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S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) weren't born with any super powers--but that doesn't mean they're the weak link in "Marvel's The Avengers."
"We are humans with high skill sets," Renner said. "[Hawkeye and Black Widow] fight well together…and they complement each other."
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Added Johansson, "Both of us fight hand-to-hand…but we're fighting in a different way than everybody else. We do a lot of fighting on the ground."
Johansson made her debut as Black Widow in "Iron Man 2," where we learned of her affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D. and that she wouldn't hesitate to lay the smack down on bad guys. Renner made a brief cameo as the bow-and-arrow wielding Hawkeye in "Thor."
For both Renner and Johansson, getting into character never posed a problem. The issue was getting comfortable in their characters' clothing.
"It was like 800 degrees in my costume…and everybody looked incredibly uncomfortable until the cameras were rolling," she said. "And then 'Cut!' and we were all like, 'Ugh, this thing! Get it off me, it's awful!"
Added Renner, "I think the humility award goes to [Mark] Ruffalo. [He was] in a thong or wearing something unflattering, and he's supposed to be the [Incredible Hulk]."
Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures "Marvel's The Avengers"--the super hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel super heroes Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon from a screenplay by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when "Marvel's The Avengers" assemble in summer 2012.
In addition to "Marvel's The Avengers," Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters including "Iron Man 3" on May 3, 2013; and "Thor 2" on November 15, 2013.


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The USA Today's college football coaches' poll was released Thursday morning, and defending national champion Florida State was voted No. 1.
Alabama was pegged No. 2 and in-state and SEC West rival Auburn was NO. 5 in the annual voting by selected college football coaches from around the country. It is believed to be the first time Auburn and Alabama have started the same season ranked in the top five of coaches poll.
Half of the 14 teams in the SEC cracked the top 25 with South Carolina (No. 9), Georgia (12), LSU (13), Ole Miss (19) and Texas A&M (21) making the poll.
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The pass rush was non-existent for lots of last season. NT Sione Pouha, LBs Calvin Pace and Bart Scott are over-30. It's quite possible their best ball is to their rear. Safety Jim Leonhard is nearly here off his second straight severe, season-ending leg injury. S Eric Smith is average. And newcomer LaRon Landry never really panned in DC. Perhaps he will have a career reboot using the Jets like OLB Aaron Maybin did last season. Yet it is a 50-50.
Deficiency of a pass rush could have been a lot more glaring when the Jets did not have the perfect corner tandem in the NFL, in Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie. But all is not really well there, either.
But defense starts upfront. Along with the Jets have issues here. They badly need an impact DE to pair with last season top pick, Wilkerson, opposed to this of Pouha. And so they need Kenrick Ellis to offer 30 or 40 snaps a personal game this year of aid in the Defensive line rotation. He should, but until he is doing, do not know if they can.
At number 16 overall. But the Jets usually trade up. Correctly taking a look at players honestly if any slide that far: DT Michael Brockers, Jerel Worthy and Devon Still ( most of whom could play lead to a 3-4), DE Quinton Coples, RT Riley Reiff and Cordy Glenn, S Alex Baron and OLB Melvin Ingram. If WR Michael Floyd can there be, he had be tempting. Although bringing another guy to the Jets who's had off-field complaints about the po-po could be unwise. Guys that can't staying the cops blotter in South Bend, IN, probably are not safe bets to stay off it in NYC.
On offense, the Jets badly have to have a right tackle, as starter Wayne Hunter . Who looks like Tarzan and plays like Jane. Quit 11 sacks last year, a ridiculous number for the right tackle. If Sanchez could trust his protection, and then he can't last year, it may well help his confidence and production.
So, John Abraham Jersey The Jets biggest needs, if you wish, are DE, RT, WR, OLB.
Meanwhile, Cromartie had his 10th child by eight women in six states within the offseason, with the exceptional baby mamas are apparently pitching a real possibility Tv program, called "CroMama" something like that. Uh oh. Practical goal making this up. Cro becomes all around running down Octomom.
Sanchise has already established to address new receivers ever year of his career. Remember Braylon Edwards and Derrick Mason and Jerricho Cotchery? So perhaps acquiring a bona fide number 2 guy who could stretch the field opposite Holmes would help him. Guys like Tom Brady is usually productive with new targets yearly. Unsure Sanchise can pull that off. Plus it would also help him if his top receivers stopped flaming him over record into the NY media, too.
Consider some of the big needs to the Los angeles Jets from the 2012 NFL Draft
Sanchez completed 57 percent of his throws which includes a 26-18 TDP-INT is his third year since the starter. Eli Manning completed 58 percent of his throws, which has a 24-18 TDP-INT in their third year as a starter. He turned out to be OK. So we just do not know yet.
The biggest needs?? A brand new owner and also a new HC.
Although the Jets in addition have a lot of issues on defense.
The Jets likewise need help at wide receiver. It seems like during the past year #2 WR, Plaxico Burress, won come back. The Jets #1 receiver, Santonio Holmes is actually a petulant brat through an untradable contract.
Like Eli, Sanchez inherited a veteran locker room. Maybe he needs some addition by subtraction. When Barber and Shockey left, Eli blossomed. The Jets may want to dump Santonio, Plax and LT and provides Sanchise total command for him in making the nice Leap Forward. The Jets may not be his team yet.
Remember when people were ripping the Steelers for trading Tone? That is laughing now? And Jeremy Kerley may be a totally raw prospect, who may be great, or may very well be just average. We only are unaware of yet.
The jury is also from RB Shonn Greene, having struggled to remain healthy, and who has definitely not shown the muscle and maul smash mouth greatness he showed during the 2009 playoffs. It's a big year for him, too.
Mark Sanchez has brought a huge amount of criticism for this, along with the QB deserves a lot of it. Sanchez threw http://www.texans-shop.com/23-Arian-Foster-Jersey 26 TDs against 18 INT as part of his third year being a starter, but attractive was sacked 39 times and lost 8 fumbles. 26 turnovers in 16 weeks are not going to practice it. But substantially more critically: he lost command of the offense, which has been in open revolt against him in the press and so on this area (especially WR Santonio Holmes, who remains completely unrepentant).
Once your philosophy will be to pound your chest and shout how good you happen to be towards rest of league, particularly you haven done anything, you place yourself up for failure and embarassment every time. Which is today NY Jets. The 2012 draft can change nothing for this pathetic team.
Enjoy the fun, Rex.
Why? Because real change starts at the very top, and the Jets need that sort of switch to turn into force inside NFL. Woody Rex have embraced a philosophy that, irrespective of the players some may enter the draft, is doomed to failure it doesn't matter who that they've in their team.
Revis, who famously held out two seasons Browns Store ago, has earned $32 million I the primary couple of years of your four year, $46 million deal. But he just complained inside press yesterday that they wants his deal redone and extended, and that he feels unpaid at eighteen months and $14 million above the next two seasons.
The Jets totally collapsed late recently, falling from 8-5 to 8-8, and missing the playoffs.


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Gun clubs grow: NH responds to a threat
Oh, relax. We don't mean it. We were just wondering what the anti-gun zealots must have thought after reading our Wednesday story on the explosion in New Hampshire gun-club membership.
Four years ago the Chester Rod and Gun Club had fewer than 500 members. Today it has more than 1,300. A rise in applications this winter has resulted in a waiting list so long that if you sign up now you might become a member by August. Clubs in Canterbury, Goffstown, Hudson and Nashua are at capacity.
What gives? Club officials say most of the new applicants are not experienced gun owners. They are newbies not entrenched in gun culture.
That must frighten the gunophobes something awful. They're losing "normal" people to the gun nuts!
We wonder if they will ever realize that most gun owners are normal folks and that the most effective method of increasing gun ownership is for the government to suggest that access to guns is about to be restricted.
Bill Hovanasian, board member of the Chester Rod and Gun Club, said "for now Mr. Obama has probably been the best gun salesman there ever was." The reason for that is easy to grasp. It is not that crazies are buying up all the guns. It's that perfectly normal Americans value their right to keep and bear arms, and they want to make sure they retain it.
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But misunderstanding is always possible. Because I say, "Don't try to improve, doing nothing is the best." that does not mean that you become inactive. It simply means you don't make any effort to improve upon things, you relax. You will be still doing things, but now there will be no effort in your doing, there will be no doer in your doing; they will be simply happening.
When you will feel hungry you will eat; that is not doing. When you are not feeling hungry and you force yourself to eat, that is doing. Forcing is doing. When you feel sleepy you sleep; that is not doing. But when you are not feeling sleepy and you force yourself to go to sleep, that is doing. When you are feeling fast asleep, then trying to wake up is doing. When the sleep is over of its own accord and your eyes open up, that is not doing.
Eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, sleep when sleepy. Let go! Don't try to struggle, don't make life a conflict. Enjoy it! And then each moment is precious and you will never feel helpless and you will never feel that nothing is getting better, because you are not expecting it to get better.
It is already the best world that can be, the most perfect existence that ever can be. But your ego wants to improve upon things. You think you know better than existence itself? You are just a small part of it, you are just a small ripple in the infinite ocean - and you want to improve upon the ocean? That is just being foolish! Relax! Dance in the sun while you are! Sing a song! It is beautiful to be and it is also beautiful not to be. When the wave rises, good. For a moment enjoy the sky, the air, the wind, the sun, the rain. And when the wave disappears, good; go into deep rest.
Nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. Things only move between manifestation and unmanifestation. They become visible, they become invisible. To become invisible is a resting place. Just as after each day you need deep sleep in the night to rejuvenate you, to make you again young and fresh, in the same way after each life you need death. Death is a deeper sleep and nothing else. After each life your body is so tired, you need a new body, a new manifestation The old wave disappears, but the water in that wave remains in the ocean; it will come again in a new wave. The old is continuously becoming new - allow it. You simply allow life and go with it in deep trust.
This is what I call religiousness - this trust. It is not a belief. Belief is always in dogmas, creeds, theories, philosophies, ideologies. This is not belief, this is simply trusting existence. We have come from it, it is our source. We are not outsiders, we are insiders. And we will go back to the source - it is our source. Coming out of it is good, going back into it is good. All is good! To feel it brings rejoicing - all is good. That's the meaning of trusting in God: that all is good.


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Today Apple announced that the iPhone 5S will have a fingerprint scanner. Many of us in the security community are highly sceptical of this feature, while others saw this as a smart security move. Then of course there are the journalists who see fingerprints as the ultimate password killer. Clearly there is some disagreement here. I thought I'd lay this out for those of you who need to better understand the implications of using fingerprints vs or in addition to passwords.
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Episode PremiereMay 22, 2011
Show Period2011 - now
Production CompanyManagement 360, Created By
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ScreenwriterJane Espenson, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss
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Synology and the NAS-ty malware-flingers: What can be learned
The recent Synology Synolocker issue should serve as a splash of cold water to any vendors in the tech industry that design and sell systems that are largely unattended or unmanaged. As described in The Reg yesterday, Synology NAS boxes are being hit by a Cryptolocker-like piece of malware dubbed Synolocker. Like Cryptolocker, …
"It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
It will be expensive for Synology to improve their security, but they found the money for the new GUI on DSM v5 which has received "mixed reactions" (to put it politely). Setting up non-standard port numbers etc, should be an easy task and part of the default setup. El Reg readers are probably happy going to the command line, but that's too hard for most people. Besides, many would make the (wrong) inference that if it mattered the option would be in the GUI.
Synology aren't just selling to IT professionals but to people who want Synology NAS as a "just works" commodity for their home office. Many here would say that's naive of the users. But all the emphasis on EZ-Connect etc indicates many Synology customers don't understand port forwarding etc. Synology needs to find a way of saving the average user from themselves and the risks of attaching all your data to the internet. BTW I'm not criticising ordinary users, I'm a psychologist not an IT professional. I've made my fair share of security screw-ups.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
I can't say I completely disagree. At the same time, the balance between security and usability is still something tech companies are pouring research dollars into.
I personally can't claim to have all of the answers. Some, yes, but certainly not all. I think any among us who did try to claim that would be a fool; if they had the surefire answers, they'd be a mad billionaire.
So absolutely there needs to be a refocus on security within Synology. I'd like to be among the first to pound on the table about this. But this has to be balanced with usability and perhaps that means that - for now - we can't have both.
For now, at least, security is a shared responsibility, whether you're using a Synology NAS, a Supermicro IMPI controller, a Dell thin client or an HP display management computer. Systems that are largely unattended and unmanaged still need TLC. It sucks, but it's the state of technology today.
What really needs to happen is a lot of the smaller players need to get together and pool their resources into helping solve the problems to hand. A great example would be the Application Layer Gateway firewall I want. That's a beefy requirement. It take a log of RAM and a lot of CPU, at least when you're talking in the context of IoT devices.
A baseband management controller, or a low-end ARM NAS, or even your average display management computer is going to have trouble handling a proper one. Throw on monitoring, reporting, communications, etc...suddenly we start getting into the realm of a Big Ask for such small equipment.
So I think real research is required how. How can we do more with less? How can we shrink the requirements of some of this stuff so that we stay within the power/parts/price limits for that product category but still maintain both usability and security?
As I said above, I certainly don't have all the answers. I wish I did.
I could use the billions.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
@Trevor I think your analysis is very fair. I'm glad you're talking to Synology and hope you get them to refocus on security. I've seen them extend a lot of features. From a business perspective I can see the drive to keep up with competitors offering x, y and z.
The problem with enhancing security is that it doesn't really sell as an EXCITING feature - not until something goes wrong. Right now I'd pay Synology £100 for this problem to go away. Would I have paid that premium at the start of the year when I bought two Synology NASs? I honestly don't know... probably not. In that sense users like me are part of the problem. That's also why the people behind this attack will probably find it quite profitable.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
"Setting up non-standard port numbers etc, should be an easy task and part of the default setup. El Reg readers are probably happy going to the command line, but that's too hard for most people."
It may not be part of the default setup but changing the important port numbers for this vulnerability (5000 and possibly 5001) is simple from the GUI. Just go to the control panel and change them.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
Synology are aiming their top gear with HA redundant systems at higher end SMBs. The problem is they run the same interface as the low end home user boxes. So a high end system presents you with an ITunes server, photo server when you are trying to use it as a perfectly reasonable SAN.
I spoke to them a while back about their website being way to home-user focussed when they sell some reasonable SMB kit and, fair play to them they tidied it all up very quickly and looks a lot better.
However I think they should separate their products into Home and Business products with more focus on the security, reliability etc on their Business products without all the default apps installed and a more technical set-up.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
"However I think they should separate their products into Home and Business products with more focus on the security, reliability etc on their Business products without all the default apps installed and a more technical set-up."
I disagree there - yes, a home/business split may make sense for other reasons, but why would you weaken the security on either? If anything, I suspect the home market may need better security, since it's less likely to have other defences in place like a VPN for remote access, centralised password storage and expiry...
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
"...why would you weaken the security on either?"
I never mentioned purposely weakening security? However a Business user doesn't need the ton of apps,'cloud' access and easy firewall tunnelling that a home user might.
Whereas a home user might say "I really want super-media server installed, every other NAS has it", Synology could add it but not include it, as standard, in their business build as it could have an unknown vulnerability or provide another means of attack. Therefore each part of the business line would be considered against minimising attack vectors rather than fancy features.
It would also extend to stable releases, well tried and tested, with just security updates and stability enhancements as updates rather than the continuous stream of updates that a home user might get to keep synology competitive in that market. Full stable releases getting pushed out every year or so.
It's a different thinking and use case for business products as opposed to home products and by default the more apps, the more you use shortcuts to make things easy for non-tech people the weaker the security will be.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
I'm a bit late to this story, but in reply to the first comment.
Changing ports is not a security measure. Or at best it's a weak form of obfuscation.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
Actually, it is considered by most experts to be an important part of defense in depth. It eliminates 80%+ of the attacks in a single move. The rest of the attacks then must be dealt with by other means...but it would prevent the current crisis, as the existing malware only looks at default ports.
Sometimes, obfuscation is all that's required. Other times, you need more. But don't discount the value of obfuscation when so many attackers are just plain lazy.
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
Re: obfuscation
Using non-standard ports and usernames is definitely part of security, as a whole. Maybe not too interesting for people deploying heavy-duty firewalls and IDS boxes but important none-the-less.
This malware targeted Synology devices specifically. How did it do that? The answer is that is found them by scanning for default open ports.
Changing ports may not be much security against a targeted attack, but it can go a long way to prevent you being a target in the first place!!
Re: "It's an expensive ask..." but necessary
Port scanner are as old as the TCP/IP network itself - it takes very little to check what ports are open and which services sit behind them.
Also, if you plan to manage/use your system from the Internet, you may need to manage/use it from networks that won't let arbitrary ports used for external connections. For example any sensible company firewall/proxy will let only HTTP connections to ports 80 and 443 to external servers (unless there are good reasons to allow for other specific ports to specific IPs), not to any port of your choice,
IMHO the only way to protect these systems is to access them only via a properly secured and authenticated tunnel. The whole IoT is doomed to fail if companies want devices directly accessible over the Internet to pump user data out of them. I would not let any device of mine to be publicy accessible unless it is designed to be like my own web site - and even then it will be properly isolated from the main internal network.
Having looked at the available Bells and Whistles apps for the Synology NAS I kept coming back the thought "but why would you put that on something which by design has a lot of your valuable data/backups?" I can see the sales people screaming can it make coffee yet!? while the guys responsible for the backbone NAS functionality are busy freshening up their CV and broadening the Linkedin profile to pay the rent. It will end in tears, someone has lost sight of a main drive for NAS, secure file storage and backup.
If you want Joomla/Moodle/MediaWiki etc. install a hypervisor on a box somewhere and get to know TurnkeyLinux, assume something will get hacked or broken and keep them contained to limit the blast radius. Don't keep putting your Kinder, chicken and Fabergé in the same basket.
Re: KISS
Interestingly some of the high end QNAP 4 bay NAS boxes can run VMs. Maybe a corporate client had a word with them and mentioned they wanted segregation of these features.
re: Fail2Ban
So regarding Fail2Ban - it does have crude "block repeated login attempts" in the "AutoBlock" section of the control panel. Set how many times an IP can fail to login and it'll block the offending IP address, indefinitely if need be. I'd remote into the device to check the exact settings, but I've disabled that for now :-D
I agree though, the "everything via port 5000" is possibly the worst idea they could come up with.
Re: re: Fail2Ban
However, if it's the process itself that's vulnerable (something I don't think anyone knows yet), you might not even need to attempt to log in order to exploit it - it might just require the right sort of data squirted at it - in which case IDS-ish tools like fail2ban won't help you, likewise for a rate-limiting firewall.
Even if it did require a valid login, the last two NAS units I set up had SSL turned off out-of-the-box and required enabling options in the GUI to mandate it (granted that was 2yrs ago) so even with better defence mechanisms there might still be a lot of creds going over in the clear.
A VPN setup should still be the preferred approach before you can even try authenticating to the NAS services.
Re: re: Fail2Ban
Agreed, wouldn't help in this instance - just clarifying the article :-) It's unlikely this is a brute-force style attack so rate-limiting wouldn't be any good.
Re: re: Fail2Ban
Fail2Ban is capable of more analysis than simply "block X number of failed logins". That just happens to be the only thing most people use it for. :)
Also: Fail2Ban wouldn't have stopped this attack, but it would stop many others. And my point here is "defense in depth." That there are layers that need to be here. I would, for example, configure Fail2Ban - or the auth system it protects - to reject any root or admin-priv user if that user was logging in from anything excepting the local subnet. Very important...
Step 0 for Synology
I agree with the basic ideas expressed in the article, but would suggest the first step is for Synology to actually spend some time (or even <gasp> money) communicating and responding to their user base. As a Synology NAS user I've given up on any support whatsoever from them for anything whatsoever, their forums are a joke, their e-mail support laughable. It may be that an Enterprise contract is necessary for anything to happen, my experience is that they do not care a jot about the average user.
I also agree with a previous poster over the waste of money that is the new DSM interface, its not much better or worse than the previous interface, but perhaps the money could have been better spent on supplying security or decent functionality.
Their priorities seem somewhat wrong.
If Synology are reading the article they'll only care about this bit: "I like Synology's products and I intend to keep on using them."
A cunningly placed MARKETING FNORD!
If it was a fnord, you wouldn't be able to see it.
As for Synology, I've got meetings scheduled with them to go over the issues here and try to convince them to invest heavily in security. So far, they seem receptive.
According to Synology...
The vulnerability that is being exploited was patched in December 2013.
Admittedly, it's "based on their current observations" but does suggest that this is an old vulnerability - there have been numerous patches and updates since then, so it would appear that these are old and unpatched systems.
While I'm appalled at the fact that I've not had an email notification from Synology, I think this article is a little harsh: it would appear to me that Synology has done fairly well in terms of patching and updates. The newer DSM versions are also fairly proactive about emailing me when updates are available.
I didn't know about any vulnerability in Syno. I mean aside from the standard "Update your NAS now" emails which tell of bug fixes, not what the bugs are and how they're being used.
Had mine front facing on the net for a while without any problems (touch wood). I don't pretend to know anything the Linux code or how to use the shell.
I disabled the admin account and created a new one. I have SSH turned off. I have SSL turned on and auto-redirected. I have auto-block IP on 2 password fuck-ups.
Am I doing everything right?
Re: Thanks
So far, yes.
Remember it's not just Synology
It shouldn't have happened. No argument.
But why the laser like targeting on Synology? Which appears to be far more aggressive than previous reporting for:
You could at least slap all of them equally for their incompetence over the years.
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
They've all had the ire shone on them at some point, but Trev has made it clear that he's pretty invested in the Syno stuff in the past for when it's suitable and that he likes it, so it's fairly straightforward to see why someone who is
familiar with the ecosystem,
has contacts at the company,
and has a journalistic outlet
would make more noise over it than for other companies such as Apple, Adobe etc, where I'm not aware of any Reg journos having direct contacts there they can press (or who would be in a technical position, as a live techy on those products, to proffer such advice).
if you see what I mean?
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
"etc..etc.. You could at least slap all of them equally for their incompetence over the years."
You forgot QNAP.
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
I think he was listing brands with security issues, couldn't find an article on a QNAP security cockup (other than OpenSSL which everyone suffered).
Not that they will be without issues, and I bet they will be doing even more audits and tests in the light of current news...
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
I was warded off QNAP by a few reports on the old interwebs suggesting they are great at adding new features, but shit at backporting security fixes to older versions of their OS, and backporting the OS to older hardware (IE DSM 5 runs on most of their range, IIRC)
Survey of one, apocryphal tales etc, but that's why I went with Synology in the end - they do seem to keep the older stuff actively supported longer.
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
"You could at least slap all of them equally for their incompetence over the years."
I do.
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
You could also argue that by forcing you to use the latest version of the OS it makes it easier for them to support. Heck even Microsoft limit what they support and they're massive in comparison. I've had my QNAP since 2008 and it still runs the latest OS and is thus supported. I'll settle for that.
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
That is True, I have an old DS211j
It must have been released in 2010, it has 128MB ram but it is running DSM5
Mine's similar...
I block on 3 wrong passwords within 5 minutes - and I've had loads of blocks just recently, mostly from China, although whether that's the actual source or a re-routed from elsewhere I don't know. As with Mr Jordan, my admin account has been changed and has a very strong password. I'm not a fan of the DSM 5 interface, personally I really don't like the current Metro-like flat, lifeless, featureless 2D tiles that seem to be everywhere in IT these days.
I got my wife to take mine off the web first thing as a precaution and will check it out tonight. I really like Synology kit, mine's a 2-drive 3 or 4 year old now. Will be getting another one for my home lab soon.
CVE here
Going from the Syno forum post, the CVE behind this exploit appears to be this one:
No authentication required, dumps a file on the local system and then executes it as root apparently. Do the synology web services run as root?! Seriously... that's like eggs 101, Woodhouse.
Re: CVE here
1) Log in via SSH to The Little Company Box running DSM 5-0.4493 Update 3
2) ps -w
6601 http 308m S /usr/bin/httpd -DSSL -DSPDY
6638 root 18064 S < /usr/bin/httpd -DSSL -DSPDY -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf-sys
6640 root 17324 S /usr/bin/httpd -DSSL -DSPDY -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf-sys
6649 root 137m S < /usr/bin/httpd -DSSL -DSPDY -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf-sys
Hmmm...... does the webserver UPGRADE its UID to root or what?
Re: CVE here
It's fairly normal for apache/httpd to start as root and then fork into worker processes running as less privileged users. IIRC by default apache won't run as root unless compiled with a specific option - you should be able to see that with httpd -v.
Re: CVE here
Yeah, but here they are clearly running as root.
I've had a Synology for a while now and have often wondered if the team at Synology have a clue about half of the stuff that they put on the NAS.
One point in general was when I was trying to setup NFSv4 introduced with V5, my 213+ doesn't support Kerberos so I looked into setting it up without, after a while of reading one of the steps to setup NFSv4 without Kerberos is that both the NAS & connecting workstations must be in the same domain, after a support call to Synology to say I couldn't couldn't set up a *nix domain on the NAS they asked me to install a patch without any explanation of what it did, so I stuck with NFSv3
When the next DSM 5 update released a field was added to allow the setting of this crucial field for the newly touted NFSv4 functionality to work.
Conflict of interest?
Isn't it a conflict of interest for Trevor to report on Synology while touting their gear to his own customers? Obviously he wouldn't want them to go bust. What exactly is his interest in the company?
My only interest is curiosity and a distaste for shoddy products. I hope Synology gets taken to court for negligence.
Re: Conflict of interest?
"Isn't it a conflict of interest for Trevor to report on Synology while touting their gear to his own customers? Obviously he wouldn't want them to go bust. What exactly is his interest in the company?"
I am not entirely sure why it would be a conflict of interest to report on Synology while selling it to my customers. I sell Microsoft software and services to my customers too, and I tear them a new arse every other day. Any vendor is disposable, and - to be perfectly blunt - I don't make my living selling computers. I keep my hand it in because doing so allows me to keep a presence at the coalface of IT, making sure my skills stay sharp and that I have knowledge and experience relevant to the IT companies I report on.
What might represent a conflict of interest - but I honestly feel does not - is that i am currently engaged with Synology on a very narrow contract to provide them a VMworld booth demo. This demo consists of a Supermicro FatTwin server, A Supermicro Switch and a Synology RackStation all configured to run various workloads that stress the Synology storage. The contract is very narrowly defined, and I have no other role (such as ongoing consulting, etc) beyond that specific deliverable.
Given the voluminous red tape that is Synology's internal marketing spend processes, there is zero reason to believe I would get another contract from them. So, being frank, there is no incentive on my part to be nice to them. I have a fixed contract that says "I gets my money if I deliver the goods" and there's nothing in there about not pissing off the natives.
And I piss off the natives rather a lot. They weren't exactly happy I ran a pair of pieces that said, in essence, "Synology made mistakes and needs to reorganize themselves internally and spend a stonking huge pile of money to make things better in the long run."
I've never tried to hide who I am working with. You can always find out information about my open-ended engagements at http://www.trevorpott.com/about/ under "disclosure".
I don't list narrowly focused, fixed-deliverable contracts unless those contracts compel me to advocate on behalf of a client. Once more being blunt: I get so many jobs creating whitepapers, blogs, demo videos, booth demos and so forth that the fixed-deliverable stuff all blurs together. They don't make me any more or less happy about a company.
A great example is Microsoft. They gave me a free year of MSDN so that I would be able to have licences to write about their software. Didn't make me any more charitable towards them.
VMware ensures I have a suite of the latest licenses, if you read my writing over at SearchVMware, I don't exactly pull punches with them either...and the VMware licenses I get are enough to run my lab.
Bottom line: if there is ever something I - or any of the circle of professionals I trust to help me make these judgements - feel presents the possibility for conflict of interest, that will be listed in the disclosure section of my personal website for all to see.
In the meantime and betweentime, I will report on anything interesting I turn up - positive or negative - with as little personal bias as I am capable of demonstrating. I will also use and abuse any and all of my contacts within every vendor I can to advocate on behalf of "the little guy": the end customer, end user and the sub-1000 seat SMB.
As regards Synology, this means using all my connections there to try to get them to take a more serious approach to security. But I don't give Synology any more of a break than I would any other company.
Well, except Ninite. They get a free pass no matter what. But I'm allowed to be an unashamed fanboy of at least one company, aren't I?
Re: Conflict of interest?
Thanks for the disclosure. If someone had recently suggested to me that I buy a Synology NAS, this episode would certainly affect my opinion of the quality of their IT advice. Unless they had also warned me of this sort of possibility.
Re: Conflict of interest?
I think if you put the management interface of any device onto the internet you're nothing more than a lesson waiting to be taught to others. So to be entirely fair, when asked, I vehemently advise against it, be they Synology or not.
Naked admin: just say no!
For DSM 4.0, please install DSM 4.0-2259 or later
But not -2454, because 2454 has the same date and time as 2254, 2255, and 2255, and not 2257, because that is Earlier than 2255, not Later. No, you want 2262 or 2263, because those are Later than 2259, as well as being Greater than 2259, though Lesser than 2454.
Although ACTUALLY, for most hardware, the last version of DSM 4.0 was DSM4.0-2228
> http://ukdl.synology.com/download/DSM/4.0/ <
I had an email from Synology warning me. The NAS also emails me telling me there's updates to DSM. People had EIGHT MONTHS to patch this vulnerability. Sympathy disabled.
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Moral Monday demonstrators came to Raleigh this week to protest fracking and the state's failure to expand Medicaid. That didn't stop them however from weighing in on the Senate's budget plan, which includes major cuts to health and human service programs [1] and further reductions in education spending [2] to fund teacher pay raises this year. Click below to hear more from the Moral Monday protesters in their own words:[3]
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[5] Protesters lauded in editorial, returning to Raleigh at mid-day : http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2014/05/27/protesters-lauded-in-editorial-returning-to-raleigh-at-mid-day/
[6] Sen. Berger sits down with teachers in unexpected pow-wow on eve of House budget reveal : http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2014/06/10/sen-berger-sits-down-with-teachers-in-unexpected-pow-wow-on-eve-of-house-budget-reveal/
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2) Victor Olidipo-IU- I admit I am concerned that he and MKG are too similar to play together. Would we have enough scoring punch with Olidipo at the 2 and MKG at the 3? Maybe not, but it would be one of the best defensive 2/3 combos in the league. Plus, Olidipo is a much more offensively polished version of MKG. He hit 47 percent of his 3's last year and his handle, while still shaky, is better than MKG.
3) Ben Mclemore-KU- I am not exactly pumped about it, but if Mclemore is available at 4, you have to consider him. His combination of size, shooting and scoring ability is impressive. At 6'5 and with his skill set, he would be the perfect replacement for Gerald Henderson, if you let Hendo walk. The one big issue I have with him is his passive nature. He disappeared in quite a few games at Kansas. Is he the Alpha Dog that wants to carry a team? I have my serious doubts about that. But, if his talents are available at #4 he has to be tempting. And, this draft looks like it might not have any Alpha Dogs who will carry teams.


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The success of the Harry Potter franchise has snowballed since the first of many Harry Potter books, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", by J. K. Rowling, was first published in 1997. With the addition of movies, toys, games and other accessories, Harry Potter has created an industry generating billions of dollars in sales. With each new book edition or movie release, StockPickr believes investors can benefit by investing in companies involved with Harry Potter branded items.
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Officials say, Justin McDonald, 19, put a red and blue emergency light on his car and pretended to be an Angelina County Sheriff Deputy.
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|Isoblocks, Vibrapods, Mapleshade 4" 18X18 butcher block (finished and beveled), GinkoAudio Cloud 10 and Aries 2 acrylic cover, Herbies Halo Tube dampers and Tenderfoot w/wooden balls, ALO iMod Blackgated LOD
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|All Jazz, Blues (old and new style), Guitar Rock, Classical
|Interests (non-headphone)
|Mountain Biking, Scuba Diving, Skiing, Flying (single engine pilot), Jogging, Working Out
|Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)
|Watches and sunglasses
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Official New York Spring Meet Sat May 16 2015
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Official NYC Metro Area "Headphonatics Anonymous" Fall Meet - November 15th - Stamford Sheraton - Stamford, CT
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Watches - another passion of ours, it seems...post your pics!
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Shure SE 535 and/or E500 PTH IEMs
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FS: 2 Mint iRiver H120 DAPs
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Best looking tube amp
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(It Seems That) The iPhone 6 Will Have A Headphone Jack
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Portable Headphone Amp Sale
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