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Friday, November 23, 2012
'Happy Thanksgiving' Google Logo Spreads Turkey Day Cheer
Google on November 22 wished all its U.S. users a Happy Thanksgiving 2012 by transforming its search engine's home page logo into a holiday parade homage, complete with giant balloon letters that spell out "Google" and floats that resemble a turkey, a pie and a cornucopia.
The backdrop for the festive scene appears to be inspired by New York City, which every year hosts the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, with its elephantine balloons and its ornate floats.
Take a look at the Thanksgiving doodle (below), and scroll further down to see a gallery of some of our favorite Google Doodles.
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Further down Google's home page, past the logo, the company has posted a link to a landing page for several Google-branded services that is says will help families make the most of the holiday. Products listed include Google Hangouts, a Google+ feature that lets groups of people participate in online video chats; Flight Tracker, a tool that lets users keep an eye on specific flight schedules; Product Search, which may aid Black Friday shoppers hunting for the best bargains; and several others.
This year's Thanksgiving Google Doodle is decidedly lower-key than last year's interactive logo that let users dress a turkey in endless combinations of colored feathers, shoes and headgear.
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A group calling itself the ZCompanyHackingCrew has taken credit for the defacing of the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Blogger accounts belonging to Israeli?Vice Prime Minister?Silvan Shalom. The same group has?posted what it claims are the partial contents of Shalom's Gmail inbox along with contact information and a variety of seemingly confidential documents.
According to?the Next Web's Emil Protalinski, the ZCompanyHackingCrew?posted a file on document-sharing site?PasteBin containing?what "appears to contain Shalom?s personal phone number, as well as that of his chief of staff. It also apparently lists six of his email addresses, 20 screenshots of his various emails in his Gmail account, his entire contact list (names and email addresses), as well as confidential documents." This data was supposedly pulled from Shalom's Gmail account, of?which the group claims it has gained control.?
Facebook told NBC News?that it has looked into the matter. "After an investigation by Facebook Security into Vice Prime Minister Shalom's Page, we have concluded that the inappropriate posts did not in any way represent a compromise of Facebook," Facebook's spokesperson said. "We are in contact with the Page administrators and have already assisted in remediating the Page and any affected accounts."?
"We don't comment on individual cases, so we won't be able to provide any specifics," a Google spokesperson told NBC News. ?Twitter has not responded to our?request for comment on this matter.
The ZCompanyHackingCrew has posted tweets?to distance itself from Anonymous,?which has embarked on a campaign to target Israeli websites.?Shalom was "hacked to show solidarity with Gaza and raise voice against Israeli brutalities," a tweet from the group's Twitter?account explains.
The Next Web reported that there aren't many details regarding just how Shalom's accounts were compromised. Protalinski speculates that the Vice Prime Minister may have been using the same password for multiple accounts?? which is a pretty big security no-no. While we wait to discover further details regarding Shalom's situation, let's use the incident as a reminder that password security should be taken seriously.
Password security for the rest of us
Hacking government officials is a serious offense, one which could be considered a breach of national security in some cases, but a security breach can shake up lives even when it doesn't involve a high-ranking position. Password security is a significant matter and you should take steps to keep yourself and your data safe.
As we've pointed out in the past, you should start with passwords that are so strong that they could beat Popeye in an arm wrestling contest. When possible, use an extra layer of protection by enabling two-factor authentication on accounts. And don't recycle passwords, for goodness sake! An app for every password and a password for every app should be the theme you follow. Do not reuse passwords, no matter how tempting it is.
And don't forget that you're only as strong as your weakest link either. If Shalom's Gmail account was the first to go down, for example, it might have been used to reset the passwords on the other accounts. (Assuming those weren't the exact same character combinations to begin with.)
That's what you can take away from this incident for now?? that it's yet another reminder of how important it is to practice safe password creation.
Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Stone Soup for Thanksgiving: understanding bird disease through citizen science
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When somebody opens their front door to pick up the morning newspaper and sees a dead bird below their hedge, they get curious for answers. As soon as they stoop down for a closer look, an Indiana Jones adventure unfolds within the confines of their backyard. Was it poison, disease, predation, starvation, old age? Is this a fluke or widespread plague? Perhaps dead birds like this one are widely scattered across a country. But, if so, what sort of scientific method could find answers to what happened to them all?
The stone soup method.
In my favorite version of the folk story ?Stone Soup,? a group of monks traveling through the war-torn countryside sit in the center of a quiet village and boil a stone in a large pot of water. Soon curiosity wins over the initial distrust and skepticism of impoverished villagers as each, in turn, are enticed to add a vegetable or spice. Through cooperation and sharing, the entire village feasts on delicious, nutritious soup.
When my colleagues and I carry out research using citizen science methods, we are like the monks boiling stone soup. Instead of a pot, we have a big blank spreadsheet and curious folk are enticed to each add their observations, ultimately creating a robust database with observations from across a continent.
Through citizen science I study healthy birds, but several of my colleagues focus on the sick and dying ones. This week in PLOS ONE, a research team led by Becki Lawson, a veterinarian and ecologist, reported a new strain of avian pox spreading in a common backyard bird in Great Britain. Citizen science participation was pivotal to tracking the outbreak, unraveling its mysteries, and informing localized studies.
Avian pox is not for the squeamish, so this study is a testament to what citizen scientists are willing to do. Birds with avian pox grow red, yellow, or gray wart-like lesions, particularly around the eyes, beak, and legs. The new strain makes really large lesions, so severe that they leave the bird unable to feed itself or look out for predators. The pox spreads from individual to individual through direct contact, indirect contact (like touching the same bird feeder), or through a vector that bites, like mosquitoes. There is no way to treat wild birds medically. When an outbreak occurs, people are advised to remove bird feeders to prevent birds from congregating. Also, the study is a reminder for people to periodically clean and sanitize wild bird feeders, just as you would with pets.
There are numerous causes of bird deaths in Great Britain. I get the shivers from the names, such as the bacteria like salmonellosis, colibacillosis, Suttonella ornithocola, and Chlamydia psittaci, viruses like pox and fringilla papilloma, and parasites, like trichomonosis, cnemidocoptiasis, and syngamiasis. People have found birds with all of these infectious diseases in over 60 species since 2005 because thousands of individuals have followed hygienic protocols to pick up, package, and submit over 2,500 dead birds to designated veterinary labs for post mortem exams.
The veterinary labs participate in the Garden Bird Health initiative (GBHi), a highly collaborative research project to investigate causes of sickness and death in British garden birds. Researchers at the Zoological Society of London collate information from two citizen science projects. First, they receive ad hoc reports, typically through the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Second, Garden BirdWatch, run by the British Trust for Ornithology, formed a systematic surveillance system in which participants provided information every week throughout the year (not just when sick or dead birds are found).
Over the past few year Brits were alert and tracking the spread of this pox virus. Two years ago they also followed an epidemic of parasitic finch trichomonosis that caused a significant decline in British greenfinch populations, in research also led by Becki Lawson. The parasitic epidemic spread from the UK to the rest of Europe. The current viral pox epidemic turned the tables: this epidemic is likely invading the UK from Europe. Great Tits don?t migrate, so the new strain of pox had to arrive some other way.
Working in coordination with the national efforts, ornithologists from the University of Oxford confirmed that the Great Tit was more susceptible than other species. Although the avian pox has severe effects on individual birds, in particular lowering the odds of survival for chicks and juvenile birds, researchers do not anticipate population declines as occurred with the greenfinch.
In the US, citizen scientists are helping study disease and death in birds, too. The House Finch Disease Survey, which is a project by Andr? Dhondt, my colleague (and supervisor) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has tracked an epidemic of conjunctivitis, spread by bacteria. Like pox, people can typically see the symptoms of conjunctivitis in house finches, mainly red swollen and crusty eyes, like pink eye in our children.
In the Pacific Northwest, hundreds of people help monitor marine health as they take long walks on the beach. They have counted thousands of dead (beached) sea birds each year and submitted their observations to my colleague Julia Parrish through the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST). These baseline numbers are important. Unless people are paying attention, we won?t notice if there is a sudden uptick in deaths, or be able to properly estimate the impact of a catastrophe, such as an oil spill.
There are plenty of misconceptions about citizen science, largely attributed to its dual achievements: public engagement and academic research. Is the purpose of making stone soup to teach people about cooperation or to produce a good meal? The intent doesn?t matter because the stone soup method achieves both. Likewise, citizen science can woo everyday people into falling in love with science AND co-create knowledge that an individual scientist could not acquire alone.
References:
Lawson, B., Lachish S., Colvile, K.M., Durrant, C., Peck, K.M., Toms, M.P., Sheldon, B.C., Cunningham, A.A. Emergence of a novel avian pox disease in British tit species. PLoS ONE
Lachish, S., Bonsall, M.B., Lawson, B., Cunningham, A.A., Sheldon, B.C. Individual and population-level impacts of an emerging poxvirus disease in a wild population of great tits. PLoS ONE
Lachish, S., Lawson, B., Cunningham, A.A., Sheldon, B.C. Epidemiology of the emergent disease Paridae pox in an intensively studied wild bird population. PLoS ONE
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
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Dell SonicWALL today released the findings of a survey about the anticipated impact to business as a result of Cyber Monday, the largest online shopping day of the year. The survey found that most employees are not able to recognize online threats against the corporate network and companies are most concerned that online shopping could open the network to potential new threat vectors. The survey also revealed that 63 percent of businesses expect a greater decrease in productivity due to Cyber Monday compared with last year. Dell SonicWALL solutions help companies drive employee productivity and network efficiency by eliminating the non-business-critical use of bandwidth and applications and by protecting the corporate network against threats.
As people return to work on Nov. 26 after the long Thanksgiving weekend and boot up their computers to take advantage of special offers from retailers, they?ll be taking part in a holiday tradition: Cyber Monday. Peak hours, when Internet bandwidth will be most impacted by online shopping, will occur in the afternoon. This year, social media is expected to add to the impact on corporate networks as shoppers visit Facebook and other social media outlets for information about Cyber Monday sales.
The survey found 59 percent of businesses were more concerned about loss of employee productivity from online shopping on Cyber Monday than they were worried about potential network threats. Companies ranging in size from 500-999 employees anticipate the greatest impact on productivity, at 83 percent. Overall, 55 percent of businesses of all sizes predict their employees will spend two to four hours a week shopping online during the holiday buying season.
Business can protect itself from cyber threats and assure productivity through next-generation firewalls that provide advanced features such as content filtering and application intelligence and control. This allows companies to determine what applications or websites employees can access on the corporate network.
Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls with integrated URL/web filtering help organizations enforce their protection policies, drive productivity and block unproductive, inappropriate and illegal web content. This feature can keep businesses productive even while employees shop online, as it protects the corporate network from malicious attacks from phishing, cyber scams and threats from fraudulent emails, websites and malware. Application intelligence and control functionality also helps protect the corporate network from the internal harm employees render when they use bandwidth to shop online, share gift lists, watch videos and send holiday greetings.
In addition, the Dell SonicWALL email security platform deployed either as a service on the firewall or through a dedicated solution stops phishing and zombie attacks, spam, and viruses with more than 99 percent effectiveness. It uses multiple established, patented techniques including reputation checks that verify not only a message?s sender IP reputation, but also the reputation of its content, structure, links, images, and attachments.
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Patrick Sweeney, Executive Director, Product Management, Dell SonicWALL: ?Cyber Monday raises productivity issues and potentially opens corporate networks to possible threats. Our survey results show that businesses are more concerned with productivity and bandwidth issues than malicious attacks, but Dell SonicWALL has solutions to address risks and keep networks secure. In conjunction with our award-winning next-generation firewalls, the Dell SonicWALL Email Security solution is ideal for the 68 percent of businesses who fear their employees can?t correctly identify a spear phishing attack or other network threats.?
With solutions for security, systems management, business intelligence and application management software, Dell companies like KACE, SecureWorks, SonicWALL and Quest Software assist their customers in protecting their corporate networks, as well as their employees? and clients? personal information during the holidays and all year long:
- Dell KACE offers advice on how systems management can help retailers securely manage back-end processing tasks as well as provide controls at the point of sale to ensure systems are ready anytime while meeting compliance standards. Dell KACE offers helpful advice for retailers.
- Dell Quest makes security and compliance simple and efficient with Quest One Identity Solutions. With a modular, yet integrated, approach to identity and access management, Quest One addresses both immediate concerns and future business needs with solutions that reduce risks and the costs of audit, and empower IT to govern the access needed to operate an agile and effective business today. Dell Quest offers best practices to protect the enterprise.
- Dell SecureWorks provides world-class information security services to help organizations of all sizes protect their IT assets, comply with regulations and reduce security costs. Dell SecureWorks protects some of the largest retailers worldwide, and every year during the holidays sees the hacker attacks and scams targeting retailers and their customers increase substantially. Here is a list of security tips to protect both groups during this busy season.
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Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell SonicWALL makes security a business enabler to drive employee productivity and network performance. It provides intelligent network security and data protection solutions that empower customers and partners of all sizes and verticals to dynamically secure, control and scale their networks. For more information, visit http://www.sonicwall.com or www.dell.com.
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