Oh, the horror! Could this be the infrastructure attack that triggers the first CyberWar? It at least demonstrates the value of communicating with your customers...
Netflix down: website and streaming movies go offline, were they hacked?
… The Netflix blog and techblog make no mention of any issues, but the Twitter universe is full of people asking the question, is Netflix down? Has Netflix been hacked?
… As of 3:00 am Eastern time, Monday morning, neither the Netflix blog or the Netflix techblog has been updated since Friday, and the Official Netflix twitter channel has yet to mention anything about an interruption of service Sunday night. [Still nothing as far as I can see Bob]
I wonder if we'll hear more about this?
Feds Recruiting ISPs To Combat Cyber Threats
"The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have established a pilot program with leading private defense contractors and ISPs called DIB Cyber Pilot in an attempt to strengthen each others' knowledge base regarding growing security threats in cyberspace. The new program was triggered by recent high-profile hacks of the International Monetary Fund and many others. But don't worry — Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn promises that the new program will not involve "monitoring, intercepting, or storing any private sector communications" by the DOD and DHS."
[From the article:
The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Pilot program was started last month, Lynn said. The voluntary program involves sharing the DOD's classified threat intelligence with defense contractors and their private Internet service providers (ISPs), "along with the know-how to employ it in network defense." [So it is unlikely to include all ISP's Bob]
… Lynn broke down the types of new threats emerging into three categories: Suspected government-backed hacks of military and private sector networks, crude but disruptive attacks on networks from hacking groups such as Anonymous, and destructive attacks targeting critical infrastructure and military networks.
Among the recent high-profile cyberattacks in the first category he cited were security breaches that were possibly orchestrated by government agencies at the International Monetary Fund, Lockheed Martin, Google, NASDAQ, and Citibank. [I saw no indication of that. Bob] Lynn also said the French Finance Ministry and European Commission "had suffered major intrusions in recent months."
Infographics (the movie) If this virus had targeted the US, would we now be at war?
http://www.visualnews.com/2011/06/16/a-weapon-camouflaged-in-code/
A Weapon Camouflaged In Code
[Also available here: http://vimeo.com/25118844
Apparently, they are trying to force iPad users to pay for access. Also apparently, they don't understand how the Internet works...
NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users
"Browsing the web this morning, I discovered that the New York Post is blocking iPad users from reading its website via Safari. Instead, iPad users must download and use the NY Post App instead. That app previously required a paid subscription (which is one reason I didn't use it); however, the version I downloaded this morning isn't making any demands for payment. Yet."
[From the article:
… apparently no one there noticed or cared that users of other iPad browsers like Skyfire and Opera Mini can slip right in.
(Related)
http://twitter.com/#!/danackerman/statuses/82705265077649408
Annoyed with NYPost.com blocking iPad (and only iPad) traffic? Turn off JavaScript under Safari preferences and the site works again.
The horrors of selling a product people will actually use!
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/027540.html
June 19, 2011
Average U.S. Smartphone Data Usage Up 89% as Cost per MB Goes Down 46%
News release: "The mobile Data Tsunami initially described here is still growing at an astounding pace. According to Nielsen’s monthly analysis of cellphone bills for 65,000+ lines, smartphone owners – especially those with iPhones and Android devices — are consuming more data than ever before on a per-user basis. This has huge implications for carriers since the proportion of smartphone owners is also increasing dramatically. (Currently, 37% of all mobile subscribers in the United States have smartphones.) In just the last 12 months, the amount of data the average smartphone user consumes per month has grown by 89 percent from 230 Megabytes (MB) in Q1 2010 to 435 MB in Q1 2011. A look at the distribution of data consumption is even more shocking: data usage for the top 10 percent of smartphone users (90th percentile) is up 109 percent while the top 1 percent (99th percentile) has grown their usage by an astonishing 155 percent from 1.8GB in Q1 2010 to over 4.6GB in Q1 2011.
See also AT&T, Data Calculator - "Use the sliders to estimate your daily or monthly usage. Wi-Fi usage does not count against the data included in your plan," and via NYT: Excited About the Cloud? Get Ready for Capped Data Plans
(Related)
Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud?
"With the introduction of its Chromebook, Google is betting big on the Cloud. As is Apple, with its iCloud initiative . So too are Netflix and Skype. Unfortunately, their very existence is threatened by data-capping carriers, who have set a course to make sure that the network is NOT the computer. 'I don't know what the solution is,' writes David Pogue. 'I don't know if anyone's thinking about this. But there are big changes coming. There are big forces about to shape our lives online. And at the moment, they're on a direct collision course.'"
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