Archive for January 22nd, 2007
Stupid warning labels… (PICTURES)

Some of these might not be real, but they’re still pretty funny!

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‘Storm Worm’ Virus hits computers around the world

Computer virus writers started to use raging European storms on Friday to attack thousands of computers in an unusual real-time assault, head of research at Finnish data security firm F-Secure told Reuters. It’s been sent to hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses globally, with the e-mail’s subject line saying “230 dead as storm batters Europe.”

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So where are all those millions of newly declassified documents?

“On 12/31/06, some 700 million pages of secret documents became declassified and public. This would seem a victory for freedom of information, but it is not so simple. Declassification is not the same as release.You still can’t rush down to the Nat’l Archives to check them out. In fact, it could be years before these public documents can be viewed.” — Washington Post Article

I don’t see why they don’t just digitize this stuff. They could make a whole department whose only job is to digitize or get rid of certain documents.

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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for Dummies

“Why do I need IDS? A network firewall will keep the bad guys off my network, right? And my anti-virus will recognize and get rid of any virus I might catch, right? And my password-protected access control will stop the office cleaner trawling through my network after I’ve gone home, right? So that’s it – I’m fully protected, right? WRONG!”

Nice way to start and article..

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