Relatively small, but an interesting
(new?) industry for Anonymous to hack.
Brazzers
pornography site forum broken into, hacker says more than 350,000
users’ data compromised
February 11, 2012 by admin
Ralph Satter of Associated Press
reports a 17 year-old Moroccan who claims allegiance to Anonymous
acquired personal information on 350,000 users of a popular
pornography site by hacking into an older un-updated forum:
A small sample of
the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly
compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this week. Emails,
usernames, and encrypted passwords were divulged, and in some cases
it was possible to infer porn users’ full names and country of
origin.
Read more on SeattlePI.
Hacked Brazzers’ accounts have been a frequent occurrence/posting
on sites such as Pastebin, but this appears to be the most massive
data acquisition, if true.
[From the article:
The breach is a potential embarrassment
for Luxembourg-based Manwin, which runs some of the world's
best-known pornography websites. [How can it be that
I've never heard of them? Bob]
For my Ethical Hackers....
"Details of the tools,
techniques and procedures used by the hackers behind the RSA security
breach have been revealed in a research
paper (PDF) published by Australian IT security company Command
Five. The paper also, for the first time, explains links between the
RSA hack and other major targeted attacks. This paper is a
vendor-neutral must-read for any network defenders concerned by the
hype surrounding 'Advanced Persistent Threats.'"
A short (free) eBook worth reading.
February 11, 2012
How
Search Engines Work - book chapter by publisher of Search Engine
Watch
How
Search Engines Work, by Mike
Grehan: "This year (2012) it will be ten years since I wrote
the second edition of a book about search engines called Search
Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide. I decided to
revisit it recently. Writing it was very difficult because there was
nowhere near the amount of information available about the inner
workings of search engines and information retrieval on the web back
in the day. So once I finished it, I breathed a sigh of relief and
have very rarely ventured back into its pages. Even now, I
frequently meet people at conferences who bought it and still regard
it as a useful resource. And surprisingly for me, having just
re-read the most important parts of it, I also find a lot of it to be
as relevant and fresh now as it was a decade ago."
Is this correct? Is AT&T likely to
become a real estate trust?
"Daniel Berniger writes that
one of the unexpected consequences of AT&T's transition to HD
voice and all-IP networks is that the
footprint of required network equipment will shrink by as much as 90
percent, translating into a $100 billion windfall as the global
telecom giant starts emptying buildings and selling off the resulting
real estate surplus. Since IP connections utilize logical address
assignments, a single fiber can support an almost arbitrary number of
end-user connections — so half a rack of VoIP network equipment
replaces a room full of Class
4 and Class
5 circuit switching equipment, and equipment sheds replace the
contents of entire buildings. AT&T's portfolio goes back more
than 100 years, even as commercial real estate appreciated five fold
since the 1970s, so growth of telephone service during the 20th
century leaves the company with 250 million sq
ft of floor space real
estate in prime locations across America. 'The scale of the real
estate divestiture challenge may justify creating a separate business
unit to deal with the all-IP network transition,' writes Berniger,
who adds that ATT isn't the only one who will benefit. 'The
transition to all-IP networks allows carriers to sell-off
a vast majority of the 100,000 or so central offices (PDF)
currently occupying prime real estate around the globe.'"
Rather hard to read (black on brown)
and I not too sure the numbers are realistic either...
iPads
Vs Textbooks: We Crunch the Numbers (Infographic)
On Jan 19th, Apple made a huge
announcement:
iBooks 2 would “reinvent” the way students learn by offering
interactive textbooks, and iBooks Author would make it easy for
anyone, even without programming skills, to create those books.
These new iBook textbooks would not
only offer things traditional textbooks cannot, like embedded video,
audio, and interactive graphics, but they would also be much less
expensive than textbooks are today—with an average price of around
$15, as opposed to the current average $75 cost many students pay
now.
But are iBooks really cheaper?
Especially after you add in the cost of a $400 iPad. So the folks who
help people become teachers at Online
Teaching Degree decided to crunch a few of the numbers, and see
if change is truly coming. The results may not be as revolutionary
as you think…
Look at this and ask yourself if you
couldn't do better...
Best
Educational Wikis of 2011
With the announcement of the 2011
Edublog Award winners, there are now two more award-winning wikis in
the Wikispaces community. And we couldn’t be prouder!
ICTmagic
First place for the 2011 Best Educational Wiki
It’s a collection of IT resources for
students and teachers, and it’s sure to give you more ideas than
you could possibly have time to try.
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