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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? - 0 views

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ITGS fake botnets bots web inversion

shared by dr tech on 06 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Jan 19
     
    "Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was "bots masquerading as people," a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube's systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event "the Inversion.""
dr tech

A small number of self-organizing autonomous vehicles significantly increases traffic f... - 0 views

boingboing.net/...ll-number-of-self-organiz.html

ITGS ai autonomous traffic vehicles machine learning

shared by dr tech on 05 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Sep 20
     
    "The researchers suggest guidelines for efficient regulations, such that AVs can cooperate and significantly enhance traffic flow even when fewer than 5% of the vehicles on the road are autonomous, as seen in the accompanying image. In their article, the researchers describe how AVs should behave on a freeway in order to self-organize into groups that split the traffic flow into controllable clusters. It was observed that it takes less than two minutes to achieve self-organized high-speed, greener and safer traffic flow when starting from congested traffic."
anonymous

BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

ITGS

shared by anonymous on 07 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

Google's AI stoplight program is now calming traffic in a dozen cities worldwide - 0 views

www.engadget.com/ability-traffic-110015328.html

ITGS DS google traffic ai machine learning algorithm

shared by dr tech on 20 Oct 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Oct 23
     
    "Green Light uses machine learning systems to comb through Maps data to calculate the amount of traffic congestion present at a given light, as well as the average wait times of vehicles stopped there. That information is then used to train AI models that can autonomously optimize the traffic timing at that intersection, reducing idle times as well as the amount of braking and accelerating vehicles have to do there. It's all part of Google's goal to help its partners collectively reduce their carbon emissions by a gigaton by 2030."
dr tech

Google self-driving cars 'risk being caught in spam traffic jams' | Technology | thegua... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...cars-hacking-spam-traffic-jams

google cars spam ITGS ai policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 30 May 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 30 May 14
     
    ""Self-drive cars will probably work through internet connectivity and, just as large volumes of electronic traffic can be routed to overwhelm websites, the opportunity for self-drive traffic being routed to create 'spam jams' or disruption is a very real prospect.""
dr tech

Google launches Project Shield, to protect news sites from DDoS attacks / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...449890.html

ITGS DDOS security privacy google shield

shared by dr tech on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Feb 16
     
    "This is where Google's Project Shield comes through: sites pre-register with Google to "reverse proxy" their traffic through Google's cloud platform. By making a change in DNS, publishers can route all their traffic through Google. This means that a DDoS attack has to be sufficiently robust as to take down Google's cloud (much harder than taking down a WordPress install on a rack in a commodity hosting provider)"
dr tech

7-Eleven Thailand adopts facial recognition tech | WARC - 0 views

www.warc.com/...40193

ITGS facial recognition thailand 7-eleven

shared by dr tech on 27 Aug 21 - No Cached
  • KanKan’s capabilities include gathering data on in-store traffic, such as how long a customer lingers at a specific shelf, monitors stock levels and staff activity, and even takes note of the emotions of shoppers as they walk around a store.
  • dr tech on 27 Aug 21
     
    "KanKan's capabilities include gathering data on in-store traffic, such as how long a customer lingers at a specific shelf, monitors stock levels and staff activity, and even takes note of the emotions of shoppers as they walk around a store."
dr tech

Twitter has '50% chance' of major crash during World Cup, says insider | Twitter | The ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...sk-social-media-traffic-spikes

ITGS DS twitter reliability change power space systems

shared by dr tech on 20 Nov 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Nov 22
     
    "Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events. The former employee, who was granted anonymity because of the sensitivity of what was discussed, has knowledge of the workings of Twitter Command Centre, the platform's team of troubleshooters who monitor the site for issues such as traffic spikes and data centre outages."
dr tech

Can Google really tell us how busy a place is? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ly-tell-us-how-busy-a-place-is

ITGS privacy google ping anonymous surveillance reliability

shared by dr tech on 25 Nov 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Nov 16
     
    "ne of the creepiest - and most useful - Google inventions has been its ability to predict traffic jams by using anonymised ping-backs from mobile phones to tell how fast everyone is moving."
dr tech

DDoSers sell attacks for $5 on Fivver / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...ers-sell-attacks-for-5-on.html

ITGS DDOS security control reliability

shared by dr tech on 28 May 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 28 May 16
     
    "Now, researchers from Incapsula have delved into the world of cut-rate DDoS providers, who market their services for $5 a pop on the website Fiverr. The DDoSers figleaf their offerings by calling them "stress testers" that website owners can use to determine whether their sites are configured to handle lots of traffic, but as the Incapsula team found, most will cheerfully attack sites other than your own (though one vendor said he wouldn't attack "government state websites, hospitals"). "
BOB SAGET

Faulty light worries riders - The Oakland Press News: The best place for news in and ar... - 0 views

www.theoaklandpress.com/...doc4aed09601aa7e395366939.txt

ITGS businessandemployment control reliability

shared by BOB SAGET on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • faulty traffic light
    • BOB SAGET
      BOB SAGET on 23 Nov 09
       
      The IT system is a Traffic Light. The light is faulty therefore the social and ethical issue is reliability.
  • equestrians
    • BOB SAGET
      BOB SAGET on 23 Nov 09
       
      The stakeholders are the people who use the Light.
  • rider and pedestrian safety
    • BOB SAGET
      BOB SAGET on 23 Nov 09
       
      Security is another social and ethical issue.
dr tech

Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet | John Harris | Opinion | The Gua... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-carbon-footprint-data-centres

ITGS data centre power global warming electricity internet

shared by dr tech on 17 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Jul 18
     
    "About 70% of the world's online traffic is reckoned to pass through Loudoun County. But there is a big problem, centred on a power company called Dominion, which supplies the vast majority of Loudoun County's electricity. According to a 2017 Greenpeace report, only 1% of Dominion's total electricity comes from credibly renewable sources:"
dr tech

The Morris Worm Was the World's First Cyberattack - 0 views

curiosity.com/...ds-first-cyberattack-curiosity

ITGS worm virus security DDOS

shared by dr tech on 07 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Feb 19
     
    "His program became the first of a particular type of cyber attack called "distributed denial of service," in which large numbers of internet-connected devices, including computers, webcams and other smart gadgets, are told to send lots of traffic to one particular address, overloading it with so much activity that either the system shuts down or its network connections are completely blocked."
dr tech

Russia blocks millions of IP addresses in battle against Telegram app | World news | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...in-battle-against-telegram-app

ITGS

shared by dr tech on 17 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Apr 18
     
    "The "battle for Telegram" pits one of Russia's most popular messaging apps - with more than 13 million users - against the internet censor Roskomnadzor, in a public cat-and-mouse game to block traffic that has put the agency's reputation on the line. Telegram is widely used by the Russian political establishment, and prominent politicians and officials have openly flouted or criticised the ban. Data from the app showed several Kremlin officials had continued to sign in on Tuesday evening, four days after a court ordered the service to be blocked over alleged terrorism concerns."
dr tech

Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? | Books | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...gy-evolved-beyond-our-control-

ITGS ai machine learning technology people and machines

shared by dr tech on 17 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Jun 18
     
    "In October 2016, algorithms reacted to negative news headlines about Brexit negotiations by sending the pound down 6% against the dollar in under two minutes, before recovering almost immediately. Knowing which particular headline, or which particular algorithm, caused the crash is next to impossible. When one haywire algorithm started placing and cancelling orders that ate up 4% of all traffic in US stocks in October 2012, one commentator was moved to comment wryly that "the motive of the algorithm is still unclear"."
dr tech

The Era of Ownership Is Ending - 0 views

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ITGS SAaS MaaS ownership businessandemployment peopleandmachines policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 19 Mar 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Mar 17
     
    "Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a model for traffic without ownership. You pay a monthly fee for it, like with Spotify, tell the app where you are going and get instant access to taxis, Ubers, buses, and so on. Everything is available on-demand and ownership is no longer needed."
dr tech

Facebook 'SilentFade' Malware Attack Stole Credentials For Years | Threatpost - 0 views

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ITGS security facebook malware attack silentfade ads

shared by dr tech on 04 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Oct 20
     
    "Dubbed SilentFade (short for "Silently running Facebook Ads with Exploits"), the malware compromised Facebook accounts and used them to promote malicious ads, steal browser cookies and more. The social-media giant said that the Chinese malware campaign started in 2016, but it was first discovered in December 2018, due to a suspicious traffic spike across a number of Facebook endpoints. After an extensive investigation, Facebook shut down the campaign and pursued legal action against the cybercriminals behind the attack in December 2019. "
dr tech

Macron accused of authoritarianism after threat to cut off social media | France | The ... - 0 views

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ITGS DS censorship social media france control power

shared by dr tech on 06 Jul 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Jul 23
     
    "Emmanuel Macron is facing a backlash after threatening to cut off social media networks as a means of stopping the spread of violence during periods of unrest. Élysée officials and government ministers responded on Wednesday by insisting the president was not threatening a "general blackout" but instead the "occasional and temporary" suspension of platforms. The president's comments came as ministers blamed young people using social media such as Snapchat and TikTok for organising and encouraging rioting and violence after the shooting dead of a teenager during a police traffic stop in a Paris suburb last week."
dr tech

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI - 0 views

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ITGS DS ai google journalism industry employment SGE

shared by dr tech on 24 May 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 24 May 23
     
    "At first glance, the change might seem relatively benign. Often, all folks surfing the web want is a quick-hit summary or snippet of something anyway. But it's not unfair to say that Google, which in April, according to data from SimilarWeb, hosted roughly 91 percent of all search traffic, is somewhat synonymous with, well, the internet. And the internet isn't just some ethereal, predetermined thing, as natural water or air. The internet is a marketplace, and Google is its kingmaker. As such, the demo raises an extremely important question for the future of the already-ravaged journalism industry: if Google's AI is going to mulch up original work and provide a distilled version of it to users at scale, without ever connecting them to the original work, how will publishers continue to monetize their work?"
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