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  1. using years old cves? on New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Once the trojan has a foothold on the system it uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (also known as Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions and have full access to the OS."
    Is this really malware that is targeting systems that haven't been patched in two years?

  2. Re:You don't say on Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You're on slashdot referencing another slashdot article. Not an article from days or months ago, but the previous one on the front page!! Can't you link to that article? https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

  3. Did the US ~leak~ the plans to Russia? on US Spy Satellite Buzzes ISS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Another question, if the maneuver was deliberate, is whether the US government informed Russia or other international partners on the space station. The Russian segment of the station controls the thrusters that generally are used to maneuver the station away from orbital debris, so such coordination might seem prudent." Also, appropriate Top Gun reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 2
    I just bought a 2016 (seriously? 2016 model year already? yes.) Ford Fusion. I was really wanting to go with a hybrid/electric, but the reasons I didn't: 1) It will take about 6 years at even 3$/gallon of gas to recover the extra cost So yeah, that's it.

    Electric vehicles are very cheap, if only because the federal government subsidizes $7,500

    The tax break is **up to** 7500. For the Fusion as a plug in hybrid, the tax break is 4000$: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/fe... and that was on the top of the line car, Fusion Energi. When we asked the salesman about any tax breaks or refunds, he had to ask his manager and he said it was only 250$.

  5. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article says they're using a Red Hat Satellite server and so if they wanted to run `yum update -y && init 6` on all of their systems, they could just push that out as a remote command to the systems / groups of systems. In Satellite, you can push out remote commands to groups of systems, so if they have their systems grouped, it would be an easy process to push that command to all of their systems.

  6. Re:Does XEN have a future? on Running Xen · · Score: 1

    Right now I think Ubuntu is the only big distributer shipping kvm; Redhat et al are doing xen .. I think (corrections please). Fedora 9 has kvm, qemu, and xen.

    What's amusing is how David loves on Ubuntu, and fails to mention RHEL / Fedora.
    "Popular third-party distrobutions such as Ubuntu, Gentoo, CentOS, and OpenSUSE were covered; "
    (OK, so CentOS was mentioned, but not RHEL),

    "The popular distros were covered again (Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.), but this time a twist was added to the mix"

  7. Re:Will not install on Samsung hard disks on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442457

    As for the status of the fix, I don't know.