What I found interesting was this portion of the article:
Since 2001, the FTC has settled cases with Eli Lilly & Co., Microsoft Corp. and clothing maker Guess Inc. for not taking "reasonable" measures to keep medical or financial information secure, said Jessica Rich, assistant director of the commission's bureau of consumer protection. Letting customer information reside on an unsecure server can open up a business to such liability.
I, and I am sure many others, want to know just as much as SCO who wrote the virus.
If anyone learns anything, please pass it
along to the appropriate authorities.
We all pull together to support OSS so
let's not allow something like this cast a
shadow over our group. If anyone knows anything about who wrote the virus, pass the information along to the appropriate authorities.
Didn't they deny this long ago? According to an eWeek article, they did.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1398337,00.as p If they had a change of heart, I wonder if it would be as a result of one of their "backers?" Who recently had a go with Google and was spurned?
I know...speculation...just some thoughts that seemed strange at the time.
If it is true, then it really makes one ponder
the recent "attempt" to purchase Google by
Microsoft as well as the money that was given
SCO as "licensing" fees from the same.
All this is speculation and conjecture of course
but we do love conspiracy theories here at/. don't we?:)
MS,
Does bashing others progress you any further down the path of security? Or does it strengthen the argument that something virtually free is just as good as MS material or better?
Money wasted in the long run. They should be
concentrating on their own material. I think
they are losing focus of the whole argument.
I wonder if the thousands of individuals
who have their credit card number stolen yearly
can hold Gator liable?
I wonder if the software gives up your CCN
unwillingly?
Perhaps this is a question I should pose to the
legal crew at Gator/GAIN.
We try to respond as quickly as we can but with 1500+ PCs in our division/region and only 6 to 8 techs, it can be a daunting task.
It's very difficult to put a price on prevention, however, with recent exploits it's safe to "assume" that it could be relatively
high depending on impact and nature of the group/process.
I have a question: Do any of you get paid for patching time since most of it is after hours?
It would be nice if they actually had legitimate email marketing but they use so many misleading tactics: fake return email, selling email addresses, spybots, etc. The 90%+ bad marketers give the "decent" email marketers a bad reputation but that's the lot they fall into now. One bad apple may ruin the whole bunch but MANY bad apples is...well...bad business.
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article:
Since 2001, the FTC has settled cases with Eli
Lilly & Co., Microsoft Corp. and clothing maker
Guess Inc. for not taking "reasonable" measures
to keep medical or financial information
secure, said Jessica Rich, assistant
director of the commission's bureau of consumer
protection. Letting customer information
reside on an unsecure server can open
up a business to such liability.
The MSNBC article doesn't even mention the SCO
DoS portion of the virus.
MSNBC Article
I, and I am sure many others, want to know just
as much as SCO who wrote the virus.
If anyone learns anything, please pass it
along to the appropriate authorities.
We all pull together to support OSS so
let's not allow something like this cast a
shadow over our group. If anyone knows anything
about who wrote the virus, pass the
information along to the appropriate authorities.
Didn't they deny this long ago? According to an eWeek article, they did.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1398337,00.a
If they had a change of heart, I wonder if it
would be as a result of one of their "backers?"
Who recently had a go with Google and was spurned?
I know...speculation...just some thoughts that seemed
strange at the time.
Does anyone know if SCO is paying license to
MS for use of the FAT file system for this old
OS?
If it is true, then it really makes one ponder
the recent "attempt" to purchase Google by
Microsoft as well as the money that was given
SCO as "licensing" fees from the same.
All this is speculation and conjecture of course
but we do love conspiracy theories here at
That experience is all TOO familiar.
Sounds like SCO is following the Iraq WMD tactics.
They have yet to produce any Code of Mass Duplication.
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SCO: All your codes are belong to us.
MS,
Does bashing others progress you any further down
the path of security? Or does it strengthen
the argument that something virtually free
is just as good as MS material or better?
Money wasted in the long run. They should be
concentrating on their own material. I think
they are losing focus of the whole argument.
It takes a village to secure a MS server?
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I had a point when I started but I . . . what am I doing here again?
I wonder if the thousands of individuals
who have their credit card number stolen yearly
can hold Gator liable?
I wonder if the software gives up your CCN
unwillingly?
Perhaps this is a question I should pose to the
legal crew at Gator/GAIN.
We try to respond as quickly as we can but with
1500+ PCs in our division/region and
only 6 to 8 techs, it can be a daunting task.
It's very difficult to put a price on prevention,
however, with recent exploits it's safe
to "assume" that it could be relatively high depending
on impact and nature of the group/process.
I have a question: Do any of you get paid for patching time since most of it is after hours?
I'll cast the first vote: No
It would be nice if they actually had legitimate email marketing but they use so many misleading tactics: fake return email, selling email addresses, spybots, etc. The 90%+ bad marketers give the "decent" email marketers a bad reputation but that's the lot they fall into now. One bad apple may ruin the whole bunch but MANY bad apples is...well...bad business.
Sounds like they need a bit of "diversity training."
Nice point by point rebuttal.
;)
I especially liked Ed's argument about guns.
Isn't it widely known that they go after the
gun-makers?
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Free to choose.