Cyber-Espionage Platform Red October Is Already Pulling Its Tendrils Back Into the Dark

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5977318/cyber+espionage-platform-red-october-is-already-pulling-its-tendrils-back-into-the-dark

Earlier this week, a sophisticated, capable, and seemingly freelance cyber-spying operation called Red October burst onto the scene. Well, it's probably been around for years, but we all only just found out about it. Now, it's already disappearing. After having the light shined on it, it's darting back into the shadows.

It looks like Red October is a bit bashful. After the big reveal, Red October's infrastructure started going offline. Domain names associated with the project have begun to disappear, as well as hosting for command and control servers. It's like the whole project is packing up and going home now that the secret' is out.

While that could be the case, to a certain extent, Red October is known for being resilient and having layers upon layers of proxy defense. The "mothership" has not been located, so there's still a juicy core of stolen intel somewhere out there. The retraction of recently discovered feelers only makes sense as a move to protect it. The question is: has Red October been thwarted by being found out, or is it just pulling into hibernation until everyone forgets about it, only to come back with new tools and now proxies? My money is on the latter. [Threatpost via Ars Technica]

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LG Optimus G sales hit 1 million worldwide

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/20/lg-optimus-g-sales/

LG proved with the Optimus G that it can produce a smartphone that stacks up with the best of 'em, and according to the company's newly released sales figures, consumers are starting to take notice. As it stands, more than 1 million Optimus G's have been sold since the handset's September debut. While the figure pales in comparison to heavyweights like the Galaxy S III and iPhone 5, that's not too shabby for a phone that's only been available in North America since November. Given the similarities between the Optimus G and the Nexus 4, we're quite curious to know how sales of the two smartphones compare, but Google's currently keeping those numbers close to its chest. That said, there's little doubt that LG currently has its hands full at the production line.

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The Simplest Stock Market Indicator In The World Continues To Work Amazingly

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/january-20-sp-500-vs-initial-claims-2013-1

We've run this chart a million times, but we're not getting bored of it.

The S&P 500 vs. weekly initial jobless claims continues to be a beautiful chart, as the two lines have moved in virtual lockstop through the last five years. When Jobless Claims improve, stocks improve. When the opposite happens, stocks down down.

The primary takeaway from the chart: The market rally is based on fundamentals of the economy. Forget headlines or great rotations or the Fed. It's still all about the economy.

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Google Handwrite gets better at interpreting your multi-lingual finger scribbles

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/18/google-handwrite-update/

When Google's Handwrite feature launched this past summer, we welcomed the ability to compose our queries instead of pecking keys. Problem is, Handwrite had a bad habit of confusing our 1's and l's -- and despite the growing size of smartphone screens, it's still difficult to fit written words on them. Well, Big G has solved those problems with the latest Handwrite upgrades. The system now provides alternative interpretations of ambiguous characters so you can choose what's propper, and it lets you write letters on top of one another instead of spelling them out across the width of the screen. Not only that, folks who search using Chinese characters are no longer limited to single-character input. Want to know if it can interpret your chicken scratch? Head on over to Google.com and enable Handwrite under settings on the iOS or Android device of your choosing.

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Google

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Source: Inside Search: The official Google Search Blog

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Chrome 25 extends encrypted search to everyone, not just signed-in users

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/18/chrome-25-ssl-encrypted-search-everyone/

Chrome users with something to hide have heretofore been required to sign in to Google to keep their omnibox searches hidden from prying eyes -- but today's Chrome 25 beta update changes that. Now all searches are automatically encrypted, whether you're signed in or not. It's certainly not the first browser to implement such a security feature -- Firefox 14 switched to HTTPS for all searches last year -- but it's a welcome change all the same. With web voice recognition and security whitelists on the docket as well, the latest version of Chrome is setting up to be quite the must-have, especially for those who want to keep their Justin Bieber search results to themselves.

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Source: Chromium Blog

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