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Comment Re:How do you even know it's abuse? (Score 1) 23

"Please scan my website at xxx.yyy.com for vulnerabilities and give me a list of what you found."

I think abuse means "Please scan this website that doesn't belong to me for vulnerabilityes and give me a list of what you found".

Of course. But the mere fact that the scan occurred doesn't tell you which of the two happened.

Actually we DO know which of the two happened in this case. Dr Johannes Ullrich / SANS has observed those probes against his own honeypots. If it was him behind the scans all along, the whole article would have been meaningless.

Comment Re:Duck-DuckGo (Score 1) 92

by neo00 (#60869418) Attached to: What is the best mobile web browser?
I wish had mod points. DuckDuckGo is my main browser on my Android phone. And it's great. I'm sick of getting ads everywhere just because I searched for something somewhere.
On the other hand I use FF on my personal and work computers. Even with FF, I use DDG as my main search engine.

Comment Re: But did he deliver? (Score 2) 267

by neo00 (#60364953) Attached to: Trump Fires TVA Chair, Cites Hiring of Foreign Workers

Donald Trump has reduced legal immigration by an estimated 49% (primarily the abusive student conversion - where you come as a student and then get forced into low paying jobs if you want to stay - H1B and worker visas)

You understand that the number of H1B visas has NOT changed under trump. It was 85k/year before him, and it's still 85k today. So how would reducing student conversion to H1B contribute to the reduction of legal immigration?

Submission + - Azure goes super-secure: Multi-factor authentication is borked (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by neo00
neo00 writes: Office 365 users in Europe, Asia, and Americas are impacted by a wide-spread outage causing users who have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled by default policy to be unable to login to Office 365 and other services reliant on Azure Active Directory. According to The Register:

"Microsoft confirmed that there were problems from 04:39 UTC with a subset of customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific experiencing "difficulties signing into Azure resources" such as the, er, little used Azure Active Directory, when Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled. Six hours later, and the problems are continuing. The Office 365 health status page has reported that: "Affected users may be unable to sign in using MFA" and Azure's own status page confirmed that there are "issues connecting to Azure resources" thanks to the borked MFA."

Official Azure status updates are published here

Comment Re:Where's the evidence? (Score 1) 465

by neo00 (#56442647) Attached to: Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday
I've literally provided a video from the press conference by the Pentagon's spokesperson, Dana White, with this exact statement quoted by those news sources. How on Earth is this news still possibly fake?

Now if you're questioning the truthfulness of the Pentagon's statement, that's fine. But then that's a completely different problem, not a fake news issue. The news outlets are merely quoting the Pentagon in this case.

I'm all for skepticism and critical thinking. That's great. But let's just not throw "fake news" right and left before at least some research.

Comment Median vs Average (Score 1) 67

This is a perfect example why a median should be used vs the average. Few extreme outliers significantly skew the average when most people make really small amount of money.

From the article:

* About 12% of hackers on HackerOne make $20,000 or more annually from bug bounties.
* Over 3% o bug hunters are making more than $100,000 per year.
* 1.1% are making over $350,000 annually.

Comment Re:They did not test AMD or ARM (Score 2) 269

Meltdown only impacts Intel processors. Meltdown can be thought to be a special case of Spectre that exploits an Intel-specific flaw that makes it simpler to execute the exploit.

Spectre, which is more of a generalized class of attacks, but more difficult to implement, impacts Intel, AMD, and ARM as per the original spectre paper. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectreattack.com%2Fspec..., from which I quote:

Hardware. We have empirically verified the vulnerability of several Intel processors to Spectre attacks, including Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake based processors. We have also verified the attack’s applicability to AMD Ryzen CPUs. Finally, we have also successfully mounted Spectre attacks on several Samsung and Qualcomm processors (which use an ARM architecture) found in popular mobile phones.

and

Unlike Meltdown, the Spectre attack works on non-Intel processors, including AMD and ARM processors. Furthermore, the KAISER patch [19], which has been widely applied as a mitigation to the Meltdown attack, does not protect against Spectre.

References:
Spectre https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectreattack.com%2Fspec...
Meltdown https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeltdownattack.com%2Fmel...

Comment Re:Do the right thing - stand against Trump's bigo (Score 1) 952

by neo00 (#53759511) Attached to: Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners
35% of Syrians [in the US] 25 years and older have a Bachelor's degree or more, compared to 24.4% of all Americans. *

Median Syrian-American family income is 58k/year, significantly higher than national median of 50k (2000 census numbers). *

Number of Syrian doctors: "A study published in Health Policy in 2007 analyzed the dynamics of international immigration patterns of physicians to the United States and found that Syria has a higher-than-expected physicians immigration rates. [4] In fact, Syria was the sixth country among the top eight countries which have a higher-than-expected rate and the second Arab country after Lebanon when adjusting for the population size". **

Sources:
* http://www.census.gov/prod/200...
** http://www.avicennajmed.com/ar...

Comment Re:Slashdot is clamping down (Score 1) 415

This article is another example of this: it's a forum for people to wail about how awful Trump will be, because they can see the future with perfect clarity.

This article did NOT mention anything about Trump. This is at least the third time I've see this comment copy-pasted on /., and the claims have been refuted by other commentators. At this point, you don't have anything new and this is just pure trolling. Go back to r/T_D or 4chan or wherever troll-land you came from.

Comment Re:A new golden age (Score 1) 324

... he doesn't realize that the world also has it's hands on the US's balls. Trade doesn't exist in a vacuum and playing chicken with the economy is not something to look forward to.

I wonder to what extent this is true, in context of this story. Given the fact that this money seems to be coming primarily from Saudi Arabia and, potentially, other unknown sources.

The money would come from a $100 billion investment fund that SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is setting up with Saudi Arabia's sovereign-wealth fund and other potential partners, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Src: http://www.foxbusiness.com/pol...

Comment Re:Softbank - Sprint & T-Mobile merger failure (Score 4, Insightful) 324

You're probably right. The de-regulation that Trump has been advocating for would potentially let the merger pass this time.

“We were talking about it, and then I said I’d like to celebrate his presidential job” because Trump will advocate deregulation, Son told reporters according to Bloomberg News.

There was a lot of speculation about that since the day after the election.

Comment Re:That can't be right (Score 1) 533

Unemployment numbers are a bit worse off today than they were when Obama took office, regardless of which measure you look at.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02...

What are you talking about?

Using your own reference, let's look at the numbers. Obama inauguration was on January 20, 2009. Here are the unemployment rates then and now:

Jan 09: (U1..U6) = 3.1%, 4.8%, 7.8%, 8.3%, 9.1%, 14.2%
Nov 16: (U1..U6) = 1.8%, 2.2%, 4.6%, 5.0%, 5.8%, 9.3%

So every one of the unemployment measures shows a significant decline since the day Obama took office.

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