Posts by happygeek

Thanks, doesn't get any easier after twenty (plus) years but it stays as enjoyable which is the main thing I guess.

Viruses have not been much of a problem for years now. Malware and increasingly privilege escalation attacks, on the other hand, have.

As the title says, I'm just bigging myself up here but am stoked to have won the award for 'Best Investigative Feature of the Year' at the BT Information Security Journalism Awards in London yesterday. I'm particularly pleased as I beat off competition from BBC News, The Guardian and The Telegraph. That's the 8th year straight I have been shortlisted at the event, and the 8th award I've picked up there over the years since it started in 2006. Sadly it wasn't for something published on DaniWeb (although I have won the same award in the past for a news story which I broke here) but rather an InfoSecurity Magazine investigation into the value of vulnerability data.

Back to reality today, with a bunch of deadlines to meet...

No.

Have you done any research yourself?

Are you going to be asking us to do all your homework for you?

You might be forgiven for thinking that the iPhone is the most secure of the smartphone choices, especially if you've opted for a 5S or above with that fingerprint reader for secure ID and iOS 8 as the most robust of operating systems. Forgiven, but wrong; despite the claims from Apple that iOS is designed with advanced security technologies built in rather than bolted on. If you go by the results of the annual PWN2OWN hacking competition which was held in Tokyo last week, then iOS fell behind Android and to add to the jaw-dropping amongst many pundits Android in turn fell behind Windows Phone which proved the hardest to hack platform of all.

It's not been the best of months for Apple as far as iOS security reputation goes. First the security researchers disclosed the Masque Attack which has the potential to leave business users at risk. Essentially, this means that apps distributed using enterprise provisioning profiles are not subject to the normal Apple security review process roadblocks, and malicious apps can be installed over the top of (and replacing) genuine ones if they share the same bundle identifier. Apple has rather waved this off as a non-event, but if you read the FireEye disclosure report you will see that the company claims to be aware of in the wild attacks taking place.

And then came the Mobile PWN2OWN 2014 results, with a South Korean team managing to pwn the iPhone 5S by …

Simon180, you need to post your requirements over in the jobs forum rather than here please.

I am closing this thread, but will leave it visible and if you drop me a PM after posting in the jobs forum will pop a link in to that...

See your other question (shapna.patel.5) regarding this here, and my reply to it...

Depends if your site has links to or is involved with 'illegal' TV/movie content I would imagine. Otherwise, nothing much to see here...

Welcome, you appear to already have your photo up and showing.

Great, you can read your homework assignment nicely.

Now show us the code that you have created and where you are having problems with it.

We don't just provide you with homework cheating code here you know...

What Bob said. What is it with the number of folk who seem to be setting up as web designers/developers/seo specialists who know absolutely sweet FA about the subject?

Seriously, if you guys cannot even grasp the concept of Googling to get the information without posting to an industry forum where everyone can laugh at your ignorance and sheer brass balls then, frankly, the only place your business going is south and fast...

Indeed. The operation quoted took down hundreds of other dark markets sites as part of the remit, but it will still only be a drop in the ocean. Such is the nature of the beast. That said, it does show that there is effort being put into intelligence gathering and acting upon that gathered data.

What is the difference between a real question and a pointless post?

OK, and what problems are you having?

You need to be specific if you want people to help you. So, let's styart with from what version to which version and why can you not just do it?

Sigh, didn't take long for that new account to be banned.

Making threats of getting your friends to take down DaniWeb is another sign of your immaturity.

Probably a bit late now, don't you think, as that was from NINE MONTHS ago...

I'm beginning to understand why Malwaretips got fed up with you.

Your new account of RobertRAM is already going down the same route as the RobertHDD one.

I repeat, please cease and desist.

You are more than welcome to be part of the community and contribute, but do so within the rules and within the spirit of the DaniWeb community. Posting for the sake of it is not within that spirit. Please engage brain before pressing submit. Simple as.

Robert, I appreciate you are only 15 but some of your messages of late are more akin to a 10 year old. Please cease and decist with the juvenile nonsense...

You've caught me out cheating and spanked my bum in public

Welcome John

Blimey, the 'Top SEO Company in India' doesn't know how to Google. Whatever next...

Quick reminder of the rules:

Do not ask for help to pursue any illegal activity including, but not limited to, hacking and spamming

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has said that it has dealt a "major blow to dark web markets." In a statement issued on the 7th November the NCA says that a coordinated operation between law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US has "targeted market places for illegal commodities on the dark web" and as part of this six people in the UK were arrested.

Amongst those arrested in strikes closely coordinated with international partners in the US were the suspected administrators of Silk Road 2.0, the Tor accessed drugs and firearms market place. The NCA statement also claims that "significant vendors of illegal drugs through the dark web" were also arrested and that "technical infrastructure which is key to the hosting of illegal market places on the dark web" were taken down.

So what will the impact of this operation be? That's hard to say, not least because it has been a commonly held belief that Silk Road 2.0 was compromised from the get go following the takedown of the original Silk Road site and arrest of alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht who is said to have been the infamous Dread Pirate Roberts. At the time I said that "it would be a brave, or foolhardy, person who started trading in illegal goods using it" and that prediction appears to have been accurate.

Mind you, according to a report by security investigative journalist Brian Krebs it seems that plenty of dealers were …

Drinking lots of coffee. Went to bed at 11pm, awoken at 1am the mobile phone of my partner. Long story short, son-in-law taken to hospital in ambulance, drove partner over to look after sleeping granddaughter, have been at the kitchen table working since 2am. Boys to get to school in three hours.

Hence the coffee; lots of coffee...

American technology companies are by implication evil, and aiding terrorist groups such as Islamic State/ISIS according to a number of highly influential but terribly ill-informed Western players. Apple and Google have become the command and control networks of choice for terrorists and implementing full-device encryption by default will help Islamic State to plan future attacks, if we are to believe certain spy masters and career politicians.

I use the term 'terribly ill-informed' wisely, and am aware that I will no doubt get plenty of flack from those who think the head of the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) or Director of the FBI may just be better informed than myself when it comes to terrorist activity. However, I will stick to my guns and explain why I'm taking the stance that I am here.

But first let's examine what's been said an by whom. It kicked off with James B. Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who said in a speech last month that "those charged with protecting our people aren't always able to access the evidence we need to prosecute crime and prevent terrorism even with lawful authority." Comey spoke of having the legal authority to intercept and access communications and data, but often not the technical ability to do so. Excuse me for saying you could have fooled me, given the Snowden revelations and all that has followed regarding how security agencies are throwing money at technology programs for cracking …

Cool. I'm sure someone will be able to help once you have.

Privately? Nope, doesn't work like that. We help you, and that help then helps others. It's what community is all about.

So, post your code to show us what you've done already and tell us exactly where your problem is and someone may be able to help in forum.

Of course, your teacher will also be able to see the help you are getting...

Contact Microsoft support, assuming it's a genuine license and you are not trying to install a cracked copy. If you are doing the latter, then read the rules and understand we will not help you.

What errors are you getting? You need to be clear as the title says it is slow opening and the post says it cannot open, and it can't be both...

So, today is 'World Paper Free Day' apparently and I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to buy a card in the circumstances. Joking aside, what I am sure of is that such Hallmark days do provide an opportunity for press releases to be thrown in my general direction. And so it was that yesterday one pops into my inbox proclaiming "Paper revealed as the top threat to information security." What rot! Before even reading a word of the release itself I knew that it was going to be rubbish that, if it were on paper, I would screw into a ball and with an athletic flounce chuck into the bin. I was not wrong, and here's why.

"Paper the top threat to information security say two-thirds of UK firms. Iron Mountain/PwC study reveals just 15 per cent have a team focused specifically on paper protection" screams the strap line. "The handling of paper documents is the single greatest threat to the protection of information, according to a recent study by storage and information management company Iron Mountain and PwC launched ahead of World Paper Free Day on November 6th" it continues, before informing me that 66 per cent of mid-sized companies regard the management of information on paper as a serious security risk, and that's more than double the number that fear external threats to digital content such as hacking and malware.

Can you spot the two big problems there? The first is obvious, and that is this …

Searching back and reading through existing threads on DaniWeb covering exactly the same question is a better way of finding out than just going over old ground again, and again and again?

<sigh>

Try https://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/social-media-and-communities/tutorials/481463/understanding-social-media-optimization and https://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/social-media-and-communities/tutorials/443612/the-daniweb-guide-to-social-media-marketing-campaigns for starters, or

Thread closed to prevent yet another long queue of posts saying the same thing that I only have to delete as they add no value and just copy what has already been said...

Bumsfeld: Windows 10.1 will be 4 better than Windows 8.1 if you apply Microsoft maths.

do your own homework

only ask here once you've done some work yourself, show us the code and explain where you are getting stuck

Hello and welcome

EPoX went out of business a couple of years back so you cannot approach them, and a quick search of the usual suspects such as MOBOT has not returned anything other than a spec sheet here.

Sorry, looks like you are out of luck unless you can find a fellow owner who still has access to a manual.

Alternatively, what problems are you having that you need the manual to help with? It may be that DaniWeb members can help without the specific manual being required.

Welcome. You would be advised to ask about making multiple pages on a form through panels in the C# forum where our expert members who frequent that place will, I'm sure, be happy to help you.

This is just an introductions forum, so you won't get the technical help here.

Welcome. What kind of games do you have a hand in?

Sorry Jack, but you are too young to use DaniWeb in that case. So your account will be closed. Feel free to reapply when you are 13.

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A 15 year old Mazda Bongo Japanese import van. They started life as a MPV with 8 seats, but as the seats all fold flat to form a bed and there's an option for an automatic rising roof with room to sleep 2 more they became a popular camper van project. Mines currently a dayvan as it's a tintop (no raising roof) but will be getting a rear kitchen fitted over the winter, unless I convert it to LPG instead which will eat all my budget for the moment.

Camels?

Welcome to DaniWeb

Jack, probably best not to rant about spelling and then type "how do you secure you're network" when it should be "your network" don't you think? ;-)

Interesting info from new Proofpoint analysis of Russian cybercrime infrastructure

Windows XP clients comprised 52% of the infected systems in the cybercrime group’s botnet, even though recent estimates place the Windows XP install base at 20-30% of business and consumer personal computers.

Although based in New York, DaniWeb is very much a global community. I'm from England, for example, and our moderator Diafol (who will be well known to anyone who has ever browsed the PHP forum) is a Welshman through and through. I mention this as last week I went on a tour of IT security and military tech companies as the guest of the Welsh Government, who were keen to demonstrate how South Wales in particular has become something of a cyber-security cluster in the UK.

My trip was centred in Cardiff, best known to sci-fi geeks the world over as home to Doctor Who. The BBC has been filming there since the series returned to television in 2005, and the city is also where you can find the Doctor Who Experience exhibition until at least 2017. However, Cardiff is the Welsh capital and also sits at the lively beating heart of an IT Security hub in South Wales. The Welsh Government have made it very clear that the intention is to attract security start-ups and established players alike as part of a broader technology business strategy in the country. This aim can be extended beyond the entrepreneurial basics though; there's a will here to make South Wales one of the most secure places in the world to do business, through the building of cyber security skills and resources.

Cardiff is in the final stages of getting an Internet Exchange, one of only a …

Hmmm, seems OK now. Might have been at my end, but was only impacting on DaniWeb pages nothing else.

Anyone else experiencing lag of between 5 and 20 seconds when loading a new page? Started about 30 minutes ago for me, pages start to load and show the first couple of posts in a forum and then stall for a while as the browser waits for daniweb.com

Thanks for posting your homework assignment verbatim. Did you have a question relating to it, and some code to show us, or are you just a lazy chancer expecting someone else to do the whole thing for you?

<rubberman> Cain & Abel is a password cracking tool.

<Muhammad68> What was the point of that?

<chalobe.lefa> Please take note of the rules, especially the one that states: "Do not ask for help to pursue any illegal activity including, but not limited to, hacking and spamming" - please clarify your question bearing this rule very carefully in mind.