Great Dashboard
This is an awesome dashboard for the overall health of the market. Would be awesome to track what I’m calling the Resiliency Index (a combination of factors that indicate how exposed a given area – country, city – is to the sources of global instability).
Infographic: Attack on a VOIP Honeypot
The imagery shown is based on real data from a real attack. The ‘balls’ on the right represent some hacker attempting to crack a VOIP server. The balls on the left represent the server’s response to the attack. The balls crash into each other and fight it out in the middle of the battlefield. The good balls do better, in this case.
Although the attack is relentless and fast-paced, the volume of data from this one attack on a single IP/port (here UDP 5060 for SIP sessions) is really a drop in the ocean in terms of the wider internet. The visualization is created via a Ruby-based tool called “gltail”, which is specifically designed to visualize Apache web server logs in real-time.
Visualizing a cyber attack on a VOIP server from Ben Reardon, Dataviz Australia on Vimeo.
Weather Links
- WeatherSpark. Very way to explore the complete weather history of any given weather station.
- Planetary K-index. (Measure of disturbance in the magnetic field.)
Stiglitz on Mauritius
Nice short take on what makes that country an amazing example of development (despite economic hitmen, the green revolution, etc.) My grandfather was a key architect of this miracle.