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| | Another month, another flaw related to the historical US export restrictions on cryptography; this time in the form of LogJam. It hits SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 which supported reduced-strength DHE_EXPORT ciphersuites, restricted to primes no longer than 512 bits, meaning that a man-in-the-middle attack is possible to force the … |
| | You talk about emails coming, which ones? Have you deselcted the "Receive Occasional Community-related Email?" option in your member profile, for example? Are you subscribed to watch any particular threads? But, ultimately, if you want to leave us then as Dani points out above the proper link is there and …  |
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| | Go to your profile page and follow the links, you can delete your own account if that's what you want. |
| | The best advice I can offer you is that if your computer won't let you hear Susan Boyle sing then DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING and be very grateful indeed. I'll get me coat... |
| | While keen to point out that Microsoft's TechNet portal security was "in no way compromised" by the tactic, researchers with security outfit FireEye [discovered](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/05/hiding_in_plain_sigh.html) that [a well established China-based hacking campaign called Deputy Dog](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2013/09/operation-deputydog-zero-day-cve-2013-3893-attack-against-japanese-targets.html) had managed to create profiles and posts on TechNet that contained embedded Command and Control codes … |
 | Nope, all part of the conversation and an interesting one at that... |
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| | As any fan of the The Matrix trilogy of films will tell you, the Keymaker is a character in The Matrix Reloaded who has the keys to provide Neo access to the system mainframe and by so doing hopefully save Zion from the ongoing sentinel attack. In the movie, the … |
| | One of the great things about social media is the way that it utilises the wisdom of crowds. This concept is perhaps best known through Wikipedia, where user editing can often create some wildly inaccurate entries in the short term but over time these get corrected by the larger volume …  |
| | Re: Usernames I've been through a number of username phases in my online life. I started off as dwindera on a conferencing system in Europe (based on the same software as The Well) back in the late eighties because when I registered as dwinder (my name is Davey Winder) the first attempt …  |
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| | Can you please provide specific examples of the behaviour you mention. |
| | According to a [SecureList posting](https://securelist.com/blog/69462/darwin-nuke/) dated April 10th, researchers Anton Ivanov, Andrey Khudyakov, Maxim Zhuravlev and Andrey Rubin discovered a vulnerability in the Darwin kernel back in December 2014. Why is this of interest? Well, the Darwin kernel is an open source part of both the Apple operating systems. The … |
| | Advert blocking software is thought to be used by something in the region of just five per cent of online users, or 150 million people of you prefer. It is, however, on the up; research conducted by Adobe and anti-adblocking campaigners PageFair suggests that ad blocking use rose by 70 … |
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| | Re: shell scrpting OK, so you are studying for exams. Well done. Now explain what problems you are running into and show us the code you have so far. |
 | Actually, you've got the 'do what thou will' thing wrong Alan. It's from the Wiccan Rede (pagan) and the full motto is: an it harm none, do what ye will. I have it tattooed at the base of my neck/top of my chest. The 'an it harm none' part refers … |
| | I am currently looking for members of the DaniWeb community who deserve a little recognition for their participation here, the help they provide and the support they give to others. Yes, I'm talking about the Member of the Month interviews in the DaniWeb Digest, our community newsletter that goes out … |
| | Which 12 year old operating system which is still running on 11 million servers is about to die? Yep, that's the one: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 reaches 'end of life' status on July 14th. One of the longest running discussions on DaniWeb asks the question [Why does Windows XP refuse …  |
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| | In what has quite possibly been one of the longest periods between security problems being revealed and action being taken, the Virginia Board of Elections voted on Tuesday to remove the certification of more than 300 AVS WINVote touchscreen voting machines. The Virginia Information Technology Agency, and consultancy Pro V&V, … |
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 | It's an ask job, as far as I am aware. Which ones do you want gone and I'll do it now? |
| | In which case you have nobody but yourself to blame for the situation you find yourself in and, frankly, I have little sympathy for you. In the same way that I would have little sympathy for someone complaining about the broken foot they have, yet refuse to stop dropping concrete … |
| | According to the latest [Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report](http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/) all but four per cent of the security incidents analyzed by researchers could be accounted for by just nine basic attack types. That's pretty useful information for enterprise looking to prioritize their approach to security in terms of establishing a … |
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| | Security is, more often than not, a case of getting the basics right. This is certainly true of the cloud where the hyperbole surrounding insecurity far outweighs the actual risk in my opinion. Not that the cloud is an inherently secure place to store data, just that it poses similar … |
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| | It all started pretty well, with the announcement by Mozilla at the end of last month that the Firefox web browser would make the Internet a safer place by encrypting everything. That's everything, even those connections where the servers don't even support the HTTPS protocol. Developers of the Firefox browser … |
| | According to new research from Venafi, apparently some 74 percent of 'Forbes Global 2000 organizations' (or the big boys of business if you prefer) have yet to properly secure their public facing servers against the Heartbleed OpenSSL threat. That's a year after the thing broke for goodness sake! Venafi found … |
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| | Read [the rules](https://www.daniweb.com/community/rules) then try again. Here's a helpful hint: "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments"  |
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| | The "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments" [rule](https://www.daniweb.com/community/rules) kind of covers this, doesn't it? I mean, it's not like you are showing us any effort at all here, just asking for someone to send you a completed project. |
| | Re: CVs on DANIWEB Ordinarily I am more the peace-broker than the ball-breaker, but your attitude has pressed my rant button. Here it comes: So, by your extremely self-centred view of the universe, whenever a user requests a change to the system then Dani would immediately implement that without any discussion? If that's how … |
 | Us Internet old-timers (25+ years here) need to stick together. Welcome :) |
 | Yep, that's my recollection. Webmaster Marketplace was just full of people posting web hosting adverts, and many of them were very suspiciously templated posts that all looked the same with slightly different business names - obviously some affiliate thing happening. End result was that the forum became a pointless spam … |
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| | The Google Glass wearable computing 'enhanced reality' project got off the ground this week at the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this week. Around 6,000 developers were present to see a demonstration of the futuristic technology which integrates a small video-display suspended from the arm of the … |
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| | It's that time of year again, and the latest [Secunia Vulnerability Review](http://secunia.com/vr2015/) has been published. This analysed anonymous data gathered from scans right across 2014 of millions of computers which have Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) installed and revealed some interesting statistics. On average, the computers used by the people … |
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| | Then there are shows which are just advertising vehicles, such as Gadget Man (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gadget-man) here in the UK. Essentially, Richard Ayoade simply holds up or refers to a whole bunch of gadgets, around a very loose theme. Each gadget gets a few seconds of screen time, with a bubble giving … |
| | The recently revised Facebook community standards page states that the social network is on a mission "to give people the power to share and make the world more open" however it appears that it may have been giving the wrong people the power to share stuff you thought was private. …  |
| | I notice that diafol is a bit quiet this year when it comes to the Six Nations. Can't imagine why :) Saying that has probably just guaranteed a butt-kicking by Ireland for England now (actually don't mean that, think it will be a really tough and close game though). Ditto … |
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