"Dirty little secret"? Come on. 1994 called they want their oversubscription practices back.
ISPs and phone companies have been oversubscribing for years. Anyone who is surprised by this, and HASN'T been waiting for the other shoe to drop, hasn't been paying attention.
Negative. OWA does not push email to mobile devices. OWA may notify you if you have new mail, but only if you have OWA loaded in a browser window. That is not the same as pushing real-time email/contacts/calendar updates (ala - ActiveSync) down to the device.
Until competing devices have ActiveSync or the equivalent, Windows Mobile users/Exchange shops won't be interested.
I've had the Alpine iPod interface since 2004. I hope scrolling speed has improved. I don't know whether the interface is slow, or if it is the head unit (CDA-9820XM) but scrolling is torture-slow. That is my only complaint about it though.
Seriously, are you advising your customers to run without any antivirus solution in place AT ALL? What is your advice to them on service packs and regular software updates, firewall, etc?
"Safe internet practices" involve all of the above. And that's just for starters.
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I'm a security researcher, and I'm really quite angry at Microsoft's piss-poor handling of this. They couldn't have done much worse if they'd heard about the bug and then have let MSRC take Christmas off anyway.
I think what's almost as bad is Microsoft Security Advisory (912840) (Published: December 28, 2005 | Updated: January 3, 2006). The advisory is disingenuous at best. And just plain WRONG at worst.
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Mitigating Factors In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit a malicious Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade them to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker's Web site.
In an E-mail based attack involving the current exploit, customers would have to be persuaded to click on a link within a malicious e-mail or open an attachment that exploited the vulnerability. At this point, no attachment has been identified in which a user can be attacked simply by reading mail.
The second one especially. It was wrong then, and it is STILL WRONG. Any email program that displays html email and utilizes "auto-preview" renders the user infected before they even have time to blink.
CHEERS to Ilfak Guilfanov!! You saved a lot of asses today.
Condolences to the techs that have to wait for the "official" patch.
All good information above. I'd like to add that all of the headers that can be forged are all for human consumption anyway. Mail servers don't even look at them.
Cable providers also sell digital phone services over the same cable. Why then is this not a 'telecommunication service?' Phone companies investigated providing television style programming over the phone lines but the service proved too slow to carry the programming (DSL was born.)
Qwest is already doing FTTP (Fiber to the Premises) in Denver for voice, video, and data services to the RidgeGate community.
In Qwest territory, incoming calls with no number never ring here. They are given the opportunity to unblock their number, or to manually key it in. Either choice will let the call ring through.
I've only had the pleasure of one telemarketer bold enough to get through that and my "no solicitation warning". After I got them to give me their information I informed them that my number is on the Fed/State do not call list and I reported them.
It has only happened once. My phone is now forever dead quiet unless it is someone I actually want to talk to.
If there is a discrepancy, the computer spits out an automated request for clarification which is mailed to you. This is what makes it harder for the average individual to cheat.
Not quite. Ultimately, personal returns are matched up with the IRS' data about 2 years later. By a human.
If there is a discrepancy, this is when the automated notices start.
Maybe in the 80s and 90s yes. Or perhaps you are referring to Apple the record label.
I might buy the statement that Apple's core G5 market is creative professionals.
I don't believe movie makers and professional designers are buying up all those iMacs and Mac minis and iBooks. Creative professionals may have been Apple's focus previously, but that market was sewn up years ago.
I suspect Apple is more interested in the average home computer user, Mom and Pop, Gramp and Gran who for years have routinely thrown out their ancient (read 3 or more years old), spyware-laden, disposable Windows machines. For a lot of my average home customers (I work for an ISP) Apple has made it VERY easy for them to chuck the PC/CPU, keep everything else and slide in a Mac mini, a copy of OfficeMac and all of a sudden I never hear from them again. Funny how little technical support our Mac users need.
What does that have to do with the price of coffee?
I mean, really. Why would anyone buy Apple hardware to run Windows in the first place? Mac users that NEED to run Windows keep it in a Virtual PC window where it belongs.
Yeah here, publish my email addresses to the spammers so they REMOVE ME FROM THEIR LIST. These are my really real email addresses. Make sure these stay top secret, mKay?
If it works GOOD, next week I'll send you the list of Credit Card and Bank account numbers the Phishers aren't allowed to use too.
Thanks Uncle Sam, glad you are involved now. I'm sure a new Department of Email Security is on the way. I bet these spammers back off when they see our threat level at Mauve, or Taupe.
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Running a new pair (with commercial/telco-grade wire) from an INSIDE demarc is good advice if you've got questionable wiring and you know what you are doing and don't give yourself a zap.
However, running CAT5/lightning-rod from a garage to a house isn't advised.
Lets hope so.
If you are using POP3 and leaving it on the server (what I like to call POP4) you are going to see huge performance degradation after your mailbox gets past a hundred meg or so.
POP3 servers create a copy of the mailbox when you connect to them, the copy is removed when you are done. Those 2 steps take longer the larger the mailbox. I can't wait to see how long it takes with a 1GB mailbox.
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It has always come down to this.
This has been going on since Usenet.
Back then, discussion collapse was noted by the first occurence of the word Nazi.
...I'm sorry honey, its this damned open source mapping project again. I have to stop at Scores and then Deja Vu. We're doing a little data massaging. Yeah, that's it,...data massaging. Don't wait up.
Yes, they may be playing both sides of the game, but it works.
Security Screen, combined with Anonymous Call Rejection has completely blocked telemarketers from ringing my phone.
It is actually $2.95/mo in Minnesota, but 3 bucks to completely regain control of my phone is a small price to pay (in my opinion). I don't care who gets the money as long as the call gets blocked.
I told the Qwest sales rep when I ordered Security Screen that they should call it Extortion Scheme, but if it worked I wouldn't complain. So far, there are only tumbleweeds blowing through my phone circuit in the evening.
Postini got smart real quick and added virus notification options after the first wave of Sobig. You can change it to be notified once per day, or not at all when it traps a virus (instead of every single time).
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"Dirty little secret"? Come on. 1994 called they want their oversubscription practices back.
ISPs and phone companies have been oversubscribing for years. Anyone who is surprised by this, and HASN'T been waiting for the other shoe to drop, hasn't been paying attention.Sorry, that's not true either. OWA is entirely separate from ActiveSync and OMA. ActiveSync doesn't depend on/need OWA in the least.
Negative. OWA does not push email to mobile devices. OWA may notify you if you have new mail, but only if you have OWA loaded in a browser window. That is not the same as pushing real-time email/contacts/calendar updates (ala - ActiveSync) down to the device.
Until competing devices have ActiveSync or the equivalent, Windows Mobile users/Exchange shops won't be interested.
My translation may be a garbled mess as well.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Tucows is one of the most reputable registrars in the game.
I've had the Alpine iPod interface since 2004. I hope scrolling speed has improved. I don't know whether the interface is slow, or if it is the head unit (CDA-9820XM) but scrolling is torture-slow. That is my only complaint about it though.
Seriously, are you advising your customers to run without any antivirus solution in place AT ALL? What is your advice to them on service packs and regular software updates, firewall, etc?
"Safe internet practices" involve all of the above. And that's just for starters.
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I'm a security researcher, and I'm really quite angry at Microsoft's piss-poor handling of this. They couldn't have done much worse if they'd heard about the bug and then have let MSRC take Christmas off anyway.
I think what's almost as bad is Microsoft Security Advisory (912840) (Published: December 28, 2005 | Updated: January 3, 2006). The advisory is disingenuous at best. And just plain WRONG at worst.
Quote:
Mitigating Factors
In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit a malicious Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade them to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker's Web site.
In an E-mail based attack involving the current exploit, customers would have to be persuaded to click on a link within a malicious e-mail or open an attachment that exploited the vulnerability. At this point, no attachment has been identified in which a user can be attacked simply by reading mail.
The second one especially. It was wrong then, and it is STILL WRONG. Any email program that displays html email and utilizes "auto-preview" renders the user infected before they even have time to blink.
CHEERS to Ilfak Guilfanov!! You saved a lot of asses today.
Condolences to the techs that have to wait for the "official" patch.
All good information above. I'd like to add that all of the headers that can be forged are all for human consumption anyway. Mail servers don't even look at them.
Qwest is already doing FTTP (Fiber to the Premises) in Denver for voice, video, and data services to the RidgeGate community.
Any slashdot readers using this?
I've only had the pleasure of one telemarketer bold enough to get through that and my "no solicitation warning". After I got them to give me their information I informed them that my number is on the Fed/State do not call list and I reported them.
It has only happened once. My phone is now forever dead quiet unless it is someone I actually want to talk to.
Not quite. Ultimately, personal returns are matched up with the IRS' data about 2 years later. By a human.
If there is a discrepancy, this is when the automated notices start.
Maybe in the 80s and 90s yes. Or perhaps you are referring to Apple the record label.
I might buy the statement that Apple's core G5 market is creative professionals.
I don't believe movie makers and professional designers are buying up all those iMacs and Mac minis and iBooks. Creative professionals may have been Apple's focus previously, but that market was sewn up years ago.
I suspect Apple is more interested in the average home computer user, Mom and Pop, Gramp and Gran who for years have routinely thrown out their ancient (read 3 or more years old), spyware-laden, disposable Windows machines. For a lot of my average home customers (I work for an ISP) Apple has made it VERY easy for them to chuck the PC/CPU, keep everything else and slide in a Mac mini, a copy of OfficeMac and all of a sudden I never hear from them again. Funny how little technical support our Mac users need.
I mean, really. Why would anyone buy Apple hardware to run Windows in the first place? Mac users that NEED to run Windows keep it in a Virtual PC window where it belongs.
If it works GOOD, next week I'll send you the list of Credit Card and Bank account numbers the Phishers aren't allowed to use too.
Thanks Uncle Sam, glad you are involved now. I'm sure a new Department of Email Security is on the way. I bet these spammers back off when they see our threat level at Mauve, or Taupe.
Goes like this
However, running CAT5/lightning-rod from a garage to a house isn't advised.
Irregardless, the article is written to be user orientated. ;)
Lets hope so. If you are using POP3 and leaving it on the server (what I like to call POP4) you are going to see huge performance degradation after your mailbox gets past a hundred meg or so. POP3 servers create a copy of the mailbox when you connect to them, the copy is removed when you are done. Those 2 steps take longer the larger the mailbox. I can't wait to see how long it takes with a 1GB mailbox.
This has been going on since Usenet.
Back then, discussion collapse was noted by the first occurence of the word Nazi.
...I'm sorry honey, its this damned open source mapping project again. I have to stop at Scores and then Deja Vu. We're doing a little data massaging. Yeah, that's it, ...data massaging. Don't wait up.
I immediately pictured Dr. Evil raising his pinkie finger to his mouth and saying "340 billion billion billion billion addresses"
Security Screen, combined with Anonymous Call Rejection has completely blocked telemarketers from ringing my phone.
It is actually $2.95/mo in Minnesota, but 3 bucks to completely regain control of my phone is a small price to pay (in my opinion). I don't care who gets the money as long as the call gets blocked.
I told the Qwest sales rep when I ordered Security Screen that they should call it Extortion Scheme, but if it worked I wouldn't complain. So far, there are only tumbleweeds blowing through my phone circuit in the evening.
It definitely IS a problem with OpenSSH on Solaris if you are running anything prior to SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.7p1
God Bless Postini.