@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30121159

I honestly haven't sympathy for any of these people with a camera listed. There was zero hacking involved in this, merely a simple script to try default credentials on every IP address.

Oh definitely no sympathy. They are their unadvertised public cameras, that's all. They were foolish to make them that way if they did not intend to share them.

@Dashrender said:

Even Omaha, NE is a higher target than Dallas 🙂

Ok, guess I'm good then.

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/66153-systemd-fallout-two-debian-technical-panel-members-resign

I don't allow office associates to friend me.

Thanks. Off to do some patching....

I bought a Onedrive 50 gig subscription last year to have an online place to save my pictures. Now that I've personally setup my own Office 365 business account I wanted to migrate everything over to that single account - It's been pretty frustrating the past two weeks trying to move items between them and get the sync to work.

@technobabble said:

@g.jacobse buy one for a customer and get one for the home office at no charge!

LOL - uhm,.. yea,.. I'm in the corp (non-profit) world.. so I don't have customers per say

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

The fact is that the answer of totally blocking both is likely not the best answer.

I don't understand. If you are okay blocking the useful one of the two, why would it ever be allowed to not block the less useful and more risky? This just doesn't make sense. If you are willing to block cloud storage you should be blocking USB by default, no question. Blocking only one doesn't make any general sense. Blocking both or neither, does.

Scott, just drop it. This discussion has run its course.

I really need to buy one too. I was told that I had earned a free one from a vendor when I got my vExpert certification but that was a marketing scam. They never really sent one. None of that free stuff that people claimed to give to vExperts turned out to be real. Except for Pluralsight, that was awesome.

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm pretty confident that they care. Those licenses are how they make their money.

Ok, let me rephrase. They have to catch me!

If the self healing takes place outside the OS, for example at the virtual level, I'm not sure how the malware is as big a threat?

Coolio!

@JaredBusch said:

Well the stock price would, but not the company. The reports are always that they have a huge cash reserve.

True, their cash reserves are huge and those don't change. It's the market cap that can rise and fall with no connection to real life.

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, and armv6 architectures.

So that is production ready for PC, Itanium, IBM Power (i Series), Oracle and ARM systems. That's pretty much anything that you would want for enterprise use. Some obvious things like MIPS are missing, but that's very minor and older releases should be available and NetBSD will cover that as well. For production usage, FreeBSD is fully ready to go.

@nadnerB said:

I wonder how many times this has already been exploited?

We'll never know. Possibly a lot.