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Spurious Correlations finds the hidden, totally pointless connections between everything

11
May
2014

Spurious Correlations is the virtual embodiment of a useful rhetorical cudgel: correlation does not equal causation. The clever thing about Spurious Correlations is that its fairly transparent about how it generates relationships. When you \discover a new correlation,\ you select a variable from a list of categories (\interesting causes of death,\ \sunlight by state,\ and […]

Category CA TechnologiesTech Written by The Verge 0 Comments

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Tracking a botnet infection

11
Jul
2013

Recently we found several malicious executables with similar characteristics. These files were found on the following six domains: janashfordplumbing.com kalliskallis.com lowes-pianos-and-organs.com continental1.com foreigntire.com gjhimages.com The URLs used, adhered to the following two formats: http://www.[domain].com/awstats6_data/[a-f0-9]{10}/?f=sm_main.mp3&k=[0-9]{15} http://www.[domain].com/images/[folder]/[folder]/[a-f0-9]{10}/?f=sm_main.mp3&k=[0-9]{15} These six domains are otherwise legitimate sites that have been compromised and used to serve malicious content. While I didn’t […]

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