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Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

Webcam Hacker Luis Mijangos: Newsmakers "Do you want to see something scary?" It was a Saturday night, not much happening in her Long Beach, California, neighborhood, so high school senior Melissa Young was home messing around on her computer. Her little sister, Suzy, was doing the same thing down the hall. The house was quiet, save the keyboard tapping in the girls' rooms, when the odd little instant message popped up on Melissa's screen—an IM from Suzy. Melissa wondered why her goof-off sister was IM'ing from the next room instead of just padding over—she wasn't usually that lazy—so she walked over to see what was up. That night, Suzy's 20-year-old friend Nila Westwood got the same note, the same attachment. A month passed. The more ubiquitous cameras become, the less we're aware they're even there. It's a question that James Kelly and his girlfriend, Amy Wright, never thought they'd have to entertain. Mistah X wasn't done. They were powerless. The campus police were in no position to handle a case like this. "Oh, really?"

Owning Wild Animals: Stats on Exotic Pets (Infographic) | Lions, Tigers & Bears | Dangers of Owning Exotic Animals | Captive Wildlife Regulations The escape of 50 exotic animals near Zanesville, Ohio, last month brought into the spotlight the complex issues, as well as dangers, of keeping wild animals as domestic pets. The incident happened Tuesday (Oct. 18) when resident Terry Thompson set loose his menagerie of lions, tigers, bears, monkeys and other animals from their cages before committing suicide. Authorities had little choice but to shoot and kill nearly 50 of the untamed animals before they injured people. And apparently Ohio is one state that doesn't regulate or restrict keeping wildlife captive. In addition to state-by-state variability in captive wildlife regulation in general, an exemption in the Captive-Bred Wildlife Registration Program currently allows people in the United States to own so-called generic tigers; these are tigers that can't be identified as being from one of the known subsecies (Bengal, Sumatran, Siberian/Amur or Indochinese). These animals could also potentially transmit deadly infections to humans.

National Vulnerability Database Home BloomReach Crunches Big Data To Deliver The Future Of SEO and SEM Are you ready for a revolution? Today, after 3 years of machine learning development in stealth, BloomReach reveals its big data solution for website relevance optimization. BloomReach is capable of boosting organic search traffic by a whopping 80%, and will flip the search engine optimization and marketing industries upside down. With a huge problem, a team of industry rockstars backed by $16 million from Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and the patented technology capable of executing, BloomReach could become the first $10 billion enterprise marketing company, joining other core solutions like Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce. BloomReach’s cloud marketing platform attacks the lack of search result presence that plagues the content and products filling up the subpages of most big websites. Here’s how BloomReach’s core product BloomSearch fixes this. The other two products BloomReach launches today maximize conversions from search advertising and social curation.

The Imperfections of the U.S. Judicial System I figured this infographic would be appropriate given the recent controversy in the Casey Anthony trial. Honestly I haven’t been following the coverage enough to form an opinion. But judging by my recent Facebook news feed, several of my friends have followed the trial and have quite a bit to say about it. Considering how popular shows like Law & Order are, I’m sure this infographic will entertain the majority of you readers. It must suck for the half of exonerees who have not received any financial compensation. Share This Infographic Get Free Infographics Delivered to your Inbox

Amazon Has Tried Everything to Make Shopping Easier. Except This. Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press, via Associated PressSanjay Shah, left, general manager of Amazon’s new warehouse in Chattanooga, Tenn., at an opening ceremony on Thursday with the Tennessee governor, Bill Haslam. Much of the discussion about Amazon is focused on its digital side, yet the company is relentlessly expanding into the physical. It has announced five new United States warehouses since late December, all with more than a million square feet. It is testing out delivery lockers in New York and Seattle for those who cannot receive their goods at home. It has been experimenting with a grocery delivery service in Seattle for several years. It has expanded its Prime $79 annual shipping fee program, hoping members will order more of everything.

PSYCHOLOGY Web Companies Agree to Support 'Do Not Track' System This just made my day Mobile's Coming Costs Put CFOs on the Spot CIO CFOworld — The iPad/iPhone-driven BYOD trend means demand for mobile bandwidth is expanding exponentially. That's interesting as a reflection of the boom in mobile devices across consumer and enterprise markets, but means problems for carriers. And CFOs need to think today about how the movement to bring-your-own-device may impact their bottom line tomorrow. Pros and Cons of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) The most recent Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast draws a picture of growing demand for bandwidth in the post-PC era, setting the scene for carriers to develop new pricing tiers and new demand-based services as they attempt to monetize this demand while attempting to be as frugal as they are able when it comes to infrastructure investment. Carriers Are Businesses Sure, you can look at booming data as an excuse to spend, spend, spend on infrastructure. New Data Charges Ahead Continue Reading

Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory Yale University Google’s Mobile Sales Head: US Smartphone Ownership Grew 7% Last Year — Plus, Predictions Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy, will be taking the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later today, where he’ll be revealing new research about smartphone growth and making some predictions about what we’ll be seeing in the mobile world over the next year. In advance of Spero’s talk, Google is publishing a blog post that previews some of his comments. It offers a few highlights from new research conducted in January with Ipsos, which will be part of a future update to Our Mobile Planet, Google’s free analysis and data tool. Smartphone ownership grew 7 percent in the United States, to 38 percent of the total population. Here are Spero’s 12 predictions for 2012: More than 1 billion people will use mobile devices as their primary internet access point.10 days where mobile searches represent >;50% of trending search terms.Mobile’s role in driving people into stores will be proven and it will blow us away.

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