Because people in these high-profile and sensitive positions cannot expect life to be exactly normal. When the nature of the job means that you are advised to check under your car for bombs before you get in it, then a certain degree of caution is needed.
Seriously, why do these people use Facebook anyway? It's just a massive security risk for people in that position, and presumably the only upside is they can post "Just nuked Tehran lol" on their wall when the balloon goes up..
Exactly. It's a country that doesn't exist in the eyes of most other countries, which makes it beyond the reach of international law enforcement. There are other countries in the world like that, the difference with Transnistria is that it has a somewhat modern infrastructure.
It looks like the first step in the infection is via an IP (194.28.114.103) belonging to Specialist ISP of Transnistria. That has featured before on Slashdot in this story.
The block 194.28.112.0/22 is simply all evil (I've documented it here in the past), there's no reason to send traffic to it at all, blocking it is a good option.
The Russian GLONASS system uses a different frequency from GPS (around 1.602 GHz for GLONASS, 1.57542 and 1.2276 GHz for GPS). It might be that GLONASS signals would be unaffected by a GPS jammer, although I can't imaging that it would be much of a stretch to make a GPS jammer work for GLONASS as well. The forthcoming European Galileo system uses different frequencies again.
GLONASS is interesting because harware support for GLONASS positioning has been in some smartphones since 2011, and it will become very mainstream this year. I would also expect to see personal navigation tools supporting GLONASS as well as GPS this year. More satellites means a better fix, and it isn't very expensive to do.
So, in the future your vehicle tracking might use a combination of GLONASS, Galileo and GPS using a much broader frequency range than just GPS alone.
But who do you think is more likely to have valid patents in the digital imaging arena? Kodak (who have been in the business since 1889) or Apple (who have been in the business since 2007)? Yes, Kodak's move was one of desperation. Apple's move is just pure spite.
I wrote about this in 2003. Well, sort of. Back then I created a site which was a sort of satire about the seedy side of internet money making, and this sort of traffic diversion tactic was one I came up with. It only took 9 years for real life to catch up..
But to be mega-pedantic, the company name is styled in lowercase as "smart". But, just to be awkward their performance partner is called BRABUS.. in uppercase. I used to have a "smart roadster BRABUS" which is an ungainly mix of upper and lowercase..
Thorsten Heins is a RIM guy through-and-through, he was personally responsible for a lot of RIM's decisions in past years. His introductory video basically shows a guy who is out of touch with RIM's fundamental problems.. he promises more of the same, which is really just a recipe for disaster. Compare this with Stephen Elop of Nokia and his "burning platform" memo which showed a new CEO who realised just how screwed their company was unless they made very radical changes.
Although it isn't certain that Elop will manage to save Nokia, he at least understood that painful changes needed to be made. I'm not sure that Heins understands the dangers that RIM finds itself in though..
This has been going on since last June. Dreamhost were completely unresponsive to reports that their services were being abused. Hey, it only took 'em half a year to figure out there was a breach..
It got so bad at one point that I recommended that readers of my blog .
The malware site is hosted by Specialist Ltd in Transnistria, who are a totally black hat operation. They can get away with it because almost nobody recognises the existence of Transnistria, so it is effectively outside the reach of international law enforcement.
We use another Norwegian data company that has its servers in a cave system, not far from the one mentioned in the article. They use some natural cooling too.
Lyons didn't just make tea and computers.. a couple of miles away from where I live is an underground munitions factory (ROF Elstow) which was operated during WWII by the Lyons company. It might seems daft going from tea to weapons, but Lyons tea shops were models of how to handle the supply chain and distribution, so it all worked rather well.
MeeGo failed (because it was too late). LiMo failed (because no-one wanted it). It's hardly the best combination to make a new OS. Besides, there are too many mobile OSes out there. Remember webOS? Symbian? BlackBerry OS is sliding the same way and Windows is currently hovering near 0% too.
How exactly are Tizer.. I mean Tizen hoping to promote this? "It's a bit like Android but it's not Android"?
This is silly. Too many big changes, too many versions. Add-ons break on a regular basis and corporate customers who had been warming to the idea of FF are heading back to Microsoft. Whoever thought up this idea deserves to be kicked off the Firefox project.
Seriously.. so what? Plenty of sites out there collect analytics in this way, often only in exchange for access to that data (e.g, Google Analytics, Quantcast). ZD's offering is only notable because they are prepared to pay for it, which will certainly give them a leg-up in the market.
I think this is harmless. What is worse is those ad networks (you know the ones I am talking about) that regularly allow tainted ads onto their networks. Or sites that don't patch WP, PHP or other installations properly. The list goes on.
They already have one.. sort of. They've got an environment running on BREW called HTC Sense (they use that name for a lot of things). You can find it in the HTC Smart released last year. And what happened to the Smart? It sank without trace.
Although.. I bought an HP TouchPad in the firesale intending to move it to Android from webOS, but actually it's a nice OS (although it has its limits). There's already an application library for it, not huge, but a good start. It would be a shame to see webOS vanish completely..
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It's Flori-duh again. If global warming means that the state sinks into the sea it would be no bad thing.
Sorry.
Wyse is a bit of a relic. What next? Zenith Data Systems? Kaypro?
Because people in these high-profile and sensitive positions cannot expect life to be exactly normal. When the nature of the job means that you are advised to check under your car for bombs before you get in it, then a certain degree of caution is needed.
Seriously, why do these people use Facebook anyway? It's just a massive security risk for people in that position, and presumably the only upside is they can post "Just nuked Tehran lol" on their wall when the balloon goes up..
Exactly. It's a country that doesn't exist in the eyes of most other countries, which makes it beyond the reach of international law enforcement. There are other countries in the world like that, the difference with Transnistria is that it has a somewhat modern infrastructure.
The block 194.28.112.0/22 is simply all evil (I've documented it here in the past), there's no reason to send traffic to it at all, blocking it is a good option.
GLONASS is interesting because harware support for GLONASS positioning has been in some smartphones since 2011, and it will become very mainstream this year. I would also expect to see personal navigation tools supporting GLONASS as well as GPS this year. More satellites means a better fix, and it isn't very expensive to do.
So, in the future your vehicle tracking might use a combination of GLONASS, Galileo and GPS using a much broader frequency range than just GPS alone.
But who do you think is more likely to have valid patents in the digital imaging arena? Kodak (who have been in the business since 1889) or Apple (who have been in the business since 2007)? Yes, Kodak's move was one of desperation. Apple's move is just pure spite.
I wrote about this in 2003. Well, sort of. Back then I created a site which was a sort of satire about the seedy side of internet money making, and this sort of traffic diversion tactic was one I came up with. It only took 9 years for real life to catch up..
But to be mega-pedantic, the company name is styled in lowercase as "smart". But, just to be awkward their performance partner is called BRABUS.. in uppercase. I used to have a "smart roadster BRABUS" which is an ungainly mix of upper and lowercase..
Although it isn't certain that Elop will manage to save Nokia, he at least understood that painful changes needed to be made. I'm not sure that Heins understands the dangers that RIM finds itself in though..
..darn it, I screwed up the formatting. I recommended that people consider blocking the Dreamhost IP ranges altogether.
It got so bad at one point that I recommended that readers of my blog .
The malware site is hosted by Specialist Ltd in Transnistria, who are a totally black hat operation. They can get away with it because almost nobody recognises the existence of Transnistria, so it is effectively outside the reach of international law enforcement.
We use another Norwegian data company that has its servers in a cave system, not far from the one mentioned in the article. They use some natural cooling too.
It appears to be run by a proper publishers, Hachette despite hiding behind a Domains By Proxy Registration.
Good riddance.
Lyons didn't just make tea and computers.. a couple of miles away from where I live is an underground munitions factory (ROF Elstow) which was operated during WWII by the Lyons company. It might seems daft going from tea to weapons, but Lyons tea shops were models of how to handle the supply chain and distribution, so it all worked rather well.
I've seen mass compromises on Aruba in Italy and Dreamhost in the US too over recent weeks.
How exactly are Tizer.. I mean Tizen hoping to promote this? "It's a bit like Android but it's not Android"?
This is silly. Too many big changes, too many versions. Add-ons break on a regular basis and corporate customers who had been warming to the idea of FF are heading back to Microsoft. Whoever thought up this idea deserves to be kicked off the Firefox project.
What.. you reckon? They were tasked to do ONE THING and ended up in an epic case of fail and pwnage.
I think this is harmless. What is worse is those ad networks (you know the ones I am talking about) that regularly allow tainted ads onto their networks. Or sites that don't patch WP, PHP or other installations properly. The list goes on.
Although.. I bought an HP TouchPad in the firesale intending to move it to Android from webOS, but actually it's a nice OS (although it has its limits). There's already an application library for it, not huge, but a good start. It would be a shame to see webOS vanish completely..