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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the computers-going-cheap? dept.

Amongst other news outlets, CIO reports on a hacker attack on the German parliament (Bundestag) that occured four weeks ago and is still ongoing:

Trojans introduced to the Bundestag network are still working and are still sending data from the internal network to an unknown destination, several anonymous parliament sources told German publication Der Spiegel.[German]
All software and hardware in the German parliamentary network might need to be replaced[1]. More than four weeks after a cyberattack, the government hasn't managed to erase spyware from the system, according to a news report.

Some MPs have concerns to call experts from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, for help, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process, a possible violation of the principles of Separation of Powers.

[1] Apparently about 20.000 machines are affected


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:44AM (#195715)

    I just wrote a long submission with a fairly substantial blurb of my original creation but when I hit preview, the text disappeared and all I got was

    "This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again."

    Fucking computers!

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by No Respect on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:49AM

    by No Respect (991) on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:49AM (#195718)

    Whenever you're entering a large amount of text in a browser form field, remember to always Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C before hitting the 'submit' button. You will not regret making this a habit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:02AM (#195725)

      Or use vim to compose and paste in when done.

    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:17AM

      by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:17AM (#195729) Journal

      New one on me. I have had that very same experience. Several times.

      What does Control-A followed by Control-C do?

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      "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:01AM (#195741)

        It's a Windows (CUA?) thing. Select all, copy. Works on most GUIs nowadays, not just Windows. Stores the text in the clipboard. Anyway, it's best to use a real text editor and then copy into the web browser.

        • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:12AM

          by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:12AM (#195744) Journal

          As long as I have used Windows, I never did get into the habit of Control-A for "select All".... always moused it.

          Gotcha...

          So now when I seem to have lost that entire block of text I had just composed when the submit did not work...just open up another submit window and Control-V the text from the clipboard right back into the text box.

          I'll do that next time.

          As long as I have been using Windows..... I should have known that. Oh well... learn something new every day. Thanks!

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          • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Justin Case on Saturday June 13 2015, @01:25PM

            by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday June 13 2015, @01:25PM (#195765) Journal

            > As long as I have used Windows... always moused it.

            If I could go back in time and irrevocably delete two inventions, they would be GUIs and the mouse. They train users to be stupid.

            I can't find words to describe how frustrating it is to watch somebody else (say, during a meeting when they're "presenting") tediously mouse their way through a large wall of text when a couple keystrokes could get it done 100 times faster and with more accuracy. Sometimes when someone is scrolling up and down eyeballing for the paragraph they want I just can't stop myself from saying "Control-F... Control-F. Control-F!!!"

            • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @07:30AM

              by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 14 2015, @07:30AM (#196030) Journal

              Ctrl-F only works if you know an exact string that appears in the paragraph.

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              The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
        • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Saturday June 13 2015, @02:55PM

          by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 13 2015, @02:55PM (#195784)

          It is CUA, which is IBM, not Microsoft, and comes from back in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access [wikipedia.org]

          MS Windows happens to be probably the most used implementation of the standard, but originally it was a Unix standard to - CDE/Motif was to be the standard desktop and it followed CUA.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:10PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:10PM (#195879)

    Not sure about other browsers but Firefox will preserve your form data. You can hit your back button and get the text back.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Sunday June 14 2015, @12:04AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday June 14 2015, @12:04AM (#195919) Journal

    Try to grab your text by opening the "view source" window. Search for something that you wrote. If that fails then do the hacker trick by searching the process or kernel memory for any phrase you wrote. Using "grep" on the browser cache files may also work.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Monday June 15 2015, @12:40AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Monday June 15 2015, @12:40AM (#196300) Journal

      To grab your post out of memory one could using "fairly substantial blurb of" as a marker:

      a) Go to "View" on the toolbar and then select "View source" in the menu. Then search that window for "fairly substantial blurb of".

      b) Change settings to a proxy server (127.0.0.1 12345) and make something listen on that proxy port and press retry: nc -l -p 12345 | tee dump.html Then search "dump.html" for "fairly substantial blurb of".

      c) Memory method: grep -ai "fairly substantial blurb of" /dev/mem | more (Linux as root)

      d) Cache files: grep -aiR "Ask Toolbar Now Marked" /home/guest/.browser/

      If your lucky pressing the back button MAY work or clear your submission. But the above methods works after you messed up. They ain't pretty but they might save the day.