From Verizon's 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report (p. 26)

Table 8. Top 15 Threat Action Types by number of breaches and number of records

Category Threat Action Type Short Name Breaches Records

1 Malware Send data to external site/entity SNDATA 297 1,729,719
2 Malware Backdoor (allows remote access / control) MALBAK 294 2,065,001
3 Hacking Exploitation of backdoor or command and control channel HAKBAK 279 1,751,530
4 Hacking Exploitation of default or guessable credentials DFCRED 257 1,169,300
5 Malware Keylogger/Form-grabber/Spyware (capture data from user activity) KEYLOG 250 1,538,680
6 Physical Tampering TAMPER 216 371,470
7 Hacking Brute force and dictionary attacks BRUTE 200 1,316,588
8 Malware Disable or interfere with security controls DISABL 189 736,884
9 Hacking Footprinting and Fingerprinting FTPRNT 185 720,129
10 Malware System/network utilities (PsTools, Netcat) UTILITY 121 1,098,643
11 Misuse Embezzlement, skimming, and related fraud EMBZZL 100 37,229
12 Malware RAM scraper (captures data from volatile memory) RAMSCR 95 606,354
13 Hacking Use of stolen login credentials STLCRED 79 817,159
14 Misuse Abuse of system access/privileges ABUSE 65 22,364
15 Social Solicitation/Bribery BRIBE 59 23,361


Honorable Mention at #16
16 Hacking SQL Injection SQLINJ 54 933,157

Y'all will be jealous of me and my Remington Portable when the apocalypse comes.

If flying cars could be made to blow up the enemy, or even just humiliate them, we'd have flying cars. Not to take anything away from the folks at Cal Poly, but I'm still waiting for the next Teflon.

to get out of that damn AT&T contract.

FTFA: No less a thinker than Aristotle put forward a hypothesis.

That was about 2.35 millenniums ago.

Ok, now I get it. As you said, if it captures less air, the overall volume of the argonaut is reduced -- and density increased -- too quickly, making it neutrally buoyant at a lesser depth. The extra-large air bubble keeps the argonaut from shrinking too much before the desired depth is reached.

I did a little quick reading to cure my ignorance and learned that divers have a device called a buoyancy compensator that works the same way.

There's ugly, there's coyote ugly, and there's argonaut ugly.

Ah! So it's not just me.

Both these passages from the article are exactly backwards:

By rocking at the surface, the argonaut can also trap a sizeable volume of air, which, in turn, allows it to reach a greater depth before becoming neutrally buoyant.

The animals created air pockets as they would in the wild but without the ability to dive to the right depth, the air just brought them back to the surface again.

You can't teach talent.

MS will provide information only "after our investigative and remediation cycle is completed..." In other words, after the vulnerability is discovered and fixed, and the patch is ready to roll out.

Then, "disclosure will happen just prior to our security update release cycles."

So the disclosure amounts to this:

"Tomorrow's MS Windows Update contains a security patch that fixes a serious vulnerability in your system. Oh, by the way, you have a serious vulnerability in your system."

I think even "some insects" is a stretch. It's not scientific even to say "all cockroaches" until they try it out on more than one.

Replace six batteries, bolt on a spare antenna and attach a new tool platform? If only my honey do list for tomorrow was that easy.

This is not about the consumer. It's about the artist being fairly compensated. And artists SHOULD be compensated. Not the labels. The artists. So some measure of control should be granted them. But then, if artists receive a mere fraction of what RIAA tries to extract from the consumer, it will be much more than they're receiving now. Stealing from labels is illegal. Stealing from artists is immoral.