Yes. They aren't accused of having malware inside their product, but rather that their product sends back hashes of files found on the system. This is normal AV behavior, as they use the hashes to identify known good files from known bad.
However, the accusations were this, combined with the ability to send whole files up for cloud analysis, have been used by the Russian Gov't to identify classified material on U.S. systems and steal files.
While Kaspersky themselves claim no such activities, and that their updates are protected by digital signatures, the accusations are the keys were compromised and the data flows all go thru gov't controlled telecom hubs in Russia.
The ultimate accusation is the software and infrastructure around it can, and has been, used to facilitate espionage.
Whether this is with the willing cooperation of Eugene Kaspersy, the unwilling cooperation, or that he is just a pawn that has little recourse, is all up for debate. The U.S. gov't sees Kaspersky software as a direct security threat, because of the significant possibility of compromise by the Russian intelligence service.
As Russian malware has been found before in critical infrastructure, such as power plants and banks, the U.S. Gov't is pushing for a ban on use of the software in the U.S. to help protect the private sector. A ban on the software in Gov't doesn't go far enough in this regard.
Being a nonprofit is a tax structure, and it by no means indicates "poor". Effectively all it means is "we spend every last penny", frequently on salaries and bonuses.
Skills are skills, and you can make top dollar at a nonprofit if your skills are in high demand.
His crime wasn't hacking, it was embarrassing the U.S. Gov't.
There is NO excuse for having your public IP address space exposing well known, script-kiddie flaws. Every one of those Federal Agencies has teams of people who are responsible for securing their systems, not to mention external contractors performing penetration tests.
He didn't do anything creative, just run common scanners against a wide IP space, and run point-and-click tools. If he found all that with so little effort, you can bet others did, too.
SQL Injection has been the OWASP #1 for about a decade now.
Yes, Texas is #1 because of both the large population of persons, and large number of guns. Thank you for the good statistics.
Fortunately, my post was meant to counter the simplistic chest-thumping weenie who claimed that sort of thing doesn't happen in Texas. I wasn't going to invest the effort in detailed data.
Funny how all the states of the bottom of the list are way up north. Probably too damn cold to steal anyone's guns. People are focused on keeping warm.
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams 1978
Guess it's over, call it a day Sorry that it had to end this way No reason to pretend We knew it had to end some day, this way
Guess, it's over, the kicks are gone What's the use of tryin' to hang on? Somewhere we lost the key So little left for you and me and it's clear to see
Too much, too little, too late to lie again with you Too much, too little, too late to try again with you We're in the middle of ending something that we do It's all over Oh, it was over
Too much, too little, too late to ever try again Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends Too much, too little, too late, we knew it had to end And it's over It's over
Guess it's over, the chips are down Nearly all our bridges tumbled down Whatever chance we try, let's face it, why deny It's over It's all over It's over
In 2009, Russian social-media mogul Yuri Milner invested $200 million into Facebook at a valuation of $10 billion dollars without voting rights or a seat on the board. To understand this investment, at the time the world was going through a global recession and Facebook's general valuation had dropped from the $15 billion from the year prior to $4-$6 billion in 2009.
One company did offer a valuation of $8 billion, but with a seat on the board, which Zuckerberg was strongly against. In other words, Yuri Milner invested in Facebook when they were strapped for cash and at an inflated price without voting rights or a seat on the board. That's an amazing deal for Zuckerberg!
The deal was coordinated by Alisher B. Usmanov, a Russian oligarch that earned his fortune managing steel mill subsidiaries for Gazprom.
Usmanov spent six years in prison for fraud and embezzlement in the 80's.
In 2008, Usmanov fired a publisher and editor at one of Russia's most respected news paper after it published detailed accounts of Russian election fraud.
It is said, "His ties to the Kremlin and Facebook have stirred concerns that he might influence the companyâ(TM)s policies in subtle ways to appease governments in markets where Facebook is also an important tool of political dissent, such as Russia." This was in 2009.
The leak of the Paradise Papers revealed the money Yuri Milner used to invest into Facebook came from Gazprom, a US sanctioned Russian oil and gas company, at one point owning 9% of the company.
Are you aware that the current head of OPM has not released the data for 2017, claiming it is exempt from FOIA? They've been releasing it for 11 years, but all of a sudden it is private information.
Not being an EE, how can the OpenUPS be modified to accommodate 100-240V AC input, and batteries enough to handle a desktop workload -- 23"+ LED monitor plus desktop (not laptop, which already has a battery) computer. I'm thinking the 4 AA-style batteries aren't going to cut it.
I received several SMS messages like this, from half-a-dozen numbers, a week or two ago. There were maybe 20 messages over a 1 hour period.
Here's the thing. I don't have a Facebook account. I did, once, about 10 years ago. I cancelled it after only about a month, and that was long before they implemented 2FA. And it was also long before I had my current phone number. This number has never been given to Facebook for anything, at least not by me.
I thought they were a scam of some sort, and just ended up blocking the numbers as spam in my messaging client (Signal).
I would think that with ownership so concentrated -- 1,000 accounts hold 40% of all value -- with another 30-50% estimated to be lost and out of circulation, I question a psychological model based off of so few possible sample sets. That's just crazy.
CNBC branded the range of $9,000 to $10,000 as "a difficult one for bitcoin to break below" after its surge over $10,000 last year.
Based on what reasoning? There is no price support for BTC. There is no equity or guarantor behind BTC at all. Control is centralized in a small handful of "owners". They could make it go from zero to 100,000 in a day, if they decided to.
So what genius pundit decided there was a floor to the price, and how much does he get paid to make shit like that up?
Representing the Crown Prosecution Service, Aaron Watkins it would be absurd for defendants to be "rewarded with effective immunity" simply for having evaded proceedings for long enough.
Isn't that the way things normally happen, except for crimes like murder? In the United States it is called the Statute of Limitations.
Step 1: Using free 3D software, such as Blender, download a generic "head" wireframe model. Step 2: Map the straight photo onto the 3D model. Step 3: Rotate the model to a few odd angles, then render realistic stills. Step 4: Use the soon-to-be-updated software to use multiple images you now have to create a more realistic face swap.
Meltdown is Intel-only and requires the ability to run binaries on the victim's computer. If you can run binaries on the victim's computer, you probably already have enough access to do whatever it is you want to do that made you want to hack them in the first place. The extent to which Meltdown adds security issues is miniscule.
That isn't really accurate. Meltdown is potentially devastating for virtual machines and set-ups like shared hosting. Getting a VM slice on a much larger machine is where Meltdown scares cloud-deployed companies. Spin up a small VM, execute Meltdown exploit, and compromise who else is on that host. Ditto with a shared web host.
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Yes. They aren't accused of having malware inside their product, but rather that their product sends back hashes of files found on the system. This is normal AV behavior, as they use the hashes to identify known good files from known bad.
However, the accusations were this, combined with the ability to send whole files up for cloud analysis, have been used by the Russian Gov't to identify classified material on U.S. systems and steal files.
While Kaspersky themselves claim no such activities, and that their updates are protected by digital signatures, the accusations are the keys were compromised and the data flows all go thru gov't controlled telecom hubs in Russia.
The ultimate accusation is the software and infrastructure around it can, and has been, used to facilitate espionage.
Whether this is with the willing cooperation of Eugene Kaspersy, the unwilling cooperation, or that he is just a pawn that has little recourse, is all up for debate. The U.S. gov't sees Kaspersky software as a direct security threat, because of the significant possibility of compromise by the Russian intelligence service.
As Russian malware has been found before in critical infrastructure, such as power plants and banks, the U.S. Gov't is pushing for a ban on use of the software in the U.S. to help protect the private sector. A ban on the software in Gov't doesn't go far enough in this regard.
Being a nonprofit is a tax structure, and it by no means indicates "poor". Effectively all it means is "we spend every last penny", frequently on salaries and bonuses.
Skills are skills, and you can make top dollar at a nonprofit if your skills are in high demand.
What he saw was the movie "Wargames". Lighten up a bit.
Yeah, but it'll be a Thursday. The universe never has gotten the hang of Thursdays.
Wasn't he "dating" Pamela Anderson? I'm sure she can find somewhere to secure a USB stick for transport in and out.
His crime wasn't hacking, it was embarrassing the U.S. Gov't.
There is NO excuse for having your public IP address space exposing well known, script-kiddie flaws. Every one of those Federal Agencies has teams of people who are responsible for securing their systems, not to mention external contractors performing penetration tests.
He didn't do anything creative, just run common scanners against a wide IP space, and run point-and-click tools. If he found all that with so little effort, you can bet others did, too.
SQL Injection has been the OWASP #1 for about a decade now.
Yes, Texas is #1 because of both the large population of persons, and large number of guns. Thank you for the good statistics.
Fortunately, my post was meant to counter the simplistic chest-thumping weenie who claimed that sort of thing doesn't happen in Texas. I wasn't going to invest the effort in detailed data.
Funny how all the states of the bottom of the list are way up north. Probably too damn cold to steal anyone's guns. People are focused on keeping warm.
Bullshit. Mega, epic bullshit. Texas is the #1 State with guns stolen from owners.
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/stolen-guns-lost-firearms-by-state-data.html
http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2017/12/23/agents-seek-guns-stolen-harvey-100-weapons-taken-houston-stores-storm
http://www.kxan.com/news/crime/more-than-2-dozen-guns-stolen-from-copperas-cove-pawn-shop/994805063
https://www.chron.com/news/item/Stolen-Guns-Database-11252.php
Damn, and I was thinking you were going to post 41 56 54 N 87 39 19 W just for the lulz.
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams
1978
Guess it's over, call it a day
Sorry that it had to end this way
No reason to pretend
We knew it had to end some day, this way
Guess, it's over, the kicks are gone
What's the use of tryin' to hang on?
Somewhere we lost the key
So little left for you and me and it's clear to see
Too much, too little, too late to lie again with you
Too much, too little, too late to try again with you
We're in the middle of ending something that we do
It's all over
Oh, it was over
Too much, too little, too late to ever try again
Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends
Too much, too little, too late, we knew it had to end
And it's over
It's over
Guess it's over, the chips are down
Nearly all our bridges tumbled down
Whatever chance we try, let's face it, why deny
It's over
It's all over
It's over
What are you interested in? Are you looking for short (comic books) or long (graphic novels)?
My recommendation would be Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.
Original post by Puffin Fitness: https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/85p30j/deletefacebook_movement_gains_steam_after_50/dvz4y6o/
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In 2009, Russian social-media mogul Yuri Milner invested $200 million into Facebook at a valuation of $10 billion dollars without voting rights or a seat on the board. To understand this investment, at the time the world was going through a global recession and Facebook's general valuation had dropped from the $15 billion from the year prior to $4-$6 billion in 2009.
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-valuation-the-cheat-sheet/
One company did offer a valuation of $8 billion, but with a seat on the board, which Zuckerberg was strongly against. In other words, Yuri Milner invested in Facebook when they were strapped for cash and at an inflated price without voting rights or a seat on the board. That's an amazing deal for Zuckerberg!
Here's Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg hanging out for an interview: https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/mark-zuckerberg-and-yuri-milner-talk-about-facebooks-new-investment-video/
The deal was coordinated by Alisher B. Usmanov, a Russian oligarch that earned his fortune managing steel mill subsidiaries for Gazprom.
Usmanov spent six years in prison for fraud and embezzlement in the 80's.
In 2008, Usmanov fired a publisher and editor at one of Russia's most respected news paper after it published detailed accounts of Russian election fraud.
It is said, "His ties to the Kremlin and Facebook have stirred concerns that he might influence the companyâ(TM)s policies in subtle ways to appease governments in markets where Facebook is also an important tool of political dissent, such as Russia." This was in 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/technology/a-russian-facebook-bet-pays-off-big.html
Usmanov is close friends with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
Ivanka Trump and Wendi Deng are good friends with Abramovich's then wife, Dasha Zhoukova. Here they are watching a tennis match.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3784716/Ivanka-Trump-Karlie-Kloss-Wendi-Deng-Murdoch-watch-Open.html
The leak of the Paradise Papers revealed the money Yuri Milner used to invest into Facebook came from Gazprom, a US sanctioned Russian oil and gas company, at one point owning 9% of the company.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-the-paradise-papers-leak-facebook-yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia
Soon after, Zuckerberg and Milner became friends, meeting monthly:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-got-early-business-advice-194957335.html
And even spoke together in November 2015 at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-the-paradise-papers-leak-facebook-yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia
In May 2012, Milner attended Zuckerberg's wedding. In 2014, Milner moved to California home he paid 100% above value on.
http://time.com/5011000/paradise-papers-tax-ha
Are you aware that the current head of OPM has not released the data for 2017, claiming it is exempt from FOIA? They've been releasing it for 11 years, but all of a sudden it is private information.
Not being an EE, how can the OpenUPS be modified to accommodate 100-240V AC input, and batteries enough to handle a desktop workload -- 23"+ LED monitor plus desktop (not laptop, which already has a battery) computer. I'm thinking the 4 AA-style batteries aren't going to cut it.
Rhodesia, right?
(Logging in to repeat my anonymous post)
I received several SMS messages like this, from half-a-dozen numbers, a week or two ago. There were maybe 20 messages over a 1 hour period.
Here's the thing. I don't have a Facebook account. I did, once, about 10 years ago. I cancelled it after only about a month, and that was long before they implemented 2FA. And it was also long before I had my current phone number. This number has never been given to Facebook for anything, at least not by me.
I thought they were a scam of some sort, and just ended up blocking the numbers as spam in my messaging client (Signal).
First, thank you for a rational reply, and not just snark.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market
http://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/
I would think that with ownership so concentrated -- 1,000 accounts hold 40% of all value -- with another 30-50% estimated to be lost and out of circulation, I question a psychological model based off of so few possible sample sets. That's just crazy.
CNBC branded the range of $9,000 to $10,000 as "a difficult one for bitcoin to break below" after its surge over $10,000 last year.
Based on what reasoning? There is no price support for BTC. There is no equity or guarantor behind BTC at all. Control is centralized in a small handful of "owners". They could make it go from zero to 100,000 in a day, if they decided to.
So what genius pundit decided there was a floor to the price, and how much does he get paid to make shit like that up?
Representing the Crown Prosecution Service, Aaron Watkins it would be absurd for defendants to be "rewarded with effective immunity" simply for having evaded proceedings for long enough.
Isn't that the way things normally happen, except for crimes like murder? In the United States it is called the Statute of Limitations.
This isn't Linux, it is Ubuntu. :-P
This is called the Tyranny of the Default, and is a real thing.
Step 1: Using free 3D software, such as Blender, download a generic "head" wireframe model.
Step 2: Map the straight photo onto the 3D model.
Step 3: Rotate the model to a few odd angles, then render realistic stills.
Step 4: Use the soon-to-be-updated software to use multiple images you now have to create a more realistic face swap.
Then back to the tried-and-true 1/4", balanced TRS with XLR used for the microphone port.
Meltdown is Intel-only and requires the ability to run binaries on the victim's computer. If you can run binaries on the victim's computer, you probably already have enough access to do whatever it is you want to do that made you want to hack them in the first place. The extent to which Meltdown adds security issues is miniscule.
That isn't really accurate. Meltdown is potentially devastating for virtual machines and set-ups like shared hosting. Getting a VM slice on a much larger machine is where Meltdown scares cloud-deployed companies. Spin up a small VM, execute Meltdown exploit, and compromise who else is on that host. Ditto with a shared web host.
Because there is some functionality that I would really like my child to have always available.
Some things I want to limit more than others. Summer I want to encourage. Tools to help me do that as a parent are valuable.