translated: We're desperately afraid of ordinary people communicating privately and organizing politically, therefore we've decided to tarnish everyone we don't approve of with the terrorism moniker.
"According to Palo Alto Networks, on December 24, 2015, India's Ambassador to Afghanistan received a spear-phishing email that contained a new malware variant" ref
For fucksake slashdot, enough with these cyber bullshit stories. Has Norway ever considered not keeping its 'state military secrets' on Microsoft Windows connected to the Internet.
"A company for which I worked for recently had a project which required debugging a few abandoned OSS projects.. Since the company paid for my time to work out those bugs, they own the copyright. I can't release them."
Ask the company to release the source code under the GPL license.
"The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system." ref
@Zoolook: "Not that magnetic strips are good either"
The original idea of using credit card numbers embedded in a magnetic strip for online financial transaction - the dumbest dumb idea ever. No doubt, done this way to save on money. Greed is good !
As for biometrics and iris scan, once these are hacked you're in an even worse situation. As you can't get re-issued new irises or fingerprints. ref
"Japanese energy, oil and gas, and transport industries have been among those targeted by a group of cyberattackers focusing its efforts on Japanese critical infrastructure"
Have the Japanese considered not connecting their critical infrastructure directly to the Internet? Instead of introducing even more surveillance on the civilian population. Purely in the interests of catching the cyber attackers and protecting the critical infrastructure.
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Cyber attack threat: did you actually use those terms on slashdot?
"A victim who has one of the vulnerable phones connected to a network and uses a PC on that network to visit a malicious site can be open to the attack."
What desktop Operating System does this exploit run on?
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agile, business intelligence, cloud computing, doing mobile, gap analysis, IT org chart, storage business, the cloud ..
How exactly does this JAR file get downloaded and executed on a Linux system, without enduser action.
"Alphabet Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is heading up a new effort to make the Pentagon more tech savvy"
Eric Schmidt could make a good start by totally banning Microsoft Windows from the Pentagon.
"hacker who uploaded a Web shell to a shipping company's CMS"
What was the name of this CMS and who originally installed it?
translated: We're desperately afraid of ordinary people communicating privately and organizing politically, therefore we've decided to tarnish everyone we don't approve of with the terrorism moniker.
"Microsoft .. post-breach enterprise security service called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection"
How about designing a 'computer' that can't be compromised by opening an email attachment or clicking on a web link.
"According to Palo Alto Networks, on December 24, 2015, India's Ambassador to Afghanistan received a spear-phishing email that contained a new malware variant" ref
Hey user 110010001000 .. nice TROLL ! link
For fucksake slashdot, enough with these cyber bullshit stories. Has Norway ever considered not keeping its 'state military secrets' on Microsoft Windows connected to the Internet.
Without the use of such raghead terminology such as Caliphate and Allah, we wouldn't even know if it was genuine.
PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --
"A company for which I worked for recently had a project which required debugging a few abandoned OSS projects .. Since the company paid for my time to work out those bugs, they own the copyright. I can't release them."
Ask the company to release the source code under the GPL license.
"The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system." ref
@Zoolook: "Not that magnetic strips are good either"
The original idea of using credit card numbers embedded in a magnetic strip for online financial transaction - the dumbest dumb idea ever. No doubt, done this way to save on money. Greed is good !
As for biometrics and iris scan, once these are hacked you're in an even worse situation. As you can't get re-issued new irises or fingerprints. ref
"Japanese energy, oil and gas, and transport industries have been among those targeted by a group of cyberattackers focusing its efforts on Japanese critical infrastructure"
Have the Japanese considered not connecting their critical infrastructure directly to the Internet? Instead of introducing even more surveillance on the civilian population. Purely in the interests of catching the cyber attackers and protecting the critical infrastructure.
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Cyber attack threat: did you actually use those terms on slashdot?
@Anonymous: "Why do you think it won't work on BSD machines?"
Because if it ran on BSD, they would have said it in the title, instead of "Federal Trojan"
Jezus timmy, how did it come to this?
Keep repeating compiling the kernel :)
PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
Designed to be used while sitting on the sofa watching TV, at the dinner table with friends, or on the toilet pooping.
What was the name of the computer Operating system this ransomware ran on?
Attorney: Unlikely Malik could 'carry a weapon or wear some type of a vest or do any of this' ref
Attorney: Unlikely Malik could 'carry a weapon or wear some type of a vest or do any of this' ref
What was the breakdown in terms of desktop Operating Systems in relation to these phishing and malware attacks?
"A victim who has one of the vulnerable phones connected to a network and uses a PC on that network to visit a malicious site can be open to the attack."
What desktop Operating System does this exploit run on?
Update on the recent Cyber attack on HPMC