My Belgian bank (Dexia) has the same thing too. They used to rely on a password and some java crap in your home directory (which is relatively secure, unless you have a trojan), but now they switched to something made by Vasco, which is secure even if your box is compromised (an attacker would be able to see all your account data after you logged in, but you need to key in a newly generated code to confirm transactions).
An extra advantage is that it works on any platform, as it's basically a website, and the little device that generates the code isn't hooked to your computer.
That particular domain was basically taken over by the recording industry (the real story is longer), although I guess one could say that's organised crime too.
* There is no evidence that proves God doesn't exist. Until that is found your stipulation has no merit. There's no evidence that proves the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist either...
For example, it is clear that beating the living tar out of someone that just viciously beat and stole a purse from an old woman, is a very moral act. I have my doubts on this one...
Is your comment about IE for mac sarcasm? It might support transparent png's, but it has a whole bunch of other bugs in return. It's a good thing nobody uses it any more, as I wouldn't want to add that one to the list of browsers I need to test on...
The tag can be replaced by the tag (according to the w3c, I haven't tested browser support for this because I hardly ever need iframe-like stuff), which can be used to embed pretty much anything (even images, so we wouldn't even needed <img>).
Usually the w3c has solutions for all kinds of stuff, but one browser vendor decided to implement the same feature differently, and the rest decided to copy that implementation instead of listening to the w3c (that's why we have the <embed> tag, for instance).
2) What method did you use to get WinXP as a virtual machine? I've seen various different instructions for this out there, but just wanted to get an idea of what software someone used to do it successfully. I can't speak for the OP, but either Virtualbox or VMWare server/player work fine (they're both in the repositories). I'd recommend Virtualbox, because it's open source.
If you'd RTFA, you'd have read that you could pick multiple distro's. The question was 'which Linux distributions do you run in your organisation', and apparently lots of organisations run several different distro's, instead of standardising on one.
Every p2p network worth using can be used for this. You can even fix corrupt files this way, if you know the original hash and someone on the network has a copy of the file. Examples of this system are magnet links, ed2k links, metalinks and even torrents.
Wow, sounds a lot like the XXAA -- implant memories into individuals and create common experiences in society -- then charge for each access to recall those memories and experiences. I didn't know the GNAA charged people for access to Goatse...
I still think he's just trying to grab attention to drum up business. I'm not going to disagree with you on that. That's pretty much what most security researchers do;-). There are probably non-fearmongering security researchers, but they don't get headlines...
Anyway, not having a firewall doesn't make you unsafe automatically (as long as you have strong passwords, and everything is patched, and something like fail2ban is stopping bruteforce attempts, and you actually know what you're doing), but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of them were set up by clueless admins.
If you RTFA, you'll see he was able to identify the version of the server, and also the patch level (some of them weren't even patched against Slammer!).
nmap can tell you that kind of stuff, you know. Anyway, most of those servers are probably already compromised too. I've recently seen one try to spam a phpBB board (it ran sql server, IIS and some kind of ldap thing).
Oh, and the error message gives us a chance to find his homepage, where he seems to log everything happening in his house. It looks like he flushes his toilet a lot, lately.
Well, I was able to RTFA before it was slashdotted, and in it he said his MySQL server already had trouble keeping track of all the data. Adding a slashdotting to the mix probably didn't do the poor server any good (he's probably hosting it himself on a PIII attached to a DSL line or something).
It's just plain irresponsible of the submitter not to use the Coral cache...
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My Belgian bank (Dexia) has the same thing too. They used to rely on a password and some java crap in your home directory (which is relatively secure, unless you have a trojan), but now they switched to something made by Vasco, which is secure even if your box is compromised (an attacker would be able to see all your account data after you logged in, but you need to key in a newly generated code to confirm transactions).
An extra advantage is that it works on any platform, as it's basically a website, and the little device that generates the code isn't hooked to your computer.
That particular domain was basically taken over by the recording industry (the real story is longer), although I guess one could say that's organised crime too.
No. If it got modded overrated, it might be ironic, or at least a bit funny. But insightful? nah.
ignore this post, I accidentally modded parent overrated instead of funny, so I'll post to undo that.
Stupid ajax interface! Select boxes without confirmation buttons or an undo feature? Really?
Or just use openDNS.
In winecfg you can change the version of windows WINE should try to be (starting with Windows 2.0, and Vista is already in that list too).
...they didn't use this technique to generate huge crowds of servers.
http://www.osx86project.org/
Is your comment about IE for mac sarcasm? It might support transparent png's, but it has a whole bunch of other bugs in return. It's a good thing nobody uses it any more, as I wouldn't want to add that one to the list of browsers I need to test on...
The tag can be replaced by the tag (according to the w3c, I haven't tested browser support for this because I hardly ever need iframe-like stuff), which can be used to embed pretty much anything (even images, so we wouldn't even needed <img>).
Usually the w3c has solutions for all kinds of stuff, but one browser vendor decided to implement the same feature differently, and the rest decided to copy that implementation instead of listening to the w3c (that's why we have the <embed> tag, for instance).
Amazon has fanboys?
If you'd RTFA, you'd have read that you could pick multiple distro's. The question was 'which Linux distributions do you run in your organisation', and apparently lots of organisations run several different distro's, instead of standardising on one.
Every p2p network worth using can be used for this. You can even fix corrupt files this way, if you know the original hash and someone on the network has a copy of the file. Examples of this system are magnet links, ed2k links, metalinks and even torrents.
Rich people don't need to buy votes, they just need to bribe^Wgive campaign donations to the right candidate.
Anyway, not having a firewall doesn't make you unsafe automatically (as long as you have strong passwords, and everything is patched, and something like fail2ban is stopping bruteforce attempts, and you actually know what you're doing), but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of them were set up by clueless admins.
If you RTFA, you'll see he was able to identify the version of the server, and also the patch level (some of them weren't even patched against Slammer!).
nmap can tell you that kind of stuff, you know. Anyway, most of those servers are probably already compromised too. I've recently seen one try to spam a phpBB board (it ran sql server, IIS and some kind of ldap thing).
Oh, and the error message gives us a chance to find his homepage, where he seems to log everything happening in his house. It looks like he flushes his toilet a lot, lately.
Well, I was able to RTFA before it was slashdotted, and in it he said his MySQL server already had trouble keeping track of all the data. Adding a slashdotting to the mix probably didn't do the poor server any good (he's probably hosting it himself on a PIII attached to a DSL line or something).
It's just plain irresponsible of the submitter not to use the Coral cache...