Bill Nguyen negotiates a better deal out of Apple and Ed Bott distorts this into Apple killing Lala. If apple owned both Lala and iTunes why wouldn't they merge the two?
"Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus is a complete package with Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Firewall applications, providing a complete solution to protect your computer system against the latest online threats. link
"Mr Almunia explained the rare divergence with Washington on Google by the differing legal standards for abuse of dominance, as well as Googleâ(TM)s stronger position in Europe, where it handles more than 90 per cent of searches.
End users are totally free to choose what search engine they use, as are organisations free to not be indexed on Google. The EU has no business telling us what search engine to use...
"The thing with security is... outside of the curve, there's outside-the-box thinking"
In the interests of economy, instead of leased lines, they decided to use Microsoft Windows over the Internet, taking no steps to protect the system from hacking...
"an initial list of 500,000 devices to 7,200, many of which contain online login interfaces with little more than a default password standing between an attacker and potential havoc"
Just who in their right mind, in this day-and-age connects SCADA devices directly to the Internet using the default password.
'Although none of the Wired articles ever mention this, the first Lamo-Manning communications were not actually via chat. Instead, Lamo told me that Manning first sent him a series of encrypted emails which Lamo was unable to decrypt because Manning "encrypted it to an outdated PGP key of mine" [PGP is an encryption program]."
What self-respecting hacker loses his old PGP key?
"After receiving this first set of emails, Lamo says he replied - despite not knowing who these emails were from or what they were about - by inviting the emailer to chat with him on AOL IM, and provided his screen name to do so."
"Lamo says that Manning thereafter sent him additional emails encrypted to his current PGP key, but that Lamo never bothered to decrypt them. Instead, Lamo claims he turned over all those Manning emails to the FBI without ever reading a single one of them.
What self-respecting hacker doesn't bother to read his email. Why would it be necessary at this point for Lamo to claim not to have read the emails?
"Thus, the actual initial communications between Manning and Lamo - what preceded and led to their chat - are completely unknown. Lamo refuses to release the emails or chats other than the small chat snippets published by Wired". link
I do some maintenance for an educational establishment, who have Sharepoint deployed internally for staff use, the last Sharepoint post there was two years ago, they do seem to find use for Moodle...
'Stuart showed Wired a plea agreement (.pdf) signed by former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Meadows, which stated that he would plead guilty to second- and fourth-degree money laundering charges and assist the DAâ(TM)s investigations by, among other things, âoeaiding in the design of software used to obtain records, usernames, passwords, and other information stored on websites usingâ his companyâ(TM)s software'.
"regarding the specific allegations that the company biased its search results to hurt competition, the evidence collected to date did not justify legal action by the Commission.. The evidence did not demonstrate that Google's actions in this area stifled competition in violation of U.S. law".
'The bad guys are getting worse,' says Howard. 'Antivirus helps filter down the problem, but the next big security company will be the one that offers a comprehensive solution.'"
"Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security". link
"Accessing online banking from your home PC is unsafe, says CIO of CNL Bank", linklink
"There's a great chapter from a 1981 children's book called "World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play" that imagines how computers, in the future, would give rise to a whole new phenomenon: 'Computer Crimes".. Computer criminals will "work from home, using his own computer to gain access to the memories of the computers used by the banks and companies"
I guess it'll be safer to use the BBC Microcomputer in the 'future'...
Slashdot Mirror
A KDE file launcher script ... link
4. Microsoft gets to control CU-RTC-Web.
Bill Nguyen negotiates a better deal out of Apple and Ed Bott distorts this into Apple killing Lala. If apple owned both Lala and iTunes why wouldn't they merge the two?
Microsoft VIA Member
"Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus is a complete package with Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Firewall applications, providing a complete solution to protect your computer system against the latest online threats. link
Do these handful of tainted machines run on Windows?
"Mr Almunia explained the rare divergence with Washington on Google by the differing legal standards for abuse of dominance, as well as Googleâ(TM)s stronger position in Europe, where it handles more than 90 per cent of searches.
...
End users are totally free to choose what search engine they use, as are organisations free to not be indexed on Google. The EU has no business telling us what search engine to use
> Meetings are how people who don't know what they are doing suck the productivity out the people who do ...
You totally read my mind ...
Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs?
"Apparently it's safe because "...it's running Linux"
...
As compared to Microsoft Windows
"The thing with security is... outside of the curve, there's outside-the-box thinking"
...
In the interests of economy, instead of leased lines, they decided to use Microsoft Windows over the Internet, taking no steps to protect the system from hacking
"an initial list of 500,000 devices to 7,200, many of which contain online login interfaces with little more than a default password standing between an attacker and potential havoc"
Just who in their right mind, in this day-and-age connects SCADA devices directly to the Internet using the default password.
skype-open-source
I get 'invalid cert' for apis.google.com when I click on www.whoismcafee.com/a-clear-and-present-danger/
'Although none of the Wired articles ever mention this, the first Lamo-Manning communications were not actually via chat. Instead, Lamo told me that Manning first sent him a series of encrypted emails which Lamo was unable to decrypt because Manning "encrypted it to an outdated PGP key of mine" [PGP is an encryption program]."
What self-respecting hacker loses his old PGP key?
"After receiving this first set of emails, Lamo says he replied - despite not knowing who these emails were from or what they were about - by inviting the emailer to chat with him on AOL IM, and provided his screen name to do so."
"Lamo says that Manning thereafter sent him additional emails encrypted to his current PGP key, but that Lamo never bothered to decrypt them. Instead, Lamo claims he turned over all those Manning emails to the FBI without ever reading a single one of them.
What self-respecting hacker doesn't bother to read his email. Why would it be necessary at this point for Lamo to claim not to have read the emails?
"Thus, the actual initial communications between Manning and Lamo - what preceded and led to their chat - are completely unknown. Lamo refuses to release the emails or chats other than the small chat snippets published by Wired". link
I do some maintenance for an educational establishment, who have Sharepoint deployed internally for staff use, the last Sharepoint post there was two years ago, they do seem to find use for Moodle ...
'Stuart showed Wired a plea agreement (.pdf) signed by former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Meadows, which stated that he would plead guilty to second- and fourth-degree money laundering charges and assist the DAâ(TM)s investigations by, among other things, âoeaiding in the design of software used to obtain records, usernames, passwords, and other information stored on websites usingâ his companyâ(TM)s software'.
"regarding the specific allegations that the company biased its search results to hurt competition, the evidence collected to date did not justify legal action by the Commission .. The evidence did not demonstrate that Google's actions in this area stifled competition in violation of U.S. law".
I second your call ...
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MOD ++10
'The bad guys are getting worse,' says Howard. 'Antivirus helps filter down the problem, but the next big security company will be the one that offers a comprehensive solution.'"
... link
Run your OS off a read-only USB device
"Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security". link
"Accessing online banking from your home PC is unsafe, says CIO of CNL Bank", link link
MOD ++10 ...
> We should just outlaw malware. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it anymore!
Make virus-writing a felony punishable by the death penalty ..
>> How is this news? This has been the case for years!
It's news to the AV makers ...
>> ...and the antivirus marketers have been telling us they've been adding behavioral detection for years, too.
> How's that working out for anybody?
It means the clients can sign up for certification and compliance ...
"There's a great chapter from a 1981 children's book called "World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play" that imagines how computers, in the future, would give rise to a whole new phenomenon: 'Computer Crimes" .. Computer criminals will "work from home, using his own computer to gain access to the memories of the computers used by the banks and companies"
...
I guess it'll be safer to use the BBC Microcomputer in the 'future'
"It's not like they've not tried to clean the image of Microsoft when Vista was poorly received.
...
There's no mention of Microsoft in that article apart from a mention that CEO Mark Penn got a job at Microsoft after he left Burson-Marsteller
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it".
"using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981" Charlie Brooker