I don't think some programs can cope with the speed. Bitdefender completes on-demand scans so quickly it's done scanning before the "scan started" popup bubble disappears

Ok so if I'm on the same network as someone with an infected computer, how do they infect my computer? Theoretically they can only access my shared drive right? Is it harder to infect a Mac? I'm guessing the leaked Sony emails were in a local Outlook archive?

I'm dying to know whether the SSD firmware is bare metal or is OS based. I'm pretty it is bare metal.

Regarding the speed improvement, yes for I/O bound OSs SSDs help a lot.

Interesting, is this a Windows app?

Laptops are stolen as a possible option too.
Someone told me (company gossip) there are listed prices for x company on the dark web.

If I were to have lost my laptop, there would be a private investigation to see if I had lost it and that part is 100% not gossip.

I just built a new PC a couple months ago, with an SSD, and it's definitely a great upgrade from the old Core2 duo system I was on. But everything is an upgrade, so it just blows my old PC away.




Well most of the non SE hacking that occurs is through web applications, specifically via SQL injection, so no firewall is going to prevent that as those web apps are running on open ports.


Regarding all the infected Sony computers, my guess is that the hackers compromised a Windows server running the Windows Server Update Services responsible for pushing out updates to all the clients, and pushed out the malware, but it's just a guess. I do think it's quite possible though.

I'm pretty excited for a volunteering project I'm just starting! I'm going to be testing a fairly new Malwarebytes program called Malwareytes Anti-Exploit with Metasploit! I'm going to be trying to get shells on an unpatched Win7 machine with nothing but MBAE with different modules and payloads and reporting the results. Should be a fun learning experience, and maybe I can help improve the software, which would be great cause I use it.

Just a free, light-weight anti-virus program. Scores very highly on detection and extremely low on system resource usage.

They are in my work computer, so I didn't pay for them.

I have consumer SSDs in all my personal systems, and they make a huge difference. However, this drive is like night and day. I have never seen Eclipse open so fast in my life!!!

Sorry, can't talk about system architecture. Pesky NDAs and everything...

*shudder*

Well it seems like they got in somehow and then took control of an Exchange server and some other servers internally that were probably weak on security. There are seriously terrible practices out there. Someone high up at Sony, CIO or so, was on the record saying he did not take security that seriously and he "wouldn't spend $10 million to prevent $1 million in losses due to security issues."

There is a solid chance they thought a server being only usable on the network was a level of security and tried to save money by not updating. I would expect applications running on no longer supported versions, maybe not even getting security updates anymore, and likely with known published vulnerabilities.

Code noob here

Is this code in java? http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...-code-1443231/

Thanks

Yes.

I started testing Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. I'm starting by testing Adobe Reader exploits., and I started with CVE-2010-0188 (Adobe Acrobat Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflow) which embeds a malicious .tiff image inside a .pdf. I've been using the exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_libtiff and exploit/windows/multi/handler Metasploit modules to test a meterpreter reverse TCP payload in the .pdf opening it with Adobe Reader 9.3.0 (don't use that version!) on an unpatched Windows XP SP2 VM. I successfully got a meterpreter shell, then ran three tests with MBAE and it blocked all three exploit attempts.

I wrote up a nice looking, professional report and submitted it and my results to the team. I have to write reports in uni over a lot of bull crap, so I figured I'd just take the initiative and write out good reports for my tests. Who knows, maybe some day it could lead to a job? I'm not really in it for that or expecting that though, I just like to learn and want to help out, and hacking is bloody fun!

I'm going to be trying different payloads in the next couple days, and I'm predicting MBAE has no problem with them, but we'll see.

Yeah I get that.

What are the thoughts on using modules in Ruby/Rails purely for code organization?

I'm writing payment calculation logic to run the calculations on what we need to pay our users. The logic is tightly coupled to a class that has associations connecting to all the types of work completed and the other things we need to pay them for.

There's a lot of methods as we want to document EVERYTHING and often in a few different formats (time expressed in minutes, 15 minute intervals, and hours rounded to the nearest quarter hour).

It seems like it would be nice to be able to isolate this stuff in one place, but it's entirely useless to any other class than the one it's coupled to.

First line:

import java.util.Arrays;

I like doing this but you need to be careful how you go about it. When an object get's bloated it's a sign that the object is taking on more responsibilities than it should. Using modules to organize your code makes it easy to ignore this bloat. Overall I think it's a big win for maintenance if you don't let it get out of control.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty excited about PostgreSQL 9.4. I'm looking forward to using jsonb.

Unfortunately, Archlinux is slipping. They don't have it available yet. Should I use pg_upgrade and hope for the best?

Sure, but I couldn't know for sure if it was java or not when I don't know any java. The language also looks a bit like c++, but I also only know a little bit of c++ so I couldn't be sure.

If I knew that "import java.util.Arrays;" gives it away that the code is java, then I wouldn't have asked the question.
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I rewrote the code to c++, just trying to learn c++ and also gain insigth into this algorithm.

I learned that c++ is different than java in that c++ functions can't return arrays. So that part had to be re-done. I've heard there's something similar you can do in c++ using pointers, but I haven't learned that yet.
Otherwise it seems java and c++ aren't really that different. I feel like I could learn java without to much work.
The code probably looks like mess to anyone who knows c++ or good coding practice.

It's here http://codepad.org/pSkk9i7T for anyone interested. If you want to use a regret minimizing strategy for the opponent, then just change line 62 to strategy instead of oppStrategy. You can also change the number of iterations in line 25 and the specific opponent strategy in line 8.

Next I'm gonna try Kuhn-poker using counterfactual regret minimization.

daveT,

I just installed this at work and thought of you since you said you only use the keyboard at work.
http://vimium.github.io

You probably are already using this though hah

I use the firefox version, and yes I love it.

To be pedantic, none of these are Java:

That is pretty pedantic.

A C++ genius that I have the upmost respect once wrote this to me, "using namespace std; is for idiots and should never be done" and to this day I admire him being so blunt. He never bothered to write a reason