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Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not helpful, such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse.[1] This approach works towards helping people increase their emotional and cognitive regulation by learning about the triggers that lead to reactive states and helping to assess which coping skills to apply in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help avoid undesired reactions. DBT assumes that people are doing the best they can but are either lacking the skills or influenced by positive or negative reinforcement that interfere with their ability to function appropriately.
DBT is a modified form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), that was developed in late 1970s by Marsha M. Linehan,[2] a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and chronically suicidal individuals. Although research on its effectiveness in treating other conditions has been extremely limited, DBT is now used in a variety of psychological treatments including treatment for traumatic brain injuries (TBI), eating disorders, and mood disorders.[3][4] Scant research indicates that DBT might have some effect on patients who present varied symptoms and behaviors associated with spectrum mood disorders, including self-injury.[5] Recent work also suggests its effectiveness with sexual abuse survivors[6] and chemical dependency.[7]
DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice. DBT is the first therapy that has been experimentally demonstrated to be generally effective in treating BPD.[8][9] The first randomized clinical trial of DBT showed reduced rates of suicidal gestures, psychiatric hospitalizations, and treatment drop-outs when compared to treatment as usual.[4] A meta-analysis found that DBT reached moderate effects in individuals with borderline personality disorder.[10]
Linehan observed "burn-out" in therapists after coping with "non-motivated" patients who repudiated cooperation in successful treatment. Her first core insight was to recognize that the chronically suicidal patients she studied had been raised in profoundly invalidating environments, and, therefore, required a climate of loving-kindness and somewhat unconditional acceptance (not Rogers' positive humanist approach, but Hanh's metaphysically neutral one), in which to develop a successful therapeutic alliance.[note 1] Her second insight involved the need for a commensurate commitment from patients, who needed to be willing to accept their dire level of emotional dysfunction.
DBT strives to have the patient view the therapist as an ally rather than an adversary in the treatment of psychological issues. Accordingly, the therapist aims to accept and validate the client's feelings at any given time, while, nonetheless, informing the client that some feelings and behaviors are maladaptive, and showing them better alternatives.[4]
Linehan and others combined a commitment to the core conditions of acceptance and change through the principle of dialectics (in which thesis + antithesis → synthesis) and assembled an array of skills for emotional self-regulation drawn from Western psychological traditions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and an interpersonal variant, "assertiveness training", and Eastern meditative traditions, such as Buddhist mindfulness meditation. One of her contributions was to alter the adversarial nature of the therapist-client relationship in favor of an alliance based on intersubjective tough love.
All DBT can be said to involve 4 components:
- Individual – The therapist and patient discuss issues that come up during the week (recorded on diary cards) and follow a treatment target hierarchy. Self-injurious and suicidal behaviors, or life-threatening behaviors, take first priority. Second in priority are behaviors which, while not directly harmful to self or others, interfere with the course of treatment. These behaviors are known as therapy-interfering behaviors. Third in priority are quality of life issues and working towards improving one's life generally. During the individual therapy, the therapist and patient work towards improving skill use. Often, a skills group is discussed and obstacles to acting skillfully are addressed.
- Group – A group ordinarily meets once weekly for two to two-and-a-half hours and learns to use specific skills that are broken down into four skill modules: core mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.
- Therapist Consultation Team – A therapist consultation team includes all therapists providing DBT. The meeting occurs weekly and serves to support the therapist in providing the treatment.
- Phone Coaching – Phone coaching is designed to help generalize skills into the patient's daily life. Phone coaching is brief and limited to a focus on skills.
No one component is used by itself; the individual component is considered necessary to keep suicidal urges or uncontrolled emotional issues from disrupting group sessions, while the group sessions teach the skills unique to DBT, and also provide practice with regulating emotions and behavior in a social context.
Four modules
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Mindfulness is one of the core concepts behind all elements of DBT. It is considered a foundation for the other skills taught in DBT, because it helps individuals accept and tolerate the powerful emotions they may feel when challenging their habits or exposing themselves to upsetting situations. The concept of mindfulness and the meditative exercises used to teach it are derived from traditional Buddhist practice, though the version taught in DBT does not involve any religious or metaphysical concepts. Within DBT it is the capacity to pay attention, nonjudgmentally, to the present moment; about living in the moment, experiencing one's emotions and senses fully, yet with perspective.
"What" skills
- Observe
- This is used to nonjudgmentally observe one's environment within or outside oneself. It is helpful in understanding what is going on in any given situation.
- DBT recommends developing a "teflon mind," the ability to let feelings and experiences pass without sticking in the mind.[11]
- Describe
- This is used to express what one has observed with the observe skill. It is to be used without judgmental statements. This helps with letting others know what you have observed.
- Participate
- This is used to become fully focused on, and involved in, the activity that one is doing.
"How" skills
- Nonjudgmentally
- This is the action of describing the facts, and not thinking about what's "good" or "bad," "fair," or "unfair." These are judgments, not a factual description. Being nonjudgmental helps to get your point across in an effective manner without adding a judgment that someone else might disagree with.
- One-mindfully
- This is used to focus on one thing. One-mindfully is helpful in keeping your mind from straying into emotion mind by a lack of focus.
- Effectively
- This is simply doing what works. It is a very broad-ranged skill and can be applied to any other skill to aid in being successful with said skill.[12]
Distress tolerance
Many current approaches to mental health treatment focus on changing distressing events and circumstances such as dealing with the death of a loved one, loss of a job, serious illness, terrorist attacks and other traumatic events.[13] They have paid little attention to accepting, finding meaning for, and tolerating distress. This task has generally been tackled by psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, gestalt, or narrative therapies, along with religious and spiritual communities and leaders. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes learning to bear pain skillfully.
Distress tolerance skills constitute a natural development from DBT mindfulness skills. They have to do with the ability to accept, in a non-evaluative and nonjudgmental fashion, both oneself and the current situation. Since this is a non-judgmental stance, this means that it is not one of approval or resignation. The goal is to become capable of calmly recognizing negative situations and their impact, rather than becoming overwhelmed or hiding from them. This allows individuals to make wise decisions about whether and how to take action, rather than falling into the intense, desperate, and often destructive emotional reactions that are part of borderline personality disorder.[12]
- Distract with ACCEPTS
- This is a skill used to distract oneself temporarily from unpleasant emotions.
- Activities - Use positive activities that you enjoy.
- Contribute - Help out others or your community.
- Comparisons - Compare yourself either to people that are less fortunate or to how you used to be when you were in a worse state.
- Emotions (other) - cause yourself to feel something different by provoking your sense of humor or happiness with corresponding activities.
- Push away - Put your situation on the back-burner for a while. Put something else temporarily first in your mind.
- Thoughts (other) - Force your mind to think about something else.
- Sensations (other) – Do something that has an intense feeling other than what you are feeling, like a cold shower or a spicy candy.[12]
- Self-soothe
- This is a skill in which one behaves in a comforting, nurturing, kind, and gentle way to oneself. You use it by doing something that is soothing to you. It is used in moments of distress or agitation.[12] New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who was diagnosed with BPD in 2011 and is a strong advocate for DBT, cited activities such as prayer and listening to jazz music as instrumental in his treatment.
- IMPROVE the moment
- This skill is used in moments of distress to help one relax.
- Imagery - Imagine relaxing scenes, things going well, or other things that please you.
- Meaning - Find some purpose or meaning in what you are feeling.
- Prayer - Either pray to whomever you worship, or, if not religious, chant a personal mantra.
- Relaxation - Relax your muscles, breathe deeply; use with self-soothing.
- One thing in the moment - Focus your entire attention on what you are doing right now. Keep yourself in the present.
- Vacation (brief) - Take a break from it all for a short period of time.
- Encouragement - Cheerlead yourself. Tell yourself you can make it through this and cope as it will assist your resilience and reduce your vulnerability.[12]
- Pros and cons
- Think about the positive and negative things about not tolerating distress.[12]
- Radical acceptance
- Let go of fighting reality. Accept your situation for what it is.[12]
- Turning the mind
- Turn your mind toward an acceptance stance. It should be used with radical acceptance.[12]
- Willingness vs. willfulness
- Be willing and open to do what is effective. Let go of a willful stance which goes against acceptance. Keep your eye on the goal in front of you.[12]
Emotion regulation
Individuals with borderline personality disorder and suicidal individuals are frequently emotionally intense and labile. They can be angry, intensely frustrated, depressed, or anxious. This suggests that these clients might benefit from help in learning to regulate their emotions. Dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation include:[14][15]
- Identify and label emotions
- Identify obstacles to changing emotions
- Reduce vulnerability to emotion mind
- Increase positive emotional events
- Increase mindfulness to current emotions
- Take opposite action
- Apply distress tolerance techniques[12]
- Story of emotion
- This skill is used to understand what kind of emotion one is feeling.
- Prompting event
- Interpretation of the event
- Body sensations
- Body language
- Action urge
- Action
- Emotion name, based on previous items on list[12]
- This skill concerns ineffective health habits can make one more vulnerable to emotion mind. This skill is used to maintain a healthy body, so one is more likely to have healthy emotions.
- PhysicaL illness (treat) - If you are sick or injured, get proper treatment for it.
- Eating (balanced) - Make sure you eat a proper healthy diet, and eat in moderation.
- Avoid mood-altering drugs - Do not take non-prescribed medication or illegal drugs. They are very harmful to your body, and can make your mood unpredictable.
- Sleep (balanced) - Do not sleep too much or too little. Eight hours of sleep is recommended per night for the average adult.
- Exercise - Make sure you get an effective amount of exercise, as this will both improve body image and release endorphins, making you happier.[12]
- Build mastery
- Try to do one thing a day to help build competence and control.[12]
- Opposite action
- This skill is used when you have an unjustified emotion, one that doesn't belong in the situation at hand. You use it by doing the opposite of your urges in the moment. It is a tool to bring you out of an unwanted or unjustified emotion by replacing it with the emotion that is opposite.[12]
- Problem solving
- This is used to solve a problem when your emotion is justified. It is used in combination with other skills.[12]
- Letting go of emotional suffering
- Observe and experience your emotion, accept it, then let it go.[12]
Interpersonal effectiveness
Interpersonal response patterns taught in DBT skills training are very similar to those taught in many assertiveness and interpersonal problem-solving classes. They include effective strategies for asking for what one needs, saying no, and coping with interpersonal conflict.
Individuals with borderline personality disorder frequently possess good interpersonal skills in a general sense. The problems arise in the application of these skills to specific situations. An individual may be able to describe effective behavioral sequences when discussing another person encountering a problematic situation, but may be completely incapable of generating or carrying out a similar behavioral sequence when analyzing their own situation.
The interpersonal effectiveness module focuses on situations where the objective is to change something (e.g., requesting that someone do something) or to resist changes someone else is trying to make (e.g., saying no). The skills taught are intended to maximize the chances that a person's goals in a specific situation will be met, while at the same time not damaging either the relationship or the person's self-respect.
- DEARMAN - getting something
- This acronym is used to aid one in getting what he or she wants when asking.
- Describe your situation.
- Express why this is an issue and how you feel about it.
- Assert yourself by asking clearly for what you want.
- Reinforce your position by offering a positive consequence if you were to get what you want.
- Mindful of the situation by focusing on what you want and ignore distractions.
- Appear Confident even if you don't feel confident.
- Negotiate with a hesitant person and come to a comfortable compromise on your request.
- GIVE - giving something
- This skill set aids one with maintaining their relationships, whether they are with friends, coworkers, family, romantic partners, etc. It is to be used in conversations.
- Gentle: Use appropriate language, no verbal or physical attacks, no put downs, avoid sarcasm unless you are sure the person is alright with it, and be courteous and non-judgmental.
- Interested: When the person you are speaking to is talking about something, act interested in what they are saying. Maintain eye contact, ask questions, etc. Do not use your cell phone while having a conversation with another person!
- Validate: Show that you understand a person's situation and sympathize with them. Validation can be shown through words, body language and/or facial expressions.
- Easy Manner: Be calm and comfortable during conversation, use humor, smile.
- FAST - keeping self-respect
- This is a skill to aid one in maintaining their self-respect. It is to be used in combination with the other interpersonal effectiveness skills.
- Fair: Be fair to both yourself and the other person.
- Apologies (few): Don't apologize more than once for what you have done ineffectively, or apologize for something which was not ineffective.
- Stick to Your Values: Stay true to what you believe in and stand by it. Don't allow others to get you to do things against your values.
- Truthful: Don't lie. Lying can only pile up and damage relationships and your self-respect.[12]
This list does not include the "problem solving" module, the purpose of which is to practice being one's own therapist.
Diary cards
Specially formatted cards for tracking therapy interfering behaviors that distract or hinder a patient's progress. Diary cards can be filled out daily, 2-3 times a day, or once per week.
Chain analysis
Chain analysis is a form of functional analysis of behavior but with increased focus on sequential events that form the behavior chain. It has strong roots in behavioral psychology in particular applied behavior analysis concept of chaining.[16] A growing body of research supports the use of behavior chain analysis with multiple populations.
The milieu, or the culture of the group involved, plays a key role in the effectiveness of DBT.
See also
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Nonviolent communication
- Emotional dysregulation
- Mentalization-based treatment
- Social skill
- Behavioral psychotherapy
- Cognitive emotional behavioral therapy
- ↑ Described by Thich Nhat Hanh in his second moral precept of Zen Buddhism as loving kindness.
- ↑ An Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Psych Central, accessed 01/19/2015
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Linehan, M. M. & Dimeff, L. (2001). Dialectical Behavior Therapy in a nutshell, The California Psychologist, 34, 10-13.
- ↑ Brody, J. E. (2008, May 6). The growing wave of teenage self-harm. New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
- ↑ Decker, S.E.; Naugle, A.E. (2008). "DBT for Sexual Abuse Survivors: Current Status and Future Directions" (PDF). Journal of behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention. 1 (4): 52–69.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Linehan, Marsha M.; Schmidt, Henry III; Dimeff, Linda A.; Craft, J. Christopher; Kanter, Jonathan; Comtois, Katherine A. (1999). "Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug-Dependence" (PDF). The American Journal on Addictions. pp. 279–292. Retrieved 2014-03-31.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Stone, M.H. (1987) In A. Tasman, R. E. Hales, & A. J. Frances (eds.), American Psychiatric Press review of psychiatry (vol. 8, pp. 103-122). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press.
- ↑ Holmes, P., Georgescu, S. & Liles, W. (2005). "Further delineating the applicability of acceptance and change to private responses: The example of dialectical behavior therapy" (PDF). The Behavior Analyst Today. 7 (3): 301–311. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Sampl, S. Wakai, S., Trestman, R. and Keeney, E.M. (2008). "Functional Analysis of Behavior in Corrections: Empowering Inmates in Skills Training Groups" (PDF). Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention. 1 (4): 42–51. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Linehan,M.M., Comtois K.A., Murray A.M., Brown M.Z., Gallop R.J., Heard H.L., Korslund K.E., Tutek D.A., Reynolds S.K., Lindenboim N. (2006). Two-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of dialectical behavior therapy vs therapy by experts for suicidal behaviors and borderline personality disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 63(7), 757-66.
- Linehan,M.M., Heard,H.L. (1993) "Impact of treatment accessibility on clinical course of parasuicidal patients": Reply. Archives of General-Psychiatry, 50(2): 157-158.
- Linehan,M.M., Tutek,D.A., Heard,H.L., Armstrong,H.E. (1994). Interpersonal outcome of cognitive behavioral treatment for chronically suicidal borderline patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 1771-1776.
- Linehan,M.M., Schmidt,H., Dimeff,L.A., Craft,J.C., Kanter,J., Comtois,K.A. (1999). Dialectical behavior therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder and drug-dependence. American Journal on Addiction, 8(4), 279-292.
- Linehan, M.M., Dimeff, L.A., Reynolds, S.K., Comtois, K.A., Welch, S.S., Heagerty, P., Kivlahan, D.R. (2002). Dialectical behavior therapy versus comprehensive validation plus 12-step for the treatment of opioid dependent women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 67(1), 13-26.
- Koons, C.R., Robins, C.J., Tweed, J.L., Lynch, T.R., Gonzalez, A.M., Morse, J.Q., Bishop, G.K., Butterfield, M.I., Bastian, L.A. (2001). Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy in women veterans with borderline personality disorder. Behavior Therapy, 32(2), 371-390.
- van den Bosch, L.M.C., Verheul, R., Schippers, G.M., van den Brink, W. (2002). Dialectical Behavior Therapy of borderline patients with and without substance use problems: Implementation and long-term effects. Addictive Behaviors, 27(6), 911-923.
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- Linehan et al. (2006) NIMH 3 Two-Year Randomized Control Trial and Follow up of DBT
Further reading
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh. ISBN 0-8070-1239-4.
- Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan. 1993. ISBN 0-89862-034-1.
- Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan. 1993. ISBN 0-89862-183-6.
- Fatal Flaws: Navigating Destructive Relationships with People with Disorders of Personality and Character by Stuart C. Yudovsky. ISBN 1-58562-214-1.
- The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation by Alan E. Fruzzetti. ISBN 1-57224-450-X.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents by Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Marsha M. Linehan. Foreword by Charles R. Swenson. ISBN 978-1-59385-383-9.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley. ISBN 978-1-57224-513-6.
- Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Scott E. Spradlin. ISBN 978-1-57224-309-5.
- Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety by Thomas Marra. ISBN 978-1-57224-363-7.
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It's not often that Drew Brees can be cited as the reason the New Orleans Saints lost.
That was the case Thursday, however, as five Brees interceptions, coupled with an uncharacteristic clock-management gaffe before halftime, buried the Saints in a damaging 23-13 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Saints interim coach Joe Vitt defended his quarterback Friday.
"When you have a great quarterback on your team, great quarterbacks can't have a conscience," Vitt said, via The Associated Press. "They're going to stick tight throws. They're going to make great plays. And those great plays that great quarterbacks make take great courage. And that's just the truth.
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"I couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it," Saints safety Roman Harper said Friday. "All I'm used to is the Drew we see every Sunday, not a Drew that has five turnovers or things like that, and it was just off.
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Harper is saying the right things, but that's not how this team is built. Some teams can survive poor games from their star quarterback. The Saints aren't one of them.
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Lady: Do you happen to have any coffee?
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Lady: Oh ok. Well thanks anyway.
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Just a few examples of the rise of anti-Semitism:
Harvard 'Social Club' Tells Jews 'Don't Apply'
Finnish Official: Jews Control Money, Impede US Neutrality
Public School Teacher Indoctrinates with Anti-Israel Rap
I could go on with thousands of articles like these. Heck thousands just from the Muslim world.
This is the latest insanity from the Fakistinians:
Israel behind increase in Palestinian AIDS cases
Now today from the US Government to Harvard, Jews are being vilified and demonized. In fact, anti-Semitism is rising all over the world. It is now ingrained in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Poland, and Germany. There is no where in Europe a Jew is safe. All the anti-Semites are waiting for is for Israel to be destroyed and the United States to throw their Jewish population either out of the country or into Concentration Camps. Then watch the blood letting.
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The Entertainment Industry Foundation Women's Cancer Research Fun leadership consists of honorary chairs Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, with co-founders Kelly Chapman Meyer, Jamie Tisch, Anne Douglas, Marion Laurie and Quinn Ezralow. Each has different reasons for participating in the organization.
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Trump was roundly criticized for his response to a deadly Charlottesville protest led by white nationalists and neo-Nazis railing against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Trump had said "we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence" but came under fire for adding there was blame on "many sides" and saying there were "fine people" among the white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
In his open letter to Trump, Kammen wrote his decision to resign "is in response to your attacks on core values of the United States."
"Particularly troubling to me is how your response to Charlottesville is consistent with a broader pattern of behavior that enables sexism and racism, and disregards the welfare of all Americans, the global community, and the planet," Kammen wrote. "Examples of this destructive pattern have consequences on my duties as Science Envoy. Your decision to abdicate the leadership opportunities and the job creation benefits of the Paris Climate Accord, and to undermine energy and environmental research are not acceptable to me."
Kammen had focused on energy and climate in Africa and the Middle East as a Science Envoy, a largely honorific position facilitated with the resources and platform of the U.S. State Department. Stationed out of Berkeley, he worked closely with U.S. ambassadors in Morocco, Kenya and Jordan to enable scientific exchange on environmental research.
He was appointed as a Science Envoy in 2016 under the Obama administration. He said he's worked for 25 years in Africa, and will continue to do so as a private citizen.
"It just was not possible to work with this administration," he said. "This is not a political climate that is raising up the U.S. partnerships overseas, and so it's time to step down."


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Heartbleed Flaw Goes Unpatched on 300K Servers: Report
Jun 23, 2014 4:41 PM PT
Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remain vulnerable, Errata Security said this weekend.
That figure has remained unchanged since May.
When the flaw was announced in April, Errata found 600,000 servers vulnerable.
"The norm is to do no patches at all for some systems, no matter how easy it is to patch," Errata CEO Robert Graham told TechNewsWorld.
"If they're retirement management systems, [being left unpatched] won't be a problem," Graham said, "but if they're on a power grid, there is a problem."
What Heartbleed Is and Does
Heartbleed, which has been around since 2011, lets hackers steal information protected by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet.
OpenSSL stores a server's private key material in the memory space used by the code handling the heartbeat messages.
The flaw can be used to reveal up to 64 KB of memory to a connected client or server per heartbeat.
Users have to implement a patch issued by OpenSSL and go through all their certificates.
A Drop in the Ocean?
While 300,000 servers seems like a lot, "it isn't that big a number considering how big the Internet is," Steve Marquess, president of the OpenSSL Foundation, told TechNewsWorld.
Exactly how many servers are out there may never be known, because there is no uniform way of counting off the servers. For example, Errata's Graham estimates about 30 million servers support SSL, while Netcraft, which tracks domain names, set the figure at about 2.8 million.
"There's always going to be a certain number of systems that are going to be neglected," Marquess said. "You're never going to get that number down to zero. Look, there are still Windows 95 computers out there."
It is possible that some of the 300,000 unpatched servers Errata discovered last month already have been patched and new ones with the flaw have taken their place to keep the figure constant.
Most of the servers belong to unknown firms, but a few are located in well-known ones, Errata's Graham said, adding, "No computer should be exposed to the Internet that isn't regularly patched."
The Advent of BoringSSL
Meanwhile, staffer Adam Langley has announced that Google is changing the way it works with OpenSSL code.
Google has used patches on top of OpenSSL for years, he said.
Some have been accepted into the main OpenSSL repository, but many don't mesh with OpenSSL's guarantee of application programming interface (API) and application binary interface (ABI) stability, noted Langley, and many are "a little too experimental."
Things have grown "very complex," with more than 70 patches existing across multiple code bases for Android, Chrome and other products, he said, which are beginning to need subsets of these patches.
Going forward, Google will import changes from OpenSSL rather than write code on top of those patches, said Langley. The result, called "BoringSSL" for now, soon will begin appearing in the Chromium repository, and later in Android, as well as in Google's internal systems.
Again, there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability with this code.
No Threat to OpenSSL
Google is "not aiming to replace OpenSSL as an open source project. We will still be sending them bug fixes when we find them," Langley said.
"Google has extremely extensive worldwide operations and has had some very smart people doing extensive customization for some time," OpenSSL's Marquess said. "We work closely with those people, and I don't see any changes at all."
Further, the company will continue to fund the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multimillion-dollar project set up by several vendors to fund open source products critical to core computing functions.


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Sunday, 25 March 2012 08:32
Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing "the supreme international crime against peace."
Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity.
On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 - 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence.
It wasn't an isolated incident. It happens regularly in all US wars. Rarely is anyone held accountable, especially responsible parties up the chain of command to the top. More on that below.
On March 22, The New York Times headlined, "US Sergeant Faces 17 Counts of Murder in Afghan Killings," saying:
Sergeant Robert Bales "is accused of walking away from his remote base in southern Afghanistan and shooting and stabbing members of several families in a nighttime ambush."
He alone was charged for what up to 19 others committed.
"The Army has not suggested a motive."
Commanders deploy similar death squads regularly to kill with impunity. Bales is the exception that proves the rule. Like others occasionally charged, it's done to absolve higher-ups. Guilt goes right to the top.
In his 1948 book titled, "Politics among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace," Hans Morganthau discussed post-WW II political realism and power politics.
His vision was darkly Hobbesian. He called international law, world organizations, and morality "irrelevant" when nations go to war. Winning alone matters. At issue is gaining absolute power at the expense of rule of law principles, democratic values, targeted countries, and most people everywhere.
Today's America reflects his might over right theme. It's likely worse than he imagined, given weapons able to destroy humanity and perhaps one day do it.
In his book titled, "Protesting Power: War, Resistance and Law," Francis Boyle wrote:
"Throughout the twentieth century, the promotion of international law, organizations, human rights, and the US Constitution has consistently provided the United States with the best means for reconciling the idealism (and aspirations) of American values....with the realism of world politics and historical conditions."
In his book titled, "Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations, 1898 - 1922," Boyle discussed legal ways to prevent wars and preserve peace.
However, America's Hobbesian agenda ignores them. Post-WW II, permanent wars raged for unchallenged global dominance. Rule of law principles and democratic values are sacrificed. War and violence are glorified in the name of peace. One conflict begets another.
Afghanistan is America's longest one. It rages without end. Justifying it defends the indefensible. Francis Boyle's latest article titled, "End the Crime That Is the War on Afghanistan," states:
"....the Bush administration's war against Afghanistan cannot be justified on the facts or the law. It is clearly illegal. It constitutes armed aggression. It is creating a humanitarian catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan."
Lies and cover-up suppress daily atrocities. Political Washington's responsible for millions of lives lost, mass destruction, unspeakable human misery, and daily violence. It includes rape, torture, murder, and virtually every other type barbarity.
Occasionally charging low-level soldiers with murder or other crimes suppresses their regularity, and absolves responsible higher-ups.
In his book titled, "The 'Good Soldier' On Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the US Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq," Stjepan Mestrovic documented disturbing evidence of "US government mistreatment of its own soldier-prisoners as well as foreign 'detainees.' "
Four low-ranking soldiers faced serious charges to absolve superiors. It was no ordinary case. It involved conspiracy, cover-up and intrigue. Pentagon commanders and top administration figures bore main responsibility. Ordinary soldiers were blamed instead.
In his opening Nuremberg address, Justice Robert Jackson said:
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberative and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."
America's bound by the same standard under fundamental US and international laws. But they're not applied. Mestrovic exposed the "systemic dysfunctions in the army as well as American society." As a result, innocent victims pay for their superiors' crimes.
In violation of international and US law, as well as the Army's own code, brigade commander, Col. Michael Steele, illegally ordered troops to kill every military-aged Iraqi on sight. Disobedience would have brought court-martials and likely imprisonment.
Obeying resulted in convictions of conspiracy, murder, aggravated assault, and/or obstruction of justice - for following orders. Higher-ups are routinely absolved. Mestrovic "documented hundreds of instances of such deceit, chicanery, and dubious behavior on the part of the government."
Attorney Paul Bergrin defended one of the accused. He wanted superiors up the chain of command to the top held responsible, including Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney. As a result, he was wrongly charged with multiple serious offenses. He's imprisoned and on trial for his life and liberty - for doing his job responsibly.
A Final Comment
Charging Robert Bales alone for 16 Afghan murders replicates how convicted Operation Iron Triangle soldiers paid for their superiors' crimes up the chain of command to the top.
Military disciple is strict, especially in war theaters. Disobey and pay dearly even if follow US Army Field Manual (FM) 27-10 provisions. They incorporate Nuremberg Principles, Judgment and the Charter and The Law of Land Warfare (1956).
It states that military or civilian personnel who commit crimes under international law bear responsibility and may be punished. It denies the defense of superior orders in committing them. It mandates disobeying lawless orders.
The code applies up the chain of command to the highest military and civilian levels. Yet low-level troops pay dearly for their superiors' crimes.
It defiles Justice Jackson wanting top officials punished most of all: "men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberative and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."
Perhaps one day American war criminals will face their Nuremberg moment. It won't compensate for decades of war, mass killing and destruction, torture as official policy, every other imaginable barbarity, and human suffering beyond comprehension.
Perhaps, however, it's the only possible way to save humanity before calamitous war destroys it.
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The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected student George Walker for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Walker will receive funding and training to support his education and facilitate his service to underserved minority populations.
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Authorities say drug dealers in NYC ceased sales on Jewish Sabbath
NEW YORK – New York City authorities say a drug crew observed the Jewish Sabbath each week while dealing prescription painkillers and heroin.
The city's Special Narcotic Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday that text messages sent to customers of the Brooklyn crew notified them that the operation was always closed for Shabbat.
Five men are charged in an indictment with using stolen prescription sheets and other illegal means to obtain 23,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $460,000. They're also accused of distributing heroin with the name "DOB."
Investigators dubbed the investigation Only After Sundown.


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Movie Review: 'State of Play' old-style journalist builds case one fact at a time
by Lee Grant
"State of Play" is part political conspiracy thriller, part ode to old-style newspaper journalism, but neither part is coherent. It's in a state of disarray.
4 STARS - Excellent.
3 STARS - Worthy.
2 STARS - Mixed.
1 STAR - Poor.
Scottish director Kevin Macdonald ("The Last King of Scotland") bangs out a run-of-the-mill picture, based on an admired BBC miniseries, that opens with a thrilling splash of deadly street crime and evolves into a connected murder of a pretty, young Washington researcher who is having an affair with a congressman (Ben Affleck).
Russell Crowe plays a funky, aging reporter at the Washington Globe (the credits give "Special thanks to The Washington Post"), a slob who scarfs junk food (chili cheeseburgers accompanied by chili cheese fries), drives a ratty old Saab, his apartment a pigpen. And there's this strange, long hair out of another era.
Crowe's Cal McAffrey finds himself digging into one aspect of the case and then the other, partnered with the newspaper's young blogger, the nifty-named Della Frye (Rachel McAdams). He's old-fashioned, working sources and double-checking facts; she, meanwhile, is ready to put the latest immediately on the website.
"You think he was having an affair with that girl?" she asks Crowe of the congressman, his old friend.
Says he, "I don't know. I'd have to read a couple of blogs before I have an opinion."
McAdams is supposed to be a spunky, ambitious, "cub" reporter attempting to impress the newspaper's editor (queenly Helen Mirren, in snarky mode, dealing with her publication's new owners), but the usually intriguing actress ("The Notebook") is flat.
There's only Mirren's assessment: "She's hungry, she's cheap and she turns out copy every hour."
The story has to do with Affleck's philandering liaison and connections to a private military security firm operating rogue-like in Iraq and Afghanistan. The relationship between Crowe's reporter and Affleck's Washington heavyweight goes back to college when they were roommates. The men, though, seem from different generations, mismatched.
Meanwhile, Crowe is having death-defying adventures, escaping crazed gunmen, hijacking people to out-of-the-way motel rooms.
There's an attempt at touching some of the issues facing a newspaper industry in survival mode, but "State of Play" loses its credibility in scenes like Crowe finishing a provocative Page 1 piece way past deadline ("we've been holding the front page for four hours," howls Mirren), strolling out of the building, not hanging around for his editors to read it, let alone have lawyers look at it.
There are only a handful of films — "All the President's Men," perhaps the best — that have realistically captured the work of investigative reporters. Pouring through documents, hours on the phone, doesn't always lend itself to vivid cinema.
"State of Play" endeavors to catch the aura of a newsroom — notebooks are the right size, messy desks look fairly realistic, but how the editors carry themselves, for instance, doesn't ring true (for that, check out the final season of HBO's "The Wire," which was filmed at the Baltimore Sun). It would've been good also to depict at least one news meeting where editors debate the merits of stories and decide what goes on Page 1.
There are some smart supporting performances, particularly Jason Bateman as a smarmy public relations guy with smarmy clients (he played a PR guy also in last year's "Hancock"), and Jeff Daniels as a congressman spouting religion and patriotism when faced with the truth of his involvement in a cover-up.
Affleck's long-suffering wife is portrayed by Robin Wright Penn, who brings dignity to those women standing by the side of their cheating husbands as they make public pronouncements of contrition.
It is disappointing to hear such dialogue as Affleck's when he shows up at Crowe's door: "I could go somewhere else (pause), but I have no other place to go," particularly on a film that has three screenwriters — one of them, the gifted Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton").
Then again, there's this exchange when Daniels, in all his arrogance, says to a cornering Crowe, "How did you find me?"
Responds the reporter, "I followed the trail of crumbs, congressman."
Now that's journalism.
"State of Play." Rated: PG-13. Running time: 1 hour, 58 minutes. 2 stars.
Copyright 2009 Creators Syndicate, Inc.


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"The World's Greatest Athlete," Dan O'Brien was a track and field star at Idaho in 1989 when he earned All-America honors in the 55-meter hurdles with a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. O'Brien's specialty was the multi-events, though. That same year, O'Brien scored a school- and Big Sky-record 7,988 points in the decathlon and earned the Big Sky Track and Field Athlete of the Year honors. After leaving Idaho, O'Brien went on to be the world's best decathlete for the next 10 years with a record six No. 1 world rankings from Track and Field News, three world decathlon championships, a 1996 Olympic gold medal and a spot in the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame. His career-best score of 8,891 is a former world record and is still a USA record. His career-best indoor heptathlon score of 6,476 has stood as a world record for nearly 15 years.


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Over 50 Past "Scrubs" Guest Stars Return
"My Finale" � J.D. plans to say goodbye to Sacred Heart, but will his final day stand up to his fantasy of scoring a hug from Dr. Cox or learning the Janitor's real name? Meanwhile, when random furnishings from Elliot's apartment turn up in J.D.'s place, it becomes clear that she finally plans to take their relationship to a whole new level, on "Scrubs," TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 (8:30-9:30 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast: OAD: 5/6/09)
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Guest starring in the finale are Aloma Wright as Nurse Roberts, Robert Maschio as Todd, Sam Lloyd as Ted, Christa Miller as Jordan, Travis Schuldt as Keith, Eliza Coupe as Denise, Sonal Shah as Sunny, Colin Hay as himself, Amy Smart as Jamie, Andrew Miller as Jack, Elizabeth Bogush as Alex, Michael McDonald as Mr. Cropper, Nicole Sullivan as Jill Tracy, Phil Lewis as Hooch, Taran Killam as Jimmy, Tom Cavanaugh as Dan Dorian, Michael Learned as Mrs. Wilks, Josh Cooke as Van, Suanne Spoke as the woman, Judy Jean Berns as Mrs. Stonewater, Deonte Gordon as the orderly, Aseem Batra as Josephine, Bellamy Young as Dr. Miller, Christina Miles as Gloria, Meredith Roberts as Kathy, Jill Tracy as Elaine, Katie O'Rourke as the coffee nurse, Kit Pongetti as Lady, Lindsay Ravage as Slagathor, Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Patti, Kate Micucci as Stephanie, Aaron Ikeda as Rex, Charles Rahi Chun as Dr. Wen, Shaughn Buchholz as Cabbage, Jay Kenneth Johnson as Dr. Matthews, Joe Rose as Troy, Martin Klebba as Randall, Matt Winston as Dr. Steadman, Paul F. Perry as Randall, Michael Hobert as Lonnie, Mike Schwartz as Lloyd, Philip McNiven as Roy, Tyler Poelle as Boon, Robert Beckwith as Roy, Robert Clendenin as Dr. Zeltzer, George Miserlis as Crispin, Randall Winston as Leonard, Frank Cameron as Dr. Mickhead, Geoff Stevenson as Dr. Beardface, Manley Henry as Snoop Dawg attending and Katheryn Joosten as Mrs. Tanner.
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