Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread LRS Scout
Unfortunately your hands are tied to policy a lot of the time, and that takes months to go through certification and nonsense. On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Sam wrote: > > I'm guessing they were using old un-patched versions. It's way the > government does things. > > . > > > On Wed, Nov 20

Interesting solution to gerrymanding

2013-11-20 Thread Larry C. Lyons
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Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread Sam
I'm guessing they were using old un-patched versions. It's way the government does things. . On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Matt Blatchley wrote: > > I've ran across a few CF servers recently that don't bother to lock down > the CFAdmin in the Government sector, but Education sector is much

Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread Matt Blatchley
I've ran across a few CF servers recently that don't bother to lock down the CFAdmin in the Government sector, but Education sector is much worse. I can name a few that have even advertised positions on CF-Jobs recently that don't lock it down. Might be some new opportunities there :) On Wed, N

Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread LRS Scout
Funny, I just was n the site looking at docs and saw a new security message about locking down cfide. people still don't do that like BEFORE it goes online? On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Matt Blatchley wrote: > > I'd like to know what set of exploits they refer to using (obviously > they'r

Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread Matt Blatchley
I'd like to know what set of exploits they refer to using (obviously they're not going to say directly). Is it something known, where the Admin panel wasn't on lock down and they used something like the "h.cfm" for example), or is it something new due to the source code recently being taken from

Re: Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread Larry C. Lyons
More info: http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/fbi-blames-federal-hacks-on-anonymous-campaign/d/d-id/1112650 On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/11/16/anonymous_hackers_steal_sensitive_government_informa

Anonymous hackers steal sensitive government information.

2013-11-20 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/11/16/anonymous_hackers_steal_sensitive_government_information.html not good news for CF ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/

Why Regulate Bitcoin?

2013-11-20 Thread george.e...@ssa.gov george.e...@ssa.gov
Check out the first paragraph: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/why-regulate-bitcoin..html “We do not think that it is in anyone’s best interest for digital currency to become an offshore industry or an industry dominated by China,” said Jeremy Allaire, the founder