"Harry Bradbury.. has been given licences by the government to drill for and extract gas from massive coal reserves under the sea and off the North East coast."
"Under the North Sea there are vast deposits. We're talking about two billion tonnes of coal off the coast here. Now, to give you some measure of that, two billion tonnes has more energy in it than we've ever extracted from the totality of North Sea gas since we began." link
"Typically, the malware is injected into Web sites via known vulnerabilities in site plugins or third-party software — such as shopping cart programs. ref
"Once launched with administrator privileges, the Trojan loads into the memory of its process files containing cybercriminals' demands:" ref
Not a lot of details, but seems to be yet another example of a malicious Microsoft Office macro virus. Requires the end user to open a malicious Office document, don't say how this leads to running the actual payload.
I can understand a company padding out a government contract, after all, as far as the people running the Immigration Services, it's not their money, but this is taking the piss.
link.. now would be a good time for slashdot to have a discussion on the balkanization of the Internet. Where the media companies are trying to turn Internet media back into television.
"Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s chief engineer, and Wolfgang Hatz.. were put in charge of research and development at the Volkswagen group shortly after Martin Winterkorn became chief executive in January 2007."
What browsers don't have a 64-bit version? If a bug in a 32-bit application running on a 64-bit system leads to a security violation, that's a defect in the underlying 32-bit emulator. I don't know what you mean by 'the default version of Chrome', Chrome doesn't come with Windows, you have to install it yourself, the end user decides what version to use, the choice is up to you. Here's the link for the 64-bit Windows version.
Anonymous: "Most of the browsers have a 64bit option, but default to using the 32bit one. I'd be surprised if at least 20% of the Internet users primarily use a 64bit browser."
I don't understand what you mean by 'default to using the 32bit one'. You get either a 32-bit or a 64-bit installer. Most/all desktop operating systems out there are 64-bit and most all browsers come in 64-bit flavors.
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Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
There is NO "War on Terror"
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@Strange Attractor: "I am disappointed by the moderation of all the articles here. Some longer thoughtful ones have been marked down."
"Recently I look at the articles selected on slashdot but don't sign in or read the comments."
"Is there a better site for links to tech news?."
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The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
@jcr: "This is not something to commemorate." (Score:1, Flamebait)
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"Windows was and is a tragic waste of time and money." ref
Why is this moderated 'flamebait', it's only a statement of fact
The grown-ups have long since left this place. You would have better results over on Hacker News.
"Harry Bradbury .. has been given licences by the government to drill for and extract gas from massive coal reserves under the sea and off the North East coast."
"Under the North Sea there are vast deposits. We're talking about two billion tonnes of coal off the coast here. Now, to give you some measure of that, two billion tonnes has more energy in it than we've ever extracted from the totality of North Sea gas since we began." link
"Typically, the malware is injected into Web sites via known vulnerabilities in site plugins or third-party software — such as shopping cart programs. ref
"Once launched with administrator privileges, the Trojan loads into the memory of its process files containing cybercriminals' demands:" ref
Title corrected for accuracy ..
Not a lot of details, but seems to be yet another example of a malicious Microsoft Office macro virus. Requires the end user to open a malicious Office document, don't say how this leads to running the actual payload.
Operating System Security and Secure Operating systems
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS)
What kind of idiot keeps his secret 'Submarine Plans' on a computer connected to the Internet.
"8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs"
Bugs in an application can only be exploited by defects in the underlying Operating System
Government IT project are designed to maximize spending without producing any practical results.
I can understand a company padding out a government contract, after all, as far as the people running the Immigration Services, it's not their money, but this is taking the piss.
link .. now would be a good time for slashdot to have a discussion on the balkanization of the Internet. Where the media companies are trying to turn Internet media back into television.
"Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s chief engineer, and Wolfgang Hatz .. were put in charge of research and development at the Volkswagen group shortly after Martin Winterkorn became chief executive in January 2007."
Why not just move the refineries from Texas to where the oil is, that's Canada. Oh, wait, that'll lose votes ...
"Once launched with administrator privileges, the Trojan loads into the memory of its process files containing cybercriminals' demands"
How do TalkTalk know how many records were downloaded, as TalkTalk didn't even notice when the original hack took place.
Technical facts don't count, what they've managed to do is get self-replicating virus and Android into the one sentence.
What are the names of the current browsers that don't have a 64-bit version?
"Once downloaded and run on the machine"
How does this 'Ransomware' get downloaded and run on the machine?
"Most browsers 64 bit? No, I don't think so."
What browsers don't have a 64-bit version? If a bug in a 32-bit application running on a 64-bit system leads to a security violation, that's a defect in the underlying 32-bit emulator. I don't know what you mean by 'the default version of Chrome', Chrome doesn't come with Windows, you have to install it yourself, the end user decides what version to use, the choice is up to you. Here's the link for the 64-bit Windows version.
Anonymous: "Most of the browsers have a 64bit option, but default to using the 32bit one. I'd be surprised if at least 20% of the Internet users primarily use a 64bit browser."
I don't understand what you mean by 'default to using the 32bit one'. You get either a 32-bit or a 64-bit installer. Most/all desktop operating systems out there are 64-bit and most all browsers come in 64-bit flavors.
"80 percent of browsers in the researchers’ sample size were 32-bit processes executing on a 64-bit host running WOW64, putting them all at risk. ref
What were the names of these browsers with no 64-bit versions?
"Duo Security, a cloud-based access security provider" ref