Showing posts with label down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label down. Show all posts
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers
splitenz notes the first actions in the war against the Koobface botnet, taken on the heels of a comprehensive report (PDF) on the operations of the botnet and the criminal gang behind it. The researchers who analyzed Koobface are the same ones who brought Ghostnet to light. "Security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service providers, have disrupted the brains of the Koobface botnet.The computer identified as the command-and-control server used to send instructions to infected Koobface machines was offline late Friday (US Pacific time). Criminals behind the botnet made more than $US2 million in one year. Facebook accounts are used to lure victims to Google Blogspot pages, which in turn redirect them to Web servers that contain the malicious Koobface code. This action is only a stage in the war against Koobface."
Down Goes Arrington: WordPress.com Getting Top Author Stats Shortly
If 75 percent of my day is spent writing, the remaining 25 percent is probably going over TechCrunch stats. I'm obsessed with it. That's why I do so many posts about things like Chrome getting ready to overtake Firefox as the dominant browser among TechCrunch readers (less than 1 percent away now). So I was obviously happy when WordPress.com (which hosts us) overhauled their Stats area earlier this year. But it was always missing just one thing.
WordPress.com's Stats area gives you a solid overview for how your blog is doing overall. And unlike Google Analytics, the data is up-to-the-minute fresh. You can see your top posts, top referrers, top search engine terms, top clicked links, and a few other things. One thing it doesn't have though is the ability to see how each author is doing in terms of traffic to their posts. In other words, it's lacking in the vanity department. But that's coming shortly.
Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HjR-pzAD-Rk/
Slide Down the Great Wall
The Great Wall of China is mythic. When people talk about it they almost always--erroneously--note that you can see it from space (NASA's take on the subject: You can't see it with the naked eye, but you can detect it in certain radar images if you really know where to look). Or they say how it's actually a huge tomb, as the bodies of the men who perished while working on it were often buried inside (in fact, there have been no bones, human or otherwise, found in the Wall, though a great number of workers did die while toiling to build it). But no one ever talks about the slide. Or at least that's what I thought when I visited the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall last week during my visit to China. A two-hour drive north of Beijing, Mutianyu is a small mountaintop village with a beautifully restored section of the Wall that doesn't see nearly as many tourists as the more popular Badaling section (which is where Nixon visited the Wall, and is much closer to Beijing). We were told that October is one of the best times to visit the Wall, and we arrived to cloudless skies, perfect temperatures, and a clear view of the Wall twisting over the mountain's ridges, its granite parapets jutting out like vertebrae in a spine. It was, in a word, spectacular.
Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/slide-down-the-great-wall.html
Monday, October 25, 2010
Learn More About The Dublin Web Summit: #DWS4 (Down the avenue)
... Partner at 500 Start Ups Jeff Clavier - Founding Partner at SoftTech VC Josh Williams - Founder of Gowalla Guru Banaver - CTO & VP at IBM Leila Janah - Founder of Samasource.com Vanessa Fox - Creator of Google's Webmaster Central Mike Kerns - Founder of Citizen Sports Oren Michels - Founder of Mashery Bill Liao - Co-Founder of Xing Paddy Holahan - Founder of Newbay Reshma Sohoni - CEO...
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Post originale: http://wik.io/info/US/223886034
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Pirated Geospatial Software Could Bring Down CIA's Predator Drones
Slashdot runs a discussion named Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones.
Their summary: "Fast Company reports that Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle will soon issue a decision on an intellectual property-related lawsuit that could ground the CIA's Predator drones. Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL Toolkit were pirated by Massachusetts-based Netezza for use by a government client and is seeking an injunction that would halt the use of their two toolkits by Netezza for three years. The dispute goes back to when Netezza and IISi were former partners in a contract to develop software that would be used, among other purposes, for unmanned drones. IISi's suit claims that both the software package used by the CIA and the Netezza Spatial product were built using their intellectual property and according to statements made by IISi CEO Paul Davis, a favorable ruling in the injunction would revoke the CIA's license to use Geospatial. If IISi prevails in court this would either force the CIA to ground Predator drones or to break the law in their use of the pirated software. But there's more. Testimony given by an IISi executive to the court indicates that Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi's code to deliver a faulty version that could cause predator drones to miss their targets by as much as 40 feet. "
We can also give credit to the geoint blog which mentioned that geospatial software piracy problem a week ago.
Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/10/18/Pirated-Geospatial-Software-Could-Bring-Down-CIAs-Predator-Drones
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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