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Now now. I'm not a fan of Hillary or Trump either but I think I have to draw the line at a day or two.
How about being forced to listen to 24x7 Clinton and Trump campaign speeches alternating on a loop.
I would say about a week, but I would think those scum would sink into insanity after about 6 hours when their brains start dribbling out their ears.
Seems to me the solution is not giving blanket write access to the plebes in your office.
You could send fake phishing emails to all employees at random intervals, and anyone dumb enough to execute the attachment gets locked out of everything important.
Quickly, before the attackers encrypt the dilithium crystals!
Since "most of these arrive via the inbox", it might seem logical that an office system would run a virtual OS specifically for email and sending / receiving attachments. It could be a cookie-cutter installation with access only to its own filesystem. If compromised, it could simply be blown away and replaced with a new one from template. An attacker could not -- without hacking the hypervisor as well as the OS -- get to system files, let alone the rest of the network.
Yes, it's still possible to hack through the hypervisor etc. But security is never about absolutes. It's always about raising the difficulty high enough to make hackers look elsewhere. Make the hackers' dev work too hard, too much effort for the probable return on investment.
And yes again, it would make office tasks quite a bit more complicated. Files would have to be shuffled through safe-zones and mandatory malware detection.
Is the extra trouble worth not having your company's highly lucrative stock-trading database encrypted?
Re: Virtualize our OS, Captain!
That's basically what Bromium do.
It's a clever thing with micro-VMs that are destroyed at the end of a session.
Re: Virtualize our OS, Captain! With Bromium!
Interesting, thanks for the heads-up.
Most of the material on the Bromium website is heavy on advertising claims and low on tech specs. But from what I can gather, it sounds like they're offering application-specific "micro-VMs", which is certainly one approach. Browser-in-the-Box, of course, uses something like that. When on Ubuntu, I use FireJail -- another methodology, but with similar aims.
Certainly a step up from straight Windows, and a running battle to blacklist malicious attachments based on extension or heuristics.
I can take the marketing bullet for the content on the website, but don't let that frustrate you.
Probably the coolest thing we have is the Ransomware video on our YouTube channel that shows how we contain the malware and if you are so inclined - let it run with no threat to the network. We are an enterprise security platform but our customers have launched more than one billion micro-VMs and no one has reported a breach. That's all over the world with defense-grade protection. It's worth kicking our tires and checking out what we do. Our customers report with Bromium, they relax because their end users are no longer their constant headache and they gain intelligence that helps them prove value to their execs.
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DUDHAULI, Nepal – Hundreds of former child soldiers who once fought for Nepal's Maoist rebels will finally be released from the U.N.-monitored detention camps they have called home for the past three years to begin new lives as civilians.
Rather than joy at escaping the watch of the armed guards who monitor the barbed wire-lined fences of the camps, many of the young fighters were upset Wednesday at the thought of having to turn in their green camouflage uniforms and leave their comrades behind.
"They are all very emotional at having to leave the camps, but they all realize it is something that is necessary to keep the peace process alive," said Gopal Pandey, the deputy commander of a camp in Dudhauli, about 125 miles southwest of Katmandu.
Nearly 20,000 former rebel fighters — formally known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) — have lived in seven main camps since 2006, when they gave up their 10-year armed rebellion to join a peace process and enter mainstream politics. U.N. monitors found that 2,975 of the fighters were under 18.
As part of the peace process, the rebels were supposed to be integrated into Nepal's military. But the army chief's refusal to do so has led to a political scandal in which the Maoists — who won the most seats in elections last year — resigned from the government.
The process of releasing the child soldiers — who were never going to be enrolled in the national army — is going forward, however, starting with 371 of the former fighters at the Dudhauli camp who were being released Thursday.
The young former rebels have been issued special identification cards that will allow them to go to school or college, take up vocational training or start businesses with the help of government and U.N. agencies.
Still, not all were happy about giving up the life of a soldier.
"I have no idea why I am made to leave the camp," said Ratan Rai, a babyfaced former soldier who was scheduled for release.
He claimed that he was 23 and had never been a child soldier. He questioned why soldiers below his age were allowed to serve in the national army.
A discerning thief broke into a Chester County bookstore over the weekend and made off with some rare and valuable books, authorities said.
Among the items stolen was a Franklin Press limited edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, valued at $150, said Fred Dannaway, assistant manager at Baldwin’s Book Barn.
The thief took at least 20 books from a case in the front of the store on Lenape Road in East Bradford Township, Dannaway said.
“It was apparent they knew what they wanted," he said. Oddly, he added, the burglar didn’t touch any money in the register and left behind some expensive books displayed on a center counter.
The thief struck with precision, likely under cover of darkness. When Dannaway arrived to open the rare book store on Sunday morning, he found the front door window shattered and the inside lock unlatched.
Store employees, along with West Chester police, are working to determine all that was stolen. Dannaway said the store doesn’t have a catalog of its inventory, which includes more than 200,000 used and rare books, as well as art and antiques.
In the 17 years he has worked at the store, Dannaway said, it had never been burglarized, although people have tried to shoplift.
The five-story barn and storefront used to have a motion-activated security system, but it has been turned off for a while because the store’s cats were regularly setting it off, Dannaway said. Now, the owners have plans to bolster security, he said.
Built in 1822 as a milking house, the barn became home to a collection of rare books and collectibles in 1946, when Lilla and William Baldwin moved their store there from Wilmington. For a time, it included a country store museum.
The book barn has been featured on C-SPAN and Good Morning America, and in other national media.
Chris Drury maintained the Buffalo Sabres record of not losing two games in a row this season by firing in the overtime winner against the New York Rangers on Sunday.
The Sabres, beaten by the Montreal Canadiens on Friday, surrendered a two-goal lead last night when Michael Straka netted a wrist shot then a slap shot to cancel out the advantage gained by efforts from Maxim Afinogenov and Thomas Vanek.
And Drury said after the 3-2 victory at Madison Square Garden: "Our motto is 'Never lose two in a row'. Our goal is never to do that, always bounce back after a loss. I'm glad we did that."
Buffalo have now lost just once in 12 games on the road but New York Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr believes his team were in a great position to send them to another defeat.
"I thought we had the momentum but when we scored the goal we stopped playing," Jagr said. "We are not a good team yet. When the good teams get the momentum, they go for it."
The Detroit Red Wings have signed defenceman Niklas Kronwall to a £7m, five-year contract extension. The 25-year-old from Stockholm has three assists in 16 games this season and Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said: "I know the kid, he's a committed athlete, he trains, he works, he competes.
"He won the award as the best defenceman in the AHL [American Hockey League] at the age of 23 and was the first European to do it. He played in the Olympics last year and played well. He's a player that we want to build around.
"My feeling is that the only thing that's held him back in the NHL is that he's had a lot of bad luck with injuries." Kronwall, who was limited to 27 games last year after suffering a serious knee problem, was Detroit's first pick, 29th overall, in the 2000 NHL entry draft.
Rookie goaltender Michael Wall made 19 saves as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Calgary Flames 5-3. Regular goalies Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Ilya Bryzgalov were both sidelined with injuries so the Ducks plucked 21-year-old Wall from AHL outfit Portland.
"It was kind of short notice, so I didn't really have too much time to think about it - which was a bonus," said Wall, who joined the team Saturday and didn't have a chance to practise.
"I just went out there and tried to do the same thing I was doing in Portland, keep my game simple and try to stop the first shot. It's easier to relax after you get that first one."
The Plymouth Rotary has provided vocational scholarships.
Scholarship recipients are (front row, from left) Natalie Ondayki, Plymouth; Ryleigh Eaton, Canton; Sarah Mapes, Canton; Alex Conn, Plymouth; Annie Wellman, Plymouth; and Kelsey McGee, Canton and (back row, from left) Mark Bondy, Canton High School Assistant Principal, with Justin Burton, Canton; Dalyce Witherspoon, Canton; Ibrahim Abdus-Sabur, Canton; Austin Fisher, Canton; John Everitt, Plymouth; Jonathan Winberry, Plymouth; Zachary Chouinard, Canton; Nina Stroyan, Plymouth; Brock O’Connell, Plymouth; Autumn Marquess, Wayne; and Kyle McIntosh, Canton; plus Don Morgan and Bill Ventola, Plymouth Rotarians.
Plymouth-Canton students have earned vocational scholarships from the Plymouth Rotary Club.
The awards are part of approximately $55,000 in scholarships the Rotary gives to students each year, as well as academic and memorial scholarships. Many of the students will attend Schoolcraft College, which also has a matching scholarship program with the Rotary.
The vocational scholarships are intended to assist students whose educational goals are served best at community colleges or trade and technical institutes to pursue excellence in vocations, such as auto and aircraft mechanics, police/fire/paramedic services, culinary arts, computer operation and repair, paralegal, nursing and medical technology and greens keeping.
A recipient may achieve payment of full tuition and books leading to a license, certification or associate’s degree.
KAKAAKO, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Melelani Corwin and her boyfriend, Benji Item, lived in their orange tent on Ilalo street for a year and a half. Monday they left Kakaako.
"We're getting an apartment today, thanks to this church, thanks to this pastor. We've been blessed," Corwin said. The couple will move into a group home in Waianae.
"The landlords allow homeless people to come until they get on their feet," said Thomas Couch of House of Angels Ministry.
Next week the city begins clearing sidewalks in the area between Cooke and Ohe streets. Some homeless people have already left.
In the past two weeks, Next Step Shelter housed four families, one couple, and three singles from Kakaako.
"We expect to see the numbers continue to increase. Service providers are going into the Kakaako area regularly in a coordinated way and really engaging with the families and individuals there," said Scott Morishige, the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness.
There's another concern. Cleanup crews from Waikiki Health Center told Hawaii News Now they're finding discarded needles, syringes and human waste around the Kakaako camp.
"Families bring their kids here. Imagine your child coming here and stepping on a needle?" Darrel Basque said "Or (stepping) in feces," Farod Muhammad said.
Corwin and Item are from Monterey, California. They've been homeless the entire time they've lived here.
They hope moving away from Kakaako will be their turning point.
"This is the chance we've been waiting for," Item said.
Corwin said they'll leave their tent behind.
"We're giving it to whoever wants it. That's our past," she said.
An administrator with Next Step Shelter said he has received a significant number of applications from Kakaako homeless. The Institute for Human Services has space do singles but is putting families on a waiting list.
Former world champion Enzo Maccarinelli says he has his sights on winning a second world title.
The Welshman will fight Courtney Fry at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 7 December.
He will make his first defence of his Commonwealth light-heavyweight title against Liverpool's Fry.
"I'm looking forward to closing the year with another KO [knock-out] win and then look to 2014 for a second world title shot," said Maccarinelli.
He rejuvenated his career in August with an 11th-round stoppage of Ovill McKenzie to win the title.
The win came as a huge boost to Swansea's Maccarinelli, 33, the former WBO cruiserweight title holder.
Fry was stopped by Maccarinelli's Welsh rival Nathan Cleverly in eight rounds back in October 2009.
"Fry is a good fighter and I hear that he's in terrific shape already to fight me which is great news and hearing this has giving me the extra motivation to train even harder," said Maccarinelli.
"He'll be looking to win the title in front of his home fans and will put on the fight of his life against me."
"He took Cleverly eight rounds before he was stopped and that was only a few years ago and that was the last loss he's had, since then he's unbeaten in five fights.
"I'd like to do a job on Fry a lot quicker than Cleverly did, but I'll have to check him out and if the opening appears early I'll jump on him."
"Beating McKenzie has really given me a boost as well. It was a hard, tough fight. I dug deep and so did he, but my punching power came through and I showed that I'm dangerous in any round of a fight."
Fellow Welsh boxers Craig Evans (super-featherweight) and Liam Williams (middleweight) will both feature on the undercard of the Maccarinelli bout.
Tom Brady is shutting down rumors that he and his wife Gisele Bundchen are headed for a divorce.
In an interview with Dennis & Callahan on Boston Sports' WEEI, the New England Patriots quarterback said his marriage has never been better.
"We're in a great place, I'll just say that," Brady said. "I'm a lucky man."
The NFL pro went on to praise his wife. "There's no bigger supporter that I have than her, and vice versa," he said of the 35-year-old supermodel. "I don't think anything will ever get in the way of that."
Last Thursday, a judge overturned NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's May 11 suspension of Brady for his alleged role in using under-inflated footballs in a playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts earlier this year. Brady is now clear to play in the New England Patriots' season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday, Sept. 10.
During his Tuesday morning interview, Brady wasn't so keen on talking about his role in Deflategate. "I don't want to have these conversations every five minutes," he said, "Because at the end of the day it takes away from what it should be: An exciting time for me and my team."
The athlete added, "I'm sorry that whatever's happened has taken focus away from my team and what we accomplished last year. It should have been a joyous offseason."
The Deflategate verdict came just one day after a source told ET that the couple is "going through a rocky point," due to Gisele's "perfectionist" ways and the Super Bowl champ's intense focus on football.
Yet, another source close to the supermodel said despite the multiple divorce rumors over the past few months, the two "are doing better than ever and are very much in love."
Brady’s recent interview falls in line with the united front the couple displayed over the weekend. Bundchen posted a heartwarming moment of her husband playing with their daughter Vivian. "And my heart melts," she wrote in the caption of the Instagram.
Health and Hu­man Ser­vices Sec­ret­ary Kath­leen Se­beli­us prom­ised Wed­nes­day that the back-end prob­lems of Health­Care.gov would be re­solved in time for the in­sur­ance cov­er­age tak­ing ef­fect on Jan. 1, set­ting an­oth­er high bar for the ad­min­is­tra­tion as it at­tempts to re­cov­er from Af­ford­able Care Act’s rocky rol­lout.
“We cer­tainly have a plan — and we have vet­ted it and dis­cussed it with in­surers — that they are very com­fort­able with to get them their re­im­burse­ment,” Se­beli­us said at the House En­ergy and Com­merce Com­mit­tee hear­ing on the status of Obama­care im­ple­ment­a­tion.
With front-end en­roll­ment on the fed­er­al web­site func­tion­ing much bet­ter after the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s self-im­posed Dec. 1 dead­line, at­ten­tion has in­creas­ingly turned to the site’s crit­ic­al back end, which sends health care shop­pers to the in­surers that will ul­ti­mately provide them with cov­er­age.
Er­rors in con­sumer data forms sent to in­surers, com­bined with the fact that much of the pay­ment sys­tem is still be­ing built, have raised con­cerns about the in­ter­ac­tion between the fed­er­al web­site and in­sur­ance com­pan­ies. If those in­ter­ac­tions go awry, some in­sur­ance shop­pers may be giv­en the im­pres­sion they’re covered without hav­ing been fully en­rolled.
However, Se­beli­us as­sured the com­mit­tee Wed­nes­day that the sys­tem im­prove­ments are con­tinu­ing.
At Health­Care.gov‘s launch, the er­ror rate for such forms was around 25 per­cent. Now, that er­ror rate has dropped to about 10 per­cent. Se­beli­us said that HHS is cur­rently hand-match­ing con­sumer and in­surer re­cords to catch er­rors in the auto­mated sys­tem.