You can't backup the "cloud" with the "cloud". I think if you tried, Frost Giants would appear throughout the land and bring about Ragnarok. Of which, Google would ensure it was properly indexed, furthering the events of the end of the world.
First, announcing this pretty much ensures the guilty party is never found. It would be like going on Twitter and saying "Hey Mr./Mrs. (Name of criminal), the police are going to #raid your house tomorrow."
Second, you only THOUGHT you had the right to privacy.
Go to Home Depot and buy 4-6 cinder blocks. Think they are about $10 a piece, plus nobody can say they are a fire hazard because lots of buildings are made with them.
Isn't this how the Ansible from Ender's Game works? Two particles made to be in the exact same state, despite being physically separated? Too bad we couldn't have put this type of technology on Voyager 1 and 2.
Janitor Bob also has keys to the building. So therefore Janitor Bob has physical access to these routers. Therefore in Janitor Bob was a nefarious hacker, he would be able to do anything to that box he wanted, given the numerous ways to hack a router when you have physical access.
if a hacker can obtain the password for a low-privilege account, they can escalate their privileges to a super-user account.
RTFC. You are just repeating what I said. If Hacker 1 cannot get into Guest Account 1, then this exploit doesn't MATTER. That can be accomplished with password security, VLAN, physical security, IDS, etc.
It's like the password reset on Cisco products. If you can gain physical access to a Cisco box, you can decrypt the super-user password and do whatever you want. Or you can factory reset it. That is not an exploit. It is a feature, and can be very useful at times. But it depends on another layer of security, preventing unauthorized physical access to the box. This "exploit" depends on the system already being exploited in the first place.
So the alert is that if a hacker can obtain the password for a low-privilege account, they can escalate their privileges to a super-user account. If a hacker can get ANY password for your system, then you are doing it wrong in the first place. Whether it is Janitor Bob's login or the CEO, password strength is a necessity. Especially so for network gear as the traffic passed through a switch like this would make for some interesting exploitative attacks on whatever infrastructure they support.
But the important take-away from this is simple, "password" or "12345" or any 1337 derivative of those passwords should not be used for absolutely anything. Passwords which maximize entropy or multi-factor authentication is the best way to go.
There's something wrong when you have to have an exit strategy for your home COUNTRY. Not with you, but with the useful idiots who vote these people into elected office.
I'd suggest being an independent contractor for a company that performs IT work. You already mentioned that you are a web developer, if you have any other skills like systems administration or engineering then use those skills as well. Companies do not mind a independent contractor because frankly, they only have to pay you when there is work and there are no associated benefits (sorry).
Being an independent contractor will give you the ability to work at your own pace. If you need a break, just don't take the job when they call you. Without more information about your skill set, I cannot recommend any specific companies. Web design is a pretty saturated field these days, however more back-end tasks are still in high demand, like database admin.
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You can't backup the "cloud" with the "cloud". I think if you tried, Frost Giants would appear throughout the land and bring about Ragnarok. Of which, Google would ensure it was properly indexed, furthering the events of the end of the world.
::Facepalm::
First, announcing this pretty much ensures the guilty party is never found. It would be like going on Twitter and saying "Hey Mr./Mrs. (Name of criminal), the police are going to #raid your house tomorrow."
Second, you only THOUGHT you had the right to privacy.
Go to Home Depot and buy 4-6 cinder blocks. Think they are about $10 a piece, plus nobody can say they are a fire hazard because lots of buildings are made with them.
Isn't this how the Ansible from Ender's Game works? Two particles made to be in the exact same state, despite being physically separated? Too bad we couldn't have put this type of technology on Voyager 1 and 2.
Janitor Bob also has keys to the building. So therefore Janitor Bob has physical access to these routers. Therefore in Janitor Bob was a nefarious hacker, he would be able to do anything to that box he wanted, given the numerous ways to hack a router when you have physical access.
if a hacker can obtain the password for a low-privilege account, they can escalate their privileges to a super-user account.
RTFC. You are just repeating what I said. If Hacker 1 cannot get into Guest Account 1, then this exploit doesn't MATTER. That can be accomplished with password security, VLAN, physical security, IDS, etc.
It's like the password reset on Cisco products. If you can gain physical access to a Cisco box, you can decrypt the super-user password and do whatever you want. Or you can factory reset it. That is not an exploit. It is a feature, and can be very useful at times. But it depends on another layer of security, preventing unauthorized physical access to the box. This "exploit" depends on the system already being exploited in the first place.
So the alert is that if a hacker can obtain the password for a low-privilege account, they can escalate their privileges to a super-user account. If a hacker can get ANY password for your system, then you are doing it wrong in the first place. Whether it is Janitor Bob's login or the CEO, password strength is a necessity. Especially so for network gear as the traffic passed through a switch like this would make for some interesting exploitative attacks on whatever infrastructure they support.
But the important take-away from this is simple, "password" or "12345" or any 1337 derivative of those passwords should not be used for absolutely anything. Passwords which maximize entropy or multi-factor authentication is the best way to go.
What's that large $500 hole in my checking account in the distance, it looks like... iPhone 5.
FTFY
Not directed at you, at Mr. AC over there. It's a miracle he has enough time to read /. when he is so busy staring at himself in the mirror grunting.
At least we now know that most Slashdot users do actually RTFA.
Sounds like a great Ask Slashdot post....
YOU have just been slashdotted. Enjoy the bandwidth bill!
What a divvy.
This is not www.match.com
Nobody cares how much you can lift.
There's something wrong when you have to have an exit strategy for your home COUNTRY. Not with you, but with the useful idiots who vote these people into elected office.
All your network traffic are belong to us.
-Says the Australian government.
I'd suggest being an independent contractor for a company that performs IT work. You already mentioned that you are a web developer, if you have any other skills like systems administration or engineering then use those skills as well. Companies do not mind a independent contractor because frankly, they only have to pay you when there is work and there are no associated benefits (sorry).
Being an independent contractor will give you the ability to work at your own pace. If you need a break, just don't take the job when they call you. Without more information about your skill set, I cannot recommend any specific companies. Web design is a pretty saturated field these days, however more back-end tasks are still in high demand, like database admin.
Do I have to literally spell it out for you? Or you can try Google.
Sorry, Russian version of the NSA. Although....
"But six entities could not be identified because they were masked through third party hosting."
NSA
FBI
FAPSI
GCHQ
CSE
GCSB
Yes, please. Try fixing MS Office and Outlook for Mac before embarking on a SkyDrive project.
Touche.... The weather in the Central Coast area would be great to replicate. Not so much the Central Valley, LA, or the desert.
What is the author smoking. California currently has $380 billion in devt and a 10.8% unemployment rate. I would call that far from being successful.
If I were the UK, I would not want to model anything after California
Robots building robots is the first sign of the coming apocalypse