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Buying Trouble Your grocery list could spark a terror probe - Dustin

Type n Walk is a new iPhone app that lets you see what's in front of you while typing and walking. - Dustin

Another inherent advantage of Nominum’s solution is that it prevents attackers from taking advantage of “fast flux” techniques that allow them to hide their servers by quickly changing IP addresses - Dustin

What good is a large pcap if you can't mine the data, peek into it, search for terms and interactively explore conversations? We took a number of publicly available pcaps, indexed them and added a dash of Web 2.0 love. With over 22.8 GBytes and 54.9 million packets, this represents the largest collection of indexed pcaps online - Dustin

According to Rod Rasmussen, president and CTO of Internet Identity, a start-up developing a DNS monitoring service, the attackers appeared to be setting up a fast flux style technique - Dustin

cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user. - Dustin

The term runtime intelligence (RI) refers to technologies, managed services and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of application usage levels, patterns and practices. RI is a discipline within both business intelligence (BI) and software development lifecycle (SDLC) management that focuses on precision method-level monitoring within applications and macro-level monitoring across populations of applications, platforms and domains. - Dustin

Cyber terrorists could build a botnet that could bring down the entire Internet structure. This is technically possible.” He cites the Kido or Conficker worm that is estimated to have infected 10 million machines worldwide. “A botnet of this size has the potential not only to cause a lot of trouble, but to bring down the Internet infrastructure itself.” - Dustin

the 'Open 100' competition to find the world's best open innovators and to celebrate the power of openness and mass collaboration. - Dustin

Trend Micro announced malware analysis in the cloud, offering the dual approach of tapping as well as securing the cloud. How well has that strategy worked for you? The scan update may look fine but every year there are more than 5 million viruses, so the challenge lies in detecting new malware. So Eva came up with the idea of offering a service based on technology like Hadoop, which can parallel-compute huge amounts of unstructured data. We try to fight the hackers and viruses in the cloud, rather than trying to remove it in the customer environment. - Dustin

The three key aspects of OpenVoIP's design are its ability to use any DHT or unstructured peer-to-peer protocol for directory service, the use of intermediate peers with unrestricted connectivity to relay signaling and media tra±c between peers behind NAT and ¯rewalls, and a diagnostic system integrated with Google maps for graphical monitoring. - Dustin

Creating a Star Schema Database is one of the most important, and sometimes the final, step in creating a data warehouse. Given how important this process is to building a data warehouse, it is important to understand how to move from a standard, on-line transaction processing (OLTP) system to a final star schema. - Dustin

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about the concept of eventual consistency in the context of data replication. In this positing I would like to try to collect some of the principles and abstractions related to large scale data replication and the trade-offs between high-availability and data consistency. - Dustin

This is a package of tools in use in Skype for replication and failover. It includes a generic queuing mechanism, PgQ and utility library for Python scripts. - Dustin

JPivot is a JSP custom tag library that renders an OLAP table and let users perform typical OLAP navigations like slice and dice, drill down and roll up. It uses Mondrian as its OLAP Server. JPivot also supports XMLA datasource access. - Dustin

JRubik is an Olap client developed in Java/Swing and based on JPivot project components. The client connects to Mondrian Olap datasources (in the near future the application could access to MS Analysis Server, SAS Olap Server using XMLA soap protocol. The Olap queries could be issued using MDX language (pretty soon we suppose the application will be JOLAP compatible). - Dustin

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. - Dustin

"[Researcher Christopher Solomon]'s software generates its own faces that progressively evolve to match the witness' memories. The witness starts with a general description such as "I remember a young white male with dark hair." Nine different computer-generated faces that roughly fit the description are generated, and the witness identifies the best and worst matches. The software uses the best fit as a template to automatically generate nine new faces with slightly tweaked features, based on what it learned from the rejected faces. "Over a number of generations, the computer can learn what face you're looking for," says Solomon. The mathematics underlying the software is borrowed from Solomon's experience using optics to image turbulence in the atmosphere in the 1990s. - Dustin

Infraguard, phish phry, Darknet takedown - Dustin

Zoomable image viewer in web browser - Dustin

Senior Intel Analyst - OSINT and Linguistics Specialist (Owner) at Meta Enterprises LLC - Dustin

The purpose of this investigation was to study the effectiveness of concept mapping on nursing competencies of primary medical care among fourth year Assumption University nursing students using a single group quasi-experimental research design. - Dustin

Trotting out the usual mantra of “terrorist threats”, an EU telecommunications directive ( 2006/24/EC) will see Internet Service Providers being forced to store details of user emails, internet phone calls, text messages and webpage visits from April 6 2009 for a period of 12 months. The content of emails and calls will not be held but ISPs will record the source and destination of a communication; type of communication; date, time, duration; identities of recipients of the communication; and location of mobile communication equipment. So it’s pretty clear “who sent what to whom” and “who visited what website” would be identifiable and that connections between people could be mapped. What a great way to create a profile of everyone’s relationships and communications. - Dustin

Organized Internet-based crime has reached such intensity and scale that the distinction between cybercrime and cyberwar is being blurred, security giant McAfee said in its annual Virtual Criminology Report. "Is the age of cyberwar at hand?" McAfee asked in the report, citing evidence that countries hostile to industrial democracies are involved in some of the more serious and sustained cybercrime. In response, McAfee said, "nation-states are arming themselves for the cyberspace battlefield." "There is active debate as to when a cyberattack reaches the threshold of damage and disruption to warrant being categorized as cyberwarfare," "With critical infrastructure as likely targets of cyberattacks, and private company ownership of many of the information systems in these sectors, private companies will likely be caught in the crossfire," - Dustin

This report analyzes terrorist groups’ use of advanced information and communication technologies in efforts to plan, coordinate, and command their operations. It is one component of a larger study that examines terrorists’ use of technology, a critical arena in the war against terrorism. The goal of the investigation reported here is to identify which network technologies might be used to support the activities that terrorists must perform to conduct successful operations, understand terrorists’ decisions about when and under what conditions particular technologies will be used and determine the implications of these insights for efforts to combat terrorism. - Dustin

“In the 21st Century, what has the potential to do more harm? Bombs, Bullets or Bits?” - Dustin

How the so-called "Human Terrain System" responds to a spate of combat deaths and a disastrous employee pay cut will determine whether the program survives in its current form. the summer pay cut was just the latest test of character for a program that has seen many of them Considering that members receive at least six months of training before deploying, a full recovery could take years. In Afghanistan, the State Department is providing combat units with small "District Support Teams." And the Department of Agriculture is deploying "Agricultural Support Teams" to act as liaisons to Afghan farmers. - Dustin

The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is an international group of scientists, academics, investigators, and volunteers dedicated to the continuing examination and analysis of the UFO phenomenon. Our purpose is to promote serious scientific interest in UFOs and to serve as an archive for reports, documents, and publications about the UFO phenomenon. - Dustin

Opera 10.10 has been released, and with it their new "Unite" technology, which allows users to share content directly between all of their own devices. Unite wraps both web browser and web server into a single package in an attempt to change the way users think about their browser. - Dustin

Pilfering data has become endemic in our culture as 85% of people admit they know it's illegal to download corporate information from their employer but almost half couldn't stop themselves taking it with them with the majority admitting it could be useful in the future! [...] The survey entitled 'the global recession and its effect on work ethics,' carried out for a second year by Cyber-Ark – found that almost half of the respondents 48% admit that if they were fired tomorrow they would take company information with them and 39% of people would download company/competitive information if they got wind that their job was at risk. Additionally a quarter of workers said that the recession has meant that they feel less loyal towards their employer. - Dustin