Its probably the mythical zero island that infests geospatial databases. Not so much chosen, as a default initialised geospatial coordinate.
Cheers On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 07:14:50PM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Ah.. > > http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/59191/live-map-shows-cyber-war-in-real-t > ime > > "Rather than this being a secretive US military base in the Gulf of Guinea, > it is in fact a random location on the equator that Norse has selected to > represent cyber-attacks committed by and against the American government, > where location data is unavailable." > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. > Daniels > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 6:59 PM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] IPViking live > > What are those attacks initiating from a .mil address south of Ghana? > And why are they mostly attacking the US?! > > http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2004-11-12-voa42-66870572/376603.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 2:11 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] IPViking live > > > http://map.ipviking.com/ > http://www.norse-corp.com/blog-thursday-140320.html > > > Today, we'd also like to announce the availability of a completely new > > and > updated version of the Norse Live Attack Map. When we posted our first map > back in late 2012, we did not really think much about it to be honest. Norse > CTO Tommy Stiansen created it on a whim one weekend using mostly open source > code, and attack maps are not necessarily a new concept. Like a lot of > things, it was created out of a need for a quick and easy way for people to > visualize the global and live nature of Norse's threat intelligence > platform. While the activity on the map is just a small subset (less than > 1%) of the total attack traffic flowing into the Norse platform at any point > in time, map visualizations can be a powerful way to communicate time-based > geographic data sets. > > > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
