That's rather crude to assume they never were the leaders of something. The Mississippi Legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the curriculum in their public schools. Clearly they're a leader in the degradation of the American educational system..
Not to mention how many of our ISPs block inbound connections including ssh and http(s). They may build it, but we won't need it when it arrives.
Is that a problem in Europe? I've run a SSH server for over a year now along with a simple website for my IP address. I've never heard any complaints, any e-mails, etc. The most I would expect is for them to tell me to upgrade to a business account if I want to run services like that.
All of my posts are coming off as anti-linux, and I'm not. I've tried to push it but nobody moves on it.
In the place I work for, we tell users ALWAYS put your files on your network shares. We don't back up your data before we reimage it because you went to a website that is not work relevant or got a virus for plugging in your brothers thumb drive with virus embedded in U3. It's proven to work well here, and if they do tell me that they need something backed up, I pop in my Knoppix thumbdrive, back it up, and then reimage it.
I got a sneaking suspicion this guy has windows update completely disabled, and it still using XP with no service packs because he "can't trust" Microsoft updates.
Sounds like you've been reading too much of TheDailyWTF. I sound like a lying jackass right now because I can't provide an example, but once I get home I'll reply with one.
I really wish you would upload a sample someplace because I have never heard of anything like this. The last widely exploited image file based exploits that I know of was the ANI and WMF vulnerabilities, and those have been patched a while ago.
When I get home this evening I'll reply to this with it, I can't get onto the message board I found it in.
Except new holes and malware will keep appearing and the process will need to be done over and over. Add it all up and it's a lot of hours. In the long run it might be cheaper to switch OSs and retrain if that new OS is generally more secure and easier to harden up front.
Group policy scripts can have new hosts files downloaded and put in place, antivirus updates can patch holes, etc.
I'm 100% with trying to move Open Source, and I'm trying to push an Edubuntu lab in this district but it's a lot of work to apply it to the administrative systems.
Uhh, what? I have no idea what this "JPG exploit" your talking about is. Conflicker spreads through the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability, removable media, and shared folders; nothing to do with IE or jpegs.
I might be off on how it's spread, but I know of many other virus' that spread because of the JPG exploit. If I was at home I would dig up the sample image I have that if opened in IE it opens up a message box saying "Your browser is insecure!". Using the simple JavaScript that it does to make that message you can use it to open up popups to malicious webpages, offensive material, etc.
Solutions? Don't use IE. Use SpyBot Search & Destroy to harden the systems, use Firefox with Adblock+ and NoScript. Use an antivirus program that actually has a webguard, such as Avira.
Sounds like an awful lot of work. Maybe move to a different OS?
Ok, sure. It's a lot of work if you look at it in a simple fashion of throwing an Ubuntu CD at some user and saying "SUCK LESS THX"
How about the hours that go into training one or many users in a company on using that new OS? Compatibility problems? Setting up specialized software?
System hardening is more cost-effective decision versus switching OSes or having to clean up every computer that comes up with the problem. It takes about two hours at most to do it from scratch on one system image, then you can reimage as many computers that come up with the problem.
If people would stop downloading free_porn.jpg from 4chan, renaming it to free_porn.exe, and running it... we would not be having these problems.
If people would stop jumping to conclusions and assuming the answer is that simple, we would not be having these problems.
Who modded him insightful? This virus isn't spreading because of people doing something clearly shady, it's because Internet Explorer still has the JPG exploit unresolved. The user can simply view a webpage with a malicious image (which could just be a 1px whitespace) and it executes the malicious code. I've dealt with many computers in the past months since it surfaced.
Solutions? Don't use IE. Use SpyBot Search & Destroy to harden the systems, use Firefox with Adblock+ and NoScript. Use an antivirus program that actually has a webguard, such as Avira.
I won't even listen to a guitar player unless he/she mines the metal for the strings and hand-crafts them his/herself. I mean, really, BUYING strings that somebody else made?! It's so uncreative!
What if they are playing acoustic with nylon strings?
If this is the future of music, then the future is bleak indeed.
That bleak future is here when American Idol has the highest ratings and even the ones who get disqualified within one week of the premiere get record deals. Have you taken a stroll through the CD store and seen the mainstream music? It's almost as bad as Nickleback.
it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page.
Can anyone explain what the hell this means?
I'm guessing the writer thinks that the diet of the readers is Ramen, so we should go buy it at 10 cents per package with financing and work on some mashups? Last time I bought Ramen noodles it came to be less than $5, and most small places don't allow charges under that to be put on plastic.
I don't speak for most people, but I personally can't stand mashups. I don't find anything entertaining about it, there's maybe three I've heard out of all that have been good. It falls into the same group as artists like 50 cent taking "Crazy Train" and putting it into a song as background vocals or whoever did the same to "Riders on the storm."
These are of historical and educational interest only.
WEP is far from deprecated in the smaller community unfortunately. Old wireless cards don't support WPA/WPA2 and not everybody can afford to buy a new one (even for $30). Most WEP setups are put in by someone one time and never touched because the user doesn't know any better. I suppose it's better than having just an open network...
Well, a botnet is probably faster. By the time your article gets through the submission queue the target would probably have gone offline along with the sun burning out.
I usually make a point to also remove all shortcuts to IE except for one in the All Programs folder. It keeps the user from going with their natural response to click on the "E" and to instead click on the adorable fox cuddling the globe.
Their "justification" doesn't fly; not having criminal intent is not a defence against the law.
I'm sorry officer! My intent wasn't criminal when I broke into my neighbors house to see their renovation of their living room and watch a few episodes of Desperate Housewives on their HDTV! I was just curious, you see...
If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law.
Ok, so, I don't know much about the laws, but it is illegal, isn't it?
Regardless of intent it is illegal. They are gaining unauthorized access to someones PC and using it for their own personal gain. If I were to demonstrate how to crack someones WEP key in 5 minutes without the victim's explicit written permission it would be illegal, even if done just for "educational purposes." Sure, it's edgy reporting, but it is still highly illegal.
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Before someone mods you up...
I know sarcasm is rough to interpret with text, but that was my angle. Now it seems someone from Mississippi is modding us troll.
Mississippi a leader in something. Amazing.
That's rather crude to assume they never were the leaders of something. The Mississippi Legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the curriculum in their public schools. Clearly they're a leader in the degradation of the American educational system..
Not to mention how many of our ISPs block inbound connections including ssh and http(s). They may build it, but we won't need it when it arrives.
Is that a problem in Europe? I've run a SSH server for over a year now along with a simple website for my IP address. I've never heard any complaints, any e-mails, etc. The most I would expect is for them to tell me to upgrade to a business account if I want to run services like that.
All of my posts are coming off as anti-linux, and I'm not. I've tried to push it but nobody moves on it.
In the place I work for, we tell users ALWAYS put your files on your network shares. We don't back up your data before we reimage it because you went to a website that is not work relevant or got a virus for plugging in your brothers thumb drive with virus embedded in U3. It's proven to work well here, and if they do tell me that they need something backed up, I pop in my Knoppix thumbdrive, back it up, and then reimage it.
I got a sneaking suspicion this guy has windows update completely disabled, and it still using XP with no service packs because he "can't trust" Microsoft updates.
Sounds like you've been reading too much of TheDailyWTF. I sound like a lying jackass right now because I can't provide an example, but once I get home I'll reply with one.
I really wish you would upload a sample someplace because I have never heard of anything like this. The last widely exploited image file based exploits that I know of was the ANI and WMF vulnerabilities, and those have been patched a while ago.
When I get home this evening I'll reply to this with it, I can't get onto the message board I found it in.
Except new holes and malware will keep appearing and the process will need to be done over and over. Add it all up and it's a lot of hours. In the long run it might be cheaper to switch OSs and retrain if that new OS is generally more secure and easier to harden up front.
Group policy scripts can have new hosts files downloaded and put in place, antivirus updates can patch holes, etc.
I'm 100% with trying to move Open Source, and I'm trying to push an Edubuntu lab in this district but it's a lot of work to apply it to the administrative systems.
Uhh, what? I have no idea what this "JPG exploit" your talking about is. Conflicker spreads through the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability, removable media, and shared folders; nothing to do with IE or jpegs.
I might be off on how it's spread, but I know of many other virus' that spread because of the JPG exploit. If I was at home I would dig up the sample image I have that if opened in IE it opens up a message box saying "Your browser is insecure!". Using the simple JavaScript that it does to make that message you can use it to open up popups to malicious webpages, offensive material, etc.
Sounds like an awful lot of work. Maybe move to a different OS?
Ok, sure. It's a lot of work if you look at it in a simple fashion of throwing an Ubuntu CD at some user and saying "SUCK LESS THX"
How about the hours that go into training one or many users in a company on using that new OS? Compatibility problems? Setting up specialized software?
System hardening is more cost-effective decision versus switching OSes or having to clean up every computer that comes up with the problem. It takes about two hours at most to do it from scratch on one system image, then you can reimage as many computers that come up with the problem.
If people would stop downloading free_porn.jpg from 4chan, renaming it to free_porn.exe, and running it... we would not be having these problems.
If people would stop jumping to conclusions and assuming the answer is that simple, we would not be having these problems.
Who modded him insightful? This virus isn't spreading because of people doing something clearly shady, it's because Internet Explorer still has the JPG exploit unresolved. The user can simply view a webpage with a malicious image (which could just be a 1px whitespace) and it executes the malicious code. I've dealt with many computers in the past months since it surfaced.
Solutions? Don't use IE. Use SpyBot Search & Destroy to harden the systems, use Firefox with Adblock+ and NoScript. Use an antivirus program that actually has a webguard, such as Avira.
If I recall some rap artist also used "Riders on the Storm," I don't think he was the one I was referring to.
Greed is always going to overpower ambition, if not by the developers then the parent company.
I won't even listen to a guitar player unless he/she mines the metal for the strings and hand-crafts them his/herself. I mean, really, BUYING strings that somebody else made?! It's so uncreative!
What if they are playing acoustic with nylon strings?
They're popular. Indie fags can't stand that.
I'm feeding a troll.
I don't listen to Indie, in fact I usually listen to anything from Death Metal to Folk, but I can't stand Nickleback.
Creed.
They broke up. Scott Stapp will remain a piece of crap.
If this is the future of music, then the future is bleak indeed.
That bleak future is here when American Idol has the highest ratings and even the ones who get disqualified within one week of the premiere get record deals. Have you taken a stroll through the CD store and seen the mainstream music? It's almost as bad as Nickleback.
it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page.
Can anyone explain what the hell this means?
I'm guessing the writer thinks that the diet of the readers is Ramen, so we should go buy it at 10 cents per package with financing and work on some mashups? Last time I bought Ramen noodles it came to be less than $5, and most small places don't allow charges under that to be put on plastic.
I don't speak for most people, but I personally can't stand mashups. I don't find anything entertaining about it, there's maybe three I've heard out of all that have been good. It falls into the same group as artists like 50 cent taking "Crazy Train" and putting it into a song as background vocals or whoever did the same to "Riders on the storm."
In short, get off my lawn!
These are of historical and educational interest only.
WEP is far from deprecated in the smaller community unfortunately. Old wireless cards don't support WPA/WPA2 and not everybody can afford to buy a new one (even for $30). Most WEP setups are put in by someone one time and never touched because the user doesn't know any better. I suppose it's better than having just an open network...
when you can use slashdot!
Well, a botnet is probably faster. By the time your article gets through the submission queue the target would probably have gone offline along with the sun burning out.
I usually make a point to also remove all shortcuts to IE except for one in the All Programs folder. It keeps the user from going with their natural response to click on the "E" and to instead click on the adorable fox cuddling the globe.
Their "justification" doesn't fly; not having criminal intent is not a defence against the law.
I'm sorry officer! My intent wasn't criminal when I broke into my neighbors house to see their renovation of their living room and watch a few episodes of Desperate Housewives on their HDTV! I was just curious, you see...
If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law.
Ok, so, I don't know much about the laws, but it is illegal, isn't it?
Regardless of intent it is illegal. They are gaining unauthorized access to someones PC and using it for their own personal gain. If I were to demonstrate how to crack someones WEP key in 5 minutes without the victim's explicit written permission it would be illegal, even if done just for "educational purposes." Sure, it's edgy reporting, but it is still highly illegal.
I doubt anything will come of it though.
>> Speed is everything,
ORLY? http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
If you want multiple connections, try axel.