When we think of tech crime, we tend to imagine hackers cooking up exploits to crack banking systems or spammers launching phishing attacks, but they are only half the story.
While these cybercrimes might capture the imagination of Hollywood script writers, there is a much lower-tech assault taking place on the nation’s IT infrastructure that is more Lock, Stock than The Matrix.
Every night across Britain, old-fashioned robbers take to the streets, looking to plunder an increasingly valuable commodity — copper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One air traveler says rabbits took a chunk out of his car while it was parked at Denver International Airport.
After a nine day stay at DIA’s Pike’s Peak lot, Dexter Meyer returned from vacation and found that his car would barely start.
The (repair man) called me and told me that rodents had eaten through the wires,
said Meyer. That’s what the VW dealer said was wrong with his brand new Jetta.
You didn’t just pick the car up from the airport did you?
the dealer asked Meyer. And I said, ‘well as a matter of fact I did.’ And he said ‘well we’ve had several problems with people having rabbits eating through the wiring’
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia mail is a prestigious web-based email account, you get YourName@australia.edu which is great for personal or business use
The market for personal data about Internet users is booming, and in the vanguard is the practice of scraping
. Firms offer to harvest online conversations and collect personal details from social-networking sites, résumé sites and online forums where people might discuss their lives.
The emerging business of web scraping provides some of the raw material for a rapidly expanding data economy. Marketers spent $7.8 billion on online and offline data in 2009, according to the New York management consulting firm Winterberry Group LLC. Spending on data from online sources is set to more than double, to $840 million in 2012 from $410 million in 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A site run by the MPAA has become the most recent victim of cyber attacks being carried out by Anonymous. CopyProtected.com, a site used to inform on copy protection and DRM on DVD and Blu-ray movie discs, now displays a missive from the anarchic group. After a few seconds it redirects visitors to the homepage of The Pirate Bay — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has added notification for phishing URLs to its service that lets administrators know if their networks have been compromised — via redwolf.newsvine.com
State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show that the mechanism inside is beautifully preserved, from delicate cogwheels and Egyptian-style pillars to the maker’s inscription — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While I’ll admit that the words vintage officer
make me think of a drunken war hero who graduated college, I’m quite enamoured by the look of this new Bell & Ross chrono. It has a definite Speedmaster feel to it. It runs a nice ETA 2895 for the three hand version (the 123) and a 2894 for the 126 chrono version. It is 41mm and comes in steel with anti-reflective domed crystal — via Wrist Watch Review
Whether the influence was subconscious or the designer a closet Star Wars fan, it is hard not to see the iconic shape of a classic science fiction vehicle in this behemoth of a home — via Dornob
Here’s a natural-looking porous concrete for pathways. GraniteCrete is designed to retain water underneath the ground. Unlike most concrete that just keeps water on the surface, wasting it in runoff down city drains back to the ocean, this collects rainwater – just like dirt did before we paved it all over, yet, unlike dirt paths, this never gets muddy — via Home Design Find
Shapeways now carries my material of choice for jewellery making: sterling silver.
We are very proud to offer Sterling Silver as our latest production material! In the past we did a test with Silver Ring Poems and Cufflinks, but now you can order any design in brilliant shiny Silver, until at least November 7th.
We’ll use this test period to see if we can achieve the quality and speed that we want. Also, we’ll need to learn what size of objects will be ordered – larger objects mean lower overhead costs for us, and in the long run better prices/cm3 for you!
We’re using Sterling silver which is 92.5% pure silver. The models are created using the lost-wax casting process using a high-resolution 3D Wax print of your design. After printing the model is cleaned and optionally manually polished (we call this Silver Glossy). Please note that only well-reachable surfaces can be polished!
Silver costs $48/cm3, with a minimum of $30. The optional polishing step for Silver Glossy is an additional $15 per model. Delivery time is 12 working days.
— via MAKE
The Analytical Engine – conceived in 1837 – remains one of the greatest inventions that never was as Babbage died before he could see out its construction.
However, John Graham-Cumming, a programmer and science blogger, now hopes to realise Babbage’s vision by raising £400,000 to build the giant brass and iron contraption — via redwolf.newsvine.com
THE steadily increasing power of Australia’s domestic spy agency is set to continue, with legislative amendments to give ASIO the power to run the wiretaps of more than a dozen domestic law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A study has found that some dogs are natural gloom-mongers while others have sunnier dispositions.
“We know that people’s emotional states affect their judgments and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation positively,” said professor Mike Mendl, an author of the study and head of animal welfare and behavior at Bristol University.
What our study has shown is that this applies similarly to dogs
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have created a genetically modified silkworm that spins a new kind of silk: a hybrid of silkworm silk and spider silk — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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