Automaker Toys With New Tactics

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Toys aren't them? Toys R Us may sell toy
unit (USATODAY.com)

Toys aren't them? Toys R Us may sell toy
unit (USATODAY.com) 08/12/2004 05:41 AM
USATODAY.com - Pounded by competition from discount retailers and increasingly shunned by kids moving on to fancy cell phones and iPods at younger ages, Toys R Us (TOY) says it might shed its toy business in a major restructuring.

Toys: Yomega is putting a new spin on
old toys

Toys: Yomega is putting a new spin on
old toys 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
Boston Globe Jun 7 2004 1:34PM GMT

Study: Toyota Most Dependable Automaker
(AP)

Study: Toyota Most Dependable Automaker
(AP) 06/29/2004 06:38 PM
AP - Toyota Motor Corp. remains the automaker with the most dependable vehicles, led by its Lexus luxury brand, though Detroit's Big Three manufacturers all showed improvement in the past year, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates vehicle dependability study released Tuesday.

Toyota Surpasses Ford As No. 2 Automaker
(AP)

Toyota Surpasses Ford As No. 2 Automaker
(AP) 01/26/2004 12:02 AM
AP - Toyota Motor Corp. surpassed Ford Motor Co. of the United States as the world's No. 2 automaker, according to global sales numbers released Monday by the Japanese automaker that confirmed last week's preliminary data.

Automaker Gaining Speed in China

Automaker Gaining Speed in China 07/13/2004 02:00 PM
What's in the future for General Motors' overseas market?

Korean Automaker Passes U.S. and
Europeans in Quality Survey

Korean Automaker Passes U.S. and
Europeans in Quality Survey 04/28/2004 06:48 PM
Hyundai, the Korean automaker, surpassed domestic and European manufacturers for the first time in J.D. Power's closely watched initial quality rankings.

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world.

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world. 05/18/2004 07:24 PM
Choose Your Own New York You're in town to visit your wealthy and eccentric Aunt Ginny, who is spending the day having her blood replaced with Botox on the Upper East Side. Now you have the entire day to yourself to explore the most exciting city in the world! -- A Choose Your Own Adventure story, updated.

More toys daddy, more toys

More toys daddy, more toys 12/27/2004 05:17 AM

MP Tactics

MP Tactics 08/27/2004 05:42 PM
Welcome To Multiplayer Tactics

A Change in Tactics

A Change in Tactics 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

Over the course of the past month, an interesting trend is beginning to be noticeable. In general, computer attacks methods follow the ups and downs of the latest vulnerabilities being released. This case has become more apparent in the past few years with the time between disclosure of a vulnerability, and the release of proof of concept exploits becoming very short. Even after a vulnerability is released, it takes the general population on the Internet almost 6-8 months to effectively patch against the vulnerabilities.
Whether it is due to better security programming or better mitigation tactics, in the past 6-8 months, we have not seen a vulnerability which gives “Easy” or Worm-like access to computers. This drought in viable vulnerabilities has started a change in the tactics being used by the miscreant community in order to continue to compromise the machines needed to keep the underground economy running.
This change in tactics beings us back to some of the fundamental vulnerabilities for which there are not patches. Generally classified as default or weak passwords, this tactic is best exploited through brute force attacking which is on a sharp raise.
It appears that the systems being sought after most include: Microsoft SQL Database Servers, various UNIX platforms with open SSH services, IMAP mail servers, and other database servers including Oracle.
Database servers are particularly interesting for the miscreants because in addition to giving them access to potentially taking over the computer, it can also potentially provide them with useful information stored in the database which can aide in the theft of identity and other fraud.
Being a paranoid security geek, I would highly recommend that actions be taken to determine what levels of exposure you have on your systems. This is not an exploit method we always think about, but which requires more than just keeping up on critical patches.

Moore's tactics

Moore's tactics 06/30/2004 08:05 AM

Nicholas Kristof: "Insults and rage impede understanding." Amen.

About the Michael Moore movie, Farenhe it 9/11. I haven't seen it and I don't plan to. I'm an American before I'm a member of any political party, and I have more invested in the intelligence of our decision-making process than in any one decision. I'd rather re-elect Bush than elect a president based on Moore's politics.

Yesterday on NPR they played an excerpt where he confronts members of Congress and asks if they would send their children to fight in Iraq. What a ridiculous question. No parent will say yes to that question. You could have asked that question on the Capitol steps during World War II and they still wouldn't say yes. See how this cheapens the question of whether we should be in Iraq? In a smart world, we wouldn't be there, but it isn't because Congress people won't say yes when confronted by a camera crew.

Moore is the worst of American politics, an opportunist, an anti-intellectual.

Vote no on Moore.

- A battle of tactics

- A battle of tactics 06/08/2004 09:45 PM
Computer Times Asia Jun 9 2004 2:37AM GMT

COINTELPRO II: Police tactics since 9-11

COINTELPRO II: Police tactics since 9-11 02/17/2004 04:58 PM
Kevin Bankston, EFF's Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow, sez, "This is an incredible, two part series in Salon about cops spying on political activists post-9/11. It is an absolute must read."

"What we're seeing is something much larger in scale and danger than anything that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s," he says. "That's because of computers. Now, instead of having these agencies working in semi-isolation or occasional cooperation, there's the equivalent of the great Alaska pipeline running between them, and the information flows in both directions. In addition, in the 1950s or '60s, it took weeks of pavement pounding and doorknobbing for the FBI or police or military to collect personal information about people, the kind of information you need to put them under surveillance. Today that kind of information can be obtained by a few computer keystrokes. The harassment potential is much greater."

Part 1 Link, Part 2 Link

New Cell Phone Tactics

New Cell Phone Tactics 12/03/2003 11:07 AM
How many of you have moved to a new cell phone carrier now that number portability allows you to take...

Are the RIAA's tactics working?

Are the RIAA's tactics working? 11/10/2003 11:12 PM
How much is the recent album sales upturn due to the RIAA's lawsuit activity? The RIAA says alot, Salon.com says it is a more complicated issue.

Did Rumsfeld OK Prison Tactics?

Did Rumsfeld OK Prison Tactics? 05/17/2004 04:49 AM
New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh writes that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized expanding a secret interrogation program employing abuse and humiliation of prisoners from Afghanistan to Iraqi prisons.

this story about American tactics

this story about American tactics 05/26/2004 09:15 PM
Iraq

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Rivals: Cisco's tactics unfair

Rivals: Cisco's tactics unfair 08/22/2004 07:59 AM
SiliconValley.com Aug 22 2004 10:39AM GMT

U.S. Moves to Limit Interrogation
Tactics (AP)

U.S. Moves to Limit Interrogation
Tactics (AP) 05/15/2004 12:01 AM
AP - The senior U.S. commander in Iraq has moved to limit the military's allowable interrogation tactics, the Pentagon revealed Friday, eliminating most coercive techniques from even being considered.

Pew Study Says RIAA Tactics Are Working

Pew Study Says RIAA Tactics Are Working 01/05/2004 03:41 AM
Furd writes "The Pew Internet & American Life Project has posted a new data study that purports to show that the RIAA lawsuit strategy has successfully ...

New Limits On Tactics At Prisons
(washingtonpost.com)

New Limits On Tactics At Prisons
(washingtonpost.com) 05/15/2004 12:01 AM
washingtonpost.com - The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has barred military interrogators from using the most coercive techniques potentially available to them in the past, declaring that requests to employ the measures against detainees will no longer even be considered, officials said yesterday.

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP)

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP) 09/20/2004 11:03 PM
AP - North Carolina law metes out heavy costs for a drunk driving conviction, so it's little wonder many drivers choose to head to court to fight the charge. Among the thousands of cases heard in the state's courts each year, defense lawyers sometimes offer novel arguments to challenge the evidence.

Are you using all 7 of these highly
effective marketing tactics?

Are you using all 7 of these highly
effective marketing tactics? 12/21/2003 02:33 AM
WebDevInfo Dec 21 2003 1:25AM ET

More Tactics Than Theatrics at Stewart
Trial

More Tactics Than Theatrics at Stewart
Trial 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
While there were tears on the witness stand, they were not shed by the witness who defense lawyers hoped would break down.

US Adopts Tougher Tactics in Iraq War

US Adopts Tougher Tactics in Iraq War 12/09/2003 05:01 PM
A New York Times story (no registration required) has some details about the tactics US forces have begun using in Iraq. Examples include taking relatives of wanted Iraqis hostage, demolishing buildings thought to have been used by insurgents, fencing Iraqi villages in barbed wire and setting up checkpoints.

Compuware Accuses IBM of Ambush Tactics
(AP)

Compuware Accuses IBM of Ambush Tactics
(AP) 08/18/2004 12:12 PM
AP - Compuware Corp. is accusing IBM of attempting to "sandbag" it with new evidence just three months before the software company's piracy claim against the technology giant is to go to trial.

Old, New Tactics Meet in K.C. Killer
Case (AP)

Old, New Tactics Meet in K.C. Killer
Case (AP) 04/24/2004 07:59 PM
AP - Detectives in the Kansas City Police cold-case squad worked backward from the present, reading unsolved homicide files. Meanwhile, technicians in the city's crime lab worked forward from the old cases, using a federal grant to analyze DNA from unsolved homicides.

Blair urged to change US tactics

Blair urged to change US tactics 04/14/2004 04:59 AM
US plans to use "decisive force" to keep order in Iraq risk undermining efforts to rebuild the country, say the Lib Dems.

Bush Ignored Pentagon Lawyers On Tactics

Bush Ignored Pentagon Lawyers On Tactics 06/09/2004 11:36 PM
Free Internet Press Jun 10 2004 3:51AM GMT

U.S. Struggled Over How Far to Push
Tactics (washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Struggled Over How Far to Push
Tactics (washingtonpost.com) 06/23/2004 10:07 PM
washingtonpost.com - Newly released documents and interviews portray the civilian leadership at the Pentagon as urgently concerned that al Qaeda and Taliban detainees might have information that could prevent terrorist attacks and as searching intently for effective and "exceptional" interrogation techniques that would pass legal muster.

RealNetworks accused of hack-like
tactics

RealNetworks accused of hack-like
tactics 07/29/2004 08:41 PM

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Apple and RealNetworks are still “at it” over the technology that allows RealNetworks to play their music content over the Apple’s iPod music device. My first thought is for Apple to quit whining. Do they have such little confidence in iTunes that they are going to freak when someone plays the other company’s music over their music player? Nevermind the fact that the music is still being played over the much loved iPod in the…

New Attacks Ape Hannover Hackers'
Tactics

New Attacks Ape Hannover Hackers'
Tactics 04/26/2004 08:22 PM

As Murders Fall, New Tactics Are Tried
Against Remainder

As Murders Fall, New Tactics Are Tried
Against Remainder 12/30/2004 09:43 PM
As street-corner slayings and drug turf drive-bys have melted away in New York City, police are collecting more data than ever on the remaining few hundred murders.

Scare Tactics at Health South

Scare Tactics at Health South 11/19/2003 11:43 AM
How to Make Money and Influence People. Five workers who made false accounting entries during a huge fraud at HealthSouth Corp. kept silent out of fear after realizing the company was buying guns, grenades and spy equipment, according to testimony Wednesday at the first sentencing in the case. Richard Scrushy has been mentioned here before, but his intimidation tactics are a new revelation.

Sneaky Credit Card Tactics

Sneaky Credit Card Tactics 08/17/2004 09:04 AM
Keep an eye on your credit card issuers -- they may be about to raise your rates.

Report: CIA Halts Interrogation Tactics
(AP)

Report: CIA Halts Interrogation Tactics
(AP) 06/27/2004 12:02 AM
AP - The CIA has suspended use of some White House-approved aggressive interrogation tactics employed to extract information from reluctant al-Qaida prisoners, The Washington Post said.

Kerry Says Troops Need Clear Mission and
Tactics

Kerry Says Troops Need Clear Mission and
Tactics 05/15/2004 12:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 15 2004 4:50PM GMT

Commander Bars Coercive Tactics in
Interrogation

Commander Bars Coercive Tactics in
Interrogation 05/14/2004 10:24 PM
Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez barred virtually all coercive interrogation practices, like forcing prisoners to crouch for long periods.

Rivals: Cisco's tactics unfair
(SiliconValley.com)

Rivals: Cisco's tactics unfair
(SiliconValley.com) 08/22/2004 08:14 AM
SiliconValley.com - Cisco Systems' substantial influence over the $8 million technology plan for San Jose's new City Hall reflects a deliberate strategy by the networking giant: get involved in the planning process early to win more business down the road.
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