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DevOps Answers: Should Developers Install Software on Production Themselves?
The connection between development and operations in IT means that developers and sysadmins get a lot more cozy in order to make sure that everything runs a great deal more smoothly. However, while this means breaking down a lot of bureaucratic barriers, it also means carefully examining how the organization uses this connection and what ...
Facebook Returns to the Nymwar: Users Asked to Snitch on Friends Not Using Real Names
The fight over the ability to maintain a type of anonymity on social media originally spoken of as fiascos surrounding “Real Name policies” and dubbed the “Nymwar” (after psudeonym) has returned to the table once again as Facebook opened up another salvo. In what looks like a cynical attempt to discover if users are using ...
HoneyMap: Visualizing Malware Attacks Across the Globe with the Honeynet Project
The Honeynet Project is making some real waves in the malware community by setting up “sensors” across the Internet (in the fashion of honeypot servers pretending to be possible targets) in order to track the spread and distribution of malware. Now, they’ve taken it a step further with an amazing jQuery-driven visualization web page (named ...
Inventive Redditor Builds Xbox 360 Into a Laptop Case and Walks into a Bar
Interestingly, it’s not a joke, yet that is the punch line for this inventive marvel. Most game consoles are a little bit less-than-portable—that’s why the mobile market is awash with handhelds that act like consoles but run in their own little world. Consoles require a wall socket and a TV screen to be useful, in ...
Gaming Giant King.com Hooks into Cloudera Hadoop to Understand Players
King.com is a European powerhouse for mobile and web gaming that receives over half of its traffic from Facebook. As a platform, mobile gaming is highly monetized and looking at outfits like Zynga it’s also highly lucrative (although still a rocky place to live.) The nature of mobile gaming leads companies to looking at who ...
BitInstant’s CEO Goes to Brazil for Money Conference Returns With ‘World’s Current Monetary System is Inferior to Bitcoin’
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees went down to Rio de Janeiro for the annual Global Payments Forum held by the North American Payments Association (NACHA) to speak about Bitcoin’s niche as “virtual currency.” In a post on BitInstant’s blog Voorhees speaks about the conference’s reaction to them and his reaction to the conference ...
Anonymous ‘Spokesman’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Recorded Chat Session
In what would make the second time this year, Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. This time the event happened “on camera” and a portion of it was recorded during a live video chat where he was holding a discussion with others. Wired magazine has an article (and recorded video) up right now about ...
Blizzard Caught with Screenshots Around their Ankles Over World of Warcraft Watermarks
Players of the ever-popular World of Warcraft developed by Blizzard has been caught watermarking screenshots taken from within the game bringing to light privacy issues with playing online games and sharing of images taken within them. Screenshots from the wildly popular MMO have been sussed out by enterprising amateurs, and appear to have been within ...
Go Daddy Outage Related to Router Failure and Not Anonymous DDoS
Yesterday, the Internet saw what can happen when a DNS outage strikes a major webhost when millions of people could not access web pages provided by Go Daddy. Initially, reports went out that Anonymous had taken credit for a DDoS attack against the Go Daddy’s DNS infrastructure and thus caused intermittent failures for numerous websites—but ...
Whisper.sh: An Intimate Take on Radical Anonymity
We’ve been moving slowly through the era of social information technology and that means more and more fears crop up about having our lives on display in social networks. People have images of themselves at parties on Facebook, tweet that they’re at a concert, and get it up with a HangOut on Google+ from their ...