"XPRIZE is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit mankind. Their Board of Trustees include Elon Musk, James Cameron, Larry Page, Arianna Huffington, Ratan Tata among others." ref
"In a followup to this morning's story about the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb"
It wasn't mistaken for a bomb. The teachers are so afraid of getting fired that they won't make a judgement call but immediately report the incident back up to senior management.
"According to private security firm CrowdStrike's founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, the Chinese are compiling a massive 'Facebook' like database on American federal government employees"
@Anonymous Coward: "I have 5 Mbps and it's fine for everything I do. I'm watching the MLB.TV stream in HD as I type this."
It must be some kind of magic mbps that's faster then the old fashioned kind. I wonder how MLB.TV would cope with the average terrestrial football watching audience.
"Researchers from Purdue University have developed a software tool for Android smartphones that.. dynamically identifies app background activities.. and suppresses those apps when the screen is turned off."
And you need university researchers to figure out that?
@toejam13: "For all we know.. there was an air gap between it and the outside.. In many cases, you just need a wireless adapter and the proper software"..
a) We do know there wasn't an 'air gap' as the compromised servers were connected to the Internet. That's the meaning behind the words 'cybersecurity breach'.
b) An air gaped computer with a wireless adapter isn't really air gapped.
"Incident reports.. shows a near-consistent barrage of attempts to breach the security of critical information systems that contain sensitive data about the nation's power grid, nuclear weapons stockpile and energy labs."
Have you considered not connecting your critical infrastructure directly to the Internet. The fact that the 'Cyber attackers' can even see your computers shows extreme complacency by whoever is in charge of your 'computers'.
"We tried to conceal from the researchers to publish our IP. No company in the world would want their IP revealed. We did that to protect our customers. We openly worked with them to fix the vulnerabilities, and patches have been available for months now. Our Customers are protected." ref
A portable hardware device that generates one-time-only passwords. The master keys never leave the device and can be revoked in the event of the device getting lost. Hacking any individual device provides no clues that can be used to hack the other devices.
"If there is one thing society can learn from the soap opera now engulfing tech zillionaire John McAfee, it is that rectal shelving is the best way to take the psychoactive drug MDPV, marketed and known colloquially as bath salts." ref
"You may have heard that Apple had a little get together today. There were lots of big launches — the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S Plus, and the iPad Pro. Those waiting for an iPhone fix were given quite a lot of get excited about, but like your friendly local drug dealer"
Stopped reading when I got to here.. shame on you slashdot for posting this garbage...
@T.E.D.: "Reading what Stallman has to say is always annoying and appalling. Annoying because he isn't very polite to people he's talking to, and he's always demanding folks take actions almost nobody is going to take in order to stave off a future dystopia. Appalling because you realize that all his previous predictions of future dystopia have come true." link
"When this card is opened from within the app, the executable is contains is run, "further compromising computers by distributing malware including ransomware, bots, remote access tools, and other types of malicious code."'
What platforms can this 'ransomware' run on to further compromise the device?
"Looking for how to fix Nexus 7 lag? Is your Google Nexus 7 lagging after Kit Kat update? Is your Nexus 7 exhibiting lag after an update in general? Then read on! In this post you’ll see how to speed things up a bit with a short and simple trick to speed up your Nexus 7." ref
Who wrote the code. What explanation do they have for inserting such features in a supposedly secure storage device. Is there a more sinister explanation for this?
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How does this relate to memory exploits on the WinTEL platform?
"XPRIZE is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit mankind. Their Board of Trustees include Elon Musk, James Cameron, Larry Page, Arianna Huffington, Ratan Tata among others." ref
"In a followup to this morning's story about the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb"
It wasn't mistaken for a bomb. The teachers are so afraid of getting fired that they won't make a judgement call but immediately report the incident back up to senior management.
"According to private security firm CrowdStrike's founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, the Chinese are compiling a massive 'Facebook' like database on American federal government employees"
@Anonymous Coward: "I have 5 Mbps and it's fine for everything I do. I'm watching the MLB.TV stream in HD as I type this."
It must be some kind of magic mbps that's faster then the old fashioned kind. I wonder how MLB.TV would cope with the average terrestrial football watching audience.
Assuming they can revive frozen brains in the future, would this be really me or a good copy, and could anyone tell the difference.
"Researchers from Purdue University have developed a software tool for Android smartphones that .. dynamically identifies app background activities .. and suppresses those apps when the screen is turned off."
And you need university researchers to figure out that?
@toejam13: "For all we know .. there was an air gap between it and the outside .. In many cases, you just need a wireless adapter and the proper software" ..
...
a) We do know there wasn't an 'air gap' as the compromised servers were connected to the Internet. That's the meaning behind the words 'cybersecurity breach'.
b) An air gaped computer with a wireless adapter isn't really air gapped.
c) I never mentioned 'air gap'ed
"Incident reports .. shows a near-consistent barrage of attempts to breach the security of critical information systems that contain sensitive data about the nation's power grid, nuclear weapons stockpile and energy labs."
Have you considered not connecting your critical infrastructure directly to the Internet. The fact that the 'Cyber attackers' can even see your computers shows extreme complacency by whoever is in charge of your 'computers'.
A talking head telling us what we could read below. Is this the future of the Internet - TELEVISION ..
"We tried to conceal from the researchers to publish our IP. No company in the world would want their IP revealed. We did that to protect our customers. We openly worked with them to fix the vulnerabilities, and patches have been available for months now. Our Customers are protected." ref
A portable hardware device that generates one-time-only passwords. The master keys never leave the device and can be revoked in the event of the device getting lost. Hacking any individual device provides no clues that can be used to hack the other devices.
"If there is one thing society can learn from the soap opera now engulfing tech zillionaire John McAfee, it is that rectal shelving is the best way to take the psychoactive drug MDPV, marketed and known colloquially as bath salts." ref
"You may have heard that Apple had a little get together today. There were lots of big launches — the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S Plus, and the iPad Pro. Those waiting for an iPhone fix were given quite a lot of get excited about, but like your friendly local drug dealer"
.. shame on you slashdot for posting this garbage ...
Stopped reading when I got to here
@T.E.D.: "Reading what Stallman has to say is always annoying and appalling. Annoying because he isn't very polite to people he's talking to, and he's always demanding folks take actions almost nobody is going to take in order to stave off a future dystopia. Appalling because you realize that all his previous predictions of future dystopia have come true." link
..
Won't address the issues attack the man instead
It says they're hacking the ISP (by forging IP addresses) and not the satellite system in itself.
"Hackers Abuse Satellite Internet Links To Remain Anonymous"
How exactly are Turla hacking the Satellite system to gain unauthorized access, without paying for the service?
@cbhacking: "it sounds like the Linux version is still a little clunky, at least to install"
./pminstaller.sh else use one of the Contributed builds of Pale Moon ...
Seems pretty straightforward to me, download pminstaller-0.2.0.tar.bz2, extract into your home dir and type
You can get a Linux version of Pale Moon for Linux here ..
"Both Google and Yahoo have announced that they are working on end-to-end encryption in email."
Unless the keys reside only on the end devices then it ain't secure.
"When this card is opened from within the app, the executable is contains is run, "further compromising computers by distributing malware including ransomware, bots, remote access tools, and other types of malicious code."'
What platforms can this 'ransomware' run on to further compromise the device?
Who typed this BS and why did you deem it necessary to repeat it here on slashdot?
@Anonymous Coward: "Perhaps an early feature that was dropped but never removed from the code?
Who was it tested the device for security vulnerabilities before releasing to market. They did run some tests - didn't they?
"Looking for how to fix Nexus 7 lag? Is your Google Nexus 7 lagging after Kit Kat update? Is your Nexus 7 exhibiting lag after an update in general? Then read on! In this post you’ll see how to speed things up a bit with a short and simple trick to speed up your Nexus 7." ref
Who wrote the code. What explanation do they have for inserting such features in a supposedly secure storage device. Is there a more sinister explanation for this?