Web exploit toolkits have become the most popular method for cybercriminals to compromise hosts and to leverage those hosts for various methods of profit. This talk will give a deep dive on some of the most popular exploit kits available today including Black Hole and Phoenix and also take a look at some of the newer players that have appeared from Asia. An overview of how each kit is construct...

The situations of nineteenth century dock workers and today’s immigrant day laborers bear striking similarities and challenges, especially for those seeking to organize them into labor unions. The obstacles confronting such organizing efforts also underscore the legitimate concerns many Americans have about the threats to social order posed by immigrants today.

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, Henry Walter Bates noticed striking similarities between unrelated pierid, ithomiine and heliconiine butterflies collected from the same area [1]. Bates termed this phenomenon ‘mimicry’, and showed that rare or unprotected butterflies would gain by imitating the warning patterns of commoner, unpalatable forms. Later, Müller [2] showed that unpalatable spec...

Poirot recalled his last visit to Dr clime when he was ill with fever. The doctor had been thorough in his examination! There were many similarities between a doctor and a detective. Both reconstructed their “cases” based on answers to questions. Both Poirot and Dr clime, had always considered it more important to know the individuals, understand their thoughts and backgrounds rather than run a...