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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 06:44 PM EST |
Symantec backpedals
furiously
We encourage customers to be very aggressive in
deploying solutions that offer a combined approach to security. Anti-virus
software alone is not
enough.
The linked
NY Times article contains a lot more
background. My kneejerk reaction is the same as PJ's, that using MS Windows is a
system weak point. Which causes a
moment's reflection on this NYT
observation:
In the case of a 2011 breach at the United States
Chamber of Commerce, for instance, the trade group worked closely with the
F.B.I. to seal its systems, according to
chamber employees. But months later,
the chamber discovered that Internet-connected devices — a thermostat in one of
its corporate apartments and a printer in
its offices — were still
communicating with computers in China.
A printer yes, we know about
the many weaknesses in printer networking, but a thermostat? Connected to a
SCADA/HVAC running on which OS? We might speculate on the
reasons why the NYT
never mentioned OS weaknesses. They did reference attacks on Tibetan dissidents,
some of which are know to have occurred via spearphished acrobat reader
docs, java
applets, and MacOS trojans. At least NYT is now resigned to the
intruders
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 12:37 AM EST |
Newspick
Nearly all things that should have been
in the iPhone5.
That they weren't tells me Apple is over the
iPhone.
They have ceded the field to the market.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 01:35 AM EST |
I wonder if they'll keep him on life support so he can finish his sentence.
It would be interesting to see a ranking of crime versus sentence.
105 years hack facebook account
35 years copy public domain documents
25 years murder someone
5 years murder after having a drink
0 years steal billions
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