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This Week in DDoS: CyberBunker vs. Spamhaus, MtGox Bitcoin Exchange and Dwolla, SendGrid
It’s been an interesting week for the concept of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and one of the biggest takeaways of everything we’ve seen is that the total scale of DDoS is increasing. Evermore it’s not just the usual Red Queen race in play, but attackers are thinking and innovating methods of using infrastructure ...
Social Media Fallout: Adria Richards and #Donglegate
It’s the era of Internet drama as much as it’s the Information Age; that series of tubes presents a whole new way for rumors and recriminations to spread and it provides a platform for voices that otherwise wouldn’t know about any given event. By now, most people are aware of the fallout from a situation ...
When Google Glass Goes Wrong: The Low Down and Dirty
It’s been for a while now that I’ve been extolling the virtues of wearable computing, and the advent of Google Glass; in fact, it’s easy to see how people could do some awesome things with Glass…but with every amazing technology comes drawbacks. In the case of Glass it’s been fueling the undercurrent of distrust and ...
Google Glass and iWatch: Next-Gen Wearable Computing is All About the Sensors, Baby
Computing technology has come a long way from mainframes that took up entire floors of buildings and now what was once mammoth huge fits in my pocket. This is the crux of wearable computing: making the big small and giving mobility to big data and big information. Much of the mobile environment has been focused ...
From Primer to Pro : Software-Led Infrastructure for John Doe & CIOs
Welcome to the second-to-last week of March, and Software Led-Infrastructure is the best horse out of the gate in the tech industry. For CIOs this is a big deal—and for non-CIOs in the audience here’s a very good primer into what SLI is, and what it means for us. On the SLI front, Oracle is not standing ...
Bitcoin Value Hits $70 and Keeps Climbing; Cyprus Bailout Connection Speculated
Bitcoin has seen a sudden and remarkable boost in value over the past few days that coincides with talks by cash-strapped Cyprus to raid their banking system in order to pay a $13 billion bailout tab—a reporter at BGR noticed that Spaniards became suddenly interested in a trio of iOS Bitcoin apps. Since the bailout ...
Abusing the Cloud: When Solo Games Get Connected
Recently, EA came out with the most recent installment of SimCity–a game that didn’t classically contain multiplayer and spoke to more or less a core solo-player audience. However, in EA Maxis’s infinite wisdom SimCitty 5 was launched to be always-online and multiplayer only. Hence the name of this sort of game “always-connected” referring to the ...
The Revolution Will Be Augmented: OWS Should Embrace Google Glass
The newest threat to public privacy is barely out of the gate and already speculation is wild about how Google glass will be used. Thoughts on how it will lead to a black eye or being banned from a bar have already been leveled; but its certainly not the first wearable, streaming camera to be ...
Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Debuts: “Damsel in Distress – Part 1”
The first video of Anita Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” series is out–“Damsels in Distress – Part 1”. There’s quite a bit of history behind this video and a lot of reaction to wade through; but for those interested in the video, it’s imbedded in this article. Sarkeesian has become something of a ...
Mojang Targets Family-Friendly Gaming With Minecraft Realms
Minecraft is a video gaming and social phenomenon that has made deep waves across the industry. As a game it has inspired gamers and educators alike; but it’s still primarily a single player game with multiplayer attached by allowing an instance of Minecraft to act as a server–this has given rise to a number of ...