Sounds like a good deed, until you
think of all the lost evidence, disrupted investigations and these
sickos becoming harder to find.
"According to Security News
Daily, Anonymous has taken
down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last
week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via
pastebin #OpDarknet, including personal details of some users of
a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tools that target Hidden Wiki
and Freedom Hosting — alleged to be two of the biggest darknet
sites hosting child porn."
Keeping up with the “dark side”
"TDL4, a rootkit that helps
build a powerful botnet, is pegged by security vendor ESET as one
of the most sophisticated pieces of malware in the world. But
its creators aren't resting on their laurels; they're rewriting some
of the code from the ground up to make it difficult for antimalware
to detect it, creating a hidden boot partition that guarantees
malware
code will be loaded even before the operating system is. It's
part of a plan to turn TDL4 into a turnkey product that can be sold
to other criminal operations."
[Ethical question: Should universities subscribe to criminal tools
for their Ethical Hacking students? Bob]
(Related) Thanks to technology, you
don't need to drive to Beverly Hills to steal from the folks who live
in Beverly Hills, why would anyone think they need to break into
boardrooms to steal corporate information?
"Nasdaq's Directors Desk is a
program sold to both listed and private companies, whose board
members use it to share documents and communicate with executives.
Apparently Directors Desk was infected during a breach widely
publicized earlier
this year. It has now become known that hackers
were able to access confidential documents and communications of
the corporate directors and board members who received this infected
application, said Tom Kellermann, chief technology officer with
security technology firm AirPatrol Corp. It is unclear how long the
Directors Desk application was infected before the exchange
identified the breach, according to Kellermann and another source."
Interesting that the number one
'petition' is to legalize pot. I wonder if this could be replicated
on a state or congressional district level. Might actually be useful
there...
"Last month the White House
created
an online petition system through which constituents can directly
voice any grievances and concerns to the US government. Any petition
that reaches 25,000 signatures (5,000 originally) is promised
an official reply. This weekend the first petitions will be
closing, and already many have far exceeded the required number of
signatures. Is this the way for the voice of the electorate to gain
more weight in modern politics, or is it the web version of a placebo
button? Will the President's office really consider the top
pleas, which include petitions to Legalize
and Regulate Marijuana, Forgive
Student Loan Debt, and Abolish
the TSA?"
Perspective: If we can end a war with
a Facebook update, can we start one with a Tweet? “Dude, Bomb this
guy!”
On
Facebook, NATO Chief Announces End to Libya War
This has to be a first in the annals of
social media. The commander of NATO’s Libya war has announced his
intent to end hostilities through Facebook.
In a short post on his Wall Friday
morning, Adm. James Stavridis told the world, “I
will be recommending conclusion of this mission to the North Atlantic
Council of NATO in a few hours.”
Geek alert! Can we train our
computers? NOTE: I'm assuming that if this works as advertised, I'll
be getting an invitation based on this post.
"Virtually overnight, Siri, the
personal assistant technology in Apple's new iPhone 4S, has brought
state-of-the-art AI to the consumer mainstream. Well, it turns out
there's more where that came from. Trapit,
a second spinoff of SRI International's groundbreaking CALO project
(Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes), is preparing
for a public beta launch this fall. The Web-based news
aggregator lets users set up persistent 'traps' or filters on
specific topics. Over time, the traps learn
to include more articles that match users' interests and exclude
those that don't. Philosophically, it's the exact
opposite of social-curation news apps like Flipboard or Pulse, since
it uses adaptive learning and sense-making technologies to learn what
users like, not what their friends like. 'Just as Siri is
revolutionizing the human-computer interaction on the mobile device,
Trapit will revolutionize Web search as we know it today,' the
company asserts."
Since I create a lot of short “how
to” articles for my students, something like this could be quite
handy.
Print
Edit: Make Web Pages Printer Friendly
Some site developers are considerate
enough to provide printer friendly versions of their webpages.
Others however overlook this step and have websites that might take
up a lot of your printer’s ink if printed as is, with unnecessary
images and advertisements. Thankfully, for Firefox users, there is a
great tool for this problem: Print Edit.
… Simply install the addon and then
enter any webpage in the preview mode. In this mode you can exclude
certain elements of the webpage. You can remove ads, images, frames,
and any other labels or elements detected by the add-on.
… You can also use the “Delete
All Except” option to select the portion you want to keep and
delete everything else.
- Similar tools: PrintFriendly and PrintWhatYouLike.
- Also read related articles: How
To Print A Web Page The Way You Want It and Customizing
Headers & Footers For Printing
Webpages.
Since I'm teaching the website class
this quarter, I have plenty of students to “test” this editor
(See, homework can be useful!)
Create
Webpages Five Times Faster Using the Bluefish Editor [Cross-Platform]
… When you first setup Bluefish,
you’ll see the first reason I like it so much – it is designed to
handle a huge assortment of programming languages, from straight HTML
and PHP to Java, VB and even ASP. The kind of flexibility is a nice
thing to have in a code editor, especially if you often have your
hands into many different programming languages.
… When you launch a new document
from the file menu, if you choose template you’ll see that Bluefish
has a few pre-built program templates available. This is especially
useful if you write a lot of web pages, for example, and don’t want
to recreate the same generic XHTML or PHP structure. Instead, just
launch Bluefish’s template and you can immediately get into
creating the content.
… As you can see in the menu bar,
there are also pre-built code snippets available under each program
language. For example, HTML has standard code for web forms, and PHP
has standard code snippets for how to connect to an ODBC or MySQL
database.
Beware of degrees that come with
fries...
STEM:
Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
October 22, 2011 03:27
Source: Center on Education and the
Workforce, Georgetown University
A new report from the Georgetown
University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that 65
percent of Bachelor’s degrees in STEM (science, engineering,
technology and mathematics) occupations earn more than Master’s
degrees in non-STEM occupations. …
… demand for STEM talent is growing
even faster outside of traditional STEM occupations.
… while STEM is high-paying, STEM
students have access to higher-paying career options.
+ Link
to full report (PDF; 3.37 MB)
+ Links
to state-level analysis (HTML)
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