Hello gentlemen

vr-zone.com/articles/…

looks bad

Malware targeting the Middle East is getting a bit stale now. A new one seems to be appearing every month.

Well there are two completely separate kinds: Their government spying on their own citizens, and western countries attacking.

Seems like Cyber Warfare is fast becoming a reality.

I don't really like that name

Why?

Because what's happening is far too diverse. Most does not fit the classic country vs. country warfare

We have espionage, sabotage, government spying on their own people,...

Srry new to stack exchange chat.... !!!!

@SaurabhLP hey there.

@SaurabhLP Welcome

@TerryChia ya...hi...

@RoryAlsop thnx...

Another 46 days to my fanatic badge...

So, the waxing job is finished. Everything is nice and smooth. Except the area is still closed to anything too hard. Oh well.

Assuming WPS is turned off, what is the most efficient way to get into a WPA2-PSK network? I have a challenge coming up tomorrow, and I'm wondering which are the most efficient tools for the purpose.

lol. i don't think the good old fashion physical break in is gonna work in my case ;)

anyone able to answer a general question about email spam?

is it safe to assume that most emails originating from *.ru domains can be considered spam?

@LordofTime :-) unless you deal with Russia as part of your day job...

I think I remember hearing a statistic from a mail admin from one of my places that less than 5% of all the email that hit our mailers actually made it to a mailbox.

Something like 90% of it was dropped just based on sender reputation, then it trickled down through the spam and virus detection engines from there.

@ScottPack that sounds about right

So I would actually change your question to be, "is it safe to assume that most emails originating from any domains can be considered spam?" and the answer is yes.

@ScottPack the only reason i ask that precise a question is because a task that reached my desk today is to analyze a report containing all messages matching sender *.ru, and then determine whether it can be safely blacklisted. Of twenty thousand messages i've seen in this report, most of the messages match known spam subject structures (I dont have content here). Of that twenty thousand, only one could be legitimate. ...

given that this is state government, i highly doubt that there'd be major overseas contacts, but...

given that only one of twenty thousand messages in a month doesn't match pretty much easy-to-identify spam subjects...

shrugs

@ScottPack Excellent Scott. Thank you! I also found out Creative Commons had a free image search: search.creativecommons.org

@Lord What are you using for spam filtering?

@ScottPack i don't know the specifics of the spam filtration systems, afaict some implementation of postini reports on junk mail, but I do not know the full structure of the email filtering. The CISO wants to blacklist *.ru on the mail servers given how much spam we have been receiving lately, but wanted to know both the potential business impact and whether any logged items were possibly legit.

outside of that, i'm just an intern who gets handed the work

(at this job, i have other more longterm jobs)

so i cant give you a truly clear answer

If it's a Postini, you should be able to perform a reasonably heuristic spam filter without needing to tie it to individual domains. From @Karrax's pie chart, blocking countries should include India, the UK etc - not just Russia - so probably not your best solution from a business perspective.

@RoryAlsop i think it is a postini, however, its got other domains in the spam filters. Afaict, though, most of the *.ru stuff is getting through, to internal mailing lists nonetheless.

which explains why the CISO wants to block *.ru (at least temporarily)

@RoryAlsop I had in my head that the US was the #1 producer of spam. I don't have any facts to back that up right now, though.

USA looks just ahead of Russia on that chart

Interesting data. And also, charts like that piss me off. Too hard to match the legend items to the data.

@ScottPack hahahaha I had the same problem. Until I realised that as long as I started at 12 o'clock with India and worked round clockwise.

I still maintain that pie charts shouldn't be that hard.

to read or to create? I reckon many people just press the pie-chart button in Excel without thinking things through

To read. I would much rather put the effort in up front rather than on every use.

How many person minutes (assuming that it's actually distributed) are spent creating a pie chart versus interpreting the data?

So I'm cleaning my desk. Come to a pile of stickers. 2 for SF, 4 for StackExchange and 1 each of SO and SU.

So that's 6 stickers that are about to go in my trash. Thanks guys.

@ScottPack no - stick them on things! :-)

@RoryAlsop I assume you mean gorilla marketing.

Except, you don't have gorillas up there do you?

How about bear marketing?

You have bears, right?

@ScottPack I don't think we do. Some wolves (eco groups are trying to reintroduce them - like that's not going to cause problems with hikers, ramblers and walkers...)

So none of these

But what about these?

@ScottPack I'm guessing from the weather that those guys hang out down your neck of the woods.

I'm ready for fall.

It got up to about 91/32 and 60%rH today

heh - here most folks wear kagouls, raincoats, macs.....

has been a bit wet

lurvely.com/photo/5926142361/Mud_People_T_in_the_Park_2011

It did rain today

Looks like it was a little under .25" in about 15 minutes.

Anyone on here use whole disk encryption at home? On a gaming system? How big of a performance hit is it?

@Iszi I don't have it on my current machine (as it was a pain to work out the best way to encrypt my SSD boot disk and my main terabyte disks) but on my previous machine TrueCrypt worked fine. Disk IO was never the bottleneck.

@RoryAlsop What sort of hardware did you have?

@Iszi two seagate 7200rpm disks (total about 1.5 Tb), quad core AMD something, only 4Gb RAM, and a reasonable GeForce

@RoryAlsop My disk is 5400 RPM. I worry about that.

Okay, is this one a proper SE question? Also, I think some tag cleanup is in order.

@RoryAlsop Also, flagged the comment there as illegal/unethical.

@Iszi thanks.

So why exactly would you want to whole disk a gaming system?

It sounds, on the surface, a bit excessive.

@ScottPack If I only used the system for gaming, I wouldn't.