Linux security model does the job.
In your dreams sunshine .. :)
"Bo Zhang .. said .. he did so that the code would be available to him in the event of losing his job, and to use it for his private business, which is teaching computer programming".
...
'The software in question keeps track of money exchanged between US government agencies and, according to the authorities, its development cost nearly $10 millionsM`.
This is, of course, bullShit
Well - DOH !!!
"Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access .. In fact, chances are that everything will carry the Microsoft key."
It's always what Microsoft wanted, complete control over the Desktop PC. The lawyers have won yet again and in the process forced up the cost of Open Source through the cost of legalistic nonsense such as 'compliance`.
"Once Windows 8 is released, hardware manufacturers will be forced to ship machines that refuse to run any software that is not explicitly approved by Microsoft"
Well, a job well done, the lawyers have won yet again and in the process forced up the cost of Open Source through the cost of legalistic nonsense such as 'compliance`.
I've been Windows free for over a year, and I ain't going back !!!
NO !!!