Visual Timeline Reveals Swarm of Hacks
Today (tonight?) I finally began working with TimeGlider , the web-based timeline maker I mentioned in my earlier post, built by Mnemograph.
My objective is to (hopefully later today), embed a two layered timeline (the top layer filled with "random" events, the bottom layer filled with attacks and virus outbreaks) that is interactive. At the current time, I have a "work in progress" ready to go, however, I failed to use the beta version of the software that would have enabled me to conjoin the two timelines together in one embedded statement, and may need to start the project over.
So, I've taken a snapshot to give just one example of some random data that I've captured today.
The picture below is an actual view of the two timelines I mentioned. This is a five-year view, but you can zoom down to the day. If you hover over the event, you will get the date and time - if you click on the event, you will get any added information. For simplicity, I added no pictures, just icons.
I want to draw your attention to the large red star on the top timeline, and the black half-moons on the bottom timeline. Since I zoomed out for the five-year snapshot, I'll fill in the dates.
On September 6th, 1996, after China opened it's 256K dedicated circuit connected to the US, 10 days later the CIA was hacked, the UK Labour Party was hacked... you can see the pattern for yourself. It is amazing when you zoom out even farther - you begin to realize what is happening with the business and political events simultaneously. But, there are such things as coincidences.
Note: There were no other hacks to government sites before this - there were only viruses, and virus creation toolkits wide spread and made available on the internet, from what information I have gathered thus far. Of course, this information is incomplete.
If I continue to fill in the blanks (who knows how long it would take and if it could ever be completed by one person), I'm quite certain I would continue to see a fascinating orchestration and multiple arrays of events both past,present, and presumably future.
At any rate, this is just one of many examples that a visual timeline can do. It acts like a gliding scatter-plot that you can add pictures and icons and meaningful text, data, and/or links to.
This particular example was done in just a few hour's time and is simply a few inches of a few feet of data that I have entered into the (free) software.
I utilized and compiled various existing sources (which I will thank profusely once I have the actual timeline posted) on the internet and also obtained information from several books that I have been reading in my spare time, but I have yet to have cracked the surface on the data I have available.
I am going to concentrate on virus outbreaks and attacks against the U.S. for the majority of my time (among other things). I welcome any assistance.
Once the live version is available, it will be embedded in the header or footer of the blog. I haven't decided yet.
Join in - comments are disappearing into the ether...
My objective is to (hopefully later today), embed a two layered timeline (the top layer filled with "random" events, the bottom layer filled with attacks and virus outbreaks) that is interactive. At the current time, I have a "work in progress" ready to go, however, I failed to use the beta version of the software that would have enabled me to conjoin the two timelines together in one embedded statement, and may need to start the project over.
So, I've taken a snapshot to give just one example of some random data that I've captured today.
The picture below is an actual view of the two timelines I mentioned. This is a five-year view, but you can zoom down to the day. If you hover over the event, you will get the date and time - if you click on the event, you will get any added information. For simplicity, I added no pictures, just icons.
I want to draw your attention to the large red star on the top timeline, and the black half-moons on the bottom timeline. Since I zoomed out for the five-year snapshot, I'll fill in the dates.
On September 6th, 1996, after China opened it's 256K dedicated circuit connected to the US, 10 days later the CIA was hacked, the UK Labour Party was hacked... you can see the pattern for yourself. It is amazing when you zoom out even farther - you begin to realize what is happening with the business and political events simultaneously. But, there are such things as coincidences.
Note: There were no other hacks to government sites before this - there were only viruses, and virus creation toolkits wide spread and made available on the internet, from what information I have gathered thus far. Of course, this information is incomplete.
If I continue to fill in the blanks (who knows how long it would take and if it could ever be completed by one person), I'm quite certain I would continue to see a fascinating orchestration and multiple arrays of events both past,present, and presumably future.
At any rate, this is just one of many examples that a visual timeline can do. It acts like a gliding scatter-plot that you can add pictures and icons and meaningful text, data, and/or links to.
This particular example was done in just a few hour's time and is simply a few inches of a few feet of data that I have entered into the (free) software.
I utilized and compiled various existing sources (which I will thank profusely once I have the actual timeline posted) on the internet and also obtained information from several books that I have been reading in my spare time, but I have yet to have cracked the surface on the data I have available.
I am going to concentrate on virus outbreaks and attacks against the U.S. for the majority of my time (among other things). I welcome any assistance.
Once the live version is available, it will be embedded in the header or footer of the blog. I haven't decided yet.
Join in - comments are disappearing into the ether...
Posted by cyber-uproar at May 14, 2010 
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: cyberwar infowar information warfare cyber war hacks hack hacking attacks
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: cyberwar infowar information warfare cyber war hacks hack hacking attacks
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