10 most popular Internet videos

It is Off-Top again, nevertheless I believe it's quite interesting.

The most popular Internet video is a video of Canadian schoolboy Ghislain Raza who feigns that he is fighting with the Star Wars laser sward. Two-minutes’ clip became the most popular video in the whole Internet history: the users watched this movie 900 million times. Such data were presented by Viral Factory Company which makes marketing surveys in the field of video and places the most popular ones in accordance with the number of hits.

The second place is given to the movie of 19-year-old teen with the dull nick Numa Numa. He made a video in which he moves with his lips to the accompaniment of Romanian pop-song. By now this clip has been watched 700 million times.

TOP-3 is ended by the clip “X One Night In Paris” with the participation of well-known Paris Hilton, on its account there are 400 million demonstrations.

The fourth place belongs to Kylie Minogue in Agent Provocateur underthings spicy TV-ad (360 million demonstrations). On the fifth position there’s a movie of the explosing whale, news program fragment of the 70s years. There is showed the whales’s body which was beached and detonated with dynamite. This video was watched 350 million times.

The rest of the top-10 is cited below.

1. "Star Guy" - 900 million demonstrations

2. Numa Numa - 700 million demonstrations

3. "One Night In Paris" - 400 million demonstrations

4. Kylie Minogue in Agent Provocateur underthings TV-ad - 360 million demonstrations

5. Detonating Whale - 350 million demonstrations

6. John West Salmon Bear Fight (300m) - 300 million demonstrations

7. Trojan Plays - 300 million demonstrations

8. Kolla2001 - 200 million demonstrations

9. AfroNinja - 80 million demonstrations

10. The Shining Redux - 50 million demonstrations

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'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders

Eweek.com reports that the recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers.

Internet security researchers and law enforcement authorities have traced the operation to a well-organized hacking gang controlling a 70,000-strong peer-to-peer botnet seeded with the SpamThru Trojan.

According to Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at SecureWorks, in Atlanta, the gang functions with a level of sophistication rarely seen in the hacking underworld.

For starters, the Trojan comes with its own anti-virus scanner—a pirated copy of Kaspersky's security software—that removes competing malware files from the hijacked machine. Once a Windows machine is infected, it becomes a peer in a peer-to-peer botnet controlled by a central server. If the control server is disabled by botnet hunters, the spammer simply has to control a single peer to retain control of all the bots and send instructions on the location of a new control server.

The bots are segmented into different server ports, determined by the variant of the Trojan installed, and further segmented into peer groups of no more than 512 bots. This allows the hackers to keep the overhead involved in exchanging information about other peers to a minimum, Stewart explained.

Click here to read more about a malicious Trojan that comes with its own anti-virus scanner.

Stewart, a reverse engineering expert with expertise in deconstructing malware samples, gained access to files from a SpamThru control server and found evidence that the attackers are meticulous about keeping statistics on bot infections around the world.

For example, the SpamThru controller keeps statistics on the country of origin of all bots in the botnet. In all, computers in 166 countries are part of the botnet, with the United States accounting for more than half of the infections.

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The botnet stats tracker even logs the version of Windows the infected client is running, down to the service pack level. One chart commandeered by Stewart showed that Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) machines dominate the makeup of the botnet, a clear sign that the latest version of Microsoft's operating system is falling prey to attacks.

Another sign of the complexity of the operation, Stewart found, was a database hacking component that signaled the ability of the spammers to target its pump-and-dump scams to victims most likely to be associated with stock trading.

Stewart said about 20 small investment and financial news sites have been breached for the express purpose of downloading user databases with e-mail addresses matched to names and other site registration data. On the bot herder's control server, Stewart found a MySQL database dump of e-mail addresses associated with an online shop.

"They're breaking into sites that are somewhat related to the stock market and stealing e-mail address from those databases. The thinking is, if they get an e-mail address for someone reading stock market and investment news, that's a perfect target for these penny stock scams," Stewart said in an interview with eWEEK.

The Greenhouse Effect: Everybody Will Be Guzzled

Well, well, well... If it goes on longer there will be nothing to write in this blog about soon as no Russians will survive: they'll be gobbled.

How come the global warming alarmists never warned us about the bears? Russian media reports that "insomniac bears" are freaking the crap out of people in Siberia as the weather is still too warm for them to hibernate. Apparently there are still flowers and buds on the trees of the Kemerovo region of Russia, which is usually covered in snow and ice by November ... and bears continue to roam the countryside looking for food and sometimes atacking people as "insomniac" or "con-rod" bears are the most dangerous and agressive ones.

Some more information:

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Off-Top (Sorry, but I Couldn't Pass by)

Innovation Lab located in Denmark reported about the creation of the first concrete display. The innovation world demonstration occurred on November 17 in Copenhagen IT-University (IT-Universitetet i Kobenhavn).

The new screen is made of gauzy concrete – a material saturated with optical fibres which play the role of pixels: they conduct natural light as well as the artificial one. The source of light may be, for example, a projector placed behind the screen.

You can see working display yourself on YouTube.

The developers claim their screen “makes the way to the new world of unexampled possibilities” and it is “a new conception to change the building branch, architecture, design and plenty of other fields”.

Except this, Innovation Lab says that interested companies stood in queue before the end of a production process.

Strictly, the Danish concrete screen is not the first one in the world: in March of the current year British scientists created a computer-driven concrete-chameleon which also can be used as a monitor though not luminous.

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Russian AdSense Most Expensive Keywords

According to Russian Business Consulting, Russian most famous advertising agency “Begun” published the august rating of its most expensive context advertising keywords. It is cited below.

Don’t be surprised and don’t forget "expensive keyword" (high CPC) isn't equal to "profitable keyword" (high earnings) due to the low volume of traffic expensive (niche) keywords produce.

1 patients transporting – $9.63

2 monitor repair – $9.35

3 loader – $9.15

4 laser therapy equipment – $9.01

5 information recovery – $8.84

6 stacker – $8.53

7 diesel generator – $8.5

8 autoloader – $8.41

9 equipment repair – $8.11

10 gas electric power station – 8.07

11 work permit – 8.03

12 metal ware production – 7.98

13 electric power station – 7.78

14 furniture transportation – 7.75

15 remittance office – 7.49

16 office cleaning – 7.32

17 firm liquidation – 7.14

18 pay terminal – 7.05

19 wooden windows – $6.91

20 pay automat – 6.90

21 Rainbow vacuum cleaner – $6.64

22 flowers delivery – $6.58

23 notebook repair – $6.32

24 juridical accompaniment – $6.02

25 Internet advertisement – $5.84

Let's have a look at the top 25 most expensive Google AdSense keywords for the same period (based on www.freealerts.org).

1 selling structured settlements – $64.81

2 cash for structured settlements – $63.87

3 auto insurance quotes florida – $62.57

4 california auto insurance quotes – $57.34

5 auto insurance quotes California – $57.01

6 student loan consolidation interest rate – $56.86

7 lendingtree .com – $56.35

8 consolidate loan refinance student – $55.86

9 audio conference calling – $55.32

10 arizona divorce attorneys – $53.56

11 dui attorney los angeles – $52.75

12 business conference calls – $52.41

13 personal injury attorneys Chicago – $51.59

14 mesothelioma treatment options – $51.31

15 copper repiping – $50.94

16 conference calling services – $49.65

17 houston criminal lawyer – $49.59

18 criminal houston lawyer $ – 49.59

19 corporate conference calls – $49.35

20 sell annuity settlement – $49.11

21 student loan consolidation rates – $48.80

22irs tax attorney – $48.78

23 california criminal defense lawyers – $48.38

24 universal life insurance quote – $48.34

25 san diego criminal lawyer – $48.30

Well, according to the lists above whose economy is more advanced?;-) Make the conclusions. Such a business!

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