Category Archives: Technology

Adobe Gets Hacked, Product Source Code And Data For 2.9M Customers Likely Accessed | TechCrunch

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Now this is interesting and worrying. Source code being accessed is a very big deal, especially the company being Adobe. Subversive response to the move to subscription-based cloud services perhaps?? Hijacking code to exploit vulnerabilities…insert viruses…gain access to even more data. Very worrisome.

Article in Full from TechCrunch

“Uh oh — Adobe has just disclosed that one of their servers has been hacked.

While their investigations are still ongoing, Adobe has shared a few details on what they believe could have been accessed and obtained in the hack — and it’s a big one.

From what Adobe has shared so far, it sounds like the hackers had access to encrypted data for as many as 2.9 million customers. While Adobe stresses that the data is encrypted and that they “do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers”, that data — encrypted or not — is definitely not something they want out in the wild.

Adobe has yet to disclose how that data was encrypted, so it’s currently unclear just how secure it is.

Meanwhile, it also appears that the hackers may have been able to access the source code for at least three of Adobe’s products: Acrobat, ColdFusion, and ColdFusion Builder. This goes hand in hand with a report from Brian Krebs this morning, who noted that he and a fellow researcher had discovered at least 40GB of Adobe source code available on a hacking group’s private server.

Beyond the obvious business implications of having your otherwise locked down source code floating around in the wild, there are potentially massive security concerns here. Once you’ve got the source code for an application in hand, it becomes much easier to dig up the stealthy lil’ security screw ups that might otherwise go unnoticed. Combine this new potential for big zero-day exploits with the many, many millions of Adobe Acrobat (Adobe’s official PDF reader) installs around the world, and this all starts to get pretty worrisome.”

via Adobe Gets Hacked, Product Source Code And Data For 2.9M Customers Likely Accessed | TechCrunch.

Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek | Rhett & Link | YouTube

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via ▶ Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek  | Rhett & Link | YouTube

300+ Followers, Quick Feedback Poll

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With the blog reaching 300+ followers, I thought this would be a great opportunity for a quick feedback poll. News curation is a delicate balance. I’m sure many of you follow the same news sources I scan to repost to this blog. So when I’m scanning news items I always have in the back of my mind to post on average 5 to 10 items daily. I don’t want to spam your email inboxes, so anything over 15 posts is excessive in my mind and I try to avoid this. I overflow posts onto weekends when news becomes backlogged.

I also try to balance the types of daily posts across human interest, technology, librarianship, the MLIS and mentoring. This sometimes results in more dated news items and diversions being posted.

Here’s a quick poll asking the number of your daily post preferences. I also welcome any feedback you have, good or bad. So please leave your comments in the comment section below or email me via this contact form.

Open Source Solve[d] J.K. Rowling Mystery | The Official Rackspace Blog

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The software…used—the Java Authorship Attribution Program—is open source and freely available on GitHub for download. The academics studied the machine-readable text of Cuckoo’s and compared it to Rowling’s previous novel. In the course of doing so, they discovered a number of linguistic signatures that pointed to the author of Harry Potter. The software is predicated on the analysis of syntax, style and punctuation, but just as importantly on the distinctive use of prepositions and articles. It turns out writers can change sentence length and rhythm and can cater to a new audience, but they’re unlikely to change how they use “around” and “at” and “on.”

Read the full story: Open Source Solve[d] J.K. Rowling Mystery – The Official Rackspace Blog.

A Scientific Guide To Maximizing Your Impact On Twitter, Facebook, And Other Digital Media | Fast Company

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When is the best time to tweet on Twitter, post on Facebook, and email newsletters to reach the most people? Let’s find out…I’ve collected research and stats on Twitter, Facebook, email and blogging to help you find the best time to communicate with others in each format.

Read: A Scientific Guide To Maximizing Your Impact On Twitter, Facebook, And Other Digital Media | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 | Jane Hart | Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

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Bing partners with Pinterest to add image collections to search results | Engadget

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It’s no secret that Bing has been waging an uphill battle to stay relevant, and now, Microsoft is hoping that its partnership with Pinterest will be enough to win you over. The Bing team’s latest effort combines its own search results with a new feature: image collections, a supplement that presents related Pinterest boards to the right of your main results.

Read: Bing partners with Pinterest to add image collections to search results  | Engadget.

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British Film Institute to launch streaming video service on October 9th | Engadget

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The British Film Institute promised that it would put 10,000 movies online as part of the Film Forever initiative, and it’s now making good on its word — if slowly. The Institute will launch the first phase of its BFI Player streaming service on October 9th with a library of more than 1,000 videos, including movies, behind-the-scenes clips and archival footage. About 60 percent of the content will be free, with the rest available as pay-per-view. As for those remaining 9,000 videos? The BFI expects those to appear in the months ahead, and it’s launching BFI Player’s second phase in early 2014.

via British Film Institute to launch streaming video service on October 9th | Engadget.

The Ultimate Who-To-Follow Guide for Tweeting Librarians, Info Pros, and Educators | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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Wondering about who you should be following on Twitter to keep up with the steady stream of updates in Libraryland?  Well, here’s a list of lists!  This quick guide will give you 30 great lists of librarians, instructors, and information professionals that you’ll want to follow on Twitter as well as tweeting authors’ accounts and people and publications to follow to gain tech insights.  Check out each of these and start subscribing!!

See the list: The Ultimate Who-To-Follow Guide for Tweeting Librarians, Info Pros, and Educators | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.

This really is the ultimate guide to LIS professionals on Twitter! I would add to the other categories:

Book Lovers

  • Shelf Awareness @ShelfAwareness
  • The Bookseller @thebookseller
  • Huffington Post Books  @HuffPostBooks
  • Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly
  • Book Riot ‏ @BookRiot

News & Technology

  • The Modern MLIS @themodernmlis
  • MIT Tech Review @techreview
  • Buzz Feed @BuzzFeed
  • TEDTalks Updates @tedtalks
  • PCMag @PCMag
  • Flavorwire ‏ @flavorwire
  • TIME Techland ‏ @Techland
  • Gizmodo ‏ @Gizmodo
  • Harvard Biz Review ‏@HarvardBiz
  • Fast Company @FastCompany

This Search Engine Lets You Search 30 Sites At Once | Fast Company

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Going to add this one to my AppShopper wish list in the hope of a future price reduction! Free meta search alternatives include metacrawler/dogpile.

Phlo is an app for iPhone, iPad ($2.99), and Mac ($3.99) that allows you to conduct a single search and get results instantly from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Pinterest, Amazon, eBay, and more.

The app syncs across devices, saving your search history, and provides autocomplete suggestions from both Google and Bing. It’s available as a browser plug-in or in the App store.

Read: This Search Engine Lets You Search 30 Sites At Once | Fast Company | business + innovation.