Boomerang! Is the Pentagon Field-Testing 'Son of Stuxnet'? When the cybersecurity firm Symantec announced they had discovered a sophisticated Trojan which shared many of the characteristics of the Stuxnet virus, I wondered: was the Pentagon and/or their Israeli partners in crime field-testing insidious new spyware?
According to researchers, the malicious program was dubbed "Duqu" because it creates files with the prefix "~DQ. " It is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that "is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. " Mark that carefully. In simple terms, a Trojan is malicious software that appears to perform a desirable function prior to its installation but in fact, steals information from users spoofed into installing it, oftentimes via viral email attachments.
"Rudyard Kipling" < George Orwell <4umi word. An essay by George Orwell about the works of his colleague Kipling, first published February 1942.
It was a pity that Mr. Eliot should be so much on the defensive in the long essay with which he prefaces this selection of Kipling’s poetry 1, but it was not to be avoided, because before one can even speak about Kipling one has to clear away a legend that has been created by two sets of people who have not read his works. Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.