'There also is evidence that cyber crooks have deeply compromised some key Russian and Eastern European government agencies and corporations, as well as top officials at those entities'
The only evidence for such a statement is a map of alleged traffic coming from compromised machines. As to how they got compromised is anyone's guess. Under such logic, the management at Heartland Payment Systems ("HPY) must have also colluded when their credit card payment processing system was compromised for months without anyone noticing. The only other solution being that the underlying cyber-security-system wasn't up to the job.
'The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft received help from the National Security Agency in protecting the Vista operating system from worms and viruses'
No, cyber insecurity is the NSA's job, that is, getting hold of your secret communications.. Remember when they tapped into the main fibre link in that telco, here also. Another way of getting their hands on your data is to set up fake cyber security research consultancys who will come in and 'secure' your installation:) shoosh... NoSuch Agency...
Too late if they have chosen the intimidation route. What evidence to you have that such threats took place. What you should have done and well in advance of any falling-out is to. Keep a full record of your job performance reviews, emails or requests for information etc. Document any evidence of management bullying, tape conversations, phone calls etc. As far as possible, acquire any potentially embarrassing information on the company. Eg, who's incompetence lost a contract, who is paying for 'recreational' nights out on company expenses.
Well before you give your notice, ask for a reference for a 'bank loan'. Give minimal notice. Don't tell your current employer the name of your future employer. If they ask, lie. They have no business in contacting them anyway. Ask for a reference. If they refuse and make threats, then explain that you will have no option but to go before an employment tribunal and produce evidence such as I described above. If they then still refuse to give you a reference produce the 'bank reference' and ask them to explain the discrepancy...
What's good about exploiting a four & a half year old child to sell product and does she realize that she just indemnified MS against getting used by her end users..:)
"why the disproportionate number of women and black men on all the Ubuntu merchandising pages?"
Cause, it isn't disproportionate, it's irrelevant, Ubuntu is funded by Canonical Ltd and Mark Shuttleworth is a south African, there are lots of 'black' men and women in SA and - you are a total asshole, whatever your gender or skin tone..
"The threat from Apple is somewhat contained because OS X only runs on premium-priced Apple hardware"
I thought they recently produced an x86 version. Historically, if Apple opened up the OS and allowed third party hardware manufacturers to carry it, OS X would be on every desktop in every home and office across the planet.
Actually MS were supposed to write apps for the Apple GUI, next thing Apple found out Microsoft was selling it's own GUI on cheap clones in the far east. Apple sued them, Microsoft's defense was Apple stole the GUI from those Palo Alto guys..
Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is subject to a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other software and redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the license.
A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and products.
These firms do not bear the full costs of research and development for the software. Some of these firms may build upon Microsoft ideas that we provide to them free or at low royalties in connection with our interoperability initiatives. To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, our sales, revenue and operating margins may decline.
Open source software vendors are devoting considerable efforts to developing software that mimics the features and functionality of our products, in some cases on the basis of technical specifications for Microsoft technologies that we make available..
"a senior computer engineer discovered the virus Oct. 29. The malicious code was hidden after a blank page, and "it was only by chance" that the senior engineer scrolled down and found the virus.. An Internet Protocol address was eventually linked to Makwana's company-issued laptop"
Why didn't the 'computer monitoring system' detect him inserting the 'malicious script' and what kind of script hides after a 'blank page'?
"If this mode of operation were to come to the U.S.A. we should hope the ACLU and EFF challenge it"
I suspect you are correct as I suspect the real push for this all engulfing state surveillance apparatus is coming also from the US. You see in the interests of protecting the Core, our little democracy will have to be sacrificed.
"The criminals, who you really want to capture, are the very people who will take the trouble to know how to get around this, so although they will possibly leave digital footprints, it could be extremely difficult to find them"
Why do the government need to spy on us to protect us from the terr'ists? Clicking here may adversly affect your employment prospects, as well making any kind of public protest..
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"Without privacy, there cannot be freedom, and without freedom, there cannot be personal or social growth, freedom of speech without freedom of response is meaningless"
Not only that, when the story first 'broke', I tried emailing the AISD, they never heard of a 'Karen' involved in the alleged incident. The only source is on that blog...
"An American security consultant who stole hundreds of thousands of online bank passwords by employing a massive botnet that he often administered from work"
"Maybe they should also include info on how to get OpenOffice, Star Office.. Also along with Windows Media Player they should include VLC, iTunes, Divx"
Good idea, they should include all this software and the OEMs pay a percentage to the developers.
"Ok, I hate IE as much as any other self-respecting geek, but I also hate bloat"
Your life must be very circumspect if you have to expend energy hating a browser. Firefox comes in at about 70mgb, hardly going to take up much room and it isn't stealing process time in the background when it isn't running..
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"After the USSR went down, the NSA downsized"
No they didn't, security efforts were redeployed in industrial espionage, with the help of our own GCHQ
We must not allow a cybercrime gap, bring back the cold war is what I say ..
General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!
'There also is evidence that cyber crooks have deeply compromised some key Russian and Eastern European government agencies and corporations, as well as top officials at those entities'
The only evidence for such a statement is a map of alleged traffic coming from compromised machines. As to how they got compromised is anyone's guess. Under such logic, the management at Heartland Payment Systems ("HPY) must have also colluded when their credit card payment processing system was compromised for months without anyone noticing. The only other solution being that the underlying cyber-security-system wasn't up to the job.
'The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft received help from the National Security Agency in protecting the Vista operating system from worms and viruses'
No, cyber insecurity is the NSA's job, that is, getting hold of your secret communications.. Remember when they tapped into the main fibre link in that telco, here also. Another way of getting their hands on your data is to set up fake cyber security research consultancys who will come in and 'secure' your installation :) shoosh ... No Such Agency ...
The real solutions to Cyber Crime is to use a computer that don't get infected by malware.
Too late if they have chosen the intimidation route. What evidence to you have that such threats took place. What you should have done and well in advance of any falling-out is to. Keep a full record of your job performance reviews, emails or requests for information etc. Document any evidence of management bullying, tape conversations, phone calls etc. As far as possible, acquire any potentially embarrassing information on the company. Eg, who's incompetence lost a contract, who is paying for 'recreational' nights out on company expenses.
Well before you give your notice, ask for a reference for a 'bank loan'. Give minimal notice. Don't tell your current employer the name of your future employer. If they ask, lie. They have no business in contacting them anyway. Ask for a reference. If they refuse and make threats, then explain that you will have no option but to go before an employment tribunal and produce evidence such as I described above. If they then still refuse to give you a reference produce the 'bank reference' and ask them to explain the discrepancy ...
When are they going to use endorsements from TronGuy
"What an unnecessarily snarky summary"
.. :)
What's good about exploiting a four & a half year old child to sell product and does she realize that she just indemnified MS against getting used by her end users
"why the disproportionate number of women and black men on all the Ubuntu merchandising pages?"
..
Cause, it isn't disproportionate, it's irrelevant, Ubuntu is funded by Canonical Ltd and Mark Shuttleworth is a south African, there are lots of 'black' men and women in SA and - you are a total asshole, whatever your gender or skin tone
"The threat from Apple is somewhat contained because OS X only runs on premium-priced Apple hardware"
I thought they recently produced an x86 version. Historically, if Apple opened up the OS and allowed third party hardware manufacturers to carry it, OS X would be on every desktop in every home and office across the planet.
Actually MS were supposed to write apps for the Apple GUI, next thing Apple found out Microsoft was selling it's own GUI on cheap clones in the far east. Apple sued them, Microsoft's defense was Apple stole the GUI from those Palo Alto guys ..
Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is subject to a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other software and redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the license.
..
A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and products.
These firms do not bear the full costs of research and development for the software. Some of these firms may build upon Microsoft ideas that we provide to them free or at low royalties in connection with our interoperability initiatives. To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, our sales, revenue and operating margins may decline.
Open source software vendors are devoting considerable efforts to developing software that mimics the features and functionality of our products, in some cases on the basis of technical specifications for Microsoft technologies that we make available
"They fired him. And let him have some access before he left"
.. :)
Interesting, if a little overkill, but why is your interesting post modded flamebait, go figure
"a senior computer engineer discovered the virus Oct. 29. The malicious code was hidden after a blank page, and "it was only by chance" that the senior engineer scrolled down and found the virus .. An Internet Protocol address was eventually linked to Makwana's company-issued laptop"
Why didn't the 'computer monitoring system' detect him inserting the 'malicious script' and what kind of script hides after a 'blank page'?
"Russell Tice found dead by apparent "suicide" in his residence"
.. :)
Yea, would that be two gun shots to the head, as the first one didn't finish him off
"If this mode of operation were to come to the U.S.A. we should hope the ACLU and EFF challenge it"
I suspect you are correct as I suspect the real push for this all engulfing state surveillance apparatus is coming also from the US. You see in the interests of protecting the Core, our little democracy will have to be sacrificed.
"The criminals, who you really want to capture, are the very people who will take the trouble to know how to get around this, so although they will possibly leave digital footprints, it could be extremely difficult to find them"
..
Why do the government need to spy on us to protect us from the terr'ists? Clicking here may adversly affect your employment prospects, as well making any kind of public protest
--
"Without privacy, there cannot be freedom, and without freedom, there cannot be personal or social growth, freedom of speech without freedom of response is meaningless"
"Did you try the links in the summary?"
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Not only that, when the story first 'broke', I tried emailing the AISD, they never heard of a 'Karen' involved in the alleged incident. The only source is on that blog
"... where nothing of value was said"
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obviously of more interest to the editors than this
"A recent news story at the Reg discussed the case of a Texas teacher"
Citations please, does 'Karen' really exist, is this even true or just someone looking for hits to his blog.
"Beyond file associations, I doubt it uses any. Everything is stored in its preference system, which is stored in prefs.js"
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Not even that, with the Portable Apps version
"An American security consultant who stole hundreds of thousands of online bank passwords by employing a massive botnet that he often administered from work"
"Maybe they should also include info on how to get OpenOffice, Star Office .. Also along with Windows Media Player they should include VLC, iTunes, Divx"
Good idea, they should include all this software and the OEMs pay a percentage to the developers.
"Ok, I hate IE as much as any other self-respecting geek, but I also hate bloat"
..
Your life must be very circumspect if you have to expend energy hating a browser. Firefox comes in at about 70mgb, hardly going to take up much room and it isn't stealing process time in the background when it isn't running