Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader are everywhere. Because they’re on most PCs and are trusted software, they are a very valuable entry point to take over computers.
Adobe was hacked. Big time. Massively.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-to-announce-source-code-customer-data-breach/
The hackers have both user data if you were foolish enough to register your software, and they have the source code to *everything*
Having the source code makes it 97.62x easier to develop tools to break into Iran’s uranium centrifuges – and your PC, too.
PR Newswire has just found out their Customer data was stolen by the same folks, however nobody had used that data since March. That suggests to me the attack is being done by a government agency that has an insatiable appetite to know everything about everyone.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/breach-at-pr-newswire-tied-to-adobe-hack/
Expect months of “zero day” exploits – attacks that will succeed because nobody knows they exist or how they work yet.
Oh, and if you ever told the FBI you were hacked, the hackers know that too
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/data-broker-hackers-also-compromised-nw3c/
Slightly tangentially related:
http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/06/06/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/ohman02092013.jpg
Just for the record, I’ve hacked Nidster’s computer years ago. Anything posted on the blog is not attributable to the real “Nidster”. Just wanted to get that off-my-chest since I’ve been feeling so guilty as of late. Thanks for your understanding, ’cause it coulda been anyone of youse guys.
My invisible friend did it.
The real Nidster would like to buy a coke for everyone. Not just the blog readers… not the just the Streaming Radio Guide users, but everyone.
CC – you can have as many Cokes as you like. I’ve had too many already – my face has turned green from it and looks like shoefaced Herman Munster. 😉
Cue up the music for myself, the real Nidster.. the real thing. You didn’t think I was the real Slim Shady, now did you? 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Pvu7yEnK8
oops – I meant to say that. You are not me, CC!
You need no further proof to believe me when I say, “I am not who I say I am”.
Would you mind holding my pickle?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u4YAcsAe6UI
This was in the Pillsbury days. Herman Cain didn’t arrive until 1976.
Shortly after they had this campaign, the introduced specialty sandwiches on sub buns, and you couldn’t get special orders as they were made ahead of time and labor intensive to make one at a time
Customer tells the server, “Would you mind holding my pickle?” When he bit into the burger and finds a pickle he goes back to complain. The server said, “So, what? I held your pickle in my grubby, little hands and it weren’t no Whopper.”
It takes two hands to handle a Whopper.