AFAIK, linux generally doesn't leave unsecure ports open by default. what happens if someone reinstalls XP at some point in the future - could MSBlast come back when all the fuss has died down?
I don't read a single second of usenet security groups, let alone 10 hours a week. SuSE YOU takes care of all that for me automatically.
I let YOU do updates automatically because I trust it, whereas I turn off Windows automatic updating because I don't. since when is Media Player 9 and IE6 a "critical" update? plus windows updates often require a restart, and many need to be applied one at a time.
once I did install IE6 to see what it was like and immediately there were another ~10 critical security updates that I required, so that was hardly a step forward for security imo.
I like the idea of linux, and MS pisses me off, but am too ignorant to be a true geek...
but it seems to me that there's no meaningful comparison between an individual linux system being specifically attacked (maybe not even remotely) and brought down... and... every single XP computer with internet connection being susceptible by default to MSBlast... ?
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code.
Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
Charney's comments come as the company highlights the rigour with which it tests its own products before release. Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market.
The company is employing root cause analysis and event sequence analysis procedures to scrub out the creation of sloppy code. The result is that individual developers have a high degree of accountability for the code they produce, while the systems and processes associated with code development are rigorously monitored.
Root cause analysis enables the company to check closely the work of individual developers. "If a developer has written vulnerable code, then we look at what else that developer has written and check it," Charney said
Event sequence analysis takes this further, analysing the reasons why the vulnerable code was written. Charney said it was not necessarily so they can sack whoever is writing vulnerable code, but find out the reasons why and how Microsoft improve their staff with training or more efficient processes.
As Charney made his remarks, Charles Sturt University announced they would be offering a Master of Information Systems Security degree including MCSE:Security industry certification.
Charney's also reinforced Microsoft's message to developers and network administrators that they needed to build secure applications and networks "from the ground up".
The chief security strategist's remarks have come at an unfortunate time, as mainstream and niche media outlets produce heavy coverage of the impact of the MSBlast worm, which has infiltrated corporate and enterprise networks worldwide.
"if ibm want to keep their info private then they should make sure it's encrypted to that others can't make any sense of the transmissions. thats alot more effective than trying to sue the listeners."
it's not about effectiveness, it's a new form of revenue for the 21st century.
3. If you currently subscribe to DirecTV, don't change a thing. A company official has testified that a sudden termination or change in service spells likely guilt in DirecTV's eyes, and a judge may see this logic.
omg what a great business model, sue people for cancelling service to prevent people who will quit because they don't like their business practices.
and wtf does "sudden" mean: "hello I'd like to stop subscibing, please phase out all my channels over the next 2 years"
IANAL, but imo this should be considered libel and whoever's bot it is should be sued.
the DMCA is terrible, but if it IS going to be enforced, it should be done so in a responsible way. if you want to send out violation warnings, then have them verified by a person.
BBC: Hidden inside the worm are two messages. One taunts Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and reads: "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"
why is this message "hidden"? why not have the worm install a desktop wallpaper saying this? and a picture humiliating him in some way?
British spelling makes use of a consistent prefix-stem-suffix system to build words.
this makes it possible to work out general meanings of words if you don't know the exact definition.
consider:
centre centripetal centrifuge --common stem "centr"
theatre theatrical --common stem "theatr"
the American spelling may seem simple, but it is very shallow. Individual words may be spelt more like how they sound (or seem to sound), but the relationships between words are lost.
consider the US spelling of "center" with the stem "cent"; this suggests a meaning to do with the number 100.
this is probably why the US comes up with retarded stuff like phonics?
posts like the parent are now just as obvious and predictable as the headlines.
even tertiary-level obviousness like this post are becoming cliche.
in the light of some questionable moderation, I suggest an option under the preferences tab to hide posts with noun-adjective combinations such as sky-blue, grass-green, water-wet etc.
the spiders are just like the ones in Minority Report - do as you're told and they'll be done in a few seconds, resist and it's corrective electroshock treatment time.
imo, the music and movie businesses would get a lot more respect if they had a more even distribution of wealth - industry's that pay individual stars many millions of pounds/dollars for a single film/album, then b!tch about filetraders seem ridiculous.
of course I don't condone serious bootlegging...... I'm thinking along the lines of "file sharing legal for non-commecial purposes"
a few clicks from the original story and you get to the following:
I live in the UK, but US computer users will be able to access the songs I share on file-swapping networks. Will the RIAA sue me?
No. The RIAA's UK equivalent, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), says this is a US action that is affecting only music downloaders in the US because international laws are different. The RIAA cannot take action against people outside the US.
Is the BPI planning to sue UK users?
It has said it will not rule out suing individual users, but that it would be a "last resort". The BPI says it is currently trying to educate people - including sending out leaflets to colleges and large business - to tell people where they can download music legally.
It also says using peer-to-peer services risks downloading viruses. But if the RIAA's actions are successful, a similar system could be on the cards for the UK.
and on other countries:
Are other music industry groups going to take similar action?
Four countries in Europe have already taken action - Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy, says the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). German police impounded computer equipment in April in the town of Furth that had been used to upload up to one million files. In Italy at least 75 actions have been taken.
Will legitimate online services ever rival the peer-to-peer sites?
The launch of the Apple system iTunes, where US users can choose from 200,000 songs at 99 cents a song has been a huge success, with more than five million songs downloaded in the first month. The system will be launched in Europe later this year. Microsoft are also in discussion with Universal, the world's biggest music group, about a similar system.
the whole thing is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/mu sic/302 2170.stm
1. work out the total number of spams 2. multiply by 1 hour to work out total time spent on spams 3. muliply by total value of company 4. sue spammers for this amount 5. profit
selling hardware at a loss to make money on software. a couple of years from now, will this be "a great strategy allowing MS to break into the highly competitive console market", or "a flawed business model MS arrogantly thought it could throw money at as with other markets" ???
Slashdot Mirror
every time you bang your head you become a mass murderer?
or would you say it's a multiple suicide?
either way, I'm definitely going to hell, right?
acehole did it funnier though - and the whole thing, not a cop-out:
here
how much anecdotal evidence for windows insecurities do you think we could come up with if we're going all the way back to 1998?
I don't think the point is that linux is 100% secure, just that it's much more secure than windows.
did you miss the "by default" part?
AFAIK, linux generally doesn't leave unsecure ports open by default. what happens if someone reinstalls XP at some point in the future - could MSBlast come back when all the fuss has died down?
I don't read a single second of usenet security groups, let alone 10 hours a week. SuSE YOU takes care of all that for me automatically.
I let YOU do updates automatically because I trust it, whereas I turn off Windows automatic updating because I don't. since when is Media Player 9 and IE6 a "critical" update? plus windows updates often require a restart, and many need to be applied one at a time.
once I did install IE6 to see what it was like and immediately there were another ~10 critical security updates that I required, so that was hardly a step forward for security imo.
I like the idea of linux, and MS pisses me off, but am too ignorant to be a true geek...
but it seems to me that there's no meaningful comparison between an individual linux system being specifically attacked (maybe not even remotely) and brought down... and... every single XP computer with internet connection being susceptible by default to MSBlast... ?
you claim there's no gloating when open source is hacked, but this is one of many gloats to this effect already posted.
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code.
Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
Charney's comments come as the company highlights the rigour with which it tests its own products before release. Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market.
The company is employing root cause analysis and event sequence analysis procedures to scrub out the creation of sloppy code. The result is that individual developers have a high degree of accountability for the code they produce, while the systems and processes associated with code development are rigorously monitored.
Root cause analysis enables the company to check closely the work of individual developers. "If a developer has written vulnerable code, then we look at what else that developer has written and check it," Charney said
Event sequence analysis takes this further, analysing the reasons why the vulnerable code was written. Charney said it was not necessarily so they can sack whoever is writing vulnerable code, but find out the reasons why and how Microsoft improve their staff with training or more efficient processes.
As Charney made his remarks, Charles Sturt University announced they would be offering a Master of Information Systems Security degree including MCSE:Security industry certification.
Charney's also reinforced Microsoft's message to developers and network administrators that they needed to build secure applications and networks "from the ground up".
The chief security strategist's remarks have come at an unfortunate time, as mainstream and niche media outlets produce heavy coverage of the impact of the MSBlast worm, which has infiltrated corporate and enterprise networks worldwide.
"if ibm want to keep their info private then they should make sure it's encrypted to that others can't make any sense of the transmissions. thats alot more effective than trying to sue the listeners."
it's not about effectiveness, it's a new form of revenue for the 21st century.
3. If you currently subscribe to DirecTV, don't change a thing. A company official has testified that a sudden termination or change in service spells likely guilt in DirecTV's eyes, and a judge may see this logic.
omg what a great business model, sue people for cancelling service to prevent people who will quit because they don't like their business practices.
and wtf does "sudden" mean:
"hello I'd like to stop subscibing, please phase out all my channels over the next 2 years"
agreed.
plus I like your sig. "boxen" isn't as bad a "utilize", but it's from the same school of idiocy.
this shouldn't be allowed.
IANAL, but imo this should be considered libel and whoever's bot it is should be sued.
the DMCA is terrible, but if it IS going to be enforced, it should be done so in a responsible way. if you want to send out violation warnings, then have them verified by a person.
BBC: Hidden inside the worm are two messages. One taunts Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and reads: "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"
why is this message "hidden"?
why not have the worm install a desktop wallpaper saying this? and a picture humiliating him in some way?
"What services can possibly be needed that have to open four ports to the world?"
spyware?
it threatens to remove support for SCO Unix, then says it won't.
what's the point?
British spelling makes use of a consistent prefix-stem-suffix system to build words.
this makes it possible to work out general meanings of words if you don't know the exact definition.
consider:
centre
centripetal
centrifuge
--common stem "centr"
theatre
theatrical
--common stem "theatr"
the American spelling may seem simple, but it is very shallow. Individual words may be spelt more like how they sound (or seem to sound), but the relationships between words are lost.
consider the US spelling of "center" with the stem "cent"; this suggests a meaning to do with the number 100.
this is probably why the US comes up with retarded stuff like phonics?
in UK it's illegal (IANAL) to ride a bike on pavement ("British sidewalk"), they're for roads.
Segways should not be on roads.
posts like the parent are now just as obvious and predictable as the headlines.
even tertiary-level obviousness like this post are becoming cliche.
in the light of some questionable moderation, I suggest an option under the preferences tab to hide posts with noun-adjective combinations such as sky-blue, grass-green, water-wet etc.
why should you have to prove that you DIDN'T enter into a contract?
if they're awkward, just shop them the laptop. look mom, no Windows!
if you don't buy music, why the hell is it called BuyMusic?
someone call trading standards.
the spiders are just like the ones in Minority Report - do as you're told and they'll be done in a few seconds, resist and it's corrective electroshock treatment time.
imo, the music and movie businesses would get a lot more respect if they had a more even distribution of wealth - industry's that pay individual stars many millions of pounds/dollars for a single film/album, then b!tch about filetraders seem ridiculous.
of course I don't condone serious bootlegging...... I'm thinking along the lines of "file sharing legal for non-commecial purposes"
a few clicks from the original story and you get to the following:
u sic/302 2170.stm
I live in the UK, but US computer users will be able to access the songs I share on file-swapping networks. Will the RIAA sue me?
No. The RIAA's UK equivalent, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), says this is a US action that is affecting only music downloaders in the US because international laws are different. The RIAA cannot take action against people outside the US.
Is the BPI planning to sue UK users?
It has said it will not rule out suing individual users, but that it would be a "last resort". The BPI says it is currently trying to educate people - including sending out leaflets to colleges and large business - to tell people where they can download music legally.
It also says using peer-to-peer services risks downloading viruses. But if the RIAA's actions are successful, a similar system could be on the cards for the UK.
and on other countries:
Are other music industry groups going to take similar action?
Four countries in Europe have already taken action - Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy, says the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). German police impounded computer equipment in April in the town of Furth that had been used to upload up to one million files. In Italy at least 75 actions have been taken.
Will legitimate online services ever rival the peer-to-peer sites?
The launch of the Apple system iTunes, where US users can choose from 200,000 songs at 99 cents a song has been a huge success, with more than five million songs downloaded in the first month. The system will be launched in Europe later this year. Microsoft are also in discussion with Universal, the world's biggest music group, about a similar system.
the whole thing is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/m
if it costs the same as a walkman........ WOOT !
The Smashing Pumpkins have copyright to the song "Zero" from 1995.
btw for those new to computers, the site linked to in the parent has a "Message Alert" box.
this is an advert, you do not have "1 message waiting for you"
Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick
cost estimation, i.e.
1. work out the total number of spams
2. multiply by 1 hour to work out total time spent on spams
3. muliply by total value of company
4. sue spammers for this amount
5. profit
A COMPLETE BUSINESS MODEL - NO ????? STAGE !!!!
selling hardware at a loss to make money on software. a couple of years from now, will this be "a great strategy allowing MS to break into the highly competitive console market", or "a flawed business model MS arrogantly thought it could throw money at as with other markets" ???