`Speaking at an event in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission, Google employee and Android team member Adrian Ludwig threw cold water on reports linking BadNews to sites that installed malicious programs. The search giant, he said, had not found any evidence linking BadNews to so-called SMS 'toll fraud' malware."'
So it was just a ruse by the AV companies to sell more AV product...
"Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the intelligence agencies", William Hague
`New research.. reveals that councils in Great Britain have authorised over 8,500 RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) operations in the past two years.. Authorities have used covert surveillance for reasons including spying on their own employees, dog fouling, people breaking the smoking ban and even the test purchase of a puppy'! link
* Five authorities have used their powers to spy on people suspected of breaking the smoking ban
* Suffolk County Council used RIPA powers to make a "test purchase" -- of a puppy
* Bromley Council spied on a charity shop to see people "fly tipping" donations at their door
* Investigation of unlawful plying for hire by private hire drivers
* Trading Standards exercise investigating allegations of underage alcohol sales
* Offences under Feed Hygiene Regulations
* Noise nuisance
* Alleged disabled blue badge fraud
* Ascertain if person is walking their dog cleaning up after it but then depositing poop bag in trees, grass or on road
* Carrying out graffiti..
"On January 5th, it was announced that Koch Industries had sued a Utah web host, Bluehost, seeking names of pranksters who had put out a spoof press release and then posted it on a website made to look like Koch's" link
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anybody can buy OCP's stock.. what could be more democratic than that?, OCP
"I love Linux. I use it for servers, I've rolled my own kernels, even my own embedded distros (and I mean back before Knoppix remastering made that trivially easy). But for day to day desktop use?"
I've been totally Linux only at home for over three years, and haven't noticed the loss and I've never had to compile a kernel. I don't 'love' Linux, I find it just works.
It'll never be, until you can buy it in the high street computer shop. And that won't happen because of the secret, restrictive and onerous contracts Microsoft makes the OEM manufacturers sign.
"A new malicious program that runs on Android mobile devices exploits vulnerabilities in Google's mobile operating system to extend the application's permissions on the infected device"
Yes, the vulnerability requires prompting the user to explicidly install the app and explicidly raise permissions.
"Monsanto is more infamous for growing its genetically modified crops than its use of software, but a series of corporate acquisitions and a new emphasis on tech solutions has transformed it into a firm that acts more like an innovative IT vendor than an agribusiness giant."
The only 'innovation' Monsanto is borrowing from the IT sector is extorting revenue from farmers for growing crops from the farmers own seeds. Even if the seeds were contaminated by accident, such as by cross-pollination by a neighbouring farmers field. As such Monsanto are the Microsoft of Agribusiness.
"Monsanto is claiming rights not only to generation 1 seeds but every generation after that. You can't plant those generation 2 seeds for a crop without infringing the patent, they claim, even if you bought them from somebody else". link
The device uses an EMP to trigger the unshielded electronics in the car, that's why it has to be brought near. Else there's a back-door in these devices that the criminal element got hold of.
Mar 2011: "Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured." link
Apr 2011: "On March 24, three workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant were exposed accidentally to high localised radiation while standing in contaminated water". link
Jul 2011: "A newly released document says the Japanese government estimated in April that some 1600 workers will be exposed to high levels of radiation in the course of handling the reactor meltdowns at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant". link
Dec 2011: "Masao Yoshida, who led the fight to bring Japanâ(TM)s crippled Fukushima nuclear station under control, steps down tomorrow for medical treatment after almost nine months directing the disaster response from inside the plant". link
Dec 2012: "Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health Organization. link
July 2012: "An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about 10 of its workers to cover their dosimeters, used to measure cumulative radiation exposure, with lead casings when working in areas with high radiation, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other media said." link
July 2012: "Japanese officials are investigating whether workers cleaning up in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster were pushed to shield their radiation meters so they could keep working for longer on the contaminated plant". link
key words: Agile Portfolio Management, ALM blog, Application Lifecycle Management, Application Lifecycle workflows, backlog of business initiatives, backlog of scenarios, backlog of user stories, Build conference, configuring any infrastructure, enterprise agile, enterprise agile capabilities, granularity, higher-level backlog, in-flight releases, Kanban support, lightweight code commenting, multiple Scrum teams, nifty Git innovation, pending changes, Project Server integration, Release Management, sprint after sprint, sprint management, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2012, trace the relationships, version control solution, VS 2013, VS Premium, web based test case management solution, work breakdown...
re: banking malware, under the hood..
"What is your computer actually DOING when you click on a link in a phishing email?"
er..nothing.... apart from opening the attachment in the appropriate application. What it doesn't do is execute code. You see, apart from Windows, on the Linux desktop, open doesn't equate to run...
"I should also say that this exact question of moving to OpenDocument has come up several times before in Aus gov and got nowhere. The problem is that in the small sample trials they run, the software just fails miserably to deliver on multiple levels."
"The Guardian reported earlier this week that five companies working on the IT contract - Accenture, Atos Origin, Oracle, Red Hat and IBM - had claimed that work on the UC system had been halted" link
Slashdot Mirror
"The question is also flawed because we don't know if this really "helps fight terrorism". Do they need to tap everyone's phones and internet?
.. :)
And it's well known that terrorists use email and mobile phones to communicate
"a new study by Pew Research [and paid for by the security people] suggests that most U.S. citizens think it's okay".
Who paid for this study. What was the nature of this study. What questions were asked and in what order. How was the sample population chosen.
`Speaking at an event in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission, Google employee and Android team member Adrian Ludwig threw cold water on reports linking BadNews to sites that installed malicious programs. The search giant, he said, had not found any evidence linking BadNews to so-called SMS 'toll fraud' malware."'
...
So it was just a ruse by the AV companies to sell more AV product
"Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the intelligence agencies", William Hague
.. reveals that councils in Great Britain have authorised over 8,500 RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) operations in the past two years .. Authorities have used covert surveillance for reasons including spying on their own employees, dog fouling, people breaking the smoking ban and even the test purchase of a puppy'! link
..
`New research
* Five authorities have used their powers to spy on people suspected of breaking the smoking ban
* Suffolk County Council used RIPA powers to make a "test purchase" -- of a puppy
* Bromley Council spied on a charity shop to see people "fly tipping" donations at their door
* Investigation of unlawful plying for hire by private hire drivers
* Trading Standards exercise investigating allegations of underage alcohol sales
* Offences under Feed Hygiene Regulations
* Noise nuisance
* Alleged disabled blue badge fraud
* Ascertain if person is walking their dog cleaning up after it but then depositing poop bag in trees, grass or on road
* Carrying out graffiti
"A weak dual core CPU that's more power hungry than an ARM CPU, a battery that'll last an hour in real-life conditions within a year"
`We ran our laptop battery rundown test on the system, and the XPS 18 returned a battery life of 4 hours 38 minutes.'
"Operating System Windows 8 64-bit"
Where can I buy it with Ubuntu pre-installed, oh wait - you can't !
"For the record - did you know that the Koch Brothers support":
.. what could be more democratic than that?, OCP
Financed a fake grass-roots movement to undermine the democratically elected government of the United Stated of America.
`Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers'
"On January 5th, it was announced that Koch Industries had sued a Utah web host, Bluehost, seeking names of pranksters who had put out a spoof press release and then posted it on a website made to look like Koch's" link
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anybody can buy OCP's stock
"I love Linux. I use it for servers, I've rolled my own kernels, even my own embedded distros (and I mean back before Knoppix remastering made that trivially easy). But for day to day desktop use?"
..
I've been totally Linux only at home for over three years, and haven't noticed the loss and I've never had to compile a kernel. I don't 'love' Linux, I find it just works.
"Quite simply, Linux sucks ass as a desktop OS"
To which desktop are you referring to:
Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?
Linux Media Centre
Ubuntu 13.04 Review
A Desktop Tour of Lubuntu
Linux vs. Windows Boot Times
"Every now and then I boot into the latest linux distro currently in favor and give it a spin. And I've always ended up disappointed."
..
With comments like that, it's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous
It'll never be, until you can buy it in the high street computer shop. And that won't happen because of the secret, restrictive and onerous contracts Microsoft makes the OEM manufacturers sign.
Hackers are more a threat to the surveillance state than rapists ...
Go public, name names, name the apps ...
"A new malicious program that runs on Android mobile devices exploits vulnerabilities in Google's mobile operating system to extend the application's permissions on the infected device"
Yes, the vulnerability requires prompting the user to explicidly install the app and explicidly raise permissions.
"Do you want to install this application?"
"Activate device administrator?"
"Monsanto is more infamous for growing its genetically modified crops than its use of software, but a series of corporate acquisitions and a new emphasis on tech solutions has transformed it into a firm that acts more like an innovative IT vendor than an agribusiness giant."
The only 'innovation' Monsanto is borrowing from the IT sector is extorting revenue from farmers for growing crops from the farmers own seeds. Even if the seeds were contaminated by accident, such as by cross-pollination by a neighbouring farmers field. As such Monsanto are the Microsoft of Agribusiness.
"Monsanto is claiming rights not only to generation 1 seeds but every generation after that. You can't plant those generation 2 seeds for a crop without infringing the patent, they claim, even if you bought them from somebody else". link
The device uses an EMP to trigger the unshielded electronics in the car, that's why it has to be brought near. Else there's a back-door in these devices that the criminal element got hold of.
Mar 2011: "Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured." link
Apr 2011: "On March 24, three workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant were exposed accidentally to high localised radiation while standing in contaminated water". link
Jul 2011: "A newly released document says the Japanese government estimated in April that some 1600 workers will be exposed to high levels of radiation in the course of handling the reactor meltdowns at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant". link
Dec 2011: "Masao Yoshida, who led the fight to bring Japanâ(TM)s crippled Fukushima nuclear station under control, steps down tomorrow for medical treatment after almost nine months directing the disaster response from inside the plant". link
Dec 2012: "Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health Organization. link
July 2012: "An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about 10 of its workers to cover their dosimeters, used to measure cumulative radiation exposure, with lead casings when working in areas with high radiation, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other media said." link
July 2012: "Japanese officials are investigating whether workers cleaning up in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster were pushed to shield their radiation meters so they could keep working for longer on the contaminated plant". link
key words: Agile Portfolio Management, ALM blog, Application Lifecycle Management, Application Lifecycle workflows, backlog of business initiatives, backlog of scenarios, backlog of user stories, Build conference, configuring any infrastructure, enterprise agile, enterprise agile capabilities, granularity, higher-level backlog, in-flight releases, Kanban support, lightweight code commenting, multiple Scrum teams, nifty Git innovation, pending changes, Project Server integration, Release Management, sprint after sprint, sprint management, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2012, trace the relationships, version control solution, VS 2013, VS Premium, web based test case management solution, work breakdown ...
re: banking malware, under the hood ..
"What is your computer actually DOING when you click on a link in a phishing email?"
...
er..nothing.... apart from opening the attachment in the appropriate application. What it doesn't do is execute code. You see, apart from Windows, on the Linux desktop, open doesn't equate to run
Mount home and tmp as non executable link
"I should also say that this exact question of moving to OpenDocument has come up several times before in Aus gov and got nowhere. The problem is that in the small sample trials they run, the software just fails miserably to deliver on multiple levels."
Do you have a link to these trials?
"Security researcher Silvio Cesare .. created Simseer, a free online service that performs automated analysis on submitted malware samples"
`Simseer Search is a service to cluster malware families. PE32 Executable:'
"The Guardian reported earlier this week that five companies working on the IT contract - Accenture, Atos Origin, Oracle, Red Hat and IBM - had claimed that work on the UC system had been halted" link
Connect your SCADA units to the Internet through VPNs running on embedded hardware. There, all it too was one sentence ...
ps: Stuxnet only runs on Microsoft Windows ...
"Although they have far fewer side effects, the new shots don't offer long-lived protection the way older vaccines do".
...
Child compensated for damage from MMR Vaccine
And there never was any danger with the old ones
"Yahoo is a major corporation with a need to .. make the latter more of a significant cash generator"
Would anyone care to describe how any of these 'social` networks are making money?