futurejournalismproject:

Tracking Cyber Attacks in Real Time

Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T Mobile, launched a site last week that shows cyberattacks and their point of origin in real time. Most attacks currently originate in Russia and China.

Via Deutsche Telekom:

The website has a digital map of the world which shows the origin of cyber attacks recorded around the clock by more than 90 sensors. A real-time ticker reports which targets they are setting their sights on. In addition, statistics show the current most common forms of attack and the countries in which the most active attack servers are located. However, their location is not necessarily also the country of origin of the attackers. “Most attacks are automated,” explained Kremer. “Figuratively speaking, the attackers shoot into the network with a shotgun to work out where the weaknesses in the systems are.”…

…Deutsche Telekom developed the online situation overview of global security attacks as part of a partnership with the alliance for cyber security. The joint initiative of the industry association BITKOM and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) brings together companies and public organizations to provide mutual support in the fight against digital attacks…

…Deutsche Telekom has more than 90 sensors in use around the world as decoy systems. These so-called honeypots feign weaknesses to provoke attacks and as such act as early warning systems.

Image: Screenshot, Overview of Current Cyber Attacks, by Deutsche Telekom.

jtotheizzoe:

See an Asteroid, Capture a Meteor!

It’s been said by many that “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”. Australian photographer Colin Legg has proven that true. He set out to capture last Friday’s fly-by from asteroid 2012 DA14 and accidentally caught with a burning meteor entry.

Think about it! You set up your camera to capture something well-planned and expected, and out of nowhere you see a burning fireball rush through your field of view, complete with its wispy vapor trail. Too cool.

In the full high-definition video (which you should really check out), you can also see a number of other man-made satellites moving through the frame. Altogether, one of the coolest space sequences I’ve seen in a long time.

(via EarthSky)

crookedindifference:

@XB70AValkyrie: Russian meteor photographed from an airliner over Chelyabinsk. #RussianMeteor

washingtonpoststyle:

For 40 years, a family in Siberia was cut off from all human contact. Then, in 1978, a group of Russian geologists stumbled upon their primitive settlement.

Say hello to the Lykovs. (Image via.)

gq:

Pussy Riot: The Jailhouse Interview

They’ve become global heroes and foils to the macho rule of Vladimir Putin. But not even a two-year prison term can keep Russia’s celebrated punk band muzzled. Michael Idov smuggled a few questions into the grrrls’ gulag. Judging by their answers, the riot is just getting warmed up.

GQ: Does it bug you as feminists that your global popularity is at least partly based on the fact that you turned out to be, well, easy on the eyes?

Nadya: I humbly hope that our attractiveness performs a subversive function. First of all, because without “us” in balaclavas, jumping all over Red Square with guitars, there is no “us” smiling sweetly in the courtroom. You can’t get the latter without the former. Second, because this attractiveness destroys the idiotic stereotype, still extant in Russia, that a feminist is an ugly-ass frustrated harridan. This stereotype is so puke-making that I will deign to be sweet for a little bit in order to destroy it. Though every time I open my mouth, the sweetness goes out the window anyway.

GQ: This is perhaps an insensitive question, but what’s more useful for the progressive movement in Russia right now: Pussy Riot at large or Pussy Riot in jail?

Nadya: We will know the answer only after the next wave of protests. I would love to see that, even imprisoned, we can still be useful and inspiring. In any case, I’m happy I got two years. For every person with a functioning brain, this verdict is so dumb and cruel that it removes any lingering illusions about Putin’s system. It’s a verdict on the system.

Masha: At large, of course. That’s why the authorities don’t want to let us out. But we still have things to say, and we still want to say them. And even locked up, we’re not doing too bad of a job.

“We couldn’t even imagine that the authorities would be so dumb that they would actually legitimize our influence by arresting us. Sure, they tried to intimidate us constantly. But unlike Putin, we’re not chickenshit.”

Read the full interview at GQ.com

nationalpost:

Jurassic Park? Woolly mammoth discovery raises possibility of cloning
Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the “Jurassic Park” possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission’s organizer said Tuesday.

Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 100 meters underground during a summer expedition in the northeastern province of Yakutia. (AFP/GettyImages)

A) This is awesome and B) I know Jurassic Park is the easy reference, but we really need a cloning story with a happier ending.

shortformblog:

Best Greenpeace protest photo you’ll see today: ”A Greenpeace activist, dressed as a polar bear, sits inside a police car after being detained outside Gazprom’s headquarters in Moscow, Russia, on Sept. 5, 2012. Russian and international environmentalists are protesting against Gazprom’s plans to pioneer oil drilling in the Arctic.” (photo by Misha Japaridze/AP; ht @breaking)