Oh the horror! Yes, it really is a big deal.
(and it is kinds funny)
Temporary
Facebook Panic Causes Twitter To Erupt In Chaos: Here Are The Most
Hilarious Reactions
When millions of users in some parts of the world
lost access to Facebook.com Thursday, Sept. 24, users had to turn to
other networks, particularly to Twitter, to vent. As expected, the
Facebook outage ignited humorous jabs from Twitter users.
Instead of being greeted with the Facebook
homepage, some users received an error message starting at
approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
… The outage affected Facebook users in
Europe, North America, Australia and India, based on the Facebook
outage map on Downdetector.com.
… During the most recent outage, tweets with
the hashtag #FacebookDown swelled over Twitter.
Patriots being
investigated for recent Facebook crash
I felt a great
disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out
in terror...
For my Computer Security and Ethical Hacking
students.
Cookies can
render secure websites vulnerable in all modern browsers
CERT have issued a new directive
notifying that cookies can be used to allow remote attackers to
bypass a secure protocol (HTTPS) and reveal private session
information – and that modern browsers, including Apple’s
Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, currently
provide no protection against the attack vector. Research
indicates that secure sites as important as Google and the Bank of
America are vulnerable to the technique.
A ‘cookie injection attack’, as described by
Xiaofeng Zheng in Cookies
Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications [PDF], can be
mounted by man-in-the-middle attackers who set cookies throughout
their invasive session. Cookies set in this way can facilitate the
disclosure of any private data being transmitted in the session.
Missed opportunity. We could have done this.
IoT
Security Foundation Launches
The
Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF),
a collaborative initiative aimed at addressing concerns regarding the
security of IoT, launched publicly in London this week.
… IoTSF’s
creation is the result of an eight month investigative and
consultative process, the foundation said, explaining
that Its initial focus will be on “promoting excellence in IoT
security”, in order to make devices safe to connect. The
organization will also make a self-certification for product
developers available.
… The
organization also announced plans for its inaugural conference,
scheduled to take place on Dec. 1 at the recently refurbished Savoy
Place in London.
The
IoT market is still in its infancy and, as it grows, it opens all
companies around the world to new security risks, as Agiliance’s
Torsten George explains
in a recent SecurityWeen column. According to an HP study, 70%
of IoT devices are vulnerable to digital attacks.
Learn
About IoT Security at the 2015
ICS Cyber Security Conference
It's
not what you think. It's scarier.
BIOSURVEILLANCE:
Challenges and Options for the National Biosurveillance Integration
Center
Has
some privacy issues but also might improve the mental health of some
of my students.
Take Part
In Medical Studies With Your iPhone & ResearchKit
Your tax dollars not quite at work.
Zombie
Blimp Project Cost $2.7 Billion
It’s likely that not too many Americans have
ever heard of JLENS – short for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile
Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System. It’s the government’s
giant radar-equipped blimp defense system that cost taxpayers
approximately $2.7 billion over the past 17 years, according
to a report Thursday in the Los Angeles Times.
The blimps are to serve as an early warning system
if the United States were ever attacked by cruise missiles or
weaponized drones. However, even with the high price tag, the system
has failed to get off the ground (pun intended) and has now become
what defense analysts label a ‘zombie’ project, i.e, one that is
“costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill,” according
to the LA Times.
Philosophizing for fun and profit?
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Sep 24, 2015
Via Quartz – This
free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream
of – “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most
interesting website on the internet. Not because of the
content—which includes fascinating entries on everything from
ambiguity
to zombies—but
because of the site itself Its creators have solved one of the
internet’s fundamental problems: How to provide authoritative,
rigorously accurate knowledge, at no cost to readers. It’s
something the
encyclopedia, or SEP, has managed to do for two decades. The
internet is an information landfill. Somewhere in it—buried under
piles of opinion, speculation, and misinformation—is virtually all
of human knowledge. The story of the SEP shows that it is possible
to create a less trashy internet. But sorting through the trash is
difficult work. Even when you have something you think is valuable,
it often turns out to be a cheap knock-off. The story of how the SEP
is run, and how it came to be, shows that it is possible to create a
less trashy internet—or at least a less trashy corner of it. A
place where actual knowledge is sorted into a neat, separate pile
instead of being thrown into the landfill. Where the world can go to
learn everything that we know to be true. Something that would make
humans a lot smarter than the internet we have today…”
Of course it does! I don't talk like those twits!
Twitter
Language Use Reflects Psychological Differences between Political
Parties
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Sep 24, 2015
PLOS One: “Previous research has shown that
political leanings correlate with various psychological factors.
While surveys and experiments provide a rich source of information
for political psychology, data from social networks can offer more
naturalistic and robust material for analysis. This research
investigates psychological differences between individuals of
different political orientations on a social networking platform,
Twitter. Based on previous findings, we hypothesized that the
language used by liberals emphasizes their perception of uniqueness,
contains more swear words, more anxiety-related words and more
feeling-related words than conservatives’ language. Conversely, we
predicted that the language of conservatives emphasizes group
membership and contains more references to achievement and religion
than liberals’ language. We analysed Twitter timelines of 5,373
followers of three Twitter accounts of the American Democratic and
5,386 followers of three accounts of the Republican parties’
Congressional Organizations. The results support most of the
predictions and previous findings, confirming that Twitter
behaviour offers valid insights to offline behaviour.”
Just saying... (Watch the TED talk from the CU
Medical Center)
Hate
Handwriting? Me Too. Here’s Why We Should Teach It Anyway.
… 41 out of 50 states don’t require
handwriting to be taught in schools as of 2014. Maybe you think this
is no big deal, after all, why handwrite when we can type?
(Related) Or, if that's too much work...
How To Turn
Your Handwriting Into A Font
Strange that the Great American Beer Festival
website is down this morning. I wonder why?
[The
Cache is here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5F4l-Avb7ncJ:https://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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