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darthcamaro writes "You don't really buy an open source company — since the tech is all open. But then again, Red Hat 'buys' open source companies all the time, they just bought one this week. So when does it makes sense for Red Hat to buy a company versus just building it on their own? Apparently, it all comes down to community. 'When you buy an open source company, if the people aren't coming and passionate about staying then you spend a lot of money for what? Because you don't get a lot of intellectual property,' Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said."
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Stirling Newberry writes "Luciano Iess and team have hypothesized that Titan joins Earth, Europa, and Ganymede as ocean worlds. They measured the size of the tidal bulges and found that the moon is likely not solid (abstract). Team member Jonathan Lunine points out that Titan's methane atmosphere is not stable, so it needs some source, perhaps from outgassing. On Earth, water means life, and in the future, ice covered ocean worlds are targets for human colonization. As the late Arthur C. Clarke observed, water is the most precious substance in the universe to humans."
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Eliza Kern, GigaOm: Twitter issues warning to developers: Now, we do it our way:
Today Twitter published a blog post outlining a new direction for the company, which will involve more restrictions on third-party use of the API and expanding functionality and usability of information within Twitter.com and approved clients.
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MojoKid writes "That didn't take long. HP has publicly confirmed that it has cancelled plans to bring a Windows RT (aka Windows on ARM) tablet to market in time for the Windows 8 debut. The company has decided to focus on its x86 customer base instead. HP spokesperson Marlene Somsak has said, 'The decision was influenced by input from our customers. The robust and established ecosystem of x86 applications provides the best customer experience at this time and in the immediate future.' Sources at HP have confirmed that Microsoft's Surface unveil last week was a huge factor in this decision. HP isn't willing to go head to head with Microsoft when it comes to launching new, unproven products. Abandoning x86 is impossible, but dropping Windows ARM is a way for the computer manufacturer to signal its supreme displeasure without unduly risking market share. It also increases the burden on Surface itself. If other OEMs follow suit, MS could find itself as the only vendor selling ARM-based W8 tablets."
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President-elect takes symbolic oath of office and says "no institution is above the people" on eve of his inauguration.
Security forces fire tear gas to disperse demonstration outside mosque where protesters chanted for "regime to fall".
Helicopter gunships and tanks used to shell areas of Idlib and Damascus amid mass army deployment near Turkish border.
Bank's chief admits submitting false data to protect firm's reputation during crisis, as scrutiny increases on UK banks.
WikiLeaks founder remains in the Ecuadorean embassy in London while authorities try to extradite him to Sweden.
As Ive been working quite a bit with Splunk lately I decided to create a DShield for Splunk application that is now publicly available at Splunk base: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/51609/splunk-for-dshield
The idea behind the application is to allow you to have you own, local copy of the DShield database so you can mine data as much as you want.
The application downloads the DShield data (the published All Sources IPs dump) once per day and indexes it into your local Splunk. Once the data has been indexed you can do all sorts of analytics and show top attackers, top attacked ports, their geographical information and much more.
The configuration allows you to specify when you want to download the DShield data (since its dumped once per day at 4 AM UTC you should also mirror the data once per day). You can also specify your own IP addresses or networks so the application will nicely list if your IPs have been detected in the attackers list (and, of course, you can change this into an alert).
This is shown in the main dashboard, besides the current Handler on Duty and Threatcon (which are retrieved in real time when you open the dashboard), as well as a panel showing last 10 ISC diaries (so you can jump to them from your local Splunk). The main dashboard is shown below:
Besides this, the application has the following dashboards:
* a dashboard showing top attackers, top attacked ports and protocols
* a dashboard showing Geo IP information about attackers, both in a table and using Google maps
* a search form that allows quick searching by IP address (or CIDR ranges), port or protocol
* a trend dashboard showing number of distinct IP addresses as well as total number of reports DShield received
Ihope you will find it useful if you have any questions or suggestions for improvement please let me know. Also, since Splunk has a free version that allows you to index up to 500 MB of data per day, you can use this for free.
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