This is just speculation, but I believe a lot of these new warnings are the result of California's new law forcing disclosure of these events. I'd venture that it was probably happening before, but they just kept quiet about it. And if someone doesn't conduct business in California, you still won't know until it's too late.
On the other hand, some of these may be cases where the *potential* exists that someone accessed your data, but really didn't, but the company is covering it's ass.
Some of these attacks could be mitigated if these companies encrypted their backups before they go off-site (which they should already be doing anyway).
I tried reading up about this in the past and couldn't figure it out. Is this going to be big or just a flash in the pan? I mean is it worth it to bother putting down money for this or will it be something like Microsoft's Passport failure?
"...PlayOnline uses Port 25 to connect to a network (the same one that mail clients use), and that Optimum closed it off, for some reason."
Why would anyone pick port 25 to communicate with their game servers? For that matter, why would they pick anything under at least 1024? Am I missing something here? Is there some good reason to do it this way?
Here is the full text of the quote from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010129-7.html:
Q: Why did you decide not to challenge the Clinton pardon, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, on Marc Rich? First of all, I didn't agree with the decision. I would not have made that decision myself. But the ability for a president to make decisions is -- a decision on pardons, is inviolate, as far as I'm concerned. It's an important part of the office. I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. And that's why I made the decision.
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This is just speculation, but I believe a lot of these new warnings are the result of California's new law forcing disclosure of these events. I'd venture that it was probably happening before, but they just kept quiet about it. And if someone doesn't conduct business in California, you still won't know until it's too late.
On the other hand, some of these may be cases where the *potential* exists that someone accessed your data, but really didn't, but the company is covering it's ass.
Some of these attacks could be mitigated if these companies encrypted their backups before they go off-site (which they should already be doing anyway).
http://itconversations.com/ is a good place to start. Another one I listen to is http://www.binrev.com/radio/.
In addition to my above comment:
Plus, I think I'd rather double my storage space and burn both sides than make pretty eye-candy.
This has been done at least once before (something called Yamaha DiscT@2): http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/20020927/. This time though, the etching is not done on the burned side: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8847. I doubt it will take off, but I must admit it would be interesting to try out.
I tried reading up about this in the past and couldn't figure it out. Is this going to be big or just a flash in the pan? I mean is it worth it to bother putting down money for this or will it be something like Microsoft's Passport failure?
good point...and your explanation here is also helpful.
Thanks!
It was posted here a few months back.
I use http://www.no-ip.com/. They have an open source client that I use for a few FreeBSD servers.
Here is the full text of the quote from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010129-7 .html:
Q: Why did you decide not to challenge the Clinton pardon, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, on Marc Rich? First of all, I didn't agree with the decision. I would not have made that decision myself. But the ability for a president to make decisions is -- a decision on pardons, is inviolate, as far as I'm concerned. It's an important part of the office. I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. And that's why I made the decision.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/124424 8&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=172
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