Apparently Stuxnet gave them some ideas
and taught them some sophisticated techniques.
New
Computer Attacks Traced to Iran, Officials Say
American officials and corporate
security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive
computer attacks striking American corporations, especially
energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to
Iran.
… The goal is not espionage, they
say, but sabotage. Government officials describe the attacks as
probes looking for ways to seize control of critical processing
systems.
For my Ethical Hackers
"We've pointed out some
problems with Twitter's new two-factor authentication. For
example, since just one phone number can be associated with an
account, Twitter's two-factor authentication won't work for
organizations like the Associated Press, The Onion, or The Guardian.
They were hacked; they could still be hacked again in the same way.
However, security experts indicate that the problem is worse than
that, a lot worse."
I'm for anything that helps hold down
the cost of my 3-D printed Gattling gun.
"A UC Berkeley group, in a bid
to drive down the costs of 3-D printing, has been focusing on more
natural materials such as salt, wood, ceramics and concrete (the
last two, while not naturally occurring, are made of naturally
occurring components). The use of these materials create new avenues
for architecture, such as printing buildings. Professor Ronald Rael,
the head of the project, stated that these materials and the
designs they enable will require new IP protections
— 'This is going to require some IP protection for designs, so if
you design architecture in the computer, you're protected, just as
music and movies are.' I wonder if he's ever heard of design
patents?"
Change, the only constant.
From
Arrested Development
to Dr. Who,
How Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture
Never mind the fact that Arrested
Development is coming back this weekend as a revived fourth
season of a show that ended six years ago — yes, six years ago,
which is a lot in today’s
cultural time. (To put that in perspective, just remember that
2006 was the same year that Twitter was founded. And that
Foursquare, Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest, and the recently
acquired Tumblr didn’t even exist yet.)
Instead, let’s focus on the fact that
all 15 episodes of the new season are being released
all at once — precisely at midnight tomorrow,
exclusively on Netflix. This is interesting because just one month
ago, Netflix was touting
its House of Cards “binge watching” strategy of original
content released all at once. Not only did people really
gorge on a bunch of episodes, but Netflix shares were up 19
percent after its last earnings report. Instead of losing momentum
for the show in one bang, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings observed that
several months later “huge numbers” of viewers were just starting
the series every week.
History, for my Intro to IT students.
The
First Long-Distance Telegraph Message, Sent This Day in 1844: 'What
Hath God Wrought?'
Inevitible?
… The latest bit of MOOC-news comes from the Georgia Institute of
Technology, which just last week announced
that, in
partnership with Udacity and AT&T , it will offer a full-on
master’s degree in computer science in MOOC format — or rather,
Georgia Tech College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil corrected me, a
“MOOC 2.0” format. The
program begins in 2014, and seems worth keeping an eye on. Galil
certainly isn’t shy about its potential: “We’re
doing it because we want to lead the revolution,” he
tells me.
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