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Some yearly round-ups on breaches
December 17, 2009 by admin Filed under Commentaries and Analyses
It’s that time of the year, and some firms and journalists have begun looking back at 2009. Here are some round-ups I’ve seen recently:
Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009
The Year Of The Mega Data Breach
2009: a year of incident, loss, malware and ultimately education
Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009
Top 10 Data Breaches in 2009 Expose 220 Million Records
The 2009 data breach hall of shame
If you know of others, please feel free to post links to them in the Comments box.
I’ll be compiling my own Top 10 list for 2009 sometime next week.
Cyber wars come in all sizes.
Are U.S. Drones Really Being Watched With a Simple “Satellite Internet Downloader?”
by John Biggs on December 17, 2009
Either the WSJ hasn’t taken their anti-crazy pills or there is something severely wrong with the military industrial complex. I’m betting on both.
The story says, essentially, that insurgents in Iraq are “taking control” of our pilotless drones with a $25 piece of software called SkyGrabber. By “take control” the WSJ means “download video feeds from” and by “software” I mean essentially a satellite network snooper.
Medical applications were an afterthought.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10416787-247.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Cell phone activity helps predict spread of malaria
by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore December 16, 2009 2:04 PM PST
What a great idea! No one ever thought of this before. NOTE: Worth reading the comments!
UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, @01:37AM from the cash-or-credit dept.
The board of the UK Payments Council has set a date to phase out checks in a bid to encourage the advance of other forms of payment. They added, however, that the target of Oct. 2018 would only be realized if adequate alternatives are developed. "The goal is to ensure that by 2018 there is no scenario where customers, individuals or businesses, still need to use a cheque. The board will be especially concerned that the needs of elderly and vulnerable people are met," the Payments Council said in a statement.
Geeky stuff
VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels
Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 16, @03:43PM from the can't-you-be-content-with-the-actual-box? dept.
snydeq writes
"InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy takes an in-depth look at VMware Workstation 7, VirtualBox 3.1, and Parallels Desktop 4, three technologies at the heart of 'the biggest shake-up for desktop virtualization in years.' The shake-up, which sees Microsoft's once promising Virtual PC off in the Windows 7 XP Mode weeds, has put VirtualBox — among the best free open source software available for Windows — out front as a general-purpose VM, filling the void left by VMware's move to make Workstation more appealing to developers and admins. Meanwhile, Parallels finally offers a Desktop for Windows on par with its Mac product, as well as Workstation 4 Extreme, which delivers near native performance for graphics, disk, and network I/O. 'There's some genuine innovation going on, especially in the areas of hardware support and application compatibility,' Kennedy writes. 'All support 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux hosts and guests, and all have added compelling new VM management capabilities, ranging from automated snapshots to live VM migration.'"
Hard to believe?
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/12/16/report-active-online-educated/
Report: The Most Active Online Are The Most Educated.
By Zee on December 16, 2009
What will cause the next round of mass hysteria? Global warming? The end of the Inca calendar? Happy meals?
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/y2k_bug
10 Years After Y2K -- Stories From the IT Battlegrounds
Posted 12/16/2009 at 3:23:58pm by Michelle Delio
It was a fear fest of epic proportions. Magazine headlines predicted that the end of the world would shortly befall us. They told harrowing tales of feral computer systems going awry the minute the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000--planes would fall from the sky, power grids would fail, the global economy would crash, nuclear power plants would go into meltdown mode, lines of communication would be cut, and the contents of bank accounts would vanish.
[The only amusing thing was this Apple commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZoXxBgDcRg&feature=player_embedded
Take that, Global Warming advocates! “Us New Yawkers knows that to increase revenue in hard times, youse cuts services like mad.”
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023039.html
December 16, 2009
New York M.T.A. Approves Big Service Cuts in Mass Transit
New York Times: "The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a punishing slate of service cuts on Wednesday that would amount to the most significant erosion of New York City’s transit system since its recovery from the ruinous days of the 1980s. The cuts represent some of the first concrete consequences of a fiscal crisis in New York State that until now had mostly been restricted to ominous words from politicians. The authority’s board unanimously approved the plan — which includes eliminating the W and Z subway lines, reducing service on dozens of bus routes, and phasing out free fares for students — to cope with a $400 million shortfall in state financing that emerged in the past two weeks."
Related postings on financial system
For my Online and Hybrid classes: A how to guide. (Needs work, but it's a start.)
Take Online Classes
After all those wasted hours clicking around on Wikipedia and staring almost zombie-like at even your favorite, regular websites, perhaps it’s time to make the internet work for you.
Everyone from business schools to art schools is granting undergraduate and graduate degrees to online-only students. For those of you with discipline, the desire and an internet connection, here’s how you can make it happen.
Start collecting eBooks now (esp. the free ones) and worry about which device you want later.
Kobo International E-Book Store Launches: Why Amazon Should Be Afraid
By Charlie Sorrel December 16, 2009 10:52 am
There is little doubt that electronic books have gone mainstream. The question now is, in just which direction will the market go? It’s possible that the Kindle will do what Apple and the iPod did for music, essentially owning the market. Or things could split open, with many sellers competing on an open platform. Kobo is betting on the latter.
Kobo is a rebranded Shortcovers, which sells e-books that can be read on almost any device, from Macs and PCs to the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm Pre and any e-reader that can work with EPUB-format books, such as the Barnes & Noble Nook or the Sony Reader. Notably, the Kindle is absent from the list.
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