Big Data means there is more to
steal...
Overseas
hackers nab more than 1TB of data daily
The study, shared exclusively with The
Verge, says that overseas hackers are stealing as much as one
terabyte of data per day from governments, businesses, militaries,
and academic facilities. Apparently, the hackers are using a network
of 500 computer servers.
(Related)
"The Guardian reports that
hackers have been targeting
officials from over 20 European governments with a new piece of
malware called 'MiniDuke.' 'The cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab,
which discovered MiniDuke, said the attackers had servers based in
Panama and Turkey – but an examination of the code revealed
no further clues about its origin (PDF). Goverments targeted
include those of Ireland, Romania, Portugal, Belgium and the Czech
Republic. The malware also compromised the computers of a prominent
research foundation in Hungary, two thinktanks, and an
unnamed healthcare provider in the US.' Eugene
Kaspersky says it's an unusual piece of malware because it's
reminiscent of attacks from two decades ago. 'I remember this style
of malicious programming from the end of the 1990s and the beginning
of the 2000s. I wonder if these types of malware writers, who have
been in hibernation for more than a decade, have suddenly awoken and
joined the sophisticated group of threat actors active in the cyber
world.' The computers were corrupted through an Adobe PDF attachment
to an email."
Has parenting become so impossible in
the digital age?
A Northern Ireland
man has launched a legal challenge to compel Facebook
to stop his teenage daughter using the site or publishing suggestive
images.
The social media
company should be forced to do more to stop the 13-year-old girl
having highly sexualised contact with men, the High Court heard.
The case could
have major implications for Facebook in the UK.
Read more on BBC.
Perhaps the alien autopsy?
February 27, 2013
Public.Resource.Org's
FedFlix - view government videotapes on the web
"FedFlix
is a joint venture
with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) in cooperation
with other government agencies including the National Archives. They
send us government videotapes, we upload them to the Internet
Archive, YouTube, and our own public domain stock footage video
library — then we send the government back their videotapes and a
disk drive with their digitized video. To The Movies!
- The 12 Tables of Codes [ law.resource.org ]
- State Building Codes [ law.resource.org ]
- Yes We Scan! [ yeswescan.org ]
- IRS Bulk Data! [ bulk.resource.org ]
- What Would Luther Burbank Do? [ wwlbd.org ]
- Video from Congress. [ house.resource.org ]
Assuming you find stuff to share...
… there are some excellent tools
that are free as well and work practically flawlessly.
But is it working?
How
Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms
A survey of teachers who instruct
American middle and secondary school students finds that digital
technologies have become central to their teaching and
professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones,
and social media have brought new challenges to teachers, and they
report striking differences in access to the latest digital
technologies between lower and higher income students and school
districts.
Read Full Report View
Online Download
Worth experimenting?
Presentation.io
- Sync Your Presentations To Your Audience's Laptops and iPads
Presentation.io
is a new service that is designed to help your audience follow along
with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by allowing the
members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads,
and Android tablets and watch them change when you advance your
slides. This ensures that everyone is on the same slide at the same
time. Presentation.io includes a backchannel that allows your
audience to comment on and ask questions about your slides.
To start using Presentation.io
upload a PPT or PDF to your free Presentation.io account.
Presentation.io then gives you a URL to distribute to your audience.
When the members of your audience open that URL they will be able to
see and follow along with your presentation. When you're done with
your presentation just click "stop presenting" and the
synchronization stops.
Presentation.io's
free service allows you to share your presentations for 48 hours
then you'll have to upload them again.
Could be the future...
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a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from
each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his
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