flamebait? Anyone with half a clue would understand that this is just a fact. If you don't believe me.. watch the updates. I guarantee you that headlines will read almost verbatim what I said come Monday.
Then again, this is slashdot... I guess I shouldn't expect people to understand things.
ISS steps in and claims that their products automagically figured this out, because they don't "use signatures" and that anyone who's a customer is automatically "protected." right.
Gartner debunked something? When did they become objective?
This is the same Gartner that i've heard say "and for this consulting engagement price, i'm sure that our findings would favor your solution." Please. Any "research" they've done is obviously either just a mish mash of other people's findings, or it's sponsored by a vendor.
1. The entire DHS electronic infrastructure buildout was outsourced to a private defense contractor at a fixed budget cost. Pretty clearly, when money runs out, compromises need to be made. Obviously, backups were one of those compromises. I can also guarantee you that you don't have top industry minds in the SOC at DHS, and this organization is going to need serious help over the next few years to remediate all the things that they're breaking "out of the gate."
2. The title "the world's best hacker" could only be made up by someone as lame as the British media. I'm sure that ass clown was way to busy writing exploits to ever post meaningful or useful information to anywhere frequented by actual, knowledgable network security people. In short, what i'm saying is that he's a script kiddie who can code shell./rant
Costs for remediation of compromised systems usually comprise the overall "this hacker caused this much damage" number. Given that the systems he was breaking into were those of organizations who purchase $500.00 toilet seats, i'm not at all surprised by the $1B number. These numbers are almost always used to increase the charges against the accused.
With the most recent windows update, MS decided that we should all implement ipv6, which broke alot of things. I just switched
to Mac. At least I know that the ipv6 interface on this thing can be smoked with ifconfig....
bookmark sharing? did i accidentally turn on the time machine?
Even "cool" things like cross-correlation and...whatever else you could make cool about this, still don't make it useful.
people are going to start to realize that if you have to send out 2323094902340 announcements threatening legal action to remove content, then the word might already be out, and you just wasted a good portion of your legal department's time.
"Here's a question for Slashdot readers: Why do you care what web browser/email client/etc people use? What do you care if Firefox catches on or not?"
The illuminati fear that you may not be able to handle the truth.
when you make yourself a target by being an advocate, I guess you have to make your kids use 14 character passwords. Not as if this will actually protect you in any way...if someone wants in, and they have any skills, they're going to get in. All the paranoia in the world doesn't change a thing.
finally, the M$ Borgbox....
I can't wait to see how they try to handle
the "portions of your documents" part in the EULA. "Microsoft hereby reserves the right to become the largest acredited repository for confidential, secret, top secret, and any other information which resides in any document generated via it's software...ever. The lube provided in the installation kit is intended for human anuses only. Failure to use such lube may result in a "non frictionless transaction" between microsoft and the user."
Saying that the number of lameass script kids who put "joanie loves chachi" on some ecommerce site directly correlates with serious intrusions bent on criminal intent is about like saying 2+2=22.
wasn't designed to be a big deal. It started out when Bezos and others were shining a flashlight down the toilet to see if they could find all that blown capital.
Unfortunately, just because the French are creating national law which "allows" them to copy DVDs, doesn't mean that DVD manufacturers are going to adhere to that law - or for that matter, start shipping disparate versions of movies to France. It would be a massive cost issue.
I don't know too many people in the -real- business community who are going to get crushed by this. Remember how we hated banner ads in the beginning, and then we just gave up hating them, because that was way too much hating for any one person or small group of people to take on? Well guess what... the negative vibes paid off. The bottom line here is that some dipshits who make some money off the most annoying thing ever are getting sued by the other dipshits who allow them to do it / encourage it. If I had to pick between the dipshits, I pick the guys getting sued by the publicly traded company, but that's just me... I always root for the little guy.
MiT is currently ditching all of it's high end Dell-based linux lab workstations in favor of...brand new sparc IPXs. Apparently they can fit an entire server cluster into the sysadmin's backpack.
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ISS as in Proventia. Not IIS as in Pis sPoor Web Server.
flamebait? Anyone with half a clue would understand that this is just a fact. If you don't believe me.. watch the updates. I guarantee you that headlines will read almost verbatim what I said come Monday.
Then again, this is slashdot... I guess I shouldn't expect people to understand things.
ISS steps in and claims that their products automagically figured this out, because they don't "use signatures" and that anyone who's a customer is automatically "protected." right.
or hiptop 2 - from danger, is a totally superior device anyway. predictive text is for suckers.
Because "intruder" has way too many porn conotations. ;)
Gartner debunked something? When did they become objective? This is the same Gartner that i've heard say "and for this consulting engagement price, i'm sure that our findings would favor your solution." Please. Any "research" they've done is obviously either just a mish mash of other people's findings, or it's sponsored by a vendor.
1. The entire DHS electronic infrastructure buildout was outsourced to a private defense contractor at a fixed budget cost. Pretty clearly, when money runs out, compromises need to be made. Obviously, backups were one of those compromises. I can also guarantee you that you don't have top industry minds in the SOC at DHS, and this organization is going to need serious help over the next few years to remediate all the things that they're breaking "out of the gate." 2. The title "the world's best hacker" could only be made up by someone as lame as the British media. I'm sure that ass clown was way to busy writing exploits to ever post meaningful or useful information to anywhere frequented by actual, knowledgable network security people. In short, what i'm saying is that he's a script kiddie who can code shell. /rant
Costs for remediation of compromised systems usually comprise the overall "this hacker caused this much damage" number. Given that the systems he was breaking into were those of organizations who purchase $500.00 toilet seats, i'm not at all surprised by the $1B number. These numbers are almost always used to increase the charges against the accused.
is already superior to linux in nearly every way possible, so the short answer is... yes.
With the most recent windows update, MS decided that we should all implement ipv6, which broke alot of things. I just switched to Mac. At least I know that the ipv6 interface on this thing can be smoked with ifconfig....
bookmark sharing? did i accidentally turn on the time machine? Even "cool" things like cross-correlation and ...whatever else you could make cool about this, still don't make it useful.
When we call something as bad as spam...spam, it's a term of endearment towards the product!
At those size metrics, the best option to carry it might be to get an army of these little guys to help you out.
people are going to start to realize that if you have to send out 2323094902340 announcements threatening legal action to remove content, then the word might already be out, and you just wasted a good portion of your legal department's time.
"Here's a question for Slashdot readers: Why do you care what web browser/email client/etc people use? What do you care if Firefox catches on or not?" The illuminati fear that you may not be able to handle the truth.
when you make yourself a target by being an advocate, I guess you have to make your kids use 14 character passwords. Not as if this will actually protect you in any way...if someone wants in, and they have any skills, they're going to get in. All the paranoia in the world doesn't change a thing.
it'll be like....trillian 0.9B!!
finally, the M$ Borgbox.... I can't wait to see how they try to handle the "portions of your documents" part in the EULA. "Microsoft hereby reserves the right to become the largest acredited repository for confidential, secret, top secret, and any other information which resides in any document generated via it's software...ever. The lube provided in the installation kit is intended for human anuses only. Failure to use such lube may result in a "non frictionless transaction" between microsoft and the user."
Saying that the number of lameass script kids who put "joanie loves chachi" on some ecommerce site directly correlates with serious intrusions bent on criminal intent is about like saying 2+2=22.
wasn't designed to be a big deal. It started out when Bezos and others were shining a flashlight down the toilet to see if they could find all that blown capital.
Unfortunately, just because the French are creating national law which "allows" them to copy DVDs, doesn't mean that DVD manufacturers are going to adhere to that law - or for that matter, start shipping disparate versions of movies to France. It would be a massive cost issue.
The OSCommerce guys are/were working on something like this if I recall correctly...
I don't know too many people in the -real- business community who are going to get crushed by this. Remember how we hated banner ads in the beginning, and then we just gave up hating them, because that was way too much hating for any one person or small group of people to take on? Well guess what... the negative vibes paid off. The bottom line here is that some dipshits who make some money off the most annoying thing ever are getting sued by the other dipshits who allow them to do it / encourage it. If I had to pick between the dipshits, I pick the guys getting sued by the publicly traded company, but that's just me... I always root for the little guy.
Perhaps he could eat you.
MiT is currently ditching all of it's high end Dell-based linux lab workstations in favor of ...brand new sparc IPXs. Apparently they can fit an entire server cluster into the sysadmin's backpack.