"Coming on the heels of the UK arrest of Vinnie Omari, Yle reports that Finnish police have interviewed "Ryan", the Finland-based hacker reportedly responsible for hacking the PlayStation and Xbox networks on Christmas day"
Timothy this is slashdot, try and be a bit more technical. They didn't 'hack' the PlayStation and Xbox networks, they ran a DDOS attack on them from thousands of compromised Windows desktops..
No mention of the indigenous burial rites in the region as being the root cause of the spread of Ebola. Too save you from all that reading: don't cook-and-eat with same household items that you cleaned a dead ebola patent with.. ref
"One of the brainchildren of the HSD is the creation of what it calls the "Trusted Networks Initiative" that would allow direct denial of service attacks originating from specific countries to be cut off."
How about asking people to switch off their Windows desktop computers?
"Companies will forgo bricks and mortar, and instead allow its work-force, from around the world, to beam into the same environment and work cooperatively. Think about a ‘kinder-gentler ‘ version of The Matrix." ref
While you and Elon Musk, James Cameron, and the rest will be free to jet about the planet, the rest of us will be stuck in real cubicles under virtual observation by our PHB. Besides, telepresence will never replace tactile sensation, ask anyone who attended the fappening:)
@Kazoo the Clown: "Managers have no confidence in themselves-- they know they are incompetent at motivating people so they have to resort to big-brother intimidation techniques and vacuous pep rallys with inane slogans and sports metaphors. It then becomes self-fulfilling for the most part, you get what you pay for"...
Not only incompetent at motivating people but incompetent at business in general. They do have the ability to claim credit for other peoples work and posses all the charm of the true sociopath. You can detect them as to how they go silent in the presence of real ability or the inordinate amount of staff turnover in their department. Oh - and also - they're usually the PHBs personal sidekick and snitch. They leave a trail of destruction behind them and can take down a whole business.
@50000BTU_barbecue: 'The "open office" is just cost-reduction masquerading as some sort of innovation.'
Not only that, it's also dangerous, as in if your PHB crosses your live of sight you're liable to utter 'asshole' under your breath, and the very sensitive microphone would pick it up and the client on the other end of the phone might think you were referring to them. This really happened to a friend of mine...
Cubicles are a joke and have been since at least 1989 when Dilbert came on the scene. People don't like being observed all the time and with no control over their own personal space. Design five man circular stations, sound and vision proofed from the other stations and entry through a pedestrian cul-de-sac. That way only people who want to engage with the occupants, will have reason to enter. Tell Zuckerberg that Scott Adams got rich making fun of cubicles.
"the attackers used the program RDPdoor for remote access to the bank network and the program “MBR Eraser” to remove traces and to crack Windows computers and servers.. The software called “Mimikatz” is built in this program. This is an open source software that allows to obtain passwords of user accounts logged in the Windows system. link
Nov 2008: "RPX is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures. Its two chief executives, John Amster and Geoffrey Barker, previously served as vice presidents of Intellectual Ventures, another company in the business of purchasing patents."
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TrackingPoint - Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) Demonstration [360p]
"Despite their widespread use in industry and law enforcement, traditional lie-detector polygraphs give accurate results only about 60% of the time"
There is no verifiable scientific evidence that polygraphs actually work.
How difficult would it be to eliminate heap overflows, buffer overruns & stack exploits on the current x86 PC compatible architecture?
Feb 2004: "Ubuntu 13.10 on Windows Tablet - ASUS Transformer Book TX300 - Dual Boot with Windows 8.1"
What are the number of developers who worked on OpenSSL?
"Coming on the heels of the UK arrest of Vinnie Omari, Yle reports that Finnish police have interviewed "Ryan", the Finland-based hacker reportedly responsible for hacking the PlayStation and Xbox networks on Christmas day"
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Timothy this is slashdot, try and be a bit more technical. They didn't 'hack' the PlayStation and Xbox networks, they ran a DDOS attack on them from thousands of compromised Windows desktops
No mention of the indigenous burial rites in the region as being the root cause of the spread of Ebola. Too save you from all that reading: don't cook-and-eat with same household items that you cleaned a dead ebola patent with .. ref
I see I've been honoured by the slashdot troll in residence :)
"One of the brainchildren of the HSD is the creation of what it calls the "Trusted Networks Initiative" that would allow direct denial of service attacks originating from specific countries to be cut off."
How about asking people to switch off their Windows desktop computers?
"Companies will forgo bricks and mortar, and instead allow its work-force, from around the world, to beam into the same environment and work cooperatively. Think about a ‘kinder-gentler ‘ version of The Matrix." ref
:)
While you and Elon Musk, James Cameron, and the rest will be free to jet about the planet, the rest of us will be stuck in real cubicles under virtual observation by our PHB. Besides, telepresence will never replace tactile sensation, ask anyone who attended the fappening
@Kazoo the Clown: "Managers have no confidence in themselves-- they know they are incompetent at motivating people so they have to resort to big-brother intimidation techniques and vacuous pep rallys with inane slogans and sports metaphors. It then becomes self-fulfilling for the most part, you get what you pay for"...
Not only incompetent at motivating people but incompetent at business in general. They do have the ability to claim credit for other peoples work and posses all the charm of the true sociopath. You can detect them as to how they go silent in the presence of real ability or the inordinate amount of staff turnover in their department. Oh - and also - they're usually the PHBs personal sidekick and snitch. They leave a trail of destruction behind them and can take down a whole business.
@50000BTU_barbecue: 'The "open office" is just cost-reduction masquerading as some sort of innovation.'
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Not only that, it's also dangerous, as in if your PHB crosses your live of sight you're liable to utter 'asshole' under your breath, and the very sensitive microphone would pick it up and the client on the other end of the phone might think you were referring to them. This really happened to a friend of mine
Cubicles are a joke and have been since at least 1989 when Dilbert came on the scene. People don't like being observed all the time and with no control over their own personal space. Design five man circular stations, sound and vision proofed from the other stations and entry through a pedestrian cul-de-sac. That way only people who want to engage with the occupants, will have reason to enter. Tell Zuckerberg that Scott Adams got rich making fun of cubicles.
DHS NCIC spread of FBI Flash warning
What was the name of this source and what was the name of the computer facility where this breach occurred? ref
@AgentElrond: "This smells like a scam of some sort"
Here's more of the same, a device that generates 360 kWh from four gallons of water link.
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Carl Sagan — 'You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe'
Didn't Microsoft 8K BASIC borrow heavily from DECUS BASIC, a copy of the source code Gates obtained from a DEC users group. ref ref ref
"the attackers used the program RDPdoor for remote access to the bank network and the program “MBR Eraser” to remove traces and to crack Windows computers and servers .. The software called “Mimikatz” is built in this program. This is an open source software that allows to obtain passwords of user accounts logged in the Windows system. link
Nov 2008: "RPX is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures. Its two chief executives, John Amster and Geoffrey Barker, previously served as vice presidents of Intellectual Ventures, another company in the business of purchasing patents."
There, fixed the headline for you, to more accuratly reflect the facts. ref
"The attack, dubbed Thunderstrike, installs malicious code in a MacBook's boot ROM (read-only memory), which is stored in a chip on the motherboard"
:)
Dear Slashdot editors, shouldn't this be malicious 'computer' boot ROM code. At least it would be so referenced if it infected a Windows 'computer'
"Due to these failures, one of the plant's blast furnaces could not be shut down in a controlled manner"
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And the solution being to not connect your production networks to the Internet
And the solution being to not use Microsoft Windows .. DistroWatch .. 'a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions' ...
@Anonymous Coward: "SMB is predominantly a Microsoft technology you idiot."
I'm not an 'idiot', I'm merely pointing out how the main article failed to point this out !!!
Yet another example of this sub-standard Linux/Android/Apple malware !!!