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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
After A Week On Android, Vine Surpasses Instagram On Google Play Charts As Top Social App
Vine has already clarified just how quickly its userbase is growing, with the announcement that the app had hit 13 million downloads by the time Twitter launched it on Android. This was all just a week ago. Today, however, we've learned that Vine has climbed to the top of the charts on Android as the top social app and the No. 4 free app on Google Play. Instagram is No. 5.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/kLIu_-AIUHM/
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Israel accelerates cybersecurity know-how as early as 10th grade
Israel is strengthening cybersecurity recruitment and cooperation between hi-tech, academia, and the military as threats rise.
Amid a rapid?rise in cyber attacks on Israel, the state is accelerating efforts to recruit and develop the cyber expertise it needs to keep pace with emerging threats in the Middle East and beyond.
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With double the number of scientists and engineers per capita compared to the US and 10 times more active-duty soldiers relative to its total population, Israel already has impressive human capital in scientific fields such as cybersecurity. But now it is also tapping everything from high school classrooms to venture capital firms to extract cream-of-the-crop cyber experts, hone their skills and ideas, and fund their development.
Israel?s model, though tailor-made for its unique size and capabilities, offers potential lessons for other countries looking to improve their cybersecurity game, including the United States, according to US cybersecurity experts familiar with Israel?s approach.
The US has numerous programs in place to attract and train the best cyber talent, and President Obama recently proposed expanding the cybersecurity budget by nearly $1 billion after an annual US intelligence survey ranked the threat of cyberattacks on banks, power grids, and other infrastructure as higher than terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.
But quality can matter more than quantity in this emerging battlefield, where a team of pony-tailed hackers fueled by pizza, Coke, and plum salaries may be enough to design major attacks or help bolster US defenses against them.
Some American experts say Israel may be zeroed in to an even greater degree than the US on developing cyber Top Guns with the ability to write and modify computer code, spot software vulnerabilities, move clandestinely inside networks, and manipulate systems, rather than just develop cybersecurity policy.
?What Israel has done is focus much more heavily on technical skills and leave the political work to the politicians,? says Alan Paller of the SANS Institute, who examined Israeli cybersecurity strategy as part of the US Department of Homeland Security?s Task Force on CyberSkills last summer. ?Their skill level [per capita] ? outdoes everyone, even China,? he adds, despite China?s ?massive program? for developing skilled cyber experts.
Professor Isaac Ben Israel, a driving force behind the creation of Israel?s new National Cyber Bureau last year, says Israel has ?the pleasure, the benefit, of selecting the right people for the right positions,? thanks in large part to mandatory military service, which pools the country?s talent and makes for efficient recruiting.
Such expertise helped Israel achieve a top-3 ranking in preparedness for cyberattacks in a 2012 report (PDF) by security technology company McAfee, along with Finland and Sweden and ahead of the US, China, and Russia. In addition, Israel?s critical infrastructure has been required by law to protect itself against cyberattacks since 2002, a decade before US Congress tried and failed to pass similar legislation. Israel has also implemented a host of new strategies in the past few years, including more math and science emphasis in schools, cybersecurity competitions, and major conferences such as Prof. Ben Israel?s 3rd Annual International Cyber Security Conference that opens June 12 at Tel Aviv University with an all-star lineup of speakers, from Russia?s Eugene Kaspersky to former White House official Richard A. Clarke.
Even so, Israeli experts remain concerned about enemies like Iran, which has the capacity to work on long-term attacks that require significant manpower, robust funding, and intelligence agents necessary to determine the location and type of computers used at, say, a power production company.
?In relative terms, we are in good shape,? says Ben Israel, a former major general in the air force and one of Israel?s most prominent cybersecurity experts. ?In absolute terms, we are not in the required shape. Unfortunately we have more threats than Finland, Sweden, or even the United States.?
New cyber incubator
One of the recommendations made by Ben Israel?s task force was to further integrate academia, hi-tech industry, and the military. Together, all three fields create an ecosystem for cultivating cyber talent, both in cyberwarfare and the growing commercial market for cybersecurity software.
Exhibit A of this ecosystem is the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. It is home to Ben Gurion University (BGU), which last year became the first Israeli university to offer a graduate track in cybersecurity, as well as a massive new military communications complex set to open in 2014, which will include the main cybersecurity training center for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Adjacent to the IDF campus is the Advanced Technologies Park in Beersheva, a 2 million square-foot complex that is set to open its first building in July and is wooing multinational corporations with government incentives that include up to 10 years of tax exemption and salary subsidies of up to 50 percent. Among the outfits already committed to the park are Deutsche Telekom and EMC, whose RSA division is involved in cybersecurity, as well as a new cybersecurity incubator, JVP Cyber Labs.
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), which was recently ranked as one of the world?s 10 most successful venture capitalist firms, has among their holdings CyberArk, which began as a start-up with two graduates of the Israeli military?s IT unit and today serves 7 of the 10 largest banks in the world. The founders? military service gave them, like many other former soldiers, a clear sense of where key security weaknesses lay.?
?You can create great companies around that,? says Gadi Tirosh, general partner at JVP. ?So that?s one area of talent that gives us in Israel a secret sauce to our Cyber Valley here in Israel.?
JVP benefits from Israel?s Chief Scientist Program, which contributes $500,000 for the first $100,000 investment JVP makes in its start-ups. ?We can experiment with many more ideas at lower risk,? says Mr. Tirosh, noting that JVP can conduct a $1 million ?experiment? for half the cost.
The new JVP incubator in Beersheva is aiming to invest in four start-ups per year, with the first to be announced early in the fourth quarter of 2013.
?The Cyber Labs team is already active in identifying potential first investments, with key themes including zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats, mobile security, and big data forensics,? says JVP partner Yoav Tzruya, a former Air Force intelligence officer who is leading the incubator in cooperation with BGU.
JVP is benefiting from military-honed expertise not only in Mr. Tzruya but also venture partner Nimrod Kozlovsky, a former captain in the IDF's electronic warfare unit.?
New cybersecurity grad program
Bracha Shapira, the head of BGU?s Information Systems Engineering department, says the proximity of the new military campus and the new technology park with the JVP incubator will boost the university both financially and in terms of research opportunities.
?When you collaborate, industry gives you money to research,? she says. ?Also, you work on more interesting things because you understand the real problems that industry and defense [are facing] ?. You get good sources of data, and really get to work on cutting-edge technology.?
The government is also offering scholarships of up to 300,000 shekels ($83,000) as part of a 50 million shekel program to promote research on protecting Israel?s networks and websites as well as exploring ethical and psychological questions related to cybersecurity.?
Given the uptick of interest and funding in the field, Professor Shapira says she hopes to roughly double the number of students in the new cybersecurity graduate track from 16 this past year to 30.?
Military hones program for high-school cyber geeks
The IDF sends select soldiers to universities such as BGU for specialized training, especially in the sciences. But given the urgent need for talent, the IDF launched a special program three years ago to identify exceptionally qualified high school students and begin their cybersecurity training as early as 10th grade. Currently 200 students are enrolled in the program, but graduates have so outperformed their peers in the IDF that commanders are clamoring for more. So this year the program will double in size, and the IDF hopes to see 1,000 students involved within two years.
"It costs money but they?re willing to spend more money.?If they?re willing to pay you, it means you deliver,? says Lt. Col. Sagi, who helps manage the?Magshimim?program, which is supported by the national cyber bureau and the private Rashi Foundation as well as the IDF. ?And we think we deliver very good students, or cyber experts.?
The application process is highly competitive, and includes a two- to three-hour written test as well as a one-on-one interview. Each week, students meet six hours after school and do two to four hours of homework. They are taught by university students but the overall structure of the program is overseen by the IDF, which built it from scratch as no other similar models existed.
?We change it every year, because as you know when you build something from scratch you have a lot of changing and a lot of tuning to do,? says Sagi. ?I think it?s getting better every year.?
But so are Israel?s cyber enemies.
Indeed, the number of cyberattacks on Israel is rising ?exponentially,? says Ben Israel. ?We have to run very fast in order to stay in the same place. But we are doing it.??
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US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey is reappointed
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey poses outside the president's office at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term. The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey?s reappointment Monday, June 10, 2013. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall. In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour?s poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey poses outside the president's office at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term. The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey?s reappointment Monday, June 10, 2013. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall. In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour?s poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The nation's poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term.
The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey's reappointment Monday.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall.
In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour's poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September.
The 47-year-old Trethewey is also poet laureate in her native Mississippi, where she is serving a four-year term.
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her collection "Native Guard."
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AT&T extends upgrade period to two years, continues a worrying trend
The big US carriers tend to echo each other's customer-hostile policy decisions all too often, and that's unfortunately happening once again. Effective today, AT&T is shadowing Verizon by extending its standard device upgrade interval from 20 months to the full two years of a typical agreement. All of its new contract subscribers, as well as those whose terms finish in March or later, will have to cope with the longer waiting periods. There's little context for the decision in a corporate memo that we've obtained; we've reached out to AT&T for some background, and we'll let you know if we hear more. Whatever the motivations, it's clearer than ever that habitual upgraders need to either pay the full hardware price or move to more flexible providers.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Cards?plate seven?in 10th, down Reds in extras
By MARK SCHMETZER
Associated Press
Associated Press Sports
updated 12:01 a.m. ET June 10, 2013
CINCINNATI (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals passed two tests with their first extra-innning win of the season.
With the best offense in the National League and the second best team pitching staff, the Cardinals have rarely had to play from behind. They erased a pair of two-run deficits in a 10-inning, 11-4 win.
"We've has some of those (extra inning) games go the wrong way," Cardinal manager Mike Matheny said. "There have been quite a few times we've come back but not all the way."
Matt Holliday's grand slam capped a seven-run 10th inning to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 11-4 on Sunday night.
J.J. Hoover (0-5) walked Allen Craig to lead off the 10th. One out later, David Freese singled Craig to second, extending his career-best hitting streak to 19 games, tied with San Francisco's Marco Scutaro for the longest in the National League this season.
Daniel Descalso followed with his RBI double off the left field wall. Matt Carpenter added two insurance runs with a bases-loaded single before Holliday hit his homer - a 464-foot shot into the left field seats off Curtis Partch, who was making his major league debut. The homer was Holliday's 10th of the season.
"It's hard not to be disappointed," Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. "We have a lead in the late innings. We have to find a way to hold them."
"These guys are never out of a ballgame," said Arroyo, who started and went six innings before leaving after his right leg stiffened up, the result of getting smacked on the knee by Descalso's sharp one-hopper to end the fourth. "Against some teams, when you lead, 4-2, in the late innings, you feel like the game's over. This team fights you - the whole lineup. Every guy in the lineup has a hitting streak. It's not easy to navigate nine innings."
Descalso was in the game to give Pete Kozma a breather but he's managed some big hits for St. Louis.
"Descalso has been hitting the ball well," Matheny said. "It's hard to do for a guy who isn't getting regular at bats."
His clutch hit put the Cardinals on top for the first time in the game.
"We haven't had to come back much this year," Descalso said. "Most of these guys have been around when we've had to come back. I don't hit many that far, that way. I was just hoping I got enough of it."
Trevor Rosenthal (1-0) had four strikeouts in two perfect innings to get the win. The victory meant that the Cardinals have now either won or split 13 straight series.
The Reds grabbed a quick 2-0 lead in the first. Shin-Soo Choo led off with an opposite-field double into the left-field corner and moved to third on Derrick Robinson's sacrifice bunt. After Joey Votto walked, Brandon Phillips nudged a half-swing bloop single into short right field to drive in Choo and send Votto to third. Votto scored on Jay Bruce's sacrifice fly.
St. Louis tied it in the fourth. Carlos Beltran led off with his 14th home run of the season, a 409-foot blast to center field on a 3-1 pitch. Holliday followed with a double and scored one out later on Yadier Molina's opposite-field double into the right-field corner.
A two-run fifth gave the Reds a 4-2 lead. Choo led off with a single to right and Robinson was nicked by a pitch while squaring to bunt. Votto struck out and Choo moved to third on Phillips's fly ball to center field before Bruce lined a two-run double into the right-field corner.
"I felt the first guy got on every inning," said Lance Lynn, who would have tied teammate Adam Wainright for the team and league lead in wins. "It was a grind. I threw everything to Bruce. I put the fastball inside where I wanted but he got the bat on it somehow. It was a good piece of hitting."
The Cardinals jumped all over reliever Sam LeCure to tie the score again in the seventh. Jon Jay led off with a single, his third hit of the game, and went to third on pinch-hitter Matt Adams's double to center that Choo got a glove on but couldn't hold. Jay scored and pinch-runner Shane Robinson went to third on Carpenter's single. Beltran greeted reliever Alfredo Simon with a game-tying sacrifice fly.
Carpenter extended his career-high hitting streak to 18 games.
Notes: Cardinals RHP Jake Westbrook, on the disabled list since May 9 with right elbow inflammation, started for Single-A Peoria on Sunday, perhaps the last step toward being activated. Westbrook could be ready to pitch in "4-5 days," manager Mike Matheny said. ... St. Louis RHP Chris Carpenter, who's missed the entire season with a right shoulder injury, is scheduled to pitch "lengthened" bullpen sessions and face batters when the Cardinals return from their current road trip, Matheny said. ... Reds 2B Brandon Phillips was 1-for-7 in his first two games since missing four after being hit in the left forearm with a pitch. The area remains swollen. "It's still (messed) up," Phillips said. "I can catch the ball OK, but handling the bat is tough. I'm going to play through it. It is what it is."
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US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey is reappointed
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey poses outside the president's office at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term. The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey?s reappointment Monday, June 10, 2013. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall. In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour?s poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey poses outside the president's office at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term. The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey?s reappointment Monday, June 10, 2013. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall. In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour?s poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The nation's poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term.
The Library of Congress was set to announce Trethewey's reappointment Monday.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet met with members of the public over the past year and published a poetry collection in the fall.
In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour's poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September.
The 47-year-old Trethewey is also poet laureate in her native Mississippi, where she is serving a four-year term.
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her collection "Native Guard."
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