Global Energy Industry Hit In “Night Dragon” Attacks In 2010 McAfee Labs processed an average of almost 55,000 pieces of new malware every day. That nearly mind-numbing amount makes it difficult for any particular attack to stand out. Today, however, I want to highlight one large scale attack that is a clear example of how cybercrime has evolved from something of a hobbyist affair to a very professional activity. We call this specific attack “Night Dragon.” Starting in November 2009, covert cyberattacks were launched against several global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies. The attackers targeted proprietary operations and project-financing information on oil and gas field bids and operations. McAfee has identified the tools, techniques, and network activities used in these attacks, which continue on to this day. While the list above may seem impressive to the layperson, these methods and tools are relatively unsophisticated. Anatomy Of The Night Dragon Attack We have also taken a close look at who might be behind these attacks.
Twitter Music Promotion & Marketing Guide for Musicians, Ban Links to everything you always wanted to know about using Twitter to market your music, connect with fans, promote your live shows, and sell more music. An ever-expanding page of incredibly useful Twitter music resources. Compiled by Bob Baker, who you can follow on Twitter here What Is Twitter? This YouTube video offers a quick and easy explanation of what Twitter is and why people use it: Getting Started With Twitter How to Use Twitter for Music Promotion by Heather McDonald, About.com From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too by Jennifer Laycock, Search Engine Guide Newbies Guide to Twitter by Chris Brogan Getting Started With Twitter by Dave Fleet A Geek's Guide to Promoting Yourself and Your Business with Twitter by Geekpreneur (48-page PDF ebook) Twitter? Twitter Music Promotion Tips The Musician's Twitter Roadmap by Ariel Hyatt & Laura Fitton Top Twitter Tips for Musicians by Steve Lawson Smart Ways to Use Twitter to Promote Your Music by Bob Baker :-)
French corporate : toutes les entreprises de france 534432554 A DIS Cette section vous présente de façon synthétique les informations publiques sur la société A DIS et ses dirigeants. La société A DIS est situé au 26 RUE DE L'INDUSTRIE 63600 AMBERT. Elle a été crée le 13/09/2011 et enregistré au Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de CLERMONT FERRAND sous le numéro 534432554. Il s'agit d'un société dont la forme juridique est SOCIETE A RESPONSABILITE LIMITEE et dont le capital social est de 8000,00 euros. L'activité principale de A DIS est Commerce de détail de jeux et jouets en magasin spécialisé, le commerce de détail de jeux et de jouets, en toutes matières mais ne comprend pas : le commerce de détail de consoles de jeux vidéo (cf47.41Z) le commerce de détail de logiciels non personnalisés, y compris les jeux vidéo (cf47.41Z) . . La société A DIS est dirigée par ROYER Philippe né(e) le 19.05.1966 qui occupe le poste de Gérant , ROYER Philippe est aussi DG de la société MICOPTIC situé au 103 RUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE 69220 BELLEVILLE.
Widget de Microsoft Translator para traduzir qualquer página web Microsoft anunciou no evento MIX 09, que está sendo realizado nas Vegas, um widget que poderemos instalar em qualquer página web para traduzir o texto em outros idiomas sem necessidade de sair dela. O aspeto dele, assim como o uso, pode ser checado no site página de Vikram Dendi , um dos desenvolvedores de Microsoft Translator. O site microsofttranslator.com oferece um serviço de tradução de textos e páginas web, o widget que está sendo apresentado permitirá integrar o motor de tradução em qualquer site, sem custo. Agora continuemos atentos ao MIX 09, que promete ser interessante. Podem acompanhar também pela página da Microsoft do evento.
Private Beta Invites for Big Data/Map reduce/Hadoop Company – MapFreeduce.com | Bazamm! Posted on 16 February 2011 by Colin Osburn Are you interested in “ Big Data ?” Do you use map reduce? Hadoop? MapFreeduce.com is doing a private beta. 1) candid discussions with possible users over their current pain points 2) feedback as to whether the site accurately conveys our message 3) people interested in a beta test Mapfreeduce.com allows you to build your own Map Reduce cluster from spare computers in moments, without installing software. Contact mapfreeduce@gmail.com About Using map reduce to tackle “big data” requires a cluster and, currently, you have two options. MapFreeduce.com offers a third option. Similar Posts: Related posts Tags | Beta , Big Data , Cool technology , Free Software Tools , Hadoop , Map Reduce
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. Network Diagrams Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. Twitter Browser Twitter Social Network Analysis The ebiquity group did some cluster analysis and managed to group tweets by topic. Twitter Vrienden Twitter in Red I'm not completely sure how to read this one. Twitter Network Maps When you create a Twitter account, you can enter where you are located, so in my case, I put New York. TwiterVision Yeah, it's a Google Maps mashup, but a bit better than what you're used to seeing. TwitterVision3d It's TwitterVision taken to the next dimension. Analytics TweetStat TweetVolume TwitStat TwitterMeter Abstract 24 o'clocks TweetPad
10 Websites for Book Lovers At this point most everyone has heard of LibraryThing, the most popular social cataloging website online, and perhaps even of the Amazon-owned Shelfari, but here are a few websites for book lovers that you may not have heard about: Blippr Blippr is a website where you can add short reviews of 160 characters or less of books, movies, music, games, and applications. Book Cover Archive The Book Cover Archive is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles, art directors, photographers, illustrators, and more. BookJetty BookJetty is a social cataloging app that will let you set up a bookshelf of titles you own or want and then easily search for them in your local library with a click. Book Glutton BookGlutton is a social community where you can read public domain books and discuss them with groups. Gurulib Gurulib is a social cataloging program which lets members organize their book, movie, music, game, and software collections. Listal GoodReads
IPads Storm the Enterprise CIO.com Network World - As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt's job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm's video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it. "I was one of the first salespeople to get one," she says. "I fought very hard.'' Her company's videos look "absolutely beautiful" on the iPad, she says. And once the sales presentation is over, she uses her iPad to update the Salesforce.com entry for the sales prospect, log the meeting, send out follow-up e-mails, manage her LinkedIn contacts, and do other job-related paperwork. Five iPAD safety tips "I do everything on the iPad," she says. Klatt is at the leading edge of a growing wave of enterprise customers who are adopting the iPad for business use. A major reason that iPads are being accepted in the enterprise is that Apple significantly upgraded its iOS operating system last summer to include a number of enterprise-friendly security features. HP TouchPad vs.
18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs Tumblr has long been a site that promotes outside-of-the-box blogging with inside-of-the-box restrictions. Originally just a short-form way to tumble across the web and quickly post photos, videos, audio, text, and quotes, Tumblrs everywhere now appear in all shapes and sizes. One very popular niche approach is to focus tumblelogs around celebrating the art form that is music. The tumblelogs featured here are using the eclectic medium to creatively express and share their passion for music. From sites dedicated to educating you about the history of sampled tracks to quirky video-centric music hubs, and even oversharing music-making lifecasters, we've found 18 of the best tumblelogs to put you in a groovy music mindset. Have a favorite music tumblelog to add? Music Lovers 1. Sample Track: Lissy Trullie, Forget About It. 2. Sample Track: Tenacious D, Tribute. 3. Sample Track: Day 149 brought me back to high school with the strange and ubiquitous hit, Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. 4. 5. 6. 7.
IE Fix: Bicubic Scaling for Images Devthought had a little CSS tip the other day that is definitely worth repeating. It's not new, it's just an important little trick to know. And here it is: If you use width or height tags to resize images in your markup, IE will ensure they look incredibly awful unless you use this little snippet. In general, resizing images in the browser isn't recommended, but of course there are always exceptions. Share On California Supreme Court Rules That a ZIP Code is Personal Identification Information -- Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma [Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma, S178241 (Cal. Supreme Court; Feb. 10, 2011) Plaintiff made a purchase at Williams-Sonoma and when she went to pay, the cashier asked for plaintiff’s ZIP code. Plaintiff sued under the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (the Credit Card Act) which prohibits a store that accepts credit cards from: request[ing], or requir[ing] as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment…the cardholder to provide personal identification information, which the [store] records upon the credit card transaction form or otherwise. The statutes defines personal identification information as: information concerning the cardholder, other than information set forth on the credit card, and including, but not limited to, the cardholder’s address and telephone number. The trial court dismissed the claims, finding that a ZIP code does not fall under the definition of personal identification information, and the court of appeals affirmed. Other coverage:
10+ Twitter Apps You (probably) Never Heard About! || Technology Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate and so is the eco-system around it. 10-15 new Twitter apps are being launched every single day. While most of them are MEME applications, few are really interesting and worth a shot. I’ve put together a list of Twitter related applications which are fairly new and do serve the purpose.. Here you go…. TweetCC is one of the latest Twitter related services which lets Twitter users publish and license tweets with Creative Commons. So how do you really license your tweets, it’s simple, tweet this msg.. Visit tweetcc.com to know about licensing options.. TwitterDMer: This service lets its users send customized DM’s to a follower. Twisten.FM is a service which “crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Twittad lets Twitter users monetize their Twitter profiles by selling their backgrounds to the advertisers. Example of conversations are displayed.. twtTRIP is a wonderful service helping travelers make the most out of their travel plans.
Building Fast Client-side Searches Yesterday we released a new people selector widget (which we’ve been calling Bo Selecta internally). This widget downloads a list of all of your contacts, in JavaScript, in under 200ms (this is true even for members with 10,000+ contacts). In order to get this level of performance, we had to completely rethink how we send data from the server to the client. Server Side: Cache Everything To make this data available quickly from the server, we maintain and update a per-member cache in our database, where we store each member’s contact list in a text blob — this way it’s a single quick DB query to retrieve it. Testing the Performance of Different Data Formats Despite the fact that our backend system can deliver the contact list data very quickly, we still don’t want to unnecessarily fetch it for each page load. With this goal in mind, we started testing various data formats, and recording the average amount of time it took to download and parse each one. Going Custom Searching The End Result
Miniature lasers could help launch new age of the Internet A new laser device created at the University of Central Florida could make high-speed computing faster and more reliable, opening the door to a new age of the Internet. Professor Dennis Deppe's miniature laser diode emits more intense light than those currently used. The light emits at a single wavelength, making it ideal for use in compact disc players, laser pointers and optical mice for computers, in addition to high-speed data transmission. Until now, the biggest challenge has been the failure rate of these tiny devices. They don't work very well when they face huge workloads; the stress makes them crack. The smaller size and elimination of non-semiconductor materials means the new devices could potentially be used in heavy data transmission, which is critical in developing the next generation of the Internet. "The new laser diodes represent a sharp departure from past commercial devices in how they are made," Deppe said from his lab inside the College of Optics and Photonics.