Access To Major Airport's Security System Offered on Dark Web for $10 (axios.com) 32
Researchers at McAfee found remote access to a major airport's security system available on the dark web for $10. From a report: The hacked access came from an online market for remote desktop protocol (RDP) accounts, which sell access to hacked accounts in all kinds of systems. "There's a lot of discussion about sophisticated nation-state attacks, but this was a really cheap way anyone could get access to something," Raj Samani, chief scientist at McAfee, told Axios. The RDP market isn't typically about purchasing access to systems to actually use the systems. Instead, buyers pay between $3 and $19 for access to machines based on bandwidth. Those systems are often used for their resources rather than their information.
$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there syst (Score:2)
$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there systems.
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$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there systems.
$10? For $5 I can tell about updating their systems.
WTH!! FTFY!
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Update of a simple typo is annoying and boring. "FTFY" is useful only when the meaning of the sentence is changed by the typo! Develop courtesy toward others. Lack of spelling is common to many genius brains, as well as non-native english writers.
Sheesh, people trying to increase their post count...
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For 5 dollars can we buy you spelling and grammar lessons?
Not too surprised (Score:3)
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Next up: Girls Gone Wild, Airport Edition. See topless teens as only millimeter-wave scanners can see them. See gregarious grandmas with guns. And everything in between.
The only way to prevent people from seeing naked pictures of yourself is to never allow them to be taken in the first place. This includes the scanners at the airport.
The economics are interesting (Score:3)
Here's what interests me. If this data is available for $10, then we're given a feel for how many customers are needed to buy it to make any serious cash.
Presuming that all the state actors buy the data (and I do so presume... if they don't, they're being really, really stupid), that's a couple hundred right there. Then there are corporations, perhaps... can't imagine there would be many taking the risk, but... and the individual crazies.
Doesn't seem all that economically beneficial to the seller.
Someone el
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Not sure if you're joking, but here goes:
If you don't distribute your software outside of your company (e.g. by publishing it on a webpage for the public to download, or selling it to some other companies), then you do not need to give away the source code. That is written in the GPL.
Anything compiled with GCC or clang compiler can still be kept under a closed-source license, you do not need to give the source code away.
Your lawyer is wrong.
Source: I am a lawyer.
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You are only obligated to give publish your code if you distribute to other people, for something in-house, you don't.
Well, I'm
Our civilization is a house of cards (Score:3)
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It is not news either. It is just becoming much more obvious in the Internet age.
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Actually, domestic fascists taking over the governments of the west are a far more serious threat.
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I was not talking about Trump.
Probably more than they spent on security (Score:3)
I do mean on effective security, not all that worthless "compliance" bullshit.