I saw this a few years ago when I was at Compaq/HP when the Blaster worm came out. One of the engineers wrote a worm that basically traversed the network and exploited every vulnerable Windows machine, only it disabled DCOM so that further exploitation was not possible by the Blaster Worm. The only problem was that corporate IT didn't bother to tell anyone what they did, so I spent a few hours troubleshooting an application that was broken until I figured out what had happened. Eventually an email went out...
Sometimes, I feel like security researchers are intentionally disclosing their new vulnerability information as close to the "Patch Tuesday" as possible in an attempt to force Microsoft to release an out of cycle patch. This time they were successful.
so all of the linux/OSX fanboys and start flaming Microsoft yet again. Sure, they have vulnerabilities in their product, so does everyone else. If anything, being the security professional that I am, Microsoft has made me MONEY over the last few years.
BTW, I use linux ALL of the time.
...that when Apple was telling them that they were going to cease to use their PowerPC chips, IBM promptly outlaid their product roadmap and pointed this little factoid out. Reduced power consumption isn't the only benefit that Apple is gaining from the use of an Intel chip; how about economy of scale? Intel makes so many more chips due to their economy of scale that they can afford to sell them cheaper to their customers (Apple).
...on many online job searching sites you can set up "searches" which will examine all new postings for the criteria you desire and email them to you each day. This is a great way to casually search for opportunities. When you see one you are real interested in, you apply online. If they like you, you talk to them. If they are interested in bringing you in for an interview, you take a day or a half day off. No employer is going to deny your need for a physical or eye doctors appointment.
maybe I worded it wrong...I agree with you, the stock price IS linked to Apple's performance. The stock price of AAPL (and most other tech stocks) has been down this week. Coincidentally, there have been lots of negative Apple stories this week. RSS is implemented wrong in one of their products, Privacy issues with iTunes and Intel on Mac is overhyped. However, for the last several months as I have watched my share value almost double I have seen positive story after story after story in the media about Apple (especially Slashdot).
...is this in any way related to the dip in stock price? It seems that when the stock is soaring, everyone is a fanboy. When the stock is tanking (as is much of the tech sector at the moment), there are many nay-sayers. This is funny to me. Kind of like, kicking the man while he is down.
...but doesn't this remind everyone of the Internet bubble? Every two seconds, a new "idea" or "product announcement" was released and it drove up stock price and the like. This went on for years until everyone realized that these companies with these ideas had no business plan for revenue whatsoever. What is Google's plan here? Are they going to become an ISP in urban markets? I am a little skeptical of all of their new products and services, especially in relation with their Stock Price.
...how else would this pr0n site know that it's copyrighted material was stolen? Google indexed it for them! Jez, I can smell the publicity stunt all over this one.
I still wouldn't call the feeling paranoia, I would call it lack of trust. I don't trust what they would do with that data. Do I mean that the company will purposely abuse the information? Not necessarily; someone within the organization may have the ability to compromise the data.
Its not that I am paranoid; however, I prefer to keep certain aspects of my life private. I wouldn't necessarily say that there are paranoid people on/. because everybody wears tin foil hats, I would say that most/. readers are in tune with current privacy and data issues and how irresponsible organizations are at protecting consumer data.
well, I suppose that you don't like sports games. Tiger Woods golf is an amazing game, as well as MVP Baseball, which is one of my favorite games thus far.
...technology. No wonder we have so many worms, viri and other malware proliferating on our networks. For some reason, this person RECOMMENDS NOT installing service packs and enabling the event viewer. Next thing you know, he will want my IP address just to download the document;)
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I saw this a few years ago when I was at Compaq/HP when the Blaster worm came out. One of the engineers wrote a worm that basically traversed the network and exploited every vulnerable Windows machine, only it disabled DCOM so that further exploitation was not possible by the Blaster Worm. The only problem was that corporate IT didn't bother to tell anyone what they did, so I spent a few hours troubleshooting an application that was broken until I figured out what had happened. Eventually an email went out...
Sometimes, I feel like security researchers are intentionally disclosing their new vulnerability information as close to the "Patch Tuesday" as possible in an attempt to force Microsoft to release an out of cycle patch. This time they were successful.
so all of the linux/OSX fanboys and start flaming Microsoft yet again. Sure, they have vulnerabilities in their product, so does everyone else. If anything, being the security professional that I am, Microsoft has made me MONEY over the last few years. BTW, I use linux ALL of the time.
...that when Apple was telling them that they were going to cease to use their PowerPC chips, IBM promptly outlaid their product roadmap and pointed this little factoid out. Reduced power consumption isn't the only benefit that Apple is gaining from the use of an Intel chip; how about economy of scale? Intel makes so many more chips due to their economy of scale that they can afford to sell them cheaper to their customers (Apple).
...on many online job searching sites you can set up "searches" which will examine all new postings for the criteria you desire and email them to you each day. This is a great way to casually search for opportunities. When you see one you are real interested in, you apply online. If they like you, you talk to them. If they are interested in bringing you in for an interview, you take a day or a half day off. No employer is going to deny your need for a physical or eye doctors appointment.
maybe I worded it wrong...I agree with you, the stock price IS linked to Apple's performance. The stock price of AAPL (and most other tech stocks) has been down this week. Coincidentally, there have been lots of negative Apple stories this week. RSS is implemented wrong in one of their products, Privacy issues with iTunes and Intel on Mac is overhyped. However, for the last several months as I have watched my share value almost double I have seen positive story after story after story in the media about Apple (especially Slashdot).
...is this in any way related to the dip in stock price? It seems that when the stock is soaring, everyone is a fanboy. When the stock is tanking (as is much of the tech sector at the moment), there are many nay-sayers. This is funny to me. Kind of like, kicking the man while he is down.
...but doesn't this remind everyone of the Internet bubble? Every two seconds, a new "idea" or "product announcement" was released and it drove up stock price and the like. This went on for years until everyone realized that these companies with these ideas had no business plan for revenue whatsoever. What is Google's plan here? Are they going to become an ISP in urban markets? I am a little skeptical of all of their new products and services, especially in relation with their Stock Price.
I try and throw that one out at work every now and again at work. Not everyone gets it either when I spit it out there.
...I heard they have that on computers now.
...how else would this pr0n site know that it's copyrighted material was stolen? Google indexed it for them! Jez, I can smell the publicity stunt all over this one.
I still wouldn't call the feeling paranoia, I would call it lack of trust. I don't trust what they would do with that data. Do I mean that the company will purposely abuse the information? Not necessarily; someone within the organization may have the ability to compromise the data.
Its not that I am paranoid; however, I prefer to keep certain aspects of my life private. I wouldn't necessarily say that there are paranoid people on /. because everybody wears tin foil hats, I would say that most /. readers are in tune with current privacy and data issues and how irresponsible organizations are at protecting consumer data.
...that Google is now going to start to associate a Gmail account with their mobile number? This can be abused...
well, I suppose that you don't like sports games. Tiger Woods golf is an amazing game, as well as MVP Baseball, which is one of my favorite games thus far.
...by me. I replied to the wrong post.
...technology. No wonder we have so many worms, viri and other malware proliferating on our networks. For some reason, this person RECOMMENDS NOT installing service packs and enabling the event viewer. Next thing you know, he will want my IP address just to download the document ;)