It's only sexist because we allow it to be. If we got rid of the social stigmas behind the human body and embraced a more open and understanding concept of what is expected of both men and women in regard to sexual scenarios then we could probably work this out to a much more beneficial outcome. Sex sells. Instead of trying to make this into something negative and arguing about how horrible it is to objectify women, we should be trying to figure out why we do it in the first place and whether or not it's really even an issue. For all we know we could be midway through an evolutionary cycle meant to naturally limit our population. Just knee-jerk labeling stuff as bad and forcing our will upon society to adopt our views could very well destroy us as a race.
We've been preaching for years that physical access is an end game situation. Nothing new, and no I do not think this will help drive the point home any more thoroughly. Leaders (of both the political and corporate variety) will go on believing themselves safe because of elaborate and seemingly secure security implementations that fail because they gave data center keys to the janitor.
And don't forget that the research shop that discovered it is headed by a guy who is a vocal proponent of having an Internet Police and absolutely no anonymity. Don't get me wrong, Kaspersky is a really good malware research team with a really good product, but I stopped buying their products as soon as I heard the CEO make those ridiculous statements.
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I mean, it's a fine and commendable effort & all, but it's just bound to go WOOOOSH!!! to most citizens anyway. In fact, that goes for many of the cops too, I'd bet. Just leaving a letter talking about a screen door isn't really going to cut it for people who just expect to plug in a device and have it work perfectly automagically.
There was a guy I read about in one of those kooky FORBIDDEN SCIENCE books you have to order from the back page of a catalog that also sells spirit crystals, dream catchers and cheap swords. I didn't get to read the entire chapter on him, but he was utilizing a system of rods stuck into the ground hear trees to harness energy. It seemed to be pseudo-science of the most laughable sort at the time, but now, I dunno. He could have been on to something.
Who was doing the metrics monitoring? With a lapse in security that gaping, I'm very surprised that the linear test scores was discovered in the first place.
We do receive an alert at 80% utilization> it's just the fact that we only have ONE operator on each shift at night and there's always the chance that something could go wrong elsewhere and the message is missed. The powers that be have made this decision against the advice of our Sys Admin, so they know the risks. I hope.
I will ask him about adding volumes dynamically, but I'd gamble that's something he'd rather not do for whatever reason.
I'm pretty sure the person telling me this was a fucking MD and acting director of IT services for the non-profit health care org I work for.
Also, you're assuming that the only reason a doctor would need to see a record is when something goes wrong, but that's not the case. Records in this case could mean anything from treatment history to images. If you can't conceive of a situation where a surgeon would want imagery of what a patient looked like before they were cut open... uhhh...
Also, do you feel the same way about making system backups? I mean, I've done upgrades like this one a thousand times in my sleep, when I was sick and should have been in bed days ago. There's no way it'll fail this time, right? Na, no need to have a backup handy.
The example I was always given was to imagine being open on an operating table and the operating doctor needs to access your records to confirm something before proceeding and your records cannot be reached, so he sends a runner to obtain them, adding an extra 5 - 10 minutes to the procedure. time during which you're cut open and vulnerable to infection and blood loss. Not a fun scenario, but a very realistic one.
I'm currently inside a hospital data center and I can tell you that windows is behind the scenes of a lot of the systems we use. Everyone in "the know" thinks it sucks that the majority of the problems we encounter is because of borked hardware configurations in appliance machines or Windows servers. We are on mainframe (as of today, it's still the only way to get everyone's critical data to almost a dozen moajor sites at once with 99.9 uptime and I don't see us abandoning it anytime soon) and there is a god-damned Windows server that is only used to encode EDI transactions to the JES2 spooler that always crashes, causing the spool to fill up, endangering the entire system. It's a very serious problem as the only solution to it once JES is full is to IPL the system.
The server in question doesn't even show an error message. Well, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. you can stop and start the services all you like, but you're just wasting time as the JES2 spool gets bigger. The only solution is to reboot the Windows Server. It is redundantly mirrored, but we any of you with any sense will know that this does not make the situation any less frightening. The mirror is bound to be subject to the exact same problem, since it's software-related, which would put you back at square 1 in the event of a fail-over.
Don't even get me started about malware. Of course, all the workstations throughout the system are Windows systems. Those should not matter in case of a power outage or system-wide failure because we have downtime procedures in place, but let's face it, we'd be majorly crippled if we were to ever loose our entire network and it would likely impair our ability to serve customers. Although it shouldn't. So far we've been lucky.
Second, no where in the article does it stay how far into the reactor facility they got. Merely having access to the premises is a bad enough breech, but I highly doubt they got through to any really sensitive area where controls could be accessed. I'm pretty sure if I tried my luck getting into a number of any type of secure facilities, I'd eventually find success. This should not be surprising.
What a good idea it is, however, to have regular, random pen tests for all facilities like these. This is about the only thing this accomplished aside from scaring a bunch of people who were already frightened by the word "nuclear" and know absolutely nothing about physical security.
After all, those poor shareholders expected INFINITE GROWTH and the company failed to deliver. They should apologize.
Seriously though, just like the first poster said they already have the answer: sell your stock. But the greedy fucks keep on looking for more. They should get what they deserve when people finally start to realize (probably right after 8 launches) that they shouldn't have to constantly pay for an OS upgrade and Microsoft's software division finally tanks like they already should have.
Goes to show that when you're a truly great hacker, you can hack anything.
The previous article is about social engineering BTW.;D
I thought this was going to make me like Steve less, but it actually had the reverse effect. Funny how brilliant people are often like that; you begin disliking them, but later learn to view them in a completely different light.
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It's only sexist because we allow it to be. If we got rid of the social stigmas behind the human body and embraced a more open and understanding concept of what is expected of both men and women in regard to sexual scenarios then we could probably work this out to a much more beneficial outcome. Sex sells. Instead of trying to make this into something negative and arguing about how horrible it is to objectify women, we should be trying to figure out why we do it in the first place and whether or not it's really even an issue. For all we know we could be midway through an evolutionary cycle meant to naturally limit our population. Just knee-jerk labeling stuff as bad and forcing our will upon society to adopt our views could very well destroy us as a race.
We've been preaching for years that physical access is an end game situation. Nothing new, and no I do not think this will help drive the point home any more thoroughly. Leaders (of both the political and corporate variety) will go on believing themselves safe because of elaborate and seemingly secure security implementations that fail because they gave data center keys to the janitor.
But first he stopped to log into Facebook and holla at one of his shawties.
And don't forget that the research shop that discovered it is headed by a guy who is a vocal proponent of having an Internet Police and absolutely no anonymity. Don't get me wrong, Kaspersky is a really good malware research team with a really good product, but I stopped buying their products as soon as I heard the CEO make those ridiculous statements.
Hell yeah. Someone gets it!
If a Douglas MacArthur story shows up any time soon, I'm dumping everything outta The Crypt.
But we'll still end up doing it.
As a Dallas resident, I wish to gain membership in said company in the pursuit of obtaining henchmanship within a successful super-crime organization. Is there perhaps a website or RSS feed that I could subscribe to for more details.?
I figured out the algorithm. EVERYONE!
Thank you, now where is my money?
I mean, it's a fine and commendable effort & all, but it's just bound to go WOOOOSH!!! to most citizens anyway. In fact, that goes for many of the cops too, I'd bet. Just leaving a letter talking about a screen door isn't really going to cut it for people who just expect to plug in a device and have it work perfectly automagically.
There was a guy I read about in one of those kooky FORBIDDEN SCIENCE books you have to order from the back page of a catalog that also sells spirit crystals, dream catchers and cheap swords. I didn't get to read the entire chapter on him, but he was utilizing a system of rods stuck into the ground hear trees to harness energy. It seemed to be pseudo-science of the most laughable sort at the time, but now, I dunno. He could have been on to something.
Who was doing the metrics monitoring? With a lapse in security that gaping, I'm very surprised that the linear test scores was discovered in the first place.
I have a lot of heat coming from my rig. This oughta work fine on it!
Not gonna read that. I'll just do what the fuck I want to!
Give them those digital books from that new cyber textbook company, Finkle-McGraw Hill.
Well then, get back at me when you know something about computers, Doc.
We do receive an alert at 80% utilization> it's just the fact that we only have ONE operator on each shift at night and there's always the chance that something could go wrong elsewhere and the message is missed. The powers that be have made this decision against the advice of our Sys Admin, so they know the risks. I hope.
I will ask him about adding volumes dynamically, but I'd gamble that's something he'd rather not do for whatever reason.
I'm pretty sure the person telling me this was a fucking MD and acting director of IT services for the non-profit health care org I work for.
Also, you're assuming that the only reason a doctor would need to see a record is when something goes wrong, but that's not the case. Records in this case could mean anything from treatment history to images. If you can't conceive of a situation where a surgeon would want imagery of what a patient looked like before they were cut open... uhhh...
Also, do you feel the same way about making system backups? I mean, I've done upgrades like this one a thousand times in my sleep, when I was sick and should have been in bed days ago. There's no way it'll fail this time, right? Na, no need to have a backup handy.
The example I was always given was to imagine being open on an operating table and the operating doctor needs to access your records to confirm something before proceeding and your records cannot be reached, so he sends a runner to obtain them, adding an extra 5 - 10 minutes to the procedure. time during which you're cut open and vulnerable to infection and blood loss. Not a fun scenario, but a very realistic one.
I'm currently inside a hospital data center and I can tell you that windows is behind the scenes of a lot of the systems we use. Everyone in "the know" thinks it sucks that the majority of the problems we encounter is because of borked hardware configurations in appliance machines or Windows servers. We are on mainframe (as of today, it's still the only way to get everyone's critical data to almost a dozen moajor sites at once with 99.9 uptime and I don't see us abandoning it anytime soon) and there is a god-damned Windows server that is only used to encode EDI transactions to the JES2 spooler that always crashes, causing the spool to fill up, endangering the entire system. It's a very serious problem as the only solution to it once JES is full is to IPL the system.
The server in question doesn't even show an error message. Well, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. you can stop and start the services all you like, but you're just wasting time as the JES2 spool gets bigger. The only solution is to reboot the Windows Server. It is redundantly mirrored, but we any of you with any sense will know that this does not make the situation any less frightening. The mirror is bound to be subject to the exact same problem, since it's software-related, which would put you back at square 1 in the event of a fail-over.
Don't even get me started about malware. Of course, all the workstations throughout the system are Windows systems. Those should not matter in case of a power outage or system-wide failure because we have downtime procedures in place, but let's face it, we'd be majorly crippled if we were to ever loose our entire network and it would likely impair our ability to serve customers. Although it shouldn't. So far we've been lucky.
First of all, I hope they got irradiated.
Second, no where in the article does it stay how far into the reactor facility they got. Merely having access to the premises is a bad enough breech, but I highly doubt they got through to any really sensitive area where controls could be accessed. I'm pretty sure if I tried my luck getting into a number of any type of secure facilities, I'd eventually find success. This should not be surprising.
What a good idea it is, however, to have regular, random pen tests for all facilities like these. This is about the only thing this accomplished aside from scaring a bunch of people who were already frightened by the word "nuclear" and know absolutely nothing about physical security.
After all, those poor shareholders expected INFINITE GROWTH and the company failed to deliver. They should apologize.
Seriously though, just like the first poster said they already have the answer: sell your stock. But the greedy fucks keep on looking for more. They should get what they deserve when people finally start to realize (probably right after 8 launches) that they shouldn't have to constantly pay for an OS upgrade and Microsoft's software division finally tanks like they already should have.
It's not the lube. it's the condom. Get her on the pill if possible. Your sex life will never be the same.
Eat it. No, seriously.
Goes to show that when you're a truly great hacker, you can hack anything.
;D
The previous article is about social engineering BTW.
I thought this was going to make me like Steve less, but it actually had the reverse effect. Funny how brilliant people are often like that; you begin disliking them, but later learn to view them in a completely different light.