2016-03-19 18:53
ThinkProgress is reporting that the law firm of the US Chamber of Commerce (an NGO) hired several cyber-security firms to help them sabotage their political opponents:"[A] law firm represent… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
According to a new report by McAfee (pdf):"Attackers using several locations in China have [waged] attacks against global oil, gas, and petrochemical companies, as well as individuals and ex… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Shutting off the Egyptian Internet has (finally) drawn attention to a US Senate bill that seeks to permit the same sort of thing here. CNET has a nice summary:In December, a Senate committee… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Writing at SEED magazine, John Wilbanks has drawn attention to the transformation currently taking place in academic publishing, namely the slow shift from paper to digital that is also grad… Read More
2011-01-31 07:30
Clearly, social media are expanding dialogue throughout the world, and have the potential to radically reduce the costs of grassroots organizing. But they can also make it easy to track the… Read More
2011-01-28 21:02
GigaOM has an interesting piece on how Egypt Switched Off the Internet."Plenty of nations place limitations on communications, sometimes very severe ones. But there are only a few examples… Read More
2011-01-28 08:38
CNET and many others are reporting that all Internet traffic in Egypt has gone offline.I hadn't realized we would be importing the Internet kill switch. Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny M… Read More
2011-01-23 05:01
Symantec just released its Mid-Term Internet Security Threat Report, and surprise, surprise - the Wild West is getting wilder. It used to be that knocking a server offline, or stealing confi… Read More
2011-01-12 04:51
Estonia could get elevated - NCS is reporting that the country has formed the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia (CERT-E, also known as the Cyber Defense League), a militia intende… Read More
2011-01-10 05:46
TechSpot News is reporting that MSNBC has received a memo detailing the US' government strategy to prevent leaks in a "post-Wikileaks environment."Each initial assessment should be completed… Read More
2010-08-05 20:56
Alternet has posted an article about an effort by self-identified conservatives to censor Digg rankings. For those unfamiliar with Digg, it's essentially a platform for crowd-sourced submiss… Read More
2010-07-31 00:51
Wired is reporting on public-private intelligence projects which mine relational and other data from broad swaths of the Interwebs. Nothing terribly new here, but it's interesting seeing mor… Read More
2010-06-18 06:24
2010-06-13 18:47
Last summer, Drew Conway (NYU) gave an excellent introduction to using the igraph package for basic Social Network Analysis in R: Read More
2010-06-13 18:44
GEXF (Graph Exchange XML Format) is a network language that supports common formats such as CSV | UCINET | Pajek, as well as a host of XML variants for network data, including GEXF | GML | G… Read More
2010-06-03 16:38
If you are in NYC over the next two days (June 3-4) and have both time and interest (as well as the $500-600 registration fee), consider attending the sixth annual Personal Democracy Forum a… Read More
2010-06-03 02:18
Information Policy has an interesting report on a presentation that Evgeny Morozov (Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy) gave at Foreign Policy's Washington office:"Authoritaria… Read More
2010-06-03 02:09
The Rise of Crowd ScienceThe Chronicle just posted an article on Big Data:"Crowdsourcing is a natural solution to many of the problems that scientists are dealing with that involve massive a… Read More
2010-06-02 05:44
Oil Reporter is an iPod app that lets locals help with the spill recovery effort by reporting what they see on the ground. "Users can upload photos and videos, reporting oil sighting, h… Read More
2010-05-31 21:47
If you have time, I recommend watching Marissa Mayer's presentation at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) last Fall. She shows how Google is connecting social data (e.g., search queries) w… Read More
2010-05-31 20:50
Wired is reporting on Smart-Iris, a DARPA-funded device that (inventor Marc Christensen et al. claim) can zero in on individual irises in a moving crowd, regardless of angle:"A long line of… Read More
2010-05-31 08:46
The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 was held this May 6-7 in Santiago, Chile. MobileActive.org was there, and has an interesting write-up:"Mobile phones have already played a signifi… Read More
2010-05-31 00:55
NodeXL is an Excel template that supports network visualization. It's about time (why hasn't MS already made SNA a central feature?).Anyway, the template offers full network/graph customizat… Read More
2010-05-30 01:27
"[G]eospatial data are critically important for disaster response, protecting the environment, and many other challenges. But much of this information is in danger of being lost due to evolv… Read More
2010-05-28 22:35
Current: A News Project"Current shows a snapshot of what the entire internet-using population in America has been thinking for the last 24 hours, in the form of their collective search histo… Read More
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