To be fair, this is nothing new for Americans. With the choices down to Hillary and Trump, when the choice came to bite into a shit sandwich a lot of people chose the one that would make a sound most closely resembling "FUCK YOU" as they chewed.
I doubt it. From TFA: "exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees’ Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
So...they probably established a CnC beachhead inside the network, let that dial out to their proxied CnC server, and then went into the company's internal network over that connection. In other words, they could have pulled this off without any Internet-facing resources. In fact, they only needed one of the Macbooks to be able to connect out to the Internet; the DB itself may well have been on a machine without any Internet access since the Macbook was the conduit.
>> database contained descriptions of critical and unfixed vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world, including the Windows operating system
Closed OS FTW. On second thought, TFA says "including Windows", so was Microsoft hanging onto zero-days for other companies?
The more you know about tech, the less chance you'll actually own a "digital assistant".
>> Right now, all these assistants behave like selfish employees who think they can protect their jobs by holding vital expertise or passwords close to their chests. Eventually, the data that runs the voice assistant business is going to have to be standardized.
Like your music collection works across Android/iOS? Like porting between rival email systems is seamless? Or what other consumer tech experience are you drawing the "have to be standardized" statement from?
>> 9 to 15 percent of active Twitter accounts are bots
Having worked in marketing briefly (shudder), I'd be surprised by any ratio that isn't close to 50/50. And a good chunk of the remaining 50% of humans also seem to be in marketing, either tuning their bots, watching what competitors bots are doing, or otherwise looking busy to keep pulling their social media paycheck. Personally, I've probably posted about 10K tweets, almost all through engines that magnify/schedule/repeat through networks. But I can't say I have enough time to actually follow Twitter for my own interests unless I'm actually at a con or other event where the feed provides some value, and the only email I see from Twitter is when someone contacts me directly.
Part of the reason I've always felt nervous installing AV or anything else that wanted to run at or near kernel is exactly this: at least one third party is "in" my system...and if that third party goes sideways then the rest of my defenses aren't worth much. (e.g. is your IDS really going to flag a 10% traffic increase to your AV vendor from your AV software?)
More money flowing out of Google (which receives advertiser revenue) and into device/content providers (the ones that actually provide the things we want). I can understand how Google investors are getting worried about tightening profit margins, but how is this not a high-five for consumers?
C'mon editors. This is the second Comcast-in-Vermont story this site's crapped out in a month. Could you at least pull up TheRegister to see if there's anything interesting in tech we could talk about?
>> Mathematics -- the international language, the foundation of so many scientific pursuits, and arguably the most fundamental theoretical discipline of all -- doesn't have a Nobel Prize, either. Mathematicians have complained about this for decades.
Not really. There's the "Fields Medal" after all. http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/fields/details/
One of those is worth about four Nobel prizes because, well, math, yo.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's how Kaspersky could get out of this:
1) change name to "Uranium Two"
2) donate to the Clinton Global Initiative
3) ??? (impeach Trump?)
4) profit!
>> Why We Must Fight For the Right To Repair Our Electronics
In my day, we fought, for the right, to Parrrrrrrrt A!
I miss the days when I could play sad-trombone/happycheer sounds until management would leave or cut short the meeting.
To be fair, this is nothing new for Americans. With the choices down to Hillary and Trump, when the choice came to bite into a shit sandwich a lot of people chose the one that would make a sound most closely resembling "FUCK YOU" as they chewed.
>> gaining processing capabilities at an exponential rate ...I do not think you know what it means.
Found the third-year CS student.
>> database on an internet-facing PC
I doubt it. From TFA: "exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees’ Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
So...they probably established a CnC beachhead inside the network, let that dial out to their proxied CnC server, and then went into the company's internal network over that connection. In other words, they could have pulled this off without any Internet-facing resources. In fact, they only needed one of the Macbooks to be able to connect out to the Internet; the DB itself may well have been on a machine without any Internet access since the Macbook was the conduit.
>> database contained descriptions of critical and unfixed vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world, including the Windows operating system
Closed OS FTW. On second thought, TFA says "including Windows", so was Microsoft hanging onto zero-days for other companies?
The more you know about tech, the less chance you'll actually own a "digital assistant".
>> Right now, all these assistants behave like selfish employees who think they can protect their jobs by holding vital expertise or passwords close to their chests. Eventually, the data that runs the voice assistant business is going to have to be standardized.
Like your music collection works across Android/iOS? Like porting between rival email systems is seamless? Or what other consumer tech experience are you drawing the "have to be standardized" statement from?
>> 9 to 15 percent of active Twitter accounts are bots
Having worked in marketing briefly (shudder), I'd be surprised by any ratio that isn't close to 50/50. And a good chunk of the remaining 50% of humans also seem to be in marketing, either tuning their bots, watching what competitors bots are doing, or otherwise looking busy to keep pulling their social media paycheck. Personally, I've probably posted about 10K tweets, almost all through engines that magnify/schedule/repeat through networks. But I can't say I have enough time to actually follow Twitter for my own interests unless I'm actually at a con or other event where the feed provides some value, and the only email I see from Twitter is when someone contacts me directly.
This. I thought I was reading Wired from back in the day just now.
Australia's "navy" *rolls eyes*
http://www.navy.gov.au/fleet/ships-boats-craft/current-ships
Don't feed the "basic" troll: man up and just cut the cord completely to starve the cable beast.
Part of the reason I've always felt nervous installing AV or anything else that wanted to run at or near kernel is exactly this: at least one third party is "in" my system...and if that third party goes sideways then the rest of my defenses aren't worth much. (e.g. is your IDS really going to flag a 10% traffic increase to your AV vendor from your AV software?)
More money flowing out of Google (which receives advertiser revenue) and into device/content providers (the ones that actually provide the things we want). I can understand how Google investors are getting worried about tightening profit margins, but how is this not a high-five for consumers?
Now that I DO remember. However, as soon as I got a modem...
Remember when you'd buy software? With a disc in a cardboard package? From a retail store you'd have to enter?
No? Me either.
C'mon editors. This is the second Comcast-in-Vermont story this site's crapped out in a month. Could you at least pull up TheRegister to see if there's anything interesting in tech we could talk about?
>> Mathematics -- the international language, the foundation of so many scientific pursuits, and arguably the most fundamental theoretical discipline of all -- doesn't have a Nobel Prize, either. Mathematicians have complained about this for decades.
Not really. There's the "Fields Medal" after all.
http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/fields/details/
One of those is worth about four Nobel prizes because, well, math, yo.
>> Musk: (wild idea to problem X)
Could you please just ship the Model 3 to everyone who wants one?
(http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/technology/tesla-model-3-production/index.html)
Telsa is going to be the next Nintendo at this rate.
>> thats one hell of a tax deduction
At his level, you don't just get tax deductions, but actual non-bid government contracts. There's a reason this guy's a billionaire.
Remember Biden's "cancer moonshot"?
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/352601
There was even a "Blue Ribbon Panel" (cue Dave Barry).
I see the big "IBM" logo on the story, but (at TFA notes) this has been Lenovo's baby for about half of those 25 years.
Neat laptop? Meh. I still have one and it still works. (It's a durable prop for small-audience "retro computing" talks.)
Did it keep up with the times? Well, like most of IBM, that's a big fat "no". And does anyone care? Prolly not.
>> I don't know anyone who uses Edge on Windows
Have any relatives who bought their own Windows laptop or tablet in the past year? You might be surprised...
Sure - they expect at least 80% of their current Zune-on-Android and Zune-on-iOS users to switch within the first three months.