Conversion Tip: Persistent Carts Help 'Wish List' Shoppers Editor’s Note: This week’s “Conversion Tip” addresses the reality of shoppers that abandon carts, and then return to them later to purchase. The author is Charles Nicholls, founder and chief strategy officer of SeeWhy, a conversion and abandonment-recovery firm. Research published by University of Glasgow showed that 74 percent of online shoppers use shopping carts as “wish lists.” By placing items in the shopping cart, and then abandoning, shoppers are relying on your ecommerce site having a persistent or permanent shopping cart. Persistent carts store items for individual customers so that when they return to the site they can find them again easily. Important for Holiday Shoppers It’s worth recognizing this shopping list behavior and checking to make sure that your site makes it easy for returning visitors. If you already have a persistent cart, then check the time out on your shopping cart. Related Search shopping cart abandonment
Volatility | Memory Forensics | Volatile Systems The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but offer unprecedented visibilty into the runtime state of the system. The framework is intended to introduce people to the techniques and complexities associated with extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory samples and provide a platform for further work into this exciting area of research. The Volatility Framework demonstrates our committment to and belief in the importance of open source digital investigation tools . Volatile Systems is committed to the belief that the technical procedures used to extract digital evidence should be open to peer analysis and review. The Volatility Framework currently provides the following extraction capabilities for memory samples
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E-retail spending to increase 62% by 2016 Online shoppers in the United States will spend $327 billion in 2016, up 45% from $226 billion this year and 62% from $202 billion in 2011, according to a projection released today by Forrester Research Inc. In 2016, e-retail will account for 9% of total retail sales, up from 7% in both 2012 and 2011, according to the report, “U.S. Online Retail Forecast, 2011 to 2016,”by Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 10.1% over the five-year forecast period. Forrester says it derives its estimates by analyzing trends in the monthly retail sales figures released by the U.S. The report says that much of the growth in U.S. e-commerce sales comes from online retailers improving their web sites and services. The steady growth in the number of web shoppers also is helping to boost e-commerce sales. Other factors contributing to the growth of e-commerce include: • Aggressive merchandising and discounting from flash sale and daily deal retailers.
jessekornblum: Using Colorize to Visualize Recovered Memory Forensics Data A big part of memory forensics is recovering samples of data from memory images--executables, drivers, DLLs, injected code, etc. Unfortunately it's difficult to tell how much actual data we've recovered from each of these operations. One of the first uses I've found for my colorize program, was to see how much of the recovered data was meaningful and how much was just zeros. This post will demonstrate how you could use colorize to visualize the data. Let's say we're going to recover a bunch of DLLs from a memory image. $ file file-of-zeros.dat file-of-zeros.dat: data Well that was less than helpful. $ file recovered.exe recovered-dll-400000.dll: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows But what about the case when the tool is able to recover the header but nothing more? What about a hexdump? $ xxd -a file-of-zeros.dat Good! Getting a sense of these output files quickly is a great use case for colorize! $ file * $ colorize *
The Sinister Ways Governments Make It Dangerous To Protest Online Narrator: We have heard a lot of stories about the impact of the Internet on protest movements. We have heard a lot about the information revolution and how it's transforming countries like China, countries like Iran, even many of the countries in the former Soviet Union, and the assumption so far has been that the Internet is basically a very good thing when it comes to promoting democracy. So, many of these illusions were put together in the mid-nineties by thinkers which I can only call cyberutopians, people who really believed in the transformative power of the web to change societies and to change them for the better. The most famous quote was that, if social networking and blogging was around in the earlier '90s, the genocides in Rwanda wouldn't have happened, which is now very often quoted to illustrate this very naive view that many people had back at the time. And one of the names which pundits have developed this particular views, iPod Liberalism.
US Online Advertising Spending to Surpass Print in 2012 NEW YORK (January 19, 2012) —US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year—pushing it ahead of total spending on print newspapers and magazines, according to new forecast by eMarketer. Print advertising spending is expected to fall to $33.8 billion in 2012 from $36 billion in 2011. eMarketer’s previous US online advertising forecast from July 2011 was among the more bullish estimates issued during the year, yet consistently stronger-than-expected results from major industry players and the IAB/PwC through the first three quarters of 2011 contributed to the upward revision. “Advertisers’ comfort level with integrated marketing is greater than ever, and this is helping more advertisers—and more large brands—put a greater share of dollars online,” said David Hallerman, eMarketer principal analyst. About eMarketer www.eMarketer.com Media Contact: Clark Fredricksen
jessekornblum: Dumping Raw Kernel Memory "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." — General George S. Patton "DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT." — Ben Barry, via Facebook A recent post on the Volatility™ users mailing list [1] asked for help dumping out a kernel driver from a Microsoft Windows system. It turns out the standard plugin for dumping kernel modules, moddump, is based on the procexedump plugin. To help him out, I wrote two plugins. $ python vol.py -f xp-laptop-2005-07-04-1430.vmem --profile=WinXPSP2x86 modmemdump --dump-dir=output Volatile Systems Volatility Framework 2.3_alpha Module Base Module Name Result ----------- -------------------- ------ 0x0804d7000 ntoskrnl.exe OK: driver.804d7000.sys 0x0806ec000 hal.dll OK: driver.806ec000.sys 0x0f87d9000 PartMgr.sys OK: driver.f87d9000.sys 0x0f849c000 atapi.sys OK: driver.f849c000.sys 0x0f5e22000 NAVENG.sys OK: driver.f5e22000.sys 0x0f8931000 watchdog.sys OK: driver.f8931000.sys 0x0f8551000 isapnp.sys OK: driver.f8551000.sys ...
The Gun Lobby And A Dumb Law Are Keeping Us From Safer Guns Imagine a gun that a person could leave on his or her kitchen counter, without having to worry that someone else would fire it. That gun exists. A so-called "smart gun" uses biometrics or radio signals to stay locked until it's held by its rightful owner. Smart guns could save some of the hundreds of lives -- many of them children's -- lost in accidental shootings every year. And they could reduce the number of shootings committed by criminals with stolen guns. "We see things all the time where guns fall into the wrong hands," San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told The Huffington Post. Yet thanks to a poorly written gun control law in one state and the efforts of overzealous pro-gun groups -- and in spite of the fact that at least $12.6 million of taxpayer money has been spent researching and developing the technology over the past 20 years -- smart guns are not available for purchase anywhere in America. That's not for lack of trying. Yet availability is an issue.