Software, Methods
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Microsoft Shares Own Security Secrets
internetnews.com, Ryan Naraine Microsoft has released a technical case study of its internal security procedures, in which it spells out a three-pronged approach to thwarting malicious hacker attacks and urges enterprise admins to spend more time anticipating and preventing attacks. The company chided enterprises for adopting a reactionary approach to malicious attacks instead of spending…
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12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source
from LinuxWorld The 12 reasons for Growth of Open Source as defined by Marc Andreessen (Netscape etc) 1. “The Internet is powered by open source.” 2. “The Internet is the carrier for open source.” 3. “The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed.” 4. “It’s simply going to be more secure…
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12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source
from LinuxWorld The 12 reasons for Growth of Open Source as defined by Marc Andreessen (Netscape etc) 1. “The Internet is powered by open source.” 2. “The Internet is the carrier for open source.” 3. “The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed.” 4. “It’s simply going to be more secure…
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Users…
BBC News Few users know how best to use search engines. Six in 10 of those surveyed typed in just one word in order to find what they were looking for – a big ask, when market leader Google, for instance, indexes 4,285,199,774 documents. Add in those who use two words, and that’s four-fifths of…
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British Pathe Archive
Apple (UK and Ireland) The world-famous British Pathe archive is using Apple technology to adapt the first digital news resource of its kind, so that schoolchildren can download high-resolution, original footage of the Titanic, the D-Day landings or The Beatles, and use it to bring their school projects to life. The Pathe archive is a…
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British Pathe Archive
Apple (UK and Ireland) The world-famous British Pathe archive is using Apple technology to adapt the first digital news resource of its kind, so that schoolchildren can download high-resolution, original footage of the Titanic, the D-Day landings or The Beatles, and use it to bring their school projects to life. The Pathe archive is a…
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Data Mining
extracts from Wired News article “U.S. Still Mining Terror Data” David D. Jensen, University of Massachusetts is involved in US efforts to mine data about individuals who might pose a threat to the USA. (“Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery”) This is “technology not only for ‘connecting the dots’ that enable the U.S. to predict and…
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Data Mining
extracts from Wired News article “U.S. Still Mining Terror Data” David D. Jensen, University of Massachusetts is involved in US efforts to mine data about individuals who might pose a threat to the USA. (“Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery”) This is “technology not only for ‘connecting the dots’ that enable the U.S. to predict and…
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The Dangers of Monoculture
Excellent article from Wired News Just this past week, Microsoft warned customers about security problems that independent experts called among the most serious yet disclosed. Network administrators could only hope users would download the latest patch. Dan Geer, working for security company @stake, argued in a paper published last fall that the monoculture amplifies online…
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The Dangers of Monoculture
Excellent article from Wired News Just this past week, Microsoft warned customers about security problems that independent experts called among the most serious yet disclosed. Network administrators could only hope users would download the latest patch. Dan Geer, working for security company @stake, argued in a paper published last fall that the monoculture amplifies online…