No dia 28 de fevereiro o site Github foi alvo de um dos maiores ataques DDOS (negação de serviços) da história. O ataque utilizou uma vulnerabilidade do memcached, sistema distribuído utilizado para acelerar sites dinâmicos que utilizam banco de dados, esse serviço basicamente têm a função de criar um cachê de dados na RAM para reduzir o número de vezes que uma fonte de dados externa (como um banco de dados) deva ser acessada. E foi justamente essa funcionalidade e facilidade de cacheamento na RAM que foi utilizada para causar um gigantesco ataque de negação de serviço.

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featuring Julia Dressel

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COMPAS is a software used across the country to predict who will commit future crimes. It doesn’t perform any better than untrained people who responded to an online survey.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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O título deste artigo pode causar a impressão de que o autor incorreu numa tautologia. “Se os dados são meus, obviamente sou o dono/a dona deles!”, é o que os leitores e leitoras podem estar pensando. Porém, não é o que ocorre.

Con más de mil matriculados en la primera hora de abierta la plataforma, y con un 92 por ciento de vacantes ocupadas al cerrar el primer periodo de este proceso, autoridades valoraron y relevaron el desarrollo de las matrículas de estudiantes nuevos 2018, marcada por un incremento de 445 cupos respecto del año anterior. Primer balance fue presentado hoy ante el Consejo Universitario.Uno de los ejercicios de articulación institucional más grande que despliega la U. de Chile.

Los norteamericanos colaboraron junto a alumnos chilenos en un workshop organizado por el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la Universidad de Chile y otras seis instituciones, donde trabajaron con grandes volúmenes de información astronómica. Las técnicas desarrolladas podrán utilizarse en el futuro en otras áreas que exijan Big Data como la minería y la agricultura.

Luego de que se descartara la alarma de tsunami tras el terremoto afectó en la madrugada del pasado martes al Golfo de Alaska, el CSN explicó el mecanismo que tuvo que ver con ese evento, el que a juicio de los profesionales del área, es "distinto a lo que sucede en Chile habitualmente".El sismo que se produjo esta madrugada a unos 250 kilómetros de la costa y a 10 kilómetros de profundidad en el Golfo de Alaska es un evento diferente a los sismos que comúnmente suceden en Chile, informó esta mañana el Centro Sismológico Nacional.

Con la mayor exposición de la población a zonas rurales durante el verano, los casos de contagio por virus Hanta vuelven a aparecer. A días de comenzar febrero, mes en que la gran mayoría de los chilenos toma sus vacaciones, el jefe del Servicio de Infectología del Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile, da detalles sobre esta enfermedad y ofrece las medidas básicas para su prevención. En época estival las campañas de prevención sobre virus Hanta proliferan.

Los expertos de la Universidad de Southampton, Chris Sinclair y Robert Baird, impartieron este curso que busca fortalecer las capacidades pedagógicas y comunicativas en inglés para los académicos que imparten estos programas.

John Thornhill at the Financial Times: “The internet’s original sin was identified as early as 1993 in a New Yorker cartoon. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” the caption ran beneath an illustration of a pooch at a keyboard. That anonymity has brought some benefits. But it has also created myriad problems, injecting distrust into the digital world.

Tomatoes, apples and bread can be ‘organic.’ But search results? Anna Jobin and Malte Ziewitz wonder about the currency of agricultural metaphors in web search and show how they do... MORE
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Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Prorektorin für Internationales der HHU, unterzeichnete am 03.03.2018 mit Prof. Dr. Hoshang Talebi Habib-Abadi, Präsident der Universität Isfahan, eine Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen beiden Universitäten.
Weitere Informationen zur aktuellen HHU-Kooperationsoffensive im Iran: Prof. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, prorector of international relations at the HHU, on the 3rd of March signed a contract of cooperation with Prof. Hoshang Talebi Habib-Abadi, president of the university of Isfahan, sealing the cooperation between the two universities.

Hintergrund: Reißt ein Aneurysma der Bauchschlagader  ein, überleben nur 20 Prozent der Patienten den massiven Blutverlust, der dadurch in kürzester Zeit eintritt. „Männer über 65 erkranken sechsmal häufiger als Frauen an einem Aneurysma der Bauchaorta. Zudem steigt das Erkrankungsrisiko mit dem Alter.

Julie Gilgoff: While billion dollar development companies eat up affordable housing units throughout the Bay Area, dedicated teams of organizers, nonprofit service providers, community development corporations, and others fight a relentless battle along side and on behalf of those at threat of displacement. Some are seeking to transform the current system of land ownership, removing profit incentives, and assuring that the land is used for the benefit of longtime community residents.

Here’s a new publication that we co-created with the Tactical Technology Collective – a group specialised in Big Data, digital security and data driven technologies. It is meant as a contribution to an emerging and important debate on the role of technologies in shaping our societies and an attempt to begin to spell out.

On 11 October 2018, should ICANN roll the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) that is at the heart of DNSSEC? ICANN is planning to restart the rollover process for the Root KSK and is therefore seeking public review of their new plan.  It includes more publicity about the need to be prepared for the rollover, and analysis of data indicating the level of preparedness.

Last week, at APRICOT 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal, there were a lot of talks and discussions focused on routing security and the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS).
First, there was a Routing Security BoF, attended by about 150 people, where we talked about what it takes to implement routing security practices, how CDNs and other players can help, and why it is so difficult to make progress in this area. The BoF included an interactive poll at the end, and it showed some interesting results:

As informações falsas divulgadas pelas redes, ou fake news, como têm sido conhecidas, são um legado das mídias sociais e um fenômeno a ser enfrentado por diversos setores da internet.

Learning to work with data is like learning a new language — immersing yourself in the culture is the best way to do it. For some individuals, this means jumping into tools like Excel, Tableau, programming, or R Studio. But what does this mean for a group of people that work together?

 
How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety.
Quick facts
Who: Ezequiel Passeron from Faro Digital
What: Workshops, talks and campaigns
Mission/vision: To promote, through co-design, the responsible use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for a more just society
Where: Argentina