Better yet, they should block all the ports (135-139, 1025, 5000, and others, both ways) that are used by the thousands of Netsky, Bagle, and Sasser variants out there. Save Windows users from themselves. Also, they should keep a look-out for those pesky DDoS zombie hosts. Reverse-engineer the worms, find out which IRC host they're using, and block all access to those controlling IRC servers (this ain't too hard to do). Let the script kiddies cry in their parent's basement because their 5,000 zombies can't be reached.
Oh, and there should be some sort of waiver that a customer can ask for if they're running a Linux server or something that lets them use all those ports. This, of course, should be administered with a short computer competency test to weed out the fakers.
...they fired up Ettercap on a switch and watched the packets?
Network administrators in corporations have been doing that for many years now (at least where I work), although they tend to use it to debug and track down virii.
You can get a free Fresnel lens by doing a bit of dumpster diving. If anyone has thrown out a 50" projection TV, the lens is yours!
NOTE: This HAS happened; I am NOT being sarcastic. I took the Fresnel lens out from the trash and stuck it under my bed, wondering what I could do with it. Now I know! (perhaps I should just eBay it for $100)
Sometime back in 2002, a guy who worked for LeadClick (a spamhaus) downloaded a file called
"teen sex.mpg.scr"
(notice the extension) that turned out to be a backdoor. The screen shots are somewhere on Freenet (you have to download and run Freenet first).
What the screenshots reveal are, to say the least, scary. It turns out that an employee named "Greg" (greg@leadclick.com), who works as an e-mail harvesting database manager, also manages databases for SpamCop!
I kid you not. A spammer who works for SpamCop. I can't post links to the freesite (that's kinda pointless), but at least the incriminating screenshots are safe on Freenet.
I've heard of this program a couple of years ago. That, and there will always be the file-trading madness at nearly every LAN party. If the recording industry sees this as breaking news, no wonder they're losing the battle -- they're about 5 years behind the rest of the modern world.
I've heard arguments like this in films made back in 1957. They led to technological advances, and intense paranoia at the same time.
How about this: don't militarize, commercialize! After all, commercialization in the U.S. has been considerably more successful than militarization in Cuba. You can see that, can't you?
(On a side note, a guy watching Fox News told me he wanted our country [U.S.] to be more militant like China. I slapped him.)
Television channels usually take up 5 to 6 MHz, and even with the chroma, it only uses about 4. That 1 MHz could fit quite a bit of bandwidth.
But, as said above, DOCSIS is already doing it via cable transmissions. So "old news" indeed.
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...and no sympathy to the kids who release them. The vulnerability was shown well before the worm's release.
The fact is, this worm released relies on another worm that causes the computer to randomly shut down. Unlike the LSASS service, there is very little stability, therefore making it highly unlikely that a computer infected with the former worm will be hit by the latter.
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Too easy to use. So's an automatic car, and you see how popular those have become.
I don't like RPMs. SuSE comes with both binary and source RPMs.
The Professional version costs money. The downloadable Personal version doesn't
My hardware isn't detected. How do you know? There's no harm in trying!
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Better yet, they should block all the ports (135-139, 1025, 5000, and others, both ways) that are used by the thousands of Netsky, Bagle, and Sasser variants out there. Save Windows users from themselves. Also, they should keep a look-out for those pesky DDoS zombie hosts. Reverse-engineer the worms, find out which IRC host they're using, and block all access to those controlling IRC servers (this ain't too hard to do). Let the script kiddies cry in their parent's basement because their 5,000 zombies can't be reached.
Oh, and there should be some sort of waiver that a customer can ask for if they're running a Linux server or something that lets them use all those ports. This, of course, should be administered with a short computer competency test to weed out the fakers.
...they fired up Ettercap on a switch and watched the packets?
Network administrators in corporations have been doing that for many years now (at least where I work), although they tend to use it to debug and track down virii.
You can get a free Fresnel lens by doing a bit of dumpster diving. If anyone has thrown out a 50" projection TV, the lens is yours!
NOTE: This HAS happened; I am NOT being sarcastic. I took the Fresnel lens out from the trash and stuck it under my bed, wondering what I could do with it. Now I know! (perhaps I should just eBay it for $100)
All that needs to be said to naysayers of this proposal is: DOCSIS, DOCSIS, DOCSIS (a.k.a. cable modem technology).
Cable modems don't hurt analog cable television, and they've been using spare television bandwidth for over 5 years.
What the screenshots reveal are, to say the least, scary. It turns out that an employee named "Greg" (greg@leadclick.com), who works as an e-mail harvesting database manager, also manages databases for SpamCop!
I kid you not. A spammer who works for SpamCop. I can't post links to the freesite (that's kinda pointless), but at least the incriminating screenshots are safe on Freenet.
Actually, that's what Freenet and ENTROPY are meant to do.
Also, to those naysayers: try to keep up with the latest Freenet/ENTROPY builds.
I've heard of this program a couple of years ago. That, and there will always be the file-trading madness at nearly every LAN party. If the recording industry sees this as breaking news, no wonder they're losing the battle -- they're about 5 years behind the rest of the modern world.
I've heard arguments like this in films made back in 1957. They led to technological advances, and intense paranoia at the same time.
How about this: don't militarize, commercialize! After all, commercialization in the U.S. has been considerably more successful than militarization in Cuba. You can see that, can't you?
(On a side note, a guy watching Fox News told me he wanted our country [U.S.] to be more militant like China. I slapped him.)
Television channels usually take up 5 to 6 MHz, and even with the chroma, it only uses about 4. That 1 MHz could fit quite a bit of bandwidth. But, as said above, DOCSIS is already doing it via cable transmissions. So "old news" indeed.
...and no sympathy to the kids who release them. The vulnerability was shown well before the worm's release.
The fact is, this worm released relies on another worm that causes the computer to randomly shut down. Unlike the LSASS service, there is very little stability, therefore making it highly unlikely that a computer infected with the former worm will be hit by the latter.
So's an automatic car, and you see how popular those have become.
SuSE comes with both binary and source RPMs.
The downloadable Personal version doesn't
How do you know? There's no harm in trying!