Ged Carroll

Category: security | 保衛 | 정보 보안 | 情報セキュリティー

According to Wikipedia security can be defined:

Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems or any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change. Security mostly refers to protection from hostile forces, but it has a wide range of other senses: for example, as the absence of harm (e.g. freedom from want); as the presence of an essential good (e.g. food security); as resilience against potential damage or harm (e.g. secure foundations); as secrecy (e.g. a secure telephone line); as containment (e.g. a secure room or cell); and as a state of mind (e.g. emotional security).

Back when I started writing this blog, hacking was something that was done against ‘the man’, usually as a political statement. Now breaches are part of organised crime’s day to day operations. The Chinese government so thoroughly hacked Nortel that all its intellectual property was stolen along with commercial secrets like bids and client lists. The result was the firm went bankrupt. Russian ransomware shuts down hospitals across Ireland. North Korean government sanctioned hackers robbed 50 million dollars from the central bank of Bangladesh and laundered it in association with Chinese organised crime.

Now it has spilled into the real world with Chinese covert actions, Russian contractors in the developing world and hybrid warfare being waged across central Europe and the middle east.

  • This is your brain on e-books

    This is your brain on e-books

    This Is Your Brain on E-Books | MIT Technology Review – This is your brain on e-books highlights how e-books are different. I had a similar experience to this is your brain on e-books that I called Kindle brain

    Consumer behaviour

    The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music. – interesting take on how the artifact of records (and other media) are as important as the content itself

    McKinsey – Asian consumer insights – great set of reports

    Economics

    The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment – The Atlantic

    Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2012 by the UN

    Finance

    Iterations: How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future | TechCrunch

    The biggest banks say the biggest banks aren’t worth investing in, and regulation’s to blame – Quartz

    Six Reasons Why Chinese People Will Drive the Next Bull Market in Bitcoin

    FMCG

    Unitever’s Unbeatable branded media 《无懈可击之美女如云》,何润东,赵柯,清扬-搜狐娱乐

    Innovation

    Darpa’s New Navigation Tool Is Smaller Than a Penny | Danger Room | Wired.com

    Media

    Really, Microsoft? Your vision for the future of TV is… an HDMI cable? — Tech News and Analysis – they also sold their IPTV business to Ericsson in the past couple of days

    Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom | TechCrunch

    With Google’s Help, ‘Glamour’ Monetizes Hangouts – interesting ideas

    Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership – WSJ.com – this makes sense for both sides

    Online

    Google gains team behind Behavio, a startup that uses smartphone data to make predictions | The Verge – Google getting more user intent data and extending context into the real world to create the ‘web of no web’

    Twitter Now Rivals Facebook as Teens’ Most Important Social Network

    TripAdvisor Acquires Jetsetter for Undisclosed Amount | Betabeat

    Why Marissa Mayer Bought A $30M Startup – Business Insider – summation and reinvention of search is the key

    Security

    Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA for Google Job – AllThingsD – if you are unemployed for six months you aren’t going to get a job

    North Korea Pirates Spy Tools and Porn on BitTorrent | TorrentFreak

    Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet | Ars Technica

    Mozilla Wants to Eliminate Passwords With ‘Persona’ | Wired.com

    IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant | Politics and Law – CNET News

    Software

    My iOS 7 wish list — Tech News and Analysis

    Facebook’s Android app can now retrieve data about what apps you use – The Next Web

    Apple asks developers to localize apps, opens Chinese Support forum in international push

    Opinion: Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source | Ars Technica

    Microsoft, others behind new Android EU complaint – Rethink Wireless

    Is Windows 8 Killing PC Sales? Read the Fine Print: The Report of Windows’ Death was an Exaggeration | Forrester Blogs

    Technology

    AAPL, DELL, HPQ: Bernstein Ponders Lengthening PC Cycle – Barrons.com

    Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer. – Slate Magazine

    China just surpassed the US in semiconductor manufacturing—and the trend is likely to accelerate – Quartz

    Telecoms

    The fastest way to speedy networks: ignore Uncle Sam — GigaOM – internet infrastructure driving clusters of economic progress

    Web of no web

    You Lookin’ At Me? Reflections on Google Glass. – Jan Chipchase – Voices – AllThingsD – interesting analysis around consumer behaviour and the context for Google Glass

    Wireless

    Cell Networks Are Energy Hogs – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

    LG grabs third spot in global smartphone market｜Economy｜News｜WantChinaTimes.com

  • Sherpa + more news

    Sherpa

    Startup Sherpa Bets Its Predictive Smartphone Assistant Can Best Google Now | MIT Technology Review – Sherpa is mobile assistant that performs searches on the web, takes notes, posts content to Facebook and stream music on command. The app had a big impact in Spanish speaking markets. It uses Android’s speech recognition API. Sherpa competes against Google voice search and provides an equivalent service to Siri on the iPhone.

    Culture

    DAFT PUNK | In the studio

    Consumer behaviour

    Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content — paidContent – media‘s big challenge

    Economics

    Why Your Kid Can’t Get a Job – Forbes

    Debt burden could grow to ‘unsustainable’ levels: IMF | Irish Examiner

    BBC News – The Great British class calculator: What class are you? – nice exploration of the UK’s socio economic landscape

    College Grads May Be Stuck In Low-Skill Jobs – this all feels very early 1990s all over again

    BBC News – Should Britain let go of London?

    The UK Energy Crisis in 3 simple awareness-raising pictures • The Register – freaky weather and precarious natural gas supplies. Time to go nuclear

    Why Twenty-Somethings Aren’t Doomed to Be Poor (but Thirty-Somethings Might Be) – Atlantic Mobile

    Finance

    LINK – Statistics – interesting data points on ATM usage in UK

    How to

    3 Free SEO Tools for Identifying Target Keywords | Search Engine Journal

    Hubspot-The Complete Guide to Global Social Media Marketing.pdf_微盘下载 – good download from CIC Data

    Luxury

    Mercedes-Benz introduces CLA 45 AMG model amid leaping dancers – Quartz

    China: No Longer Largest Art Market | Sports and Culture Blog – this may have something to do with the way capital flight happens so may not count as a Chinese purchase

    Vera Wang scraps $500 China try-on fee, knockoffs still flourish | Reuters

    Marketing

    White Paper: Why the Brand Idea Still Matters in the Age of Social Media | JWT Blog

    Media

    What Advertisers Think About Mobile – Business Insider

    For Facebook Ads, How Targeted Is Too Targeted? – AllFacebook – friends aren’t necessarily like you

    What You Need to Know About Pinterest Web Analytics | VML

    WPP makes strategic investment in SFX Entertainment – WPP

    Ad Agencies Frustrated As Yahoo Focuses Energy Elsewhere | Advertising Age

    Online

    Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple | TechCrunch

    Experian Hitwise report: UK online video exceeds one billion visits a month {client} – Dot Comms – Find out about the UK’s online video consumption in latest Experian Hitwise UK’s report

    What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly :: Hacking, Distributed

    Apple’s broken promise: why doesn’t iCloud ‘just work’? | The Verge

    Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down… | CSS-Tricks

    Facebook moves to defuse algorithm row – Brand Republic News – One industry source claimed the natural reach of posts it made on behalf of a brand with one of the biggest Facebook followings in the UK has dropped from 15% to 5% after the change to the EdgeRank algorithm

    Retailing

    Customers Flee Wal-Mart Empty Shelves for Target, Costco – Bloomberg – running stores too lean in staff has meant that shelves can’t be restocked in sufficient time to keep selling product

    Security

    Saudi Arabia “Threatens Skype Ban” – also messaging services

    Schneier on Security: Our Internet Surveillance State

    Software

    Google Play risks destroying the market for premium apps on Android, believes Flexion Mobile – dramatic headline, but the dynamics described are not surprising

    Chromium Blog: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project – expect a wider range of web testing for future mobile and desktop browsers

    Gartner: Microsoft’s dominance of computing is over | T3 – I think Gartner is premature in its assumption. For instance, all computing platforms aren’t created equal in terms of value creation

    Spanish Linux group files antitrust complaint against Microsoft • The Register

    Wireless

    iPhone data usage: Phablets seen as a fad | BGR

    The Facebook Phone & The Triumph Of Native Apps Over HTML5 – ReadWrite

    What, exactly, WiFiSLAM is, and why Apple acquired it – The Next Web

    Apple’s first quarter of negative income growth since 2003 – Fortune – interesting analysis of the data

  • Mercedes Benz G63 + more

    Mercedes Benz G63 AMG

    Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 « Gear Patrol – I can’t work out if the Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 is amazing or stupid. It is based on the G Wagen which is a proper off-road vehicle. The 6×6 platform used was developed for the military like Germany’s KSK special forces unit. The Mercedes Benz G63 AMG adds a ridiculously overturned engine. AMG then has to go over every inch of the Mercedes Benz G63 and change chassis and components to adequately handle the power.

    Business

    16th annual CEO survey – pwc – (PDF)

    Consumer behaviour

    Chinese women aspire to be housewives | Market-interactive.com

    Study: Twitter debates don’t represent opinions of general public (Wired UK)

    Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities

    Design

    BMW announced it’s i3 Coupe concept this week. It was buzzword compliant with plug-in technology; but the most interesting thing for me about it was the way in which the car shows the current range that could be travelled as part of its in-car instrumentation.

    range

    It was a duh moment of genius simplicity in terms of user experience design for vehicles.

    Economics

    China: Beyond The Miracle | Zero Hedge – interesting piece of analysis

    Q&A with Jim ‘BRIC’ O’Neill: Grillo’s good, China’s fine, Europe’s fading – Quartz

    The fourth euro crisis cycle of panic has officially begun – Quartz

    Euro zone unemployment hits a record high of 11.9% – Quartz

    Finance

    Why delinquent student loans are the fuse on America’s next debt bomb – Quartz

    Rigging the I.P.O. Game – NYTimes.com – this reminds me of the first day ‘pop’ that my former client VA Lnux had when they IPO’d

    UK and US toe the edge of a “regulatory trade war” over banking – Quartz

    Hong Kong

    Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song

    How to

    How to RSVP in an Entrepreneurial Way | AlwaysOn

    Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v3 Jisc CETIS MASHe

    Nintendo games on a Mac – Matt Gemmell

    Creation Pinpoint™ | Dashboard for Understanding What Doctors Talk About Online. – New SM listening/monitoring tool for pharma – allows you to monitor only what HCPs are saying

    Korea

    Microsoft Seeks Software License from South Korea Military – Korea Real Time – WSJ

    London

    Evening Standard – FIFTY BEST: Independent coffee shops – as a Foursquare list

    Catching Up with the City Boy Who Spilled the City’s Secrets | VICE United Kingdom – interview with Geraint Anderson formerly a columnist in thelondonpaper

    Luxury

    Collectables – British Airways Business Life. – modern items that are collectable

    Marketing

    The Agenda for the Global Marketer – ad people worldwide – interesting white paper (PDF)

    Outside looking in – EIU – challenges CMO faces in dealing with the board

    Media

    Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit – Bloomberg

    #LFW: The ELLE UK Twitter report | ELLE UK – since when was fashion a democracy? Elle uses Twitter as an arbiter of taste. More related luxury content here.

    Digital Media in China – Digital Media Asia

    Social media policy | immediate future. – library of social media policies

    Pottermore Reaches Out To Harry Potter Fan Sites – affiliate marketing doesn’t pay that well

    Online

    TelecomTV | Reality bites: Fed-up with Facebook, the kids are are going somewhere “cooler”. – can’t say that I am surprised beyond the fact that network effects had been such a break on the retreat

    5 things that may change on your Facebook timeline – CTV

    Facebook algorithm stopping you see the content you subscribe to, unless brands pay | The Wall Blog

    The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens | The Verge

    The Decline and Fall of Social Networks

    Andrew Mason on being fired by the Groupon board

    Security

    Penn Schoen Berland – Execs say cyber-attacks a top priority – PSB is a sister agency

    Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf | Reuters

    First SOPA, Now Your Privacy: Facebook, Google Flex Lobbying Muscle in Europe | Mother Jones

    Software

    Google controls too much of China’s smartphone sector: ministry | Reuters – 90 per cent market share

    How Are You Feeling Today? A New Mood-Measuring App Can Tell You | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce

    Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone | TechCrunch

    Microsoft Might Owe Denmark More Than $1 Billion in Unpaid Tax

    Keeping the Wolfram from the Data

    Fontastic – A Processing library to create font files

    Who’ll win the consumer video codec battles?

    Resurgence in Neural Networks – tjake.blog

    Journo & Literate CoffeeScript

    Learning How to Code Is A Waste of Time – Forbes

    Technology

    PC market to decline for a second consecutive year in 2013, says IDC

    Library Camp London – Audio Recordings & Writeup | Terence Eden has a Blog

    Intel will make 14nm FPGAs for Altera

    Logitech reorganises to focus on mobile products

    Why Nobody Can Copy Apple | cek.log

    Telecoms

    Exclusive-Skype’s Jonathan Rosenberg, Father of SIP, Bolts Back To Cisco – VoIP Watch

    Wireless

    Why the Galaxy S4 won’t be shedding its plastic roots | CNET News

  • Siberian meteor burst + more

    Siberian meteor burst

    I know that there have been 500 people with minor injuries, but  the Siberian meteor burst felt like I was living in a Jerry Bruckheimer film. The best observation I saw about it was in Vice magazine’s email newsletter which asked why so many drivers in Russia had managed to film the asteroid rather than keeping both hands on the wheel? The reason for the multiple recordings of the Siberian meteor burst is driver cams used to help with car accident disputes. The Siberian meteor burst brought back memories of the Tunguska event in 1908 which levelled large swathes of Siberian forest.

    Business

    “Physically Together”: Here’s the Internal YHOO No-Work-From-Home Memo | AllThingsD – I could see a post coming on from Becky McMichael about the benefits of remote working and flexible hours etc etc

    PrivCo | LIVINGSOCIAL $110M Debt Infusion From Existing Investors With Oppressive Terms – I wonder what implications this will have for GroupOn

    Consumer behaviour

    HBO: The Weight of the Nation interesting site on obesity in the US

    Culture

    So there has been extensive character redesigns and different actors will be voicing some of the main protagonists, but I am super-excited that Production I.G are returning with another installment in the Ghost In the Shell series of anime. Arise looks amazing judging by the trailer footage now available on YouTube. More Japan related content can be found here.