Like its Windows counterparts, the Linux trojan is extremely stealthy. It can't be detected using the common netstat command. To conceal itself, the backdoor sits dormant until attackers send it unusually crafted packets that contain "magic numbers" in their sequence numbers
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Even a regular user with limited privileges can launch it, allowing it to intercept traffic and run commands on infected machines. Capabilities include the ability to communicate with servers under the control of attackers and functions allowing attackers to run commands of their choice and perform remote management.
Both of these statements cannot be true. Linux requires root privileges to listen on a port without opening it (essentially, packet dumping).
Let's be pragmatic. Kaspersky has no interest in there being a widespread view that Linux is less likely to be infected by malware than Windows.
Someone told him to ask me what was wrong, and what he could do to fix it, and I said "Concrats, you now own a very very fast 16-bit DOS machine. Enjoy DOOM".
It booted? Wow. The one time I accidentally did that to that class of processor, it blew apart -- very quickly.
Personally, I'm not sure that I need to be protected from this type of vertical monopoly given the strength of Toyota and Honda in the US. If the big three from Detroit don't treat me right, I'll just buy a Toyota.
Exactly. It's not that such rules were never required, but they are not required now. The current effect is not to protect consumers, but instead, to protect incumbent dealerships. Look at all the states that don't have such rules. The auto market hasn't imploded in those states.
Didn't the English have a room in London where *every*single*wire* coming into the country went through? Weren't they reading each and every cablegram coming in and going out?
That was in WWI.
1. That was a time of real war (not the phony "war on.." BS)
2. Only a tiny fraction of the population would have sent or received cablegrams.
Everyone has been spying on everyone for at least a couple of centuries.
No, they haven't. Yes, spying has been common for many centuries, but because of the size of the task, it had to be highly targetted. What's changed is the way data is collected which makes almost every person a target for spying.
My day job sees me working as a technicalish manager where I am the interface between the general staff and the development team. I may not be a developer but I understand enough to translate
The article takes some real information (Intel to be used in next gen Google Glass) and extrapolates it into "x86 to be used in next get Google Glass". But this seems to be a wild guess.
Perhaps if those webpages were not laden down with masses of Javascript, doing who knows what, the pages would be faster to load. All that Javascript has to be downloaded from a server somewhere and executed in the browser. It all takes resources.
Many website developers today seem to think that his/her web pages only need to load on the fastest computers as the sole page open in the browser. I think of them as "greedy" websites, because they are greedy with the end-users' compute resources.
As a consequence we still have emissions testing on everything back to 1967 when federal emissions first came into effect, but even still it's not hard to meet the rules for a given year.
Different states have different regulations. California, which has a climate that is very conducive to long-lasting cars (even in the Sierras, they don't use salt on the roads) only tests cars those built in 1975 or later. And there are 6 counties where vehicles registered in only certain zip codes are required to be tested. The rest are exempt.
What's going through their mind is this - we are politicians and regulators. We are in charge
Why are these same politicians and regulators trying to push through treaties with investor/state provisions that grant rights to companies that override local laws and regulations?
Linux security doesn't isolate process disk data from each other, anybody can read any part of the disk under the same user, which in practice is all apps a user use because they all run under the user's account.
What if the cast votes simply went to the system equivalent of/dev/null?
Flash memory systems (SD cards, Compact Flash, etc) never just die do they? That's never happened, ever, ever. Yeah, that's never happened to me, apart from all those times when... Really, we have nothing to worry about.
Sarcasm aside, with enough memory cards, it's going to happen to some. What's plan B?
his death was not prevented because of failures by British intelligence services....
Gah, I meant:
his death did not happen because of failures by British intelligence services, but instead, it happened because Facebook did not tell the UK intelligence services that it was going to happen.
According to the report on the death of Private Lee Rigby, his death was not prevented because of failures by British intelligence services, but instead, because Facebook did not tell the UK intelligence services what was going to happen.
If they expect Facebook to police postings on Facebook and inform the UK authorities, why do they need to tap into the cables? It's all money wasted.
The prosecutor decides what subjects the grand jury
investigates, and what witnesses and documents to subpoena. He
questions the witnesses. He advises the grand jury on the rele-
vance of the evidence, drafts the charges, advises the grand jury on
the law, and requests the grand jury to return an indictment.' 2 The
grand jury cannot return an indictment without the signature of the
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prosecutor.' 3 This power can easily be misused.
Looks to me like the grand jury can only get information that the prosecutor wants them to get.
Were the anti-virus and anti-malware companies simply unable to detect this, or were they complicit in its distribution (by not reporting its presence to users)?
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Does it improve the picture now that you have twisted cables?
Even the Spanish Inquisition regarded waterboarding as torture.
Both of these statements cannot be true. Linux requires root privileges to listen on a port without opening it (essentially, packet dumping).
Let's be pragmatic. Kaspersky has no interest in there being a widespread view that Linux is less likely to be infected by malware than Windows.
It booted? Wow. The one time I accidentally did that to that class of processor, it blew apart -- very quickly.
When was the last time you bought a PC with Windows in the USA? Install disks have not been included for several years.
Exactly. It's not that such rules were never required, but they are not required now. The current effect is not to protect consumers, but instead, to protect incumbent dealerships. Look at all the states that don't have such rules. The auto market hasn't imploded in those states.
Perhaps for the same reasons that allowed society to exit the feudal era? The current rules favor incumbents. The current rules are against progress.
Naturally. Those health care providers did not want any competition in selling their customers' data.
1. That was a time of real war (not the phony "war on .." BS)
2. Only a tiny fraction of the population would have sent or received cablegrams.
No, they haven't. Yes, spying has been common for many centuries, but because of the size of the task, it had to be highly targetted. What's changed is the way data is collected which makes almost every person a target for spying.
And the reason they did nothing about Cyril Smith? Would that be racism also?
Anyone who reads UK newspapers will know what the GP is talking about. This isn't Wikipedia, but here you go
... that are not North-South or East-West aligned?
Actually this is news from at least one year ago
You mean like this:
The article takes some real information (Intel to be used in next gen Google Glass) and extrapolates it into "x86 to be used in next get Google Glass". But this seems to be a wild guess.
Remember Intel makes ARM chips also.
Perhaps if those webpages were not laden down with masses of Javascript, doing who knows what, the pages would be faster to load. All that Javascript has to be downloaded from a server somewhere and executed in the browser. It all takes resources.
Many website developers today seem to think that his/her web pages only need to load on the fastest computers as the sole page open in the browser. I think of them as "greedy" websites, because they are greedy with the end-users' compute resources.
Different states have different regulations. California, which has a climate that is very conducive to long-lasting cars (even in the Sierras, they don't use salt on the roads) only tests cars those built in 1975 or later. And there are 6 counties where vehicles registered in only certain zip codes are required to be tested. The rest are exempt.
Why are these same politicians and regulators trying to push through treaties with investor/state provisions that grant rights to companies that override local laws and regulations?
Apparently you are not familiar with SELinux.
Flash memory systems (SD cards, Compact Flash, etc) never just die do they? That's never happened, ever, ever. Yeah, that's never happened to me, apart from all those times when ... Really, we have nothing to worry about.
Sarcasm aside, with enough memory cards, it's going to happen to some. What's plan B?
Gah, I meant:
his death did not happen because of failures by British intelligence services, but instead, it happened because Facebook did not tell the UK intelligence services that it was going to happen.
According to the report on the death of Private Lee Rigby, his death was not prevented because of failures by British intelligence services, but instead, because Facebook did not tell the UK intelligence services what was going to happen.
If they expect Facebook to police postings on Facebook and inform the UK authorities, why do they need to tap into the cables? It's all money wasted.
The Manchester "Baby" is also claimed to be the first true computer. Both Colossus and ENIAC are not full computers in the way we understand them now.
Are you sure about that?
Looks to me like the grand jury can only get information that the prosecutor wants them to get.
Were the anti-virus and anti-malware companies simply unable to detect this, or were they complicit in its distribution (by not reporting its presence to users)?