On 9/8/2011 4:01 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
Anybody want to guess what Sony's coffee/itsec ratio was?
Black-hat or White-hat? It took some nontrivial effort to create the
now infamous Sony rootkit...
Jeff
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On 7/28/2011 10:28 PM, Dave Paris wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/28/technology/government_hackers/
(This is part four of a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime)
On April 8, 2010, traffic to about 15% of
On 1/13/2011 8:13 PM, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
Because I'm talking out my ass here, I'll pose a question. Has there
been any study done on what data Chrome collects and passes along to Google?
How many places do you already more-or-less send your browsing history
(Google SafeBrowsing, McAfee
What if your cell/PDA/smartphone is locked w/a password?
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On 12/30/2010 9:37 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
Leon Walker, 33, is being charged under a state statute that prohibits
unlawful access to a computer system, program or network.
Hmm... does that actually cover cloud-based services? The
system/program/network provision is more about hacking
On 11/13/2010 10:34 AM, Shawn Merdinger wrote:
“Once individuals are identified, VSU hands responsibility over to
police. Users can face felony punishments, including a possible prison
sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $250,000 per
offense,” reports the
On 9/6/2010 10:26 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah wrote:
Date sent:Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:22:15 -0700
From: Tomas L. Byrnes t...@byrneit.net
I bet they're doing the Cabbage Patch @ Trend watching their competitors
make fools of themselves.
Hmmm.
Sorry for top-post, I'm relegated to webmail for the moment... :-(
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From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu
If I had a nickel for every ssh woodpecker we see, I could retire to a
bungalow
on a nice beach somewhere in the cheaper part of the Pacific Rim. If I counted
the ones
On 1/9/2010 1:18 PM, Randall M wrote:
Heading to Vegas Sunday, am I safe?
At least until you get there, yes :-)
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All quiet (load-wise) in the .edu front, faculty/staff/students cleared
out, and we were partly off the air for infrastructure changes to
accomodate a new construction project.
Our OTDR utilization, on the other hand, has gone through the roof :-)
Jeff
Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141182/Microsoft_denies_it_built_backdoor_in_Windows_7
Who needs a back door when the front door is a screen door? :-)
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RandallM wrote:
Unwanted spam is Apple trying to load Safari on my computer everyday
just because I have Itunes intstalled. That's spam. If I WANTED Safari
I would go get it and even ask for it!!
Or the latest Microsoft .NET update which installs an un-installable
Firefox extension so that
Steve Pirk wrote:
So, Microsoft has implemented a squid like server as part of their gateway
solution for office connections to the net. If done correctly, sould be
safe enough, no?
You didn't catch the bit about using all the local user's caches in the
common pool?
One nice big fat file
rac...@mcs.anl.gov wrote:
There was also the fun of setting a radio in specific places on the
main control panel and listen to the music it played. Somewhat
better than the printer banging away as you'd get actual tones to
play.
An AM radio in the vicinity of an IBM 360/30 and 360/40 would
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
Now taking bets whether this sucker waltzed onto the campus via a USB stick
rather than Internet. ;)
...and propagated from that point via some Active Directory One Big
Happy Family shared resource?
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Drsolly wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, David M Chess wrote:
But, but...! Perl is the One True Programming Langauge!
From:Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org
C or nothing!
Wimps. Just like
John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP wrote:
They've done so much to help online crime, why quit while they are behind.
On 2/6/09, Jim Murray j...@digitaldaemons.co.uk wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7874151.stm
Microsoft appears to now be encouraging users to run code directly
Jon Kibler wrote:
No surprise:
MCSE: Must Call Someone Experienced
Microsoft Claims as Substitute for Experience
Microsoft Certified Solitaire Expert.
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Two XSS's (youtube and googleapi) and flash. NORAD needs a new web
designer :-)
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Paul Ferguson wrote:
Somewhat ironic -- maybe they should call it ShamCity instead. :-)
I especially liked the Nigerian information technology firm with
specialisation in identity management and related solutions bit.
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Paul Ferguson wrote:
Today EstDomains, Inc (http://www.estdomains.com) is glad to introduce to
the internet-oriented community advanced software created especially for
browsing through the World Wide Web in order to detect corrupted and
potentially dangerous websites.
Well, they fscking
Gadi Evron wrote:
The original number is from some research in the 70s.
Yeah. Before the internet :-)
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Richard M. Smith wrote:
So under HA, a Web browser can only show ASCII text files. After all, HTML
itself is a programming language with intermingled code (ie., HTML tags) and
data (text).
Well, it's not *that* bad. HTML tags and other markup that affects the
layout is fine. Tables, forms,
Dave Nelson wrote:
IIRC Microsoft's reasoning for not shipping SP3 with a newer version was
that their license for flash only covered the older version that they
include in the update.
Does it reinstall the older ActiveX, the older plugin [e.g., Firefox],
or both?
Jeff
Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
OT but cool:
http://www.firstsounds.org/press/032708/index.php
Au Clair de la Lune - French folk song, back to 1860...
And the RIAA can't be far behind in shutting down that website :-)
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I received this little gem yesterday...
Jeff
-Registered and USDA/FDA apprvoved-
You're invited to purchase!
We are pleased that you were referred to us.
We would like to invite you to our special
website only available to existing customers.
As a referral we are extending this
Gadi Evron wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Larry Seltzer wrote:
I believe 24/7 covers it. Why the rest?
Why not just 24?
24 hours means 24 hours. 24 hours 7 days a week means all the time.
Reminds me of the old Steven Wright joke about the man walking up to a
convenience
silky wrote:
i'm australian and i would pronounce:
route: equally correct as 'rowt' or 'root'.
rout: always rowt
root: always root
router: always 'rowter'
routed: 'rowted: networking meaning, rooted: localised meaning:
stuffed || buggered || made love to ...
Then there's the Row, row, row
Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jordan Wiens wrote:
Now if anyone wants to gather some /real numbers/ showing Universities
are or aren't more of a problem, maybe we can stop making up guesses
one way or the other.
Universities are probably not any more OR less of a problem than any
Fergie wrote:
Researchers of Trend Micro have identified a network of more than 115 rogue
DNS servers that are used by a certain variant of TROJ_DNSCHANG. These DNS
servers exhibit interesting behavior.
I get timeouts trying to reference the URL, so I can't get the
details... but...
If
Michal Zalewski wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
Believe or not...
What, no bugs to fix?
Nah, there was a delay in certifying them in Vista, and they now have to
fix that first, ya know.
Jeff
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Gary Funck wrote (quoting newsfactor.com):
An additional line of defense is to disable JavaScript on untrusted
Web sites, he added.
This is becoming an increasingly useless step at the macro level -- a
trusted website. More and more websites are now allowing user
supplied javascript. If you
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