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logins-for-ftp-sites-offered-for-sale

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

According to Techworld, Finjan has discovered that logins for 8,700 FTP servers are for sale.

Using the Alexa.com domain ranking, Finjan found 10 of the top 100 domains in the database, 100 of the top 500 domains, and 50 of those between 500 and 1,000.
My reaction: FTP? Really? You've got to at least hope that it's SFTP.
The hacked servers could be used to distribute crimeware by injecting iframe tags into any webpage stored on the compromised FTP servers. Indeed the server accounts were themselves being traded by a web application able to rank and price them according to their Google page rank for re-sale to other criminals.
Fancy.

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If-you-steal-a-bunch-of-GPS-devices

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Wait for it....

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willingness-to-take-risk-a-learned-trait-corporate

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Cognitive Daily pointed me to an article about risk preferences and it's deceptive headline. The research is interesting to from two perspectives:

"With regard to willingness to take risks children are astonishingly similar to their parents," is how the Bonn economist Professor Armin Falk sums up the results. "This is not only true for the overall estimate, but also for the different categories. There are people, for example, for whom no mogul piste is too steep when skiing, but who invest their money in secure government bonds. An identical risk profile can often be found with their children."
From a corporate standpoint, it would seem to indicated that while a company (as represented by it's senior management and employees) may be very conservative in its investment strategy, it may be willing to take enormous risks in information security.

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more-on-sun-free-advice-for-jonathon

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I read the NY Times article on Jonathon Schwartz take-over at Sun. My concern is that Sun is going to the consumer market for an iPod-esque homerun product.

Mr. Schwartz contends that Java is the No. 1 driver of growth at Sun, ahead of Solaris, its operating system for corporate computers. "More teenagers recognize Java than they do Microsoft, because that is what they have in their pocket on their cellphone," he said in an interview on Tuesday. "Shame on me if I can't find a way to monetize that."

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end-of-an-era

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Western Union Telegrams

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