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Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks affected about two-thirds of banks worldwide last year, a Ponemon study finds, with nearly half of them getting hit more than once. The banks find diminished employee productivity the attacks' worst consequence. Poor Internet hygiene is part of the problem: outdated and vulnerable Web apps, old content management systems, and poor security practices (like using "admin" as an administrative password) all enable DDOS campaigns.
Reporters Without Borders is the latest waterholing victim of Internet Explorer and Java vulnerabilities. (Waterholing is to cyber attack what affinity fraud is to financial scamming.)
We see more reports of increasingly powerful password-cracking tools. The US Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems-CERT warns that a brute-force tool effective against Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers had been demonstrated. Researchers embarrass Kim Dotcom's new venture, Mega, by using cracking tools against confirmation emails.
A Twitter flaw gives third-party applications access to users' direct messages. Skype is exploited to spread the Shylock banking Trojan. Patient records are again exposed to compromise by physical loss of a device, this time at Stanford University.
Cisco confirms a Linksys router vulnerability; they're working on a fix.
China may lead the world in cyber attack traffic, but Russia is the place to go for exploit kits. Microsoft R&D forsakes Korea for China. Huawei continues to work on its image.
After Dawson College expels a student white hat for exposing Omnivox vulnerabilities, Dawson and three other Quebec CEGEPs drop off the Internet internationally (but not in Canada).
Today's issue includes events affecting Angola, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Republic of Korea, Russia, Sweden, Tunisia, and United States..
Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets (CSO) Levels now around 70 percent, Kaspersky says. Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested. The fall is relative of course; even with an eight-point drop, spam continued still accounted for a staggering 72 percent of all email during the year, equivalent to tens of trillions of messages moving uselessly and malevolently across the Internet every year
Report: 70 percent Of Exploit Kits Out Of Russia (Dark Reading) Most vulnerabilities used in kits employ older exploits
One-Third of Cyber Attack Traffic Originates in China, Akamai Says (Bloomberg) China has been the top source of cyber-attack traffic since the last quarter of 2011, according to a study by Akamai. About one-third of the world's cyber attack traffic was traced back to China, according to a report by Akamai Technologies to be
Radware Releases Global Security Report - Reveals New Cyber Attack Methods (Daily Markets) In the face of an ever-evolving cyber security landscape, researchers at Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, have identified a number of new attack
Are federal agency workers going rogue with personal devices? (CSO) Federal agencies continue to struggle with the question of whether to allow employees to use their personal smartphones and tablets at work under so-called bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, according to a survey out this month from the organization Telework Exchange. Out of the 314 federal employees who responded to the survey, 49% said they use their personal devices for work-related tasks, with 93% of these citing they use their own laptop, 64% saying they use their own smartphones and 19% using a personal tablet for work purposes. But while the federal government has made great stride over the years in settling policy and security-requirement issues related to personal laptops used for telework purposes, the same cannot be said for how federal agencies address the newer smartphones and tablets, the Telework Exchange points out. Although 55% of the federal employees who use smartphones or tablets for work bring their own, just 11% of them say their agency has an official BYOD policy at all
Social media made Arab Spring easier, says university article (Fierce Government IT) Social media made it easier for government opponents in Egypt and Tunisia to mobilize mass support during protests in late 2010 and 2011 that became known as the Arab Spring, says a paper spearheaded by Australian academics
Smartphones, tablets increase workers' productivity, survey finds (Fierce Mobile IT) Around 59 percent of knowledge workers said that the use of smartphones and tablets increases their productivity and 27 percent said that working remotely makes work easier, according to an online survey of knowledge workers by platform-as-a-service provider Eccentex
Larger enterprises taking to BYOD, says Good (Fierce Mobile IT) Larger enterprises are the most active in adopting and supporting BYOD, among customers surveyed by mobile device management firm Good Technology. Three quarters of larger enterprises supporting BYOD have 2,000 or more employees, while 46 percent have 10,000 employees or more. For the survey, Good polled 500 of its largest enterprise customers and received a 20 percent to 25 percent response rate
CIOs Clueless About Social? Maybe Not (InformationWeek) One survey does not prove CIOs underestimate the importance of social business. There might be other reasons social ranks low on CIO to-do lists
Report: Pervasive surveillance undermines trust in government (Fierce Government IT) Increases in surveillance can negatively impact the way individuals feel about government and even cause hostility among citizenry normally not likely to commit crimes, says the U.K. government's Foresight project. Surveillance may cause individuals to act compliant but that, historically, high levels of state surveillance has led many young citizens to become angry and subversive
Russian government wants to strengthen its cyber defense, what's new? (SecurityAffairs) Russian President Vladimir Putin is considered one of the political figures most attentive to the development of a suitable cyber strategy to protect his countries from cyber attacks. Putin is an intelligent man who has always understood the strategic importance of cyberspace, according many experts he has always invested in the development of cyber capabilities, foreign intelligence is sure that he controls one of the most dangerous group of hackers employed in the persecution of dissidents in the past years and in cyber attacks against political opponents. The recent revelation of Red October cyber espionage campaign have alerted governments all around the world, the same Putin has ordered to the authorities to increase the level of protection of government cyber assets from possible cyber attacks, the concerns have increased after the revelation of Kaspersky security firms that has verified that the global cyber espionage campaign has also infiltrated government and embassy computers across the former Soviet bloc
DDoS Attacks as Constitutional Problem: Germany's Experience (Cyveillance) A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targets a computer systems resources by flooding it with requests beyond its capacity in hopes of negatively impacting its functionality. Does society consider DDoS attacks a legitimate form of protest? When an anonymously posted petition appeared on the White Houses We the People page and advocated the legalization of DDoS attacks most commentators didnt look to kindly at the idea
US Rulemakers Set Sights on Bank Social Media Activities (Finextra) US supervisory agency the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)has issued proposed guidance on the application of consumer protection and compliance laws to bank social media programmes. The FFIEC says that each financial institution should have a risk management programme that allows it to identify, measure, monitor, and control the risks related to social media. It says increased risk can arise from poor due diligence, oversight, or control on the part of the financial institution and has laid down a set of governance principles for banks to follow
Three Facts of Data Security Legislation for the Cloud (CSO Magazine) The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which Hoff participates in, put together a cloud security guidance covering three major areas including architecting the
Gillard puts nation on cyber-attack alert (Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister Julia Gillard has warned that Australia is a prime target for malicious cyber attacks by hackers and nations. Launching the nation's first national security strategy on Wednesday in Canberra, Ms Gillard flagged the establishment of a new
Issa holds hearing on federal IT procurement (Fierce Government IT) The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing Jan. 22 on federal information technology reform, with Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel set to testify
VanRoekel: Current law sufficient to permit federal IT sucess (Fierce Government IT) Federal agencies don't necessarily need a new information technology reform law to become better in managing projects, said Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel while testifying Jan. 22 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
The White House says open data is something other agencies do (Fierce Government IT) Lies, damned lies, and statistics, goes the saying--and here's another one: data, open data, and transparency. My reason for saying so stems from a recent look FierceGovernmentIT took at the White House visitor logs of Steven VanRoekel, the Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology--aka the federal chief information officer
Proposed bill would enable mobile phone users to delete app-collected data (Fierce Mobile IT) Proposed legislation in Congress would enable mobile phone users to direct mobile application developers to delete personal data already collected and to stop collecting personal information once the user stops using the application. The APPS Act, which has been proposed in the 113th Congress by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), would also require app developers to provide notice of the terms and conditions governing data collection and storage, and require explicit consent from the user for that data collection and storage. Johnson has released a discussion draft of the legislation
New HIPAA rule falls short in protecting mobile patient information (Fierce Mobile Healthcare) With much fanfare, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the final omnibus rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 last week. Much has changed in the last decade and a half since HIPAA was passed into law, not the least of which is the use of mobile technology in healthcare
Privacy takes a hit in genetic databases (Fierce Big Data) It has often been said, at least on this page, that the big data future will depend a great deal on how well we protect privacy today. Well privacy--and by association big data--took a big hit in the world of genetics this week, as another loophole was identified, this one potentially serious. It puts at risk the identities of people who contribute their DNA sequences to research projects. In reaction to a new study, the United States National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, removed some data from public view. Nature magazine reported on the study published in Science this week by Yaniv Erlich, a human geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. It showed that identities were even more vulnerable than identified in research
GE Boosts Cybersecurity Protections For Industrial Controls (Dark Reading) CAP Software Update, SecurityST Appliance protect industrial controls systems from cybersecurity threats
FIPS Validated Key Management Protects Encryption Keys (Dark Reading) Key management appliance provides certified, tamper-resistant protection for critical encryption keys
RIM Launches BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 For Government & Corporate Clients (TechCrunch) Research In Motion just announced that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), a device management system, is now available for government agencies and corporate clients
Panda Security Wins Best eCommerce Software in Best Customer Experience (PR Newswire) Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that it has won top honors in the Best Customer Experience Awards 2012 in the category of eCommerce Software. Sponsored by the Best
New nCircle security appliance cuts vulnerability scan time (Help Net Security) nCircle announced the Device Profiler 4000 (DP 4000), a high performance vulnerability scanning appliance designed to support vulnerability scanning requirements including web application and SCAP
GFI EventsManager now with active monitoring (Help Net Security) GFI Software announced that GFI EventsManager now includes the active network and server monitoring capabilities found in the NetworkServerMonitor solution
Vaultive Announces Availability Through the Rackspace Cloud Tools (Marketwire) Vaultive, a provider of cloud data encryption solutions designed to maintain the control, security and compliance of data processed by cloud-based services, has joined the Rackspace Cloud Tools program. Vaultive is now included in Rackspace's comprehensive catalog of innovative, third-party-developed applications that are compatible with The Rackspace Open Cloud
Fiberlink Listed on the CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (DigitalJournal.com) Fiberlink, the leader in cloud-based solutions for…provider to be listed on the Cloud Security Alliance's (CSA) Security
Jive To Add Business Value To Social Platform (InformationWeek) Jive's spring update will add a host of new features to help enterprises use social tools to further business agenda
Oracle Offers Subscription Pricing For On-Premises IaaS (InformationWeek) Oracle will configure and charge monthly for familiar infrastructure-as-a-service appliances, rather than requiring a large upfront purchase
Sony unveils new 10-inch tablet (FierceCIO: TechWatch) Sony has just unveiled the Xperia Tablet Z, a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet equipped with a high-resolution (1920x1200) display
Analysis: Why Windows RT was doomed from the start (FierceCIO: TechWatch) Neil McAllister from The Register has written a thought-provoking critique about why the ARM-based Windows RT tablet from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was "DOA" or dead on arrival. He alluded to the poor sales of Microsoft's flagship Surface tablet over the holiday season, which at an estimated one million, pale in comparison to the sales of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad
Sometimes the best defense is deletion (CSO) Information Governance experts say that while storage coast are down, there's risk -- and cost -- associated with the growing 'data lake'
You Still Stink At Patching Databases (Dark Reading) Only about a fifth of organizations patch their databases within three months and that number's not likely to get better anytime soon, experts say
Taming Data Before It Escapes To The Wild (Dark Reading) As employees adopt cloud services, companies risk losing control of their data, with solutions running the gamut from basic to complex and expensive
Playing In The Sandbox Helps Teach Developers To Nix Vulns (Dark Reading) Using virtual environments, two start-up projects create different ways of showing, not telling, developers how and why to prevent bugs
Go Hack Yourself (Dark Reading) Penetration testing is only the first step of self-inspection--ask internal auditors to scrutinize IT practices beyond compliance to take risk management to the next level
Using Metasploit for Patch Sanity Checks (Internet Storm Center) Earlier last week a reader wrote in and asked us if the patch for MS13-008 [1] [2] had worked. To do a comprehensive patch validation could take a significant amount of time however there are a couple of things you can do to get a quick sanity check
Video: Data mining a mountain of vulnerabilities (Help Net Security) Every day, software developers around the world, from Bangalore to Silicon Valley, churn out millions of lines of insecure code. Veracode used static binary analysis on thousands of applications
How to spot APT attacks (Help Net Security) With the proliferation of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), it's paramount for those who are charged with defending the systems and networks of likely targets to know that these attackers often
Cloud security rebuttal: Don't rebuke the many for the sins of the few (CSO) Did CSOonline's 7 deadly sins of cloud computing story lack enlightenment? One well-respected cloud security figure --Christopher Hoff, Chief Architect for Security at Juniper Networks--tweeted a response to the story, saying "Reading stuff like this sucks my will to live""You can't lose data that you don't have," the Westborough resident says
Linking Cyber, Physical Threat Data - Implementing Federal Information Sharing Strategy (Bank Information Security) Sharing information about physical and cyber threats needn't be segregated under the U.S. federal government's National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding, says Kshemendra Paul, who manages the implementation of the strategy."Our stakeholders all of the time tell us 'We want an integrated view of the threat,'" says Paul, program manager for Information Sharing Environment, or ISE, in an interview with Information Security Media Group. "Something that goes on in the physical world may give you clues on what's going on in the cyber-world and vice versa. There is a nexus there, so that is why people want to look at it in an integrated way
CIO Council updates core competencies (Fierce Government IT) Chief information offices within federal agencies should be able to craft service level agreements with vendors, be knowledgeable about the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing, asses what metrics best measure public participation in open government and be prepared to talk about how to handle having a private as well as an official social media account, says the CIO Council
4 Steps For Proactive Cybersecurity (InformationWeek) Tired of having malware punch you in the face? The time's not right to hit back, but here are moves to make now
Offensive Cybersecurity: Theory And Reality (InformationWeek) Can you -- and should you -- strike back at attackers? It's a complex question with ethical, legal, technical and practical considerations
3 Tips For Getting Started With Big Data (InformationWeek) Don't dive in head first, says Fed-focused data analytics and cloud provider
Why Africa may be the next big enterprise mobility market (Fierce Mobile IT) A number of African countries are investing heavily in 4G LTE networks, which is expected to fuel demand for enterprise mobility, according to a new report by ABI. In a recent example of Africa's rush to develop 4G, Swedish equipment maker Ericsson signed an agreement with Angolan mobile operator Unitel to roll out a 4G LTE network in that country. Under the agreement, Ericsson will design and implement the LTE network, as well as install cell sites
Military Officials Issue Orders To Cut Costs (Washington Post) Bracing for the possibility of steep congressionally mandated budget cuts, senior military officials have issued directives for fiscal retrenchment that include a 30 percent cut for Army base operations this year, personnel reductions and a halt to unnecessary fighter jet swoops during special events
Fed Pay Freeze Vote Postponed (Government Executive) The House will not consider a bill this week that extends the pay freeze for civilian government workers, allowing some time for federal employee advocates to continue their crusade against the measure
We Must Run Government IT Like A Startup (InformationWeek) Government 2.0 is about more than social media. It requires throwing out outdated processes and adopting new models of success
Cisco Futurists Plan For Internet Of Everything (InformationWeek) Cisco foresees connected devices, pervasive sensing and big data will drive need for data scientists to bring order to information overload
Chinese telecom giant Huawei tries on transparency for size to combat black sheep reputation (Quartz) China's Huawei is vying with Swedish equipment maker Ericsson for the title of largest telecom equipment vendor in the world. But one big drag on its ambitions is suspicion by governments in the US and elsewhere that its gear could be used for Chinese espionage, which has effectively blocked Huawei from some of the most lucrative markets
McAfee outlines the future of business security (Help Net Security) McAfee announced its strategy for building upon Security Connected, the framework in which security products and services work together to safeguard businesses with better protection from new types of
Confirmed: IBM is a creaky, old business (Quartz) International Business Machines (IBM) reported earnings today that beat analyst estimates, causing shares to rally more than 3.3% in after hours trading. Earnings, which had been declining for the last few quarters, were flat year-over-year when adjusted for currency discrepancies, as the company brought in $29.3 billion in the fourth quarter. Though investors have reacted positively to the report, they might want to do a reality check: nearly all of IBM's money-making software businesses are a decade old
Microsoft in Talks to Help Finance Dell Buyout (Wall Street Journal) Microsoft Corp. is in discussions about helping to finance a buyout of computer maker Dell Inc., according to a person familiar with the deal deliberations
Virtualization Giant VMware Partners With And Puts $30M Into Data Center Automation Company Puppet Labs (TechCrunch) Puppet Labs, a data center automation company, is announcing today that virtualization giant (and previous investor) VMware has invested $30 million in the company. This brings the company's total funding to $46 million. Puppet Labs' other investors include True Ventures, Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Radar Partners. The company declined to reveal the valuation
Blue Cross acquires business intelligence firm Intelimedix (Fierce Big Data) Blue Health Intelligence, a company owned by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, has acquired a potential solution for reducing the payer versus provider animosity in health care through analytics. The solution is a company called Intelimedix
KippsDeSanto: CRGT's Guident Buy Shows Private Equity Activity In Govt Market (ExecutiveBiz) CRGT's buy of big data and business intelligence provider Guident is an indicator of increased activity among private equity investors within the government market , according to investment banking firm KippsDeSanto & Co
GE begins big data recruitment push in UK (Fierce Big Data) The job market in the United Kingdom is beginning to improve for software engineers and data scientists as General Electric looks to recruit hundreds from that market as part of a global push to add approximately 8,000 software engineering jobs, according to an article in V3.co.uk this week
Acentia Names Apptis Vet Simon Godwin Strategy, Solutions Lead (Govconwire) Acentia has appointed Simon Godwin, a former senior vice president at Apptis, to serve as senior director of strategy and solutions. Acentia said Godwin will report to Tom Woteki, chief architect of the strategy and solutions organization, and work with the company's business unit leaders on innovation, technical maturity and program growth. Woteki said Godwin
CTC Names Former Kodak Tech Head Vicki Barbur CTO (Govconwire) Concurrent Technologies Corp. has appointed two-decade research and development veteran Vicki Barbur senior vice president and chief technology officer, the company said Tuesday. Barbur, who holds a doctorate in physics from Imperial College at the University of London, will be responsible for setting the company's vision and strategy for its scientific and technical offerings
Former DHS director joins QinetiQ North America (Washington Business Journal) McLean-based QinetiQ North America has added Richard Burke to its team as director of strategic programs, the government services contractor announced. Burke will have responsibilities in the areas of cyber intelligence, agile software development, big data and mobility solutions. Prior to joining QNA, Burke served for eight years in a number of senior positions in the Department of Homeland Security, most recently as a director of the plans division within the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning
Microsoft Korea Reportedly Shuts Down Its Seoul-Based R&D Unit (TechCrunch) Microsoft Korea will close its research and development unit by the end of next month, where its Asia R&D Center is based, reports Asiaone (h/t TNW). The company announced last year that its Asia-Pacific R&D Center will be headquartered in Beijing, which represents Microsoft's largest R&D investment outside of the U.S. The company plans to leverage the facility to develop
PayPal Addresses Months-Old SQL Injection Vulnerability, Frozen Accounts (Threatpost) Researchers with Vulnerability Lab today announced mega payment processor PayPal has fixed a flaw on its site that allowed a remote user or a local user with low privileges to compromise a Web application using a blind SQL injection
Support for old Office formats ending soon for Google Docs users (FierceCIO: TechWatch) Support for older Office formats such as .doc, .xls and .ppt used in Office 97 to Office 2003 will be dropped at the end of January 2013 from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Docs. This reminder was posted in the Google Apps blog, which warned that users will no longer be able to export to the older file formats after the cut-off date. Instead, it will output the latest Office formats, such as .docx, xlsx and .pptx which are based on HTML
Cisco confirms flaw in Linksys WRT54GL wireless router (FierceCIO: TechWatch) Cisco has confirmed the presence of a security vulnerability in its Linksys WRT54GL Wi-Fi router, which a remote hacker can use to gain full access to the device. DefenseCode first reported the problem in a short announcement posted on the company blog, and noted that multiple Linksys models could have been affected
Two-Thirds of Banks Hit by DDoS Attacks in Past Twelve Months (Security Bistro) By now most everyone is aware of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting nearly a dozen major U.S. banking websites since last fall, but many will be surprised to learn how big a problem DDoS attacks really are for the financial sector. A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of network security provider Corero has found that the majority of banks acknowledge they were subjected to denial of service attacks in the last year, while nearly half indicated they were targeted on more than one occasion. The study, which included 650 security practitioners from 351 banks around the world, reveals that 64% have been targeted by at least one DDoS attack in the last twelve months, while 48% reported being the subject of multiple attacks
DDoS: It's About Internet Insecurity - Why Aren't We Addressing the Core Problem? (Bank Information Security) Over the past few months, distributed-denial-of-service attacks on U.S. banks have garnered great attention. But what we've failed to address is the core problem: Internet insecurity, which enables attackers to wage massive attacks with botnets that continue to grow. I've spoken to many security experts about why DDoS attacks are so successful, and they echo what Mike Smith of Akamai Technologies, an Internet platform provider has to say: "It's an Internet health issue."Outdated and vulnerable versions of Web applications, such as WordPress and Joomla, as well as organizations' own content management systems, make it all too easy for attackers to compromise vulnerable websites and use them as launching pads for attacks aimed at U.S. banks
Reporters Without Borders website abused in malware campaign (CSO) The site was booby-trapped to deliver a backdoor to vulnerable computers using the latest Java vulnerabilities. The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an international advocate for press freedom. Avast, which discovered the site had been tampered with, said the group's profile makes it "an ideal target."
ICS-CERT issues alert on offline brute-force password tool (Fierce Government IT) An offline brute-force password tool with proof-of-concept exploit code is targeting Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, according to an alert from the Homeland Security Department's Industrial Control Systems-Cyber Emergency Response Team
SCADA Password-Cracking Tool For Siemens S7 PLCs Released (Dark Reading) Siemens says no bug involved so no patch needed, and is working on simplifying patching overall for its customers. A Russian security researcher has unleashed a brute-force password-cracking tool that can capture passwords for Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers (PLC), which run machinery in power plants and manufacturing sites
Cracking tool milks weakness to reveal some Mega passwords (Ars Technica) Yet another security researcher is poking holes in the security of Mega, this time by pointing out that the confirmation messages e-mailed to new users can in many cases be cracked to reveal their password and take over their Mega accounts. Steve "Sc00bz" Thomas, the researcher who uncovered the weakness, has released a program called MegaCracker that can extract passwords from the link contained in confirmation e-mails. Mega e-mails a link to all new users and requires that they click on it before they can use the cloud-based storage system, which boasts a long roster of encryption and security protections
Investigating clever scamming techniques and their evolution (Help Net Security) Christopher Boyd is a Senior Threat Researcher for GFI Software. Chris has been credited for finding the first instance of a rogue Web browser installing without permission, the first Twitter DIY botnet
Twitter bug gives 3rd-party apps access to users' Direct Messages (Help Net Security) A Twitter bug allowed third-party applications to access Direct Messages of users who signed in to the apps by using their Twitter account, reported IOActive researcher Cesar Cerrudo
Skype becomes a malware minefield (Help Net Security) Skype users should be careful when using the service these days. First CSIS researchers unearthed a campaign misusing Skype to replicate and spread the Shylock banking Trojan with a plugin called
City of Angels Camp Website Hacked and Defaced (Softpedia) The official website of the City of Angels Camp, California, (angelscamp. gov) has been hacked and defaced by a hacker who calls himself Dr. SHA6H, CWN reports. The site has been restored, but the incident once again shows that many US . gov sites still lack proper security measures
Medical Center Reports Stolen Laptop (Lucille Packard Children's Hospital) Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine are notifying patients by mail that a password-protected laptop computer containing limited medical information on pediatric patients was stolen from a physicians car away from campus on the night of January 9, 2013. This incident was reported to Packard Childrens and the School of Medicine on January 10. Immediately following discovery of the theft, Packard Childrens and the School of Medicine launched an aggressive and ongoing investigation with security and law enforcement, and began contacting patients potentially affected
Anonymous Hackers Boycott Mega Services, Call Kim Dotcom a Snitch (Softpedia) The recently launched Mega service has caused a lot of controversy. The site is not working properly, some security issues have been identified and, even Anonymous hackers have turned their back on it, calling Kim Dotcom a snitch. One year ago, when US authorities took down Megaupload, the Anonymous movement was the first to protest
Update: Canadian Colleges Go Dark Following Expulsion of Whitehat (Security Ledger) The web sites of a number of Canadian General and Vocational Colleges were unreachable from IP addresses outside Canada on Tuesday, after news spread that Dawson College, in Montreal, expelled a student who uncovered and reported security holes in a web-based student portal used at the school. The web site for Dawson College, dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Dawson student accused of a cyber-attack offered job in IT security (CTV News) Hamed Al-Khabaz was expelled in November after being accused of launching a cyber-attack on the school's website. Al-Khabaz said he stumbled upon a breach in the Dawson College online portal that could have jeopardized the personal information of
Chinese Government To Open Mediation Center For Online Piracy Disputes (TechCrunch) China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to establish a center that will deal with disputes over intellectual property (IP) and online copyright issues, reports Sina Tech (link via Google Translate
Revenge-porn website victims launch action against Texxxan and GoDaddy (Naked Security) Texxxan.com, GoDaddy ganged up on by revenge-porn website victims. Payback's a b*tch. For one website, that payback's being sought by 17 women claiming invasion of privacy and mental anguish. They want the site shuttered, and they want the lowlives to pay, even if it's just chump change that GoDaddy made from facilitating their humiliation
5 Kinds of Companies That Facebook's New Search Engine Could Crush (Wired Business) Facebook's Graph Search is supposed to turn the social network into one massive engine of discovery. That's good news for Facebook and its investors, but not so great for companies whose bread-and-butter is social interaction
White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking, Asks Americans To Solve Problems With Govt Data From NASA And More (TechCrunch) The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. to use to build tech that helps their communities. 27 cities have planned events where hackers will have access to data from The Department of Labor, The Census Bureau, and even NASA's space stats
What Google Does Best Is A Stark Contrast To Apple, According To Larry Page (TechCrunch) Smartphones are the single-fastest-growing consumer electronics segment in the world, and Google and Apple are the most formidable players in the arena. iOS and Android together hold a vast majority of the global market, and both Apple and Google have their own hardware ventures (the iPhone/iPad and the Nexus tablet/smartphone family)
Will big data suppress or inspire the creative process? (Fierce Big Data) Who has the most to lose as the machine learning of big data overwhelms the world of advertising? It would seem the "creatives," whose artful insights into human nature created the industry, have the most to lose as their group demographics grow quaint and their intuitive fingers are lifted from the pulse of the market in favor of hardcore analysis. But wouldn't we all suffer a bit if creativity is supplanted by the black-and-white results of algorithmic outputs? One such creative says it doesn't have to be that way
TED X Baltimore: Baltimore Rewired (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, January 25, 2013) At our TEDxBaltimore event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.


The precise impact of De officiis upon Ambrose's contemporaries is difficult to gauge. Its message was presumably read and absorbed by its intended clerical recipients throughout northern Italy, but we have no evidence of references to the work from Ambrose's immediate context. For a treatise which has been said to constitute 'the first manual of Christian ethics', 260 certainly the first in the Western church, 261 we have surprisingly few clues about its initial reception.
Publication information: Book title: De Officiis. Volume: 1. Contributors: Ambrose - Author, Ivor J. Davidson - Translator. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of publication: Oxford, England. Publication year: 2001. Page number: 96.


We have numerous iPhone 8 leaked photos in last few months but this one is probably the most closest, final shape and we can assure you, it is gorgeous.
This is taking it to the next level. Marques Brownlee, in his YouTube channel gets his hands on to the iPhone 8 leaked prototype and explains what we should be expecting from the 10th anniversary model. We now know almost everything that we need to know about the incoming flagship.
The latest prototype and leaked photos is something what case manufactures might get their hands on to start designing their iPhone eight cases and accessories. The first thing you notice of course is the display which has some really awesome edge to edge action but also has an interesting top sensor protrusion coming down from the very top that catches the eye.
iPhone 8 has this indentation at the top for these front facing sensors. It looks a little weird in the images but seeing in real life, it is actually good and feels good in hands. It seems that the biggest question here is, what does apple plan to do with the software (iOS) with this new iPhone 8 to cover up the top space. We wonder if they will put something in the top corners on both sides, maybe battery tilt to one side and the signal strength to the other side as suggested in this twitter image post below.
Obviously the bigger story with this model is literally the screen to body ratio that has always been a weakness of iPhones in the past. The iPhone 8 model measures up to be a five point seven to five point eight inch diagonal but in a smaller body making it pocket friendly and easy to hold.
The new iPhone 8 has sensors on the top which probably will be used to unlock the phone with facial recognition. Also the phone is being introduced with classic glass body, something previous versions lacked badly.
– iPhone is expected to come in Copper Gold, Black and White.
Here is the video posted by a YouTube star Marques Brownlee. See the amazing new iPhone 8 physical handset.
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By Thomas Wheatley	Tuesday January 3, 2017 03:03 pm EST
>> As thousands of New Year's Eve revelers watched Underground Atlanta's (maybe last) Peach Drop, a group of activists projected a simple message on the side of a nearby hotel: "Resist Trump! Fight Back."
>> Please stop doing this.
>> 2016 was Atlanta's warmest year on record. A researcher at the Southeast Regional Climate Center says a "very persistent pattern of unusual warmth across the southeast... was really the calling card for this year's pattern."
>> Pres.-elect Donald Trump has yet to select his pick to the lead the U.S. Agriculture Department. Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is a frontrunner for the position.
>> [http://www.myajc.com/news/stateregional-govtpolitics/georgia-westmoreland-winding-down-time-congress-nears-end/GKBLb7L0RWKqXjv2yxjagP/|What will Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, R-Georgia, do after leaving Washington, D.C.]?
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Former Manchester City man says Champions League game will be more difficult now after Crystal Palace beat Chelsea
'Maybe we will face an angry Chelsea now'
Lee Wilmot
Former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko believes tonight's clash with Chelsea will be "more difficult" for Roma than Saturday was for Crystal Palace.
Having not scored or won a point in their first seven games, the Eagles shocked the Premier League by beating the champions at Selhurst Park on Saturday.
The Blues host Roma in the Champions League tonight and Dzeko is expecting an angry Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Newcastle United star: Stop these two Crystal Palace players on Saturday
The Roma frontman said: "That's the English Premier League, you can win against the best teams and you can lose against the last, that's nothing new in England.
"It's just how you approach the game, Chelsea are a great team with some amazing players, it will be much more difficult for us than I think it was for Crystal Palace. We play against maybe an angry team.
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Music is ephemeral. It is never the same twice. Even listening to a recording is never quite the same because the listener brings a different awareness each time they listen. They can't help it. This is what makes music so tricky to explain and so wonderful to experience.
Many Classical musicians focus on learning to play the notes they see with as much accuracy as possible. The goal becomes to play the piece exactly as written every time. This is a good skill to have, never think otherwise, but there is more to music than that. Music is not the written notation but the moment of playing or performing including all the mistakes or even deliberate changes to what we see on the page. Music is the act of creating sound and listening to it. Improvisation is part of this and always has been. Even when improvisation isn't taught, performers end up making little tiny changes every time they play (there is no way not to). Perhaps instead of striving for note-by-note repetition, we should spend time trying to understand WHY these changes felt good or bad, what in the moment caused the music to transform and how we can make these different "interpretations" work for performers and audiences. This is the beginning of improvisation and part of what makes music an experience that is treasured.
The Medieval troubadours are well known for setting their poetry to music but their music was not "complete" as we would understand it; they rarely included any rhythms and even wrote multiple melodies for the same poem. In other words, they improvised and used written music as a chance to expand their possible musical ideas instead of writing out a perfect version of the music. They adapted the music to their instruments and voices, they changed tones to fit the mood of the moment and treated the music like the living creature it is. There are a large number of period performers who carefully use only musical ideas from the age of the troubadours, going so far as to exclude all modern instruments and most period wind instruments since they weren't "commonly used" at the time. Their goal is to recreate the troubadour sound as exactly as they can. This is wonderful and shows us a whole different kind of music than we are used to but I can not help feeling that the spirit of this music is in some ways being ignored. This was music that was meant to change, to adapt. If a performer didn't play the instrument a composer had in mind, they still played the music even if they had to change the melody to do so. If only certain keys or modes worked for a specific instrument or voice, the performer could even CHANGE the scale of the piece and play the piece with different harmonies. If the audience wanted a different mood than the original piece, the music could be changed. A lament could become a dance in next to no time.
Baroque music incorporated improvisation into opera and bass lines as a matter of course. But the melody instruments were expected to change their more completely written lines too. A straight performance was often considered dull and not worth the audience's time. Today, students often spend hours researching how musicians might have improvised a piece in that day and age. But why stop there? Why limit ourselves to imitating someone else's improvisation? Don't mistake me, imitating is a great way to learn but then we can add our own ideas. Radical, I know, because this may well result in older pieces being made modern. But why is that always seen as a bad thing? We are modern musicians and we bring that sound with us. As beautiful as I find the Baroque style, I see no reason to rigidly make everyone follow it in every performance.
I admit, creating new music can be frightening. Some changes don't work and some improvisations fall flat. It takes time and practice to get reliably good at improvising. But why should that stop us? We spend hours, even years, learning to reliably recreate written music after all. There is no reason to assume improvising will just come naturally without any effort. But the seed of improvisation is there, in anyone who has played one note and then another without any direction from someone else.
Improvisation and written music are not exclusive to each other and I love playing written music just as much as improvising. I find it beautiful and inspiring to play and hear music others were trying to share. But I know that I will never create a carbon-copy performance of any piece and I wouldn't want to even if I could. New sounds, new ideas and new music leap out of performances of old music. Some are sweetly similar to the sounds that created them, some are radically different. The musical possibilities and knowledge that this music will never be exactly the same again is what makes the experience so rewarding.
We are, after all, as ephemeral as the music we love.


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For the loss: Stefanski's 'cowardly' decision leads to Chiefs' bold move
Cleveland's rookie head coach, the former Vikings offensive coordinator, called for a punt with a little over four minutes left. The Browns never got the ball back.
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says playing an NCAA Tournament this year, at least on the men's side, is a fiscal necessity for most schools.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 points, DeMar DeRozan had 20 points and 11 assists and the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 125-104 on Monday.
The Washington Wizards are now assured of going at least 11 days between games, after yet another postponement while the team deals with COVID-19 issues.


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Finished Your Favorite Book/Show? Try Fan Fiction. Aus welchem Fandom kommt dieses seltsame Vokabular? Ich habe noch nie von "cross fic" als Synonym für Crossover gehört.
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A couple of weeks ago, I did a quick analysis of the then 20 bestselling books published via Kindle Worlds.
Kindle Worlds is for published, predominantly male authors who are writing tie-ins in predominantly science fiction and alternative history worlds. Those have nothing to do with "real" fanfiction. There always have been tie-ins.
But fanfiction comes with its own genres (hurt/comfort, dark!fic, fluff, genderswap etc. etc.) and its own reader expectations. Only a marginal percentage of the books that a bestselling at Kindle Worlds right now have anything to do with fanfiction that is written from within fandoms and fanfiction communities. Kindle Worlds, right now is a platform for new tie-ins that are not solicited by the original copyright holder. Things, obviously, can quickly change. But this is what I see is happening at Kindle Worlds right now.
Very interesting! Thanks for the link and the analysis.
I don't necessarily think that's what it's for, but have no problem believing that that's what it's turning out to be. They are not going to tap the fanfiction market like that, so they are going to miss the next 50 Shades as well, but it's going to make it harder for professional tie-in writers to get a decent deal while it gets much easier for everyone to publish tie-ins, if they are so inclined. I just wish they would stop calling it fanfiction because that's not what they are doing.


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Q: How do I turn off the double-down arrow on Vista menus? How do I turn off this guy here in the red circle.

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It's just these two arrows that are the bane of my existence every time I click on a menu.
All I want is the FULL menu.

A: HOW TO: Show All Items on the Start Menu or Favorites Menu
The solution is: Under the "Taskbar and Start Menu properties" dialog in the "Start Menu" tab you need to disable the "privacy" check-box for "recently opened programs"

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Q: Declaring a 2D array in a struct without knowing the size in a struct? Can I do this in C?
I have this code that gives me the error
ERROR
minesweeper.c:19:19: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__' before '=' token
      int *boardSpaces = (int *)malloc(newBoard.rows * newBoard.columns * sizeof(int));

typedef struct boards
{
    int rows, columns;
    int *boardSpaces = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof(int));
} Board;

But when I put it in my main it works just fine.
Can I declare this in a struct, or is it just I am missing something?

A: You cant run function on the variables in the struct like that.
The short answer is because rows and columns don't have any value at compile time.
You can do this, in this function, create_board and delete_board are essentially mimicking constructor and destructor from c++, but you have to manually call them.
struct Board
{
    int rows, columns;
    int *boardSpaces; // memory will be allocated when we need it
};

/* create a board with a given size, as memory is dynamically allocated, it must be freed when we are done */
struct Board createBoard(int rows, int columns){
    struct Board b;
    b.rows = rows;
    b.columns = columns;
    b.boardSpaces = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof(int));
    return b;
}
void delete_board(Board *b){
    free(b->boardSpaces);
}

int main(void){
    struct Board b = createBoard(2,3);
    do_stuff_with(&b);
    delete_board(&b);

}

/* I didnt run this through a compiler, so forgive typos */


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FIFA investigates suspicious transfers between a Qatari academy and Belgian club
training session at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence in Doha January 5, 2014. (Reuters)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Wednesday 14 November 2018
FIFA has investigated Aspire Academy, a sports academy in Qatar, and the Belgian club Eupen on suspicion of violating the rules on international transfers of minor players.
The investigation into Aspire Academy was reported in the latest football documents leaked from Mediapart, an independent French online investigative and opinion journal, on Monday.
Mediapart revealed based on documents from initial leaks obtained by Der Spiegel that FIFA investigated the transfers made between the Qatar's Aspire Academy and the Belgian club Eupen.
The transfers were part of a larger program set up by Qatar called Aspire Football Dreams (AFD) with the goal of recruiting underage African footballers at its two Aspire Academies, one in Doha and the other in Saly, Senegal.
Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) owned Belgian second division football club KAS Eupen in 2013
French newspaper L'Equipe said that the players would train there for several years and then be sent to Europe, mainly to Eupen but also to LASK Linz in Austrian first league and Cultura y Deportiva Leonesa in the Spanish third league, three clubs bought by Qatar Aspire Zone Foundation (QAZF). Above all, the best players would be naturalized to form a competitive Qatar national team for the controversial 2022 World Cup to be held in the country.
According to Mediapart, some of the most senior leaders of the international federation have denounced the AFD program, a "perversion of the system" that "must not happen" according to remarks made by Jérôme Valcke, then secretary general, in 2013. FIFA has even had serious suspicions about its compliance with international regulations. The online media quotes a 2014 report by Barry Lysaght, an investigator with the Integrity and Compliance Department of the International Federation. He wrote: "Aspire facilitates the international transfer of minors from underdeveloped countries on a large scale and we did not find anything in the TMS", the control system of international transfers of FIFA.
Thomas Herbert, chief financial officer of Eupen, has even confided to Lysaght, again according to the documents of Football Leaks: "Sometimes they [the players] come to Belgium a few weeks before their 18th birthday, but, because of the expensive registrations, they are only registered when they turn 18." International transfers of minor players are prohibited with three exceptions, in which the transactions in question do not qualify.
In a response to Mediapart, Eupen has denied any infringement, ensuring that "compliance with all FIFA regulations is of utmost importance to [the] club". FIFA has confirmed on its part that it has "no evidence that Aspire has violated the rules or is involved in the illegal recruitment of minors" and says he found "no irregular document concerning players transferred to KAS Eupen." According to the website, the AFD program was put to sleep in 2016.
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Platini backs possible 2022 World Cup re-vote
FIFA exco member wants Qatar 2022 investigation made public


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Grey bins are for ANY OTHER WASTE, e.g. food waste, used tissues, used pens and gluesticks etc."
Our Green Team will be doing spot-checks on classroom bins - so make sure your classmates and adults are putting their rubbish into the correct bins! They will also be announcing winners to the poster competition in January - so please get your posters to Mrs Darbyshire or any member of the Green Team as soon as possible.


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Play highlights rich-poor divide
Bhukkh Agg Hai staged by Dastak Group at art gallery
Class act: Artistes stage a play titled Bhukkh Agg Hai at Art Gallery in Amritsar. Tribune photo
Amritsar, December 3
Dastak Theatre on Friday, in collaboration with the IAFA presented a play — Bhukkh Agg Hai — at Art Gallery. The act revolved around a girl, who is asked to write an essay on hunger by her teacher. Belonging to an elite family, she has no idea what hunger actually means. The story sensitively portrays the gap between elite class and the poor.
The play written by Krishna Baldev Vaid, was directed by Rajender Singh, who also acted in it. Singh said, "The story shows the gap between those belonging to the affluent class and the poor and the under-privileged class. The meaning of hunger, sleeping on a hungry stomach will never be felt by those, who can afford to spend on lavish meals. The play will make people think about the latter. The treatment of the play is not serious though, it has message wrapped in some humour."
Amita Sharma, associate director on the play, said the play was a satire. It's about the two classes that our society is divided into — the ones who can afford to buy at fancy eating joints and waste the food and the others who cannot afford even two square meals a day. The play has been one of the most critically acclaimed plays of hindi, but we performed it in Punjabi with minor variations of our own," said Amita. — TNS


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If you aren't quite ready to go for the beach day (we know, the water is still very chilly!) then planning a picnic is the thing to do. Prospect Park will be mobbed this weekend. Maybe plan on something different. Here is a blog from L Magazine featuring the 7 best picinic spots in Brooklyn. Whatever you plan on doing, have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sun! With the way the weather has been this year we can never be sure how many warm sunny days we'll have.


Posted September 2, 2016 (edited) Sometimes known as the replacement for the famous "Liberty" ship, the 14,000 ton SD14 general cargo ships are found under many different names and flags in most of the world's ports and all of the high seas. The designation "SD14" denotes "Shelter Deck 14,000 tons". The shelter deck is the second or tween deck in the cargo spaces and, when the ship is loaded down to her plimsoll line, she displaces 14,000 tons. By the mid 1960s, there remained some 700 Liberty and other war-built cargo ships still trading. Even the youngest were 20 years old and the question of a replacement was exercising the minds of ship owners and builders around the world. the emergence of bulk carriers and container ships pointed to the end of the "shelter Deck" design which had been used with little alteration since the turn of the century. Many felt that this design was no obsolete and that the future lay with containerisation. It was, therefore, something of a surprise when ship builders all over the world unveiled their plans for the "liberty Ship Replacement", almost all of which offered a two-deck vessel of 14,000/15,000 tons deadweight. Doubtless this choice was influenced by the requirements of potential customers. Most of the war-built vessels were, by this time, being operated by Greek ship owners of limited resources to whom these new designs, for a type of vessel with which they were fully experienced and priced at about £1 million with cheap credit facilities, were very attractive. A total of 30 designs were put forward as the "Liberty Ship Replacement" in the early months of 1966. Of these, the most successful was the SD14, developed by the Sunderland shipbuilders, Austin and Pickersgill. The first SD14 keel was laid on 8th. June 1967. Unusually, this was not at Austin and Pickersgill's own yard, but nearby at that of another Sunderland shipbuilder, Bartram's, who were building the ship under licence. The first ship, named Mimis N. Papalios, was launched on 1st. December 1967. She was also very nearly the first SD14 to be completed. However, Austin and Pickersgill managed to make up the leeway in their own building programme to hand over the first completed SD14, the Nicola, on 14th. February 1968, the Mimis N. Papalios following the next day. Between 1968 and 1988, a total of 211 SD14s were completed and it is interesting to note that, by 1990, only 10 had been scrapped for commercial reasons, a further three going to the breaker's yard after marine accidents. Of the dozen vessels reported as sunk, at least two fell victim to missile attack during the Iran/Iraq conflict. Like the original Liberty ships, which many thought would be scrapped as soon as the war was over, the SD14 was not ascribed a very long life by some early critics. Nevertheless, these ships are still in demand in the charter market, with average daily rates of $5,200 for a one-year time contract, and in the second hand market with prices ranging from $2.5m for an early seventies ship to $5.75m. for a newer example. One guide to the success of the SD14 is to look at the movement of the 211 ships through the second-hand market. Most of the ships now sailing are with only their second owner, a few remaining with their original purchaser. The oldest SD14 in service is the Wave Crest, the vessel which, as the Mimis N. Papalios, missed by one day the distinction of being the first completed ship of her type. The Model In 1978, while attached to Manchester Docks, George Robinson, a retired Merchant Navy captain, hit on the idea of providing the port fire brigade with an easy-to-build model of the SD14. In this way, the trainee firemen could easily and quickly become familiar with the layout of the ship. So, originated a 2-foot long, 1:70 scale model kit of the Forward section of the SD14. This first attempt met with such success that kits if the Midships and After sections followed in 1979, the complete model measuring an imposing 7 feet in length. Professional and international recognition followed in 1982 when the model won the "Shipwrights Model Competition" at the Guildhall in London. Quite apart from sheer size, the kit is remarkable, for it is, in fact, put together in much the same way as the original was in Sunderland. Space here permits no more than a brief glimpse of what awaits the builder of this miniature leviathan. The instructions, which, for the complete kit, run to about 60 pages, first explain that the model will be built by the dry dock method rather than on the slipway - the difference is clarified. You then proceed to lay the shell bottom plates of the Forward section to form the double bottom, between the outer surface of the hull and the inner surface of the holds. On the original, the space in between in used for water ballast, necessary to keep the propellor submerged when there is no cargo and to maintain an even keel. This last expression, in such common and, I suspect , often unwitting, usage, is precisely defined. The building progresses aft as the cargo holds are each constructed with transverse watertight bulkheads, hold pillars and centre line plates. There are even properly runged ladders on which to descend to the bowels of the vessel. In the After section, as well as a cargo hold, there is the engine room together with the propellor shaft tunnel and, by lifting up the after deck house, access is provided to the steering gear flat and the rudder stock. In the bridge superstructure, containing the crew's accommodation, every cabin is accounted for. The crew's mess room, galley and smoke room are each separately delineated as are the linen locker, baggage room and officers' smoke room to mention but a few. The model also incorporates the correct ventilation trunk ways, the significance of which for cargo handling is explained. In the course of construction, the instructions are supplemented by sections which explain the actual fabrication of the original, so that, as you work through the model, you learn about the SD14, how it was assembled and how it works.The operation of such components as MacGregor hatch covers, the keelson and camber in the original are fully expounded and you can then reproduce these to scale. Step-by-step diagrams illustrate the sequence of construction. It is perhaps worth remembering that ships are machines, the largest ever built by man. So it is fascinating to see how this great machine works and to reproduce it in miniature at the same time. The correct nautical terms are used and explained, showing how each part of the ship functions and how the whole design draws on centuries of experience to produce the modern ocean-going vessel. If, like me, you have wondered what exactly is a "Tween Deck" and what is its purpose, you need wonder no more. All is revealed after which you can actually build one. The kit is printed on 184 A3 sheets of top quality manilla card, there being approximately 4,500 pieces, and the modeller can choose to paint the model with an authentic colour scheme or one of his own choice. The three sections can be fixed together or left dismantled and the aft superstructure can be removed to give a glimpse of the various deck levels inside the hull. naturally, all the cargo hatches open to show the holds. . The model can be made either for display or, with suitable waterproofing (see "Cutting Remarks" no. 3), can be sailed, there being space for R/C gear. Although the original SD14 models were all sold out about 10 years ago, Marcle Models, under licence from George Robinson, reissues the SD14 kit. The complete kit, weighing over 17 lbs, is supplied in 6 cartons, complete with a tool kit and costs £280 including worldwide surface mail. The three sections, Forward, Midships and After, are each available separately at £105 each. Should you decide to have a go, this, the "Non plus ultra of card (and perhaps any other type of) modelling, should keep you busy for about a year. Christopher Cooke and Thomas Pleiner, with acknowledgements to George Robinson, John Lingwood and Ships Monthly. Article first appeared in "Cutting Remarks" No. 4, September 1992.
I have a long time interest in the American Civil War. One particular subject is the Brown Water ships used by both sides on the Mississippi and its feeder rivers. I've spotted a few kits I like and they lured me off the Bounty launch for a while. Some of the Union ships were initially started by the US Army, but eventually ended up under USN control. The Choctaw was originally a commercial ship launched in 1856, purchased by the US Army in September 1862, converted into an ironclad ram and finally commissioned in the USN in March 1863. Choctaw was a 260' (79m) long side paddle wheel steamer, with a beam of 45' (14m). She carried 1 x 100 lb rifle, 3 x 9" Dahlgren smoothbores and 2 x 30 lb Parrott rifles. Choctaw took part in operations along the lower Mississippi around Haynes Bluff, MS, up the Yazoo River and participated in the Red River expedition, up to Alexandria in Louisiana in 1864. She was decommissioned in New Orleans in July 1865. This model is a card kit I purchased from ECardmodels.com. There are 8 pages of parts and 4 of instructions. It's a download only, so the purchaser has to print out the pages. Since Heinkel Models is located in Spain, his designs are done on A4 paper (8.3" by 11.3" or so). I got some 110 lb paper in that size, along with a small pack of heavier card. You'll end up laminating a number of parts to about a 1 mm thick card backing for this model. Here's the cover sheet. The model is almost 18" (40cm) long. The instructions say there are over 350 parts in this beast. I reread Chris Coyle's card tutorials a time or three, then made sure I has appropriate card stock and glue. I glued up enough heavy card stock for 3 letter size pages of 1 mm backing. Instead of using3M spray-on cement for laminations, I used some 3M Positionable Mounting Adhesive. No warping of the card stock. I let it sit overnight and laid out the appropriate parts, as marked in the kit, that should be mounted on the 1 mm backing. And there are a few more parts going on another sheet of .5 mm backing. Then the fun began. Make sure you have a good supply of sharp cutting tools. The 110 lb card on top of 1mm backing was murder on blades. Not too bad cutting the straight edges, but the curved parts (bow and stern, paddle wheel covers) were challenging. I felt like I had regressed to the '70s or early '80s in model railroad structures. Multiple slices and retouching any interior corners with a file/sanding device. Many of the parts need to have cutouts so that the superstructure parts interlock. And the hull has a keel and bulkheads. I'll get some pictures of the parts I've got cut out so far next time. Thanks for reading this.


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Rackspace Welcomes TaskUs, First Neighbors to "Castle" HQ
By jasonbowling - 1st August, 2019
When Rackspace founder Graham Weston had the idea to redevelop the empty and decrepit Windsor Park Mall into a new corporate headquarters, most people "pretty much thought I was crazy," he told the New York Times in 2012.
By then, however, it was clear that his vision to turn the mall into unique and quirky tech campus a la Google or Microsoft was a success, "one of the country's largest and quirkiest recycling efforts." Rackers dubbed it the Castle, in homage to its original name.
In 2012, not only did thousands of Rackers fill roughly half of the Castle's 1.2 million square feet, giving a shot in the arm to businesses around the campus, but the employee-funded Rackspace Foundation had donated $2.5 million to the seven nearby public schools we call the Magnificent Seven (today, the foundation's total giving is nearing $5 million).
But the Castle has never been completely full or built out. Much of our recent growth has been global. We now have 36 offices on five continents (and yes, we're hiring!), employing more than 6,300 people. Yet even as we continue to expand our reach, Rackspace remains committed to San Antonio as our headquarters and source for technical talent.
Here at home, as Rackspace has grown, additional areas within the mall have been renovated — most recently the area known as the Toy Store, which was completed in 2015. As each new phase came online, with the latest and greatest in design and technology, Rackers moved into those locations.
And while our company's strategy has evolved, our commitment to be the best stewards of our resources has not. That's why we're thrilled to announce our first ever sublease of some of the unused space at the Castle.
TaskUs, a fast growing tech-enabled business service company, provides innovative customer support, artificial intelligence operations and content security for the world's most disruptive companies. TaskUs will move approximately 1,200 employees into more than 77,000 square feet of space Rackspace was no longer utilizing.
Launched in 2008 as a personal assistant company, TaskUs today employs more than 16,000 employees around the globe. Its "Frontline First" philosophy has garnered awards for company culture and as a Best Place to Work. TaskUs is led by founders Jasper Weir, who serves as president, and Bryce Maddock, CEO.
TaskUs opened its first San Antonio office in 2017. The team was small at first, but quickly grew to 500 before the year ended. Now, just two years later, San Antonio is home to 2,500 TaskUs teammates.
TaskUs will occupy the area where, as a mall, Mervyn's was located. It was also the first area renovated and occupied by Rackers, back in 2008, so it's definitely ready for a refresh. TaskUs has been busy personalizing and "Ridiculizing" the space.
Through the technical community, the two companies struck up a conversation and found a way to meet the needs of TaskUs's growing workforce while also repurposing unoccupied space at the Castle. Rackspace has been approached in the past about subleasing parts of the property and declined. But TaskUs was different – as a tech company with a similar culture, company leaders felt like it would be a great fit.
While both companies share strong cultures (the TaskUs team embraces "Be Ridiculous" as a core value – a perfect complement to our commitment to Fanatical Experience) and one-of-a-kind office environments, we also share rigorous physical security protocols. Because of this, TaskUs employees will have their own dedicated space, entrances and exits. An interior wall will separate the two work spaces.
"We are excited to create space for another technology company that is as committed to San Antonio as we are," said Chief People Officer Laura Sue D'Annunzio, "especially one whose drive to give back to the community is as strong as ours. We have similar values and together, I think we'll have an even greater impact on the technical community and the area surrounding the Castle."
Windcrest Mayor Dan Reese was a city council member when the Windsor Park Mall first transformed into Rackspace headquarters. The increased economic development and community support from Rackers has been "inspiring," he said. "Welcoming TaskUs into the space will only multiply the positive effect for our schools and businesses. I look forward to our future together."
"TaskUs puts a lot of thought and investment into the spaces where our employees work," said San Antonio Vice President of Operations Marc Blais. "We take into consideration comfort, design accessibility, convenience and security. The new space checks all the boxes, and the San Antonio team is excited for the move."
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