Internet talks about ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ media listens
First proposed by anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters earlier this year, the Occupy Wall Street movement started gaining notable Internet "buzz" on Sept. 10, NM Incite reports. Much to the consternation of many following the movement, however, it took mainstream media almost a month to start paying attention. When Web traffic suddenly shot up on Thursday, Oct. 6, the world couldn't help but notice.
That's the day when police arrested a mass of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, and videos of officers pepper-spraying citizens went viral. Not long after, the media followed suit. These are the findings of Web analytics company NM Incite and Think Progress, a progressive ideas and policies blog.
Tracking "Occupy Wall Street" in blogs, boards, groups, videos and images, NM Incite registered a drastic spike on Oct. 6, with 13,133 messages across Internet forums on that day. As the chart below reveals, a comparable spike occurred on the following Monday, Oct. 10, accompanying news that GOP candidate Buddy Roemer and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream stated support for the movement. Read more...
Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad
The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday.
The confirmed count of fraudulently-issued SSL (secure socket layer) certificates now stands at 531, said Gervase Markham, a Mozilla developer who is part of the team that has been working to modify Firefox to blocks all sites signed with the purloined certificates.
Among the affected domains, said Markham, are those for the CIA, MI6, Mossad, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft's Windows Update service. Read more...