Some companies will pay hackers up to US$1 million in ransoms to claw back stolen data
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/cloud_security_alliance_says_infosec_wonks_would_pay_1m_ransoms/ The report found a quarter of respondents would pay ransoms to prevent the release of sensitive corporate data. Some victims however have no option to pay; net scum are distributing a flawed ransomware instance based on the Hidden Tear open source code ostensibly uploaded to GitHub for research purposes. It is easy to critisize companies which are ready to pay ransom, but
Why private investigators marry elementary school teachers?
One of the well know claims in "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray is that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including marriage. Their claim is: "smarts are marry with smarts" and as a result the "cognitive elite", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence.T
Cash or Plastic - half of transactions in US and most of transactions in Europe are in cash
Cash or plastic? You probably feel that these days everything is paid by plastic. How many cards are in your wallet? No cash? You think that in developed countries people are paying with plastic? You are absolutely wrong
New research: diet is absolutely personal
Dr. Elinav and E.Segal from Weizmann Institute of Scinece are hoping to build a new kind of diet-counseling business from findings they published recently in the journal Cell. Their study found a startling variation in the glucose responses of 800 subjects fed the same foods. Some participants had sharp increases in blood sugar when they ate ice cream and chocolate, while others showed only a flat or moderate response.With the breakthrough algorithm the scientists were able t
Super-Predators: Humans Force Rapid Evolution of Animals
Hunting and fishing by individual sportsmen as well as large-scale commercial fishing are also outpacing other human influences, such as pollution, in effects on the animal kingdom. The changes are dramatic and may put the survival of some species in question. In a review of 34 studies that tracked 29 species across 40 different geographic systems, harvested and hunted populations are on average 20 percent smaller in body size than previous generations, and the age at which t
Safety : UBER and HopSkipDrive
Many of us (in the USA) are using UBER. AT the same time Japan, Korea (not the North one..), Brazil, Israel have pains introducing UBER in their environment http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uber-countries-governments-taxi-drivers_us_55bfa3a9e4b0d4f33a037a4b There are two problems: it is difficult to taxi driver to compete with individuals who have no traditional taxi expenses (like medalion). Much more sever problem is a security. The most profound example is Israel. Recen
