Ontario Government Websites Affected By A Domain Hack
MC Hammer video appears on province’s website after apparent hack.
‘Critical’ security bugs dating back to 1987 found in X Window
X.org, which develops the open-source X Window System for Linux and other Unix-y desktops, has warned security flaws have been discovered in the code – and some of them have been hanging around for 27 years.
The bugs can be exploited by applications to crash the window system, or run malicious code as the root user if the X server is running with those privileges.
The programming blunders were discovered by Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher at IOActive, and cover how the X Server handles requests from client apps.
Using No-IP for your #EMR? Be careful!
Microsoft Appoints Itself Sheriff of the Internet
“Microsoft contends it seized domains to stop distribution of two widely used malware tools”
It was 7 o’clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer’s front door woke him up. His dog started barking, and Durrer thought he was getting an early morning package. But when he opened the door, he wasn’t greeted by the FedEx man. He was face-to-face with a process server, a messenger from the courts, who handed him a stack of legal documents—three inches thick. Somewhere in that stack—buried in all the legalese—was the news that Microsoft had taken control of his company, but Durrer didn’t have time to read it. Almost immediately, his pager lit up with messages saying the company’s internet services had stopped working.
For the past 15 years, Durrer has worked as the CEO of a small internet service provider called No-IP. Based on Reno, Nevada, the 16-person company offers a special kind of Domain Name System service, or DNS, for consumers and small businesses, letting them reliably connect to computers whose IP addresses happen to change from time to time. It’s used by geeks obsessed with online security, fretful parents monitoring nanny cams in their toddler’s bedrooms, and retailers who want remote access to their cash registers. But it’s also used by criminals as a way of maintaining malicious networks of hacked computers across the internet, even if the cops try to bring them down.
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Four million domains have been shutdown, despite the fact that Microsoft only wants 18,472 of them
Forks in the road and options for Indivica users
Lets face it forks happen.
The arguments of which is better (Indivica or OSCAR) may not be material.
Get MCEDT before it’s too late!
The modem based Electronic Data Transfer service will be decommissioned no later than December 31, 2014. Please review the ministry’s website for the new Medical Claims Electronic Data Transfer (MC EDT) Internet based services by selecting the following link www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/publications/ohip/mcedt_mn.aspx or by selecting the Medical Claims Electronic Data Transfer link located on the left side bar of the screen.
Read more at http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/publications/ohip/edt_mn.aspx
Rise in wearable technology to be driven by smartphone growth
The global wearable computing market is set to rapidly grow into a multi-billion dollar industry over the next year, according to research from professional search engine Reportlinker.com.
Wearable Computing: Technologies, Applications and Global Markets says that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43.4% from around US$5 billion forecast for 2013 to US$9.2 billion in 2014 and more than US$30.2 billion in 2018.
The report adds that the key market driver for wearable computing is the soaring global popularity of smartphones.
At the moment, the market is at a relatively nascent stage and with shipment of 20 million units in 2012 (US$800 million).
The report said: “Traditional markets for wearable devices have primarily been focused on non-consumer niche applications including those in healthcare, defence/security, enterprise and industrial markets. However, recent advances in materials sciences, electronics, photonics and software are enabling a potentially vast range of new lightweight, wearable computing products to emerge.
Walk-In Doctor Clinics in Toronto
