Inside the Business of Malware (infographic) + Resources

Computer/online security, info-graphics/data-visualization, Technologies, Tools, Uncategorized

Infographic: Inside the Business of Malware

Web resources found along the way:

http://twitter.com/threatpost (security news)

http://offensivecomputing.net
(malware research)

http://twitter.com/ocomputing

http://hakin9.org (magazine)

Related:

DIY: Free tools for removing malicious software (Techrepublic)

Malware Intelligence of Modern Crimeware

Shadowserver Foundation

FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab

MIRROR: How to Communicate & Restore Collective Power if the US Government Shuts Down the Internet

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Methods & Process, Mobile, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Real Time, Strategy, Technologies, Tools

HOW TO COMMUNICATE IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN THE INTERNET

02-07-2011 8:48 pm – Wallace

Liberty News Online

Scenario: Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service.

This is what happened in Egypt Jan. 25 prompted by citizen protests, with sources estimating that the Egyptian government cut off approximately 88 percent of the country's internet access. What do you do without internet? Step 1: Stop crying in the corner. Then start taking steps to reconnect with your network. Here’s a list of things you can do to keep the communication flowing.

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PREVENTIVE MEASURES:

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Reference: Wireless Mesh Internet–A List

11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Mobile, Real Time, Technologies, Tools
Venessa Miemis

16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks

For those interested in alternative internet infrastructures, I’ve been assembling a list of projects and initiatives working to build mesh network solutions, as well as communities and resources around this topic. I’ve also posted this on Quora. Please feel free to add any projects I’ve missed. We’re hoping to understand the landscape of this initiative and how these projects & communities can better coordinate their efforts, in preparation for the Contact Conference in NYC this October 20, 2011.

Projects:

Open Mesh Project – building a mesh network for Egypt
Open Source Mesh – group looking at how to build a reliable open source meshing software
B.A.T.M.A.N. – better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking; routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks
Roofnet – 802.11b/g mesh network in development at MIT CSAIL
GNUnet – framework for secure p2p networking that doesn not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services
Dot-P2P – a free, decentralized, and open DNS system
SMesh – seamless wireless mesh network being developed at John Hopkins University
Coova – open source software access controller for captive portal (UAM) and 802.1X access provisioning
Babel – a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 & IPv4
SolarMESH – solar powered IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN mesh network  and relaying infrastructure solution
WING – wireless mesh network for next-generation internet; partially built on Roofnet
Daihinia – a tool for WiFi; turns a simple ad-hoc network into a multi-hop ad-hoc network
P2P DNS – building a distributed p2p DNS system
Digitata.org – develop an inexpensive infrastructure (low bandwidth internet terminals) for basic internet exposure to children in African countries
Netsukuku – an ad-hoc netowork that uses only WiFi connectivity and a specifically-built adddress system that allows direct communications between machines without resorting to the HTTP protocol
Tonika – open source organic network project; administration-free platlform for large-scale open-membership (social) networks with robust security, anonymity, resilience and performance guarantees

See more links (communities, resources)….

Internet Freedom–The Public Dialog Continues

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Internet, Budgets & Funding, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Computer/online security, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Geospatial, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Methods & Process, Mobile, Open Government, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Standards, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools
Michel Bauwens

SOURCE: P2P Foundation Category:P2P Infrastructure

This is a specialization of our general Technology section, focusing more explicitely on the ‘true internet' or distributed P2P infrastructures.  It is being updated over the next week or so.

On the overall perspective of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do, a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a peer to peer world

Help us improve our definition of what a true P2P Infrastructure should be: Defining True P2P Infrastructures

Programmatic Statement for the creation of a world-wide user-controlled network based on a distributed architecture, by Raffael Kéménczy

Projects we find worthty of support:

  1. We Rebuild is a cluster of net activists who have joined forces to collaborate on issues concerning access to a free internet without intrusive surveillance
  2. Open Source Mesh Networking projects monitored by Open Source Mesh
  3. Various strategies to achieve Free Fiber to the home
  4. High Priority Free Software Projects: “The FSF high-priority projects list serves to foster the development of projects that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems.”

Projects to decentralize/distribute the internet:

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CONNECT First, the Collective Intelligence Will Happen Naturally

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Internet, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Historic Contributions, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Mobile, Open Government, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Strategy, Tools
Venessa Miemis

An Idea Worth Spreading: The Future is Networks

Venessa Miemis. March 16 2010

Emergent by Design

This weekend I experienced a snowcrash; a moment where the seemingly disparate pieces of information floating in my head came together. A synapse fired, a new connection was made, and I was brought to a new level of consciousness, a new way of seeing the world. In reading this over, it almost sounds obvious, but it took me a while to get here. I hope that by sharing with you, it’ll help you “get it” too. So let me take you on my thinking trail.

Read every single word….

See Also:

How to Communicate if the US Government Shuts down the Internet

16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks

A Metathinking Manifesto [Who's the Architect?]

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