http://www.databreaches.net/?p=3887
Pointer: Heartland CEO Vows To Fight MasterCard Breach Fines Of $6 Million-Plus
May 11, 2009 by admin Filed under: Financial Sector, Hack, Malware, U.S.
Fred J. Aun of StorefrontBacktalk writes:
Heartland Payment Systems has apparently decided that being a data breach victim doesn’t mean that it has to be victimized by the card brands. At least that’s the impression from how Heartland CEO Robert Carr is reacting to more than $6 million in fines imposed on it by MasterCard, fines that that he said were illegal and that he plans to “vigorously contest” the fines.
Related
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090508/tc_pcworld/heartlandcomesoutswingingafterdatabreach
Heartland Comes Out Swinging After Data Breach
By Robert Vamosi, PC World - Fri May 8, 2009 7:48PM EDT
A good list of bad practices...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090511054926436
Inside a data leak audit
Monday, May 11 2009 @ 05:49 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
When the director of IT at a Boston-based, midsize pharmaceutical firm was first approached to participate in a data leakage audit, he was thrilled. He figured the audit would uncover a few weak spots in the company's data leak defenses and he would then be able to leverage the audit results into funding for additional security resources.
Source - Computerworld
[From the article:
… But he got way more than he bargained for. The 15-day audit identified 11,000 potential leaks, and revealed gaping holes in the IT team's security practices. (Read a related story on the most common violations encountered.)
Think you have enough bandwidth? Think usage limits won't impact you? Try these...
http://mashable.com/2009/05/10/yooouuutuuube/
Yooouuutuuube Puts YouTube on LSD
May 10th, 2009 | by Pete Cashmore
There are some pretty cool add-ons and tools for YouTube: in fact we wrote about more than 100 of them in our YouTube Toolbox. Some are fun, some useful and some - like the tools to download YouTube videos - aren’t necessarily legal.
But the YouTube tool that’s got people buzzing this week is just plain out of this world. Yooouuutuuube.com lets you put tens, even hundreds, of YouTube videos into rows and columns, creating an utterly trippy experience. Just enter a YouTube video ID and frame width for each “piece” of the mosaic, and Yooouuutuuube will generate a video grid.
The best example: view this 36 by 36 column Alice in Wonderland masterpiece…and be warned that either your computer, mind, or both may be pushed to the max.
Another interesting TED talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emn28FrJ6CI
Gourley on the mathematics of war
What do they have to Twitter about?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021330.html
May 10, 2009
GovFresh - Government 2.0 - Offers Live RSS Updates
"GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place."
Another (actually useful?) item from the government.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10237274-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Are the feds the first to a common cloud definition?
by James Urquhart May 10, 2009 2:54 PM PDT
This I think is inevitable. Another industry that the Internet will kill...
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/1815215&from=rss
Open Source Textbooks For California
Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 10, @03:36PM from the byzantine-doesn't-begin-to-describe dept.
T-1000, appropriately enough, lets us know about a California initiative to compile open source science and math textbooks for the state, in the hopes of saving money. The effort is spearheaded by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
"The effort seems very promising, but the state's complex standards and arduous textbook evaluation process will pose major challenges. ... The governator will surely be able to stop the digital textbooks from gaining sentience and subjugating humanity, but there are trickier challenges that will be even tougher to defeat than the impending Skynet apocalypse. Textbooks are a surprisingly controversial issue in California and there is a lot of political baggage and bureaucratic red tape that will make an open source textbook plan especially troublesome. ... [T]he traditional wiki approach is untenable for California teaching material. Individual changes to textbooks can become a source of fierce debate and there are a multitude of special interest groups battling over what the textbooks should say and how they should say it. It would take the concept of Wikipedia edit wars to a whole new level."
Interesting in that it suggests a few holes (business opportunities?) in the credit market.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021324.html
May 10, 2009
2009 Credit Card Survey of Small Business
News release: "The National Small Business Association (NSBA) today released data showing that reliance on credit cards is growing among small businesses. Unfortunately, so, too, is the number of small-business respondents who reported worsening credit-card terms. The NSBA 2009 Small Business Credit Card Survey provides a detailed view of how small businesses are utilizing their credit cards, how their credit-card companies are treating them, and the impacts of deteriorating credit-card terms on their business."
Related postings on financial system
Humor (But think about cutting sound bites for your next presentation...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021322.html
May 10, 2009
President Obama at the White House Correspondent's Dinner
YouTube: President Obama at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, May 10, 2009
Whenever I study a new area, I grab all the available resources. Eventually, I'll find something I can understand.
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/05/10/10-free-linux-ebooks-for-beginners/
10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners
By Pavs on May 10th, 2009
… This is the first part of the series, in the near future we will have a list for “Intermediate and Advanced Linux Users” and “Linux System Administrators”. If you have any suggestions feel free to share them with us in the comments.
You know by now that I love lists. You might want to look at this one, because there are a few useful tools here... (Also, some toys for my hacker class.)
http://lifehacker.com/5178222/
Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities
By Kevin Purdy, 9:00 AM on Sat Mar 21 2009, 280,303 views
Another list. This time Google Hacks (Try Google Sets (lists) and Google Stats)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-little-known-google-pages-worth-a-second-look/
10 Little Known Google Pages Worth a Second Look
May. 10th, 2009 By Saikat Basu
Related A better way to search for the perfect image?
http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/
Google Similar Images
Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the "Similar images" link under an image to find other images that look like it. Try a search of your own or click on an example below.
Something for the Swiss Army folder
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/stupeflix-com-transform-files-into-videos
StupeFlix.com - Transforming Files Into Videos
This is a good way to give your pictures, videos, and texts a professional look. No matter what you are thinking about this solution allows you to transform many files into videos that look as if they would be professional.
Stupeflix is a solution that will give you the chance to generate your video in a very fast way. The way it works is very simple by making your video files in a real time. In this way you can see your products instantaneously, in addition to the possibility to use a wide number of options in a short period of time.
This is an interesting solution that gives you the chance to import a huge amount of pictures and videos in order to make presentations and other specific works. If you decide to use this tool you will be given the chance to control fading and timing settings in order to make your videos in the way you need.
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