"Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu.. has published a new study suggesting that Google's new method of putting answers to simple search queries at the top of the results page is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers."
Have you considered using another search engine, perhaps one of ixquick.com or yandex.com. Oh wait, they don't come as default on Windows and Windows sets it back to Bing on every update.
"An early September assessment of burial practices in some of Sierra Leone's Ebola hot spots revealed a host of problems that were probably helping fuel ongoing virus transmission in the country" ref
Looks like they are artifically throttling back traffic a) to charge the end users more later on to turn it back up again and b) to bypass net neutrality rules and divert the extra bandwidth to the media corporations.
'Davis wouldn’t provide more details about the systems or their use, citing cybersecurity policy, but an unclassified Navy document says the Microsoft applications affect “critical command and control systems” on ships and land-based legacy systems. Affected systems are connected to NIPRnet, the U.S. government’s IP network for non-classified information, and SIPRnet, the network for classified information.'
"Shoppers could be facing huge amounts of junk mail which specifically targets their internet browsing habits, under plans being trialled by Royal Mail.
The firm is to deliver personalised letters to potential customers, advertising products that they have previously viewed online." ref
@Anonymous coward: "How is this at all what Wikileaks is supposed to be for? At this point it seems more like crass voyeurism than any type of serious attempt to shine a light on corporate misconduct."
"I understand you may be contacted by Bob Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman.. my sense is that much of the discussion will center on the TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP, which is a pending multilateral trade agreement with 12 countries that boarder the Pacific Ocean) – you’ll recall this was one of the key topics of your meeting with Froman and your peers at the White House last year. It seems as though these negotiations are drawing to a close this year and the President/Froman want key industries saying positive things about the benefits." ref
"What is a denial-of-service attack? Most commonly, these events occur when mischief makers or hackers simply flood a target computer with more traffic than it was built to handle. ref
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'encryption would "not have helped" because the attackers had gained valid user credentials to the systems that they attacked—likely through social engineering'
An encrypted database that could only be queried through a secure and fully audited channel. Any attempt to download the entire database would trip an alarm.
"E-Detective is capable of decoding, reassembling, and reconstructing various Internet applications and services such as "Email (POP3, IMAP and SMTP), Webmail (Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail etc.), Instant Messaging (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, QQ, Google Talk, IRC, UT Chat Room, Skype), File Transfer (FTP, P2P), Online Games, Telnet, HTTP (Link, Content, Reconstruct, Upload and Download, Video Streaming), VOIP (optional module) etc." ref
I don't understand, I thought all https traffic was encrypted and secure from eavesdropping?
"This isn't the first major IT screwup for RBS; in 2012, the company was fined £56 million after a software upgrade prevented about 6.5 million customers from logging into their accounts"
I read somewhere that RBS downsized their UK CA-7 batch processing department and then imported the one man from India to take over. Not being experienced enough he botched an overnight job and in the attempt to roll back a days worth of transactions accidentally rolled it back a months worth of transactions. Soon after he removed all references to RBS from his linkedin profile.
"Talos has discussed domain shadowing before at a high level. It’s a technique where threat actors use compromised registrant accounts to create large amounts of malicious subdomains. This is what Talos has found Nuclear using in this most recent campaign. It has been effectively rotating IP addresses, subdomains, and parent domains at a relatively quick rate." ref
April 2013: "Sonatype's annual survey of 3,500 software developers and shows struggle in setting corporate policy on open source and enforcing it" ref
April 2013: "Control and security of corporate open source projects proves difficult | New Sonatype survey finds 80 percent of most Java applications comes from open source" ref
Nov 2014: "Software developers use a large number of open-source components, often oblivious to the security risks they introduce or the vulnerabilities that are later discovered in them." ref
April 2015: "open-source also represents a vast, unpatched quagmire of cyber-risk that’s putting public safety at grave risk. That’s the assessment of Joshua Corman, CTO at Sonatype" ref
'I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearign a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways'. Linus Torvalds July 2013
Do you mean it's an OS agnostic browser extension. Does Skype still route all your calls through the Utah Data Repository. Is all my activity stored on the mothership?
I'm sure that Assange is still wondering what the ladies in question were doing taking off all their cloths and climbing into bed with a naked man ref.
"Most automated teller machines (ATMs) contain a computer that runs a popular OS, so it should come as no shock that they can be hacked. For the most part, this means Microsoft Windows"
Nothing to disagree with so far..
"ATM OSes often include an implementation of Java, one of the most bug-filled, hackable software products the world has ever known"
Only when run on top of Microsoft Windows. Sun Microsoft Systems were under the delusion that they owned Java. Originally designed to be a write-once-run-anywhere technology. At least before Microsoft innovated a Java Language Council(excluding Sun), took control of Java (JFC) and licensed it back to Sun (AFC):) ref
Years later Oracle acquired Suns interest in Java and sued Google for including Java API calls in Android. Curiously enough Microsoft is 'licensing' patented Android technology to the handset manufacturers and Oracle isn't going after Microsoft.
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"Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu .. has published a new study suggesting that Google's new method of putting answers to simple search queries at the top of the results page is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers."
Have you considered using another search engine, perhaps one of ixquick.com or yandex.com. Oh wait, they don't come as default on Windows and Windows sets it back to Bing on every update.
"An early September assessment of burial practices in some of Sierra Leone's Ebola hot spots revealed a host of problems that were probably helping fuel ongoing virus transmission in the country" ref
And why was this?
Technically speaking it isn't 'insider trading' as in some broker gives some other broker advanced information on the movement of some stock.
@anonymous coward: "The exploit allows attackers to steal cookies for localhost"
'The vulnerabilities that the ZDI researchers submitted to Microsoft enable an attacker to fully bypass ASLR (address space layout randomization' ref
Looks like they are artifically throttling back traffic a) to charge the end users more later on to turn it back up again and b) to bypass net neutrality rules and divert the extra bandwidth to the media corporations.
'Davis wouldn’t provide more details about the systems or their use, citing cybersecurity policy, but an unclassified Navy document says the Microsoft applications affect “critical command and control systems” on ships and land-based legacy systems. Affected systems are connected to NIPRnet, the U.S. government’s IP network for non-classified information, and SIPRnet, the network for classified information.'
Ban this Open Source/Apple Malware now and only use the industry standard :)
“first attack of its kind” “We’re using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry” ref
"United Airlines Flights Grounded Over Flight Plan Hacking"
"Shoppers could be facing huge amounts of junk mail which specifically targets their internet browsing habits, under plans being trialled by Royal Mail.
The firm is to deliver personalised letters to potential customers, advertising products that they have previously viewed online." ref
@Anonymous coward: "How is this at all what Wikileaks is supposed to be for? At this point it seems more like crass voyeurism than any type of serious attempt to shine a light on corporate misconduct."
.. my sense is that much of the discussion will center on the TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP, which is a pending multilateral trade agreement with 12 countries that boarder the Pacific Ocean) – you’ll recall this was one of the key topics of your meeting with Froman and your peers at the White House last year. It seems as though these negotiations are drawing to a close this year and the President/Froman want key industries saying positive things about the benefits." ref
"I understand you may be contacted by Bob Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman
Malware emailed to a system administrator (who opened-and-ran the malware), can hardly be called sophisticated.
@Anonymous Coward: "keep them locked up and off the fucking internet."
Are you a security professional?
"What is a denial-of-service attack? Most commonly, these events occur when mischief makers or hackers simply flood a target computer with more traffic than it was built to handle. ref
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Please stop using the word cyber on a tech site
Java virtual machine (JVM)
'encryption would "not have helped" because the attackers had gained valid user credentials to the systems that they attacked—likely through social engineering'
An encrypted database that could only be queried through a secure and fully audited channel. Any attempt to download the entire database would trip an alarm.
How the Wealthy Hide Assets - How to Hide Financial Assets
"E-Detective is capable of decoding, reassembling, and reconstructing various Internet applications and services such as "Email (POP3, IMAP and SMTP), Webmail (Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail etc.), Instant Messaging (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, QQ, Google Talk, IRC, UT Chat Room, Skype), File Transfer (FTP, P2P), Online Games, Telnet, HTTP (Link, Content, Reconstruct, Upload and Download, Video Streaming), VOIP (optional module) etc." ref
I don't understand, I thought all https traffic was encrypted and secure from eavesdropping?
"This isn't the first major IT screwup for RBS; in 2012, the company was fined £56 million after a software upgrade prevented about 6.5 million customers from logging into their accounts"
I read somewhere that RBS downsized their UK CA-7 batch processing department and then imported the one man from India to take over. Not being experienced enough he botched an overnight job and in the attempt to roll back a days worth of transactions accidentally rolled it back a months worth of transactions. Soon after he removed all references to RBS from his linkedin profile.
"Talos has discussed domain shadowing before at a high level. It’s a technique where threat actors use compromised registrant accounts to create large amounts of malicious subdomains. This is what Talos has found Nuclear using in this most recent campaign. It has been effectively rotating IP addresses, subdomains, and parent domains at a relatively quick rate." ref
April 2013: "Sonatype's annual survey of 3,500 software developers and shows struggle in setting corporate policy on open source and enforcing it" ref
April 2013: "Control and security of corporate open source projects proves difficult | New Sonatype survey finds 80 percent of most Java applications comes from open source" ref
Nov 2014: "Software developers use a large number of open-source components, often oblivious to the security risks they introduce or the vulnerabilities that are later discovered in them." ref
April 2015: "open-source also represents a vast, unpatched quagmire of cyber-risk that’s putting public safety at grave risk. That’s the assessment of Joshua Corman, CTO at Sonatype" ref
'I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearign a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways'. Linus Torvalds July 2013
Do you mean it's an OS agnostic browser extension. Does Skype still route all your calls through the Utah Data Repository. Is all my activity stored on the mothership?
I'm sure that Assange is still wondering what the ladies in question were doing taking off all their cloths and climbing into bed with a naked man ref.
"Most automated teller machines (ATMs) contain a computer that runs a popular OS, so it should come as no shock that they can be hacked. For the most part, this means Microsoft Windows"
..
:) ref
Nothing to disagree with so far
"ATM OSes often include an implementation of Java, one of the most bug-filled, hackable software products the world has ever known"
Only when run on top of Microsoft Windows. Sun Microsoft Systems were under the delusion that they owned Java. Originally designed to be a write-once-run-anywhere technology. At least before Microsoft innovated a Java Language Council(excluding Sun), took control of Java (JFC) and licensed it back to Sun (AFC)
Years later Oracle acquired Suns interest in Java and sued Google for including Java API calls in Android. Curiously enough Microsoft is 'licensing' patented Android technology to the handset manufacturers and Oracle isn't going after Microsoft.