from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Welcome to theCUBE studios for another CUBE Conversation where we go in depth with thought leaders driving business outcomes with technology. One of the biggest challenges that every business faces is how do I navigate these significant transformations that are taking place on a global scale as a consequence of digital opportunities? And then how do I utilize marketing as a basis for engaging my customers differently? It's a significant problem that affects virtually all businesses of all size and all segments. So to have that conversation, we've got a great guest here with us today. Alicia Tillman is the CMO of SAP. Alicia, welcome to theCUBE. Peter, thank you so much for having me here today. All right, so Alicia, I want to start with your perspective on some of the big changes that SAP sees occurring in the marketplace. And then we'll kind of talk about how that informs an evolving role for marketing. Well, I mean, look, everybody is transforming something, right, and we are very much in the thick of a digital transformation. I think we've gone past the point where it was education on what does it mean and why do I need to get on board? How is it affecting my business to now real application? And it comes in many forms. The definition of digital transformation is extremely broad and there's application of it across your entire business. One of the things that I will say that really is what companies need to solve for is the business of delivering exceptional customer experiences. Customer service has been taken to a whole new level of competition. A lot of it is because of choice that exists and because of how much digital has impacted on a positive level, our ability to do many things such as personalization as one option to really deliver an enhanced experience. And so that is, I think, the biggest focus in the marketplace today, that companies of all sizes are trying to figure out which is how do we win in the experience economy that we're living in right now? Now, the experience economy has a lot of different implications, but certainly one of them is your customers need to have a better experience and that's going to be a feature of your overall sustainable differentiation or not. But also it's the idea that I have expertise that you can use within your business so that you can be more competitive and more successful in dealing with your customers. I know that's been a major feature of SAP strategy over the last 20, 30 years is bringing that deep understanding of how a business should operate and the role that software should play in making businesses operate really well. Talk a bit about how overall the SAP approach in the experience economy informs how you think about marketing. Yeah, I mean, I think what companies are trying to solve for is how can I be an experienced company that thrives in this experience economy that we're living in? And SAP is about helping companies understand that outcome and understand the marketplace and where they need to compete, number one. And then secondly, we help companies learn and embrace how to succeed and be competitive and successful in the marketplace that we're in. And when you think about the how, we live also in an intelligence era. We've gone from big data and access to data and how do we derive the appropriate insights from data to now be able to apply it in a way that allows me as a company to run it my best so that I can succeed in the experience economy that we live in. And this is really the hallmark of SAP where a technology company, a 47 year old brand that has always been in the business of helping companies run at their best. And whether you're an HR professional to a head of marketing, to a head of sales, to a CIO, a CFO, having a very unified integrated technology to run your applications with the most embedded intelligence so that your operations are running at their best, that enables you to then deliver at your best for your customers which is very tied to overall the experience that you're ultimately delivering. So one of the challenges that we have here especially as we think about a company that's supplying the core operational capabilities to customers is what is it that marketing must do to help customers transform their business? There's a couple of things that I always like to talk about. Let me start with one. Increasingly, we think that marketing needs to take a more active role in demonstrating a company's expertise and thought leadership to help customers establish an agreement about how to move forward in periods of significant transformation. Would you agree with that? Absolutely. I mean, look, this is a marketer's dream. The environment that we live in right now and it is up to marketing to grab hold of it and really chart their destiny in terms of the leadership that they can bring to their company. This is an era where it's about intelligence. It's about insights and it's about experiences. And when you think about the role of the marketer and let's talk about the core role. No matter what company you ask, there's certain things that come to mind when they think about what the role of marketing should be. The one thing that you typically hear time and time again is marketing should be representative of the voice of the customer. And I don't think that there is any better function to serve the needs and to respond and to help inform the company on what's necessary, but also to help shape the story, to help our customers understand where they can best compete in this environment. And so I think that understanding those needs, combining it with insights of what's happening in the marketplace and then help to architect how our value proposition works in support, both of what the customer needs are together with what's happening in the marketplace. It's a beautiful role and not to mention the other piece of it, which is every company wanting to invest in some way in someone else that has a purpose that is focused on doing something good above and beyond what we contribute every day. And I also believe that there's no better function than marketing as well to help companies understand their purpose and to articulate the purpose of your own company so that your customer sees values, shared value and common purpose that you share with each other. So it sounds so that it's important that marketing become an overall advocate for engaging across the entire customer journey, helping the customer understand the problem and hopefully biasing them towards your solutions, of course, but even after the sale, helping the customer envision what the outcome is, helping the customer comprehend and establish approaches to change and the way the business operates and embed things and working with those many, many, that multitude of actual users out there that are ultimately going to dictate whether or not a solution succeeds or is abandoned within the business. Do you see marketing play a more active role across the entire life cycle? I have to, I have to. I mean, marketing obviously plays a significant role in driving awareness around a company's brand and then driving increased understanding to lead to purchase decisions in a company, but now even more when you think of the second half of that life cycle that focuses on retention and implementation and engagement, which ultimately leads to a desire and an ability for you to keep customers for life, that has got to be an inherent part of the role that marketing plays because even if you think about it in comparison to something like social media, we've gone from a platform that allowed you to share your opinion and frankly have a voice to now measuring the effectiveness based on how much engagement you get from the voice and the opinions that you're sharing. I mean, that is really the evolution that we also need to think about in terms of marketing's role as it relates to the customer journey. There's been so much effort that has put in the front half of the journey, which is to get the customer to buy, but now it's equally as important, especially in this economy that we live in right now, that you have to focus on renewal, you have to focus on retention and the way to do that is in helping through the implementation and the engagement process and one such opportunity for marketing to play that role is find those use cases, showcase those customers who are using the products, engaging with the products, make it relevant, make it relevant so that the customer can really optimize how they're engaging with your brand, how they're engaging with your products and I don't think that there's any better department in an organization than marketing to leave that effort for their organization. Yeah, Alicia, I was at Sapphire recently and one of the things that I really enjoyed about the way you presented SAP there is that you actually celebrated customer success. You didn't just talk about it and reveal it, you actually celebrated it and I totally agree with you. I think that's a crucially important part of the evolving marketing experience as customers take increasingly center stage in determining success or failure. So let me ask you one more question here, Alicia. We've just described a changed and evolved role for marketing that's made possible in part because we now can engage customers through data without ever losing the sight that data is not the person, is not the brand, but that suggests a different set of a different mission, but also a different role for the CMO. How do you think the CMO's job is gonna evolve over the course of the next couple of years in light of what we're talking about? So I think it's about balance. I think that we live in a world today that also everybody wants to be heard. They want to embrace brands that are relevant to them, that care about them, that are creating services and products and solutions that really help them solve problems or make them better at what they're trying to accomplish. And there's a fair bit of data that helps you gain that understanding, understand that sentiment and that we use that data so that we know what products and services we need to build to support customer needs. On the other half of though of that equation is always this notion of empathy. And oftentimes the data isn't going to give you that empathy that is such a big part of connecting at a human level, how you create that story, how you respond to the needs of the customer. So there has to be a balance. And I think that where marketers can once believe that we've lived in a world where data didn't exist and we had to operate purely on instinct and empathy, we live in a world now where we have more data than ever that can help inform what we're creating but how we deliver it and how it creates relevancy to the customer, that's where the empathy and the intuition and your understanding of the customer really needs to go hand in hand. I think that that's a beautiful role for marketing to play. And so CMOs increasingly have to be able to lead the organization on the data-oriented activities but also sustain a clear company focus, empathetic focus on customer needs and outcomes. That's exactly right. And you said a very key word, Peter. It's about outcomes. We as marketers have to transition from being representatives of products and more leaders of experiences. It's how do the products that we create help to enhance an experience which is the ultimate outcome that we're working to support. We want to deliver memorable experiences through each and every engagement that we have with our brand. We have to create a sense of community. And so if we can start to think about how we market, how we tell our story, how we support the customer journey end to end from awareness to retention, think about it in terms of the ultimate outcome that we are working to deliver to our customers. And what I have found is when you focus more there and you focus less on the product itself and more about the outcome and the experience it creates, that is really where you increase the value overall of marketing because you're increasing the relevancy with your customer. Excellent. Alicia Tillman, CMO of SAP. Thank you very much for being on theCUBE. Peter, thank you so much for having me today. I really enjoyed it. And once again, I'm Peter Burris. 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The next 50 minutes, me and my colleague will be taking a closer look at what is really going on in the world with Trojans. What kind of Trojans are we seeing nowadays? How do they work? And also see how they differ from what actually most people think they are seeing in the world, what people think the real threat is. So the first part will be more about some more statistics what we are actually seeing. And then in the second part, my colleague Dirk will take a deeper technical look into how a couple of those things actually work. We have a short demo from actually connecting to a real commander control server to just show what kind of functionality those networks really have. So to start with a little overview of history, the problem with Trojans was probably nearly as old as we were using computers. The term was first coined back in 1983. At least that's the first reference I've seen when that one was used to trojanize a login so that actually your login credentials would be logged so that the attacker could log into that later. Historically, Trojans have been used to either get privileged access to machines like keyloggers, fake login screens, etc. And then a different kind of Trojans is then used to actually maintain access onto the machine. Either by hiding some of the files, hiding the presence of the attacker, the rootkit functionality, which is something fairly new on the Windows world. On Unix, we know rootkits like forever. And then backdoors that may be installed to actually reconnect to the machine at a later stage. So to make sure that you again have those kind of access. And the hype around Trojans really started here at DEF CON. If anyone of you was here at DEF CON 7, you maybe remember the announcements and the show from the Cult of Dead Cow team who released back orifice 2000 here, and that's pretty much the first time there ever really was a big noise in the press and worldwide about Trojans being a major problem. Those Trojans then basically were fairly simple, remote access Trojans, where people would actually have to connect to the machine from the outside. So in general, inside a corporate network, you were pretty safe from attackers to the outside. And well, then the hype around that was really started. And currently there are like two major hype Trojans. The first one, Magic Lenten, which is supposed to be developed by the FBI. It may be perfectly possible that they have written something like that. They developed something like that or bought something like that. But that is very unlikely to be a major threat to anyone of us, except if he's committing some really bad crimes. And now we have Magic Lenten version 2.0 in Germany. At the end of last year, German authorities requested that they should be allowed to break into machines and do online searches on suspects. And they have actually budgeted, or at least estimated, the cost of the development for such a Trojan to be around about 200,000 euros, which I think is quite excessive for any kind of Trojan. There are some sites on the internet where you get good working Trojans for much, much less. We'll see something about that. If you look with Google for the word Bundes-Troyana, you will see around about 600,000 hits. And considering that at least as of today, nothing said like that actually exists, that's quite a lot hype. And every now and then someone picks up on the story. Then the Chaos Computer Club in Germany made things a little bit worse by saying that they have detected like the Bundes-Troyana inside an application that pretty much everyone needs to do his taxes. And that's when chaos in Germany around this really broke out. So what is the reality looking like now after we've seen like what is not real? We do see a dramatic increase of the various type of Trojans and also the functionality of the Trojans has now differed. Traditionally, most Trojans used to be like vector Trojans, but that has also changed quite a lot. If you're looking here at these submissions that actually are being sent to us and you look at the proportion between actual new viruses being sent to us and actual new Trojans being sent to us, that gives you quite an idea of what's going on. The last category of potentially unwanted programs is something that is hard to classify as a Trojan, but most people wouldn't like that. Like for instance, stylus and similar things. So here we have the statistics for 2005 and 2006 of what kind of programs were really sent to us. And on the side of Trojans, there was like a nearly 50% increase regarding the percentage of what part Trojans really are. The other area with a major increase was the area of bots. All areas have gone back quite a bit. We still do get things like microvirus and other things, but those are like not really relevant in the world today. So then if we compare the various Trojans we are actually seeing, vector Trojans used to be like pretty much all the Trojans we knew. And there were some password-sealing Trojans, mostly like for Unix or Novel logins, but those were never really widely distributed. They were most likely being used like in one single case, directly written by the attacker and then forgotten about. And now we have seen a major increase in password-sealing Trojans that in many cases just take the information and send it to some site in the internet, dumping it in some directories. We will, at the end, if there is time left, I can actually show some screenshots on how one of those dump sites is really looking like. The downloaders are something that we came across fairly new. A downloader is like a special type of Trojans that basically just connects to pre-programmed websites and actually downloads normally various Trojans, some AdWare, some Spyware. And those downloaders are what you will normally be seeing in your daily email. If someone sends you some file, Rezip.exe, and it's a small file, then normally this is not the Trojan itself, but just some downloader that then goes and downloads the real Trojans. Some of those downloaders are really excessive and downloading like 20 or 50 different applications and trying to install of them all at once. And then you can only hope that your machine survives. We've seen a fairly dramatic increase in some of those areas from 1997 to 2006. And the number of password stealers is one of the areas where we currently see the biggest growth. And I expect this to be continuing over the next years. If you take a little better look at passwords at the different kind of password stealers, then there's something really strange. Like, well, most of the password stealers are actually targeting banks. And yeah, you would think that is fairly obvious. A bank makes a good target. I mean, people use their computers to online banking. And currently there is an arms race of arms between people writing password stealing Trojans to protect banking sites and then from the banks to create new security mechanisms that are more difficult for Trojans to capture your credentials. Like some of the latest developments is if you're trying to log in, you will actually receive an SMS with additional credentials with a transaction number that we then have to put in online to make it impossible for someone with a Trojan to steal all the credentials that you really need. Most banks are not as advanced at that as this. And especially in the US, many banks still rely on username and password or username and PIN. And once you've got that, you're free to do everything with the money you found. Then we're seeing a lot of various other Trojans and actually a fair number of Trojans do target online games. Especially in Eastern Europe, China, there are many different Trojans that target specific online games and also credentials for games like World of Warcraft and something like that are also highly sought after. And if you take a look around, people sell World of Warcraft characters. They sell items from World of Warcraft or gold from World of Warcraft for real money. They used to sell that on eBay where a special good character was worth 1,000 euro. And so, yes, that is another interesting target for people. And most people may be more suspicious if they do some online banking about something running in the background but just to log into your World of Warcraft account most people probably don't think that they could be attacked at that time. So that was something that really struck me as odd that people target online games in such a big way. What I'm having here is now some real data that was provided to me from one customer who's running something between 20 and 60,000 node company. Actually, I got several different reports but they are so difficult to compare as so many factors make... as there are so many factors where it's dependent on what is actually found. So, well, in the last 18 month detection, the first two detections actually were a mass-mailer with one of the mass-mailers being detected 8 million and some 100,000 times. Then, well, the next mass-mailer, then there is one ad-ware, a mass-mailer again, and then we're already seeing generic malware.a.zip. That is actually a generic detection for us for new Trojans. And, well, Trojans do not replicate by themselves. So if you have a company between 20 and 60,000 machines and you do detect some Trojan in total 200 and something 1,000 times, that may give you a little bit of an idea of how big the current problem with Trojans really is. Then the next detection, new Malware J as Trojan as well, is actually a newer detection. And then, interestingly enough, there's a real virus, a virus that is a parasitic virus that infects other files. And it has, well, got some stealth functionality, uses some root-kit functionality. And it actually also has got a downloaded capability, so that virus will also try to connect to the Internet and download the digital files onto your machine. So that was kind of interesting to see, again, a real parasitic virus is spreading through networks. I haven't seen that for quite some time. And, well, then there are some other Trojans and some viruses to follow later. And then from the same detection list, I've checked only the time from the beginning of 2007 to, I think, three weeks ago. And, well, now the picture suddenly looks somewhat different. Masmailers? No. There is no Masmailer in the top ten right now in that company and actually not even worldwide. So now the top detections. The first one was new Malware J, which amounted to, for nearly half of the entire detections of things they had. New Malware J is, as I said, also a heuristic driver to detect new Trojans that so far were unknown to us. Then there is that virus that I mentioned. And then after that, place number four is a Trojan. And place number five and place number six are actually downloaders. And those two downloaders pretty much straightforward. Go and download and install some new Trojan package onto your machine. So this gives a fairly good indication how the picture has changed over the last couple of months. Yeah, then some questions that come into mind. So where are all those bots that everyone is talking about? Well, for one thing, this was something that, well, it was real detection inside a corporate networks and bots do have a hard time to get into there. But, well, some actually do. And in the total list of things detected there were like four dozen different bots SD bots, scow bots, spy bots, and some other things. But most of them only a very small number of times like most of them not even 20 times compared to the 200,000 times that actually some Trojans were detected. One of the main reasons for that is it doesn't make sense for people to write warm or a bot that spreads totally uncontrolled all over the place. People will notice and they will take counter measures. People figured out they can profit more if something new just spreads for a limited time and then stops spreading and just makes a machine available for them. And then there were also some fun detections. In the log, there were actually some old-style DOS bootsector viruses that were still detected in 2007. Then some utility, which actually is detected as potentially unwanted program, P.S. Kill, and I asked the guy, they are not using it internally. So I wonder what 1,000 people inside the company actually want to do with such a utility. And then what the most strange thing was detection 544 detections actually of Zimbo as com warrior. I have no idea how that got into their logs. I mean, it's something that infects mobile phones and shouldn't be on normal computers.  That could be that if laptops have Bluetooth turned on, that would at least be one explanation. Otherwise, that left me completely startled. Okay, thanks for that. Well, the trends at the moment are fairly obvious. We're still seeing a major increase in viruses and trojans and expect this one to continue for quite some time. And then also like 85 of all the emails that actually hit corporate networks are currently considered a spam. And if you look at the amount of email that is then real spam.  And emails generated by trojans are generated to incite people to download mildware, depending on the region in the world where you are. It's actually something like 50-50. So quite a lot of the amount of email worldwide at the moment is being created just to distribute trojans to other people. One of the main reasons behind that is that we have seen money as the driving factor to develop mildware and also to run mildware. When you own a botnet, there are a number of ways where you can really make a lot of money. And most people are talking about renting those botnets out to spammers or renting them out to run distributed denial of service attacks. Yes, you can make money with that, but not really much. It's a couple of thousand dollars we're talking about. We're talking in this case. Those people that really do money with that is they are using their botnet, the machines they are controlling to go to their own website, downloading and installing AdWare. They are getting, depending on where that machine is located, something between 5 cent and 50 cent per installation. And, well, if you've got a 100,000 machine botnet where you install, say, five different pieces of AdWare on all of the machines, yes, that's some serious money. That could be a couple of hundred thousand dollars. So that is where people also try to control those machines for as long time as possible, use whatever means possible to have neither a user nor antivirus software or some other security mechanisms detect that something is wrong with that machine, just so that they can make money out of your machine for a longer time. Here's a short overview over the current price of a couple of items available on certain sites. So, as you can see, credit cards at the moment are fairly cheap, because there are so many, about so many password stealing trojans, so many key logging trojans that actually steal those data, that there are enough credit cards out for everyone. They are being sold in, like, a bike of 1,000 credit cards for 4,000 dollars, and that is with that super secure three digit verification code on the backside. Because, well, if the trojans on your machine you log into your whatever account by something and then you're asked to type that number in. Yes, of course, that trojan is capturing that information. I don't even know why people still stick to that as a security feature. And, well, some governments apparently have very big budgets of 200,000 euros to develop trojans. Some other people offer trojans for much, much less. If someone wants to become a criminal and use a trojan to control some people's machines, steal his data and sell his banking account information or something else, and he's to dump to a program, then he can just go and buy a completely, fully-featured trojan package. This is probably a little bit difficult to read, but that is, like, the basic spider package that you can buy for 650 US dollars. And so that already contains various ways to leak data around firewalls, an FTP server, key logger, an implementation of WebMonkey Keeper League, various direct attacks against a couple of banking sites. And this trojan is, like, one year old. The current trojans offer even more cheaper, but I didn't really want to give you the information of a website where you can download them. You need Google for that in at least 10 seconds. If you need more than a minute, then you need some Google training. There are so many sites that offer similar malware for download to anyone. And then there is, well, currently a fairly new trend of how to get malware into people machines. Typically, people use to, like, send you an email with maybe an interesting attachment, maybe an interesting text message with some attachment where they would ask you to, like, double-click on that attachment and then something would install. Then the next step was the attachment was much smaller, but they still ask you to double-click on that. And that's then a downloader that goes to some place and downloads the real trojan package. And now people figured out, well, most of those emails, they don't get through. They're being blocked. In many companies, email is like checked for viruses, then it's checked again for spam, and then there may be additional checks for phishings, et cetera. And if someone just use the web browser and go there, there is nearly no check done in most companies nowadays. So what people are doing now is they just send you an email, like with some link where you then have to click on the link, or they tell you you have to, like, take that link and copy and paste it into your web browser for security reasons. And then they take you to some website. So, well, surfing to websites at the first glance sounds not really that dangerous, but we have seen a lot of also ODAs being used on those websites to then actually attack people browsing there automatically. And there are also a couple of automated packages that are currently being heavily used. Where with such a package, MPEG is currently probably the most misused one, where an attacker just has to insert an iFrame link into some website he hacked into it, or he had another way to put that iFrame into. And that iFrame points to the server where the MPEG part is really running on. The MPEG toolkit will then check what kind of browser is connecting, what operating system, what versions, and then it will choose and exploit that it's likely to succeed. So, if they see, oh, he's running QuickTime, then you're being served a QuickTime exploit. And if that is successful, then you actually, again, a downloader will be installed. It will download again and the game starts from there. We have seen a massive attacks using MPEG over the last couple of months, and there are also now some other packs that work in similar fashions, IcePEG, and some others. So, also in the scene of cybercrime, people are basically copying each other ideas. Some of the banking trojans we are seeing are taking a big effort to make themselves, invisible on the system and grabbing the information that you enter to a banking site. Most of them are actually installing themselves as a browser helper object, and that also means for such a trojan, all the time it has got all the access to the information that you're sending with a web browser. So, even if you have a secure SSL connection to your banking website and you think, well, I'm secure, nothing can happen here, the trojan itself still has complete access to all the information and will grab them and will send them out. Some trojans then go so far as to actually intercept the first time you try to do something with your bank services and only the second time is successful, and normally those trojans are also doing a screenshot of the entire site that the user is currently seeing, and then also screenshots of the area around every single time you use a mouse click to make it more easy for them to get behind some other new security schemes. So then, how do then people actually succeed in making trojans, well, difficulty, difficult or not detectable by antivirus software? Well, there's a lot of money involved, so people do spend the time to create the trojans and modify the trojans in such a way that the current version of a pure signature-based antivirus scanner simply doesn't detect it. To do that has become very easy for an attacker to do. For one thing, all the current virus scanners with all the latest signatures are available, well, more or less free to download. So it's easy for the attacker to have all the current versions of the various antivirus scanners, and then he just need to change the trojan so it's not detected. Well, that actually does take quite a lot of skill, but as most people aren't skilled, well, there is another way to do that. There are various runtime packers that are just there to make something look different so that it's not detected by the current version of a virus scanner. There are various packages that you can download whose only purpose is to make something very difficult to debug and very difficult for a virus scanner to actually look under, and we've seen cases where several different packers have been applied after each other. I think as many as eight different packers that have been used to hide something. Well, and at this time, I actually hand over to Dirk, who will now go into more technical details about all this. Yes, thank you, Turov. Yeah, all the packers are giving me a hard time, so I'm one of the researchers from McAfee working on the customer escalations and creating signatures for our AV products. The problem with all these packers is that you can apply several packers quite fast to a file, to your sample, to your Trojan, and you don't have to recompile, change your source code, or do any modifications to it, so it's quite easy for them to produce new malware within seconds. A few samples. This one is downloaded at AAP, which is quite popular in Germany. Turov has been talking about the Bundes-Torjano. So this one was one of the emails was sent out pretending to be sent from the police. And attached was a zip file inside the zip file and executable, which was the downloader AAP. Once the user clicked on it, first the files got downloaded, another files for spying the user, stealing passwords, information, and other stuff from their local machine. Actually, after the double-click, the Trojan just downloads a small text file. This text file contains encrypted URLs, as you can see on the first part. It's simply X-Ord with two. So once you decode them, you can see on the blue screen the real download URLs. These files, as in this case, downloader SPI-HNBA, excuse me, which is just a dropper for a file IPv6, and this is a browser-hypo object focusing on user credentials for German financial institutes. Finally, this Trojan just sends out an email back to the attacker, where the information, which got stolen, are listed. So in this case, for each victim, the attacker gets one email report, and it's not that easy to parse for him. So another example, the MeSpam Trojan, this hooks on the windsock, and whenever the user sends out an email or uses instant messaging, like AOL, Yahoo, or ICQ, it adds a link to the message of the user. So for example, if you're chatting with one of your friends and you receive a link from within his message, you're likely to click on the link because you trust him. So this is one of the nasty ways this Trojan infects other people. Excuse me. This Trojan has a quite nice statistic, a command and control page, where you can see statistics on which way of propagation is successful. Split it up on spam. You're okay? Yeah. Okay. Our email, ICQ, it even can add links to your content that you add to web forums. So you just post whatever you like to do, and if you just go back afterwards to the page and have a look again, then you will see that another link got added to the post you just did. Additionally, you can see here some information of where the victims are. In this case, many of them are in Germany. On this web page can easily configure which files should be downloaded by the Trojan. So it's quite easy for an attacker to coordinate his files to publish new versions. They get updated, so the Trojan downloads another version, deletes the old one. Another way to escape detection of AV products. And even nice statistics are served by the command and control page. So you get an overview of how successful your attack was. So in this case, on this page, you can even see what kind of message should get appended. Either appended or prepended. In this case, it's only a URL. You can also add some other text messages. You can specify text messages for each country. So if it's in German, Germany, you'll probably like to have a German text. In the United States, you can take an English text or wherever else. So it can be configured for each country separately. This was a nice analysis from François Pagé and Elodie Granger. This was a Trojan, a password-stealing Trojan. More the old-fashioned way where all the stolen data gets posted to an FTP server. Each computer has a unique file name, a unique folder name within its own country. So when the user gets infected, the further files get downloaded. It's a little different. The GOIP site is used to determine where the victim is. So the reports get sorted on the FTP server in the recording folders. In this case, you can see here the folder of François with a few victims. About 400 in this case. In France, when this Trojan came out, it was about the time when they had to do the tax income online. So the stolen data were quite... Interesting. Interesting. It shouldn't be on the server public available for the bad guys. We tried our best to work together with the federal... federal departments in France to get the server down and to protect the victims. This is an overview where the victims are. So it's spread all over Europe. Not only in France, so it's not targeted on a specific country. We used the IP addresses to draw the plots on the map. But it's not only in Europe, it's also in North America and even in Asia Pacific. So all around the world. And this Trojan wasn't... wasn't up for a long time, I think. Probably two weeks. So this was snapshot after two weeks. And yeah, quite a few people around the world. Another story that I've been working on recently was the new war sell-it-in postcards. I guess you've all seen those emails. This one just arrived on the... yesterday in my email box. It's a standard spam text. And if you click on the link, no, you don't get... you don't get to a postcard, you get to a Trojan. And... so I had a look at the Trojan and my code network. And this Trojan connects other... other bots on the net. So they're using a peer-to-peer protocol, which may look like the eDonkey protocol, but actually it's not a complete implementation of the eDonkey protocol. Maybe likewise. I noticed some interesting UDP packets coming in. As you can see at the bottom, this one is now looking for a file called 24942.mpg with a file size of around 70K. Well, 70K for a movie file. Now I think that the content is something different. And... I'm not only looking for that number on that file size, so there are different packages coming in. These are usually search requests where they're looking for further information, so the botnet is updating itself. I'm still working on that, so I don't have a full overview about the protocol and how it's working. But you can also see other packets like this one. This one contains some more data. The size of this is more than 234 bytes in the UDP packet. Several other packages are exchanged and I assume that's the way how the bots get controlled and how they receive their commands. Those are able to send out emails, spam emails. They can also do a denial of service attacks. So while doing this I suddenly noticed in my honeypot that there are quite a few emails in and I wasn't expecting them. So I had a closer look at them and... Okay, you can't read anything. Sorry. So these... We saw in the last days many... spam of emails containing a zip archive attached. And if you open this archive inside you find a raw archive. So only the file name, the attached file name was named zip inside was actually a raw archive. Once you unpack that archive you get to a simple bump and dump spam message saying you should buy some stocks. Another look in the Hacks editor shows you there's a big amount of correction line feeds to disguise the... to disguise the... to separate the spam message from some bogus text at the bottom. And there are two different types which just got generated in my code network within I think about two or three minutes. And so few of them had about 80K profile, the zip attachments. Others were rather short. In this case the same thing. Another raw archive in a file named something.zip and inside the same spam message and the same line breaks to disguise to separate from the bogus text at the bottom. So I'm still working on researching the protocol and learning more about this Trojans and maybe I'm able soon to monitor the spam tasks or even the denial service tasks to take counter measures in time and to let other people. So that's what I'm currently working on. If someone has some experiences with this Trojan or with the protocol it's used please contact me after the presentation. And I'd like to give back to Torelf. Thank you. For the various types of attack we've seen. Well actually it's getting back on that new bar. That outbreak as Dirk mentioned it happened basically just yesterday. The new bar those virus or while those Trojans are using like some kind of peer-to-peer net to updating themselves. But we've also seen like the latest spam wave that at least really hard being initiated by that Web by those Trojans. So if you've got an email like with an empty subject empty message body and then some attachment that is supposed to be a zip but if you just have Winzip installed and not Winrar it will just throw an error. Then this is actually something that you have in your very inbox where someone infected with such Trojans actually then send you that email. For a short wrap up for the different types of attacks that we are seeing to get users to get machines infected. There are two very different techniques. One thing is like brute force with as much high tech as possible. Brute force where people browse the web page the browser get exploited or something else is getting exploited on the machine something installed and takes control. We have seen a couple of targeted attacks whereas in cases well related to corporate espionage handcrafted documents with ODE exploits inside office applications have been used to send to people to directly installed Trojan on their machine and very often those attacks are combined with a very high social engineering factor creating for example an email that looks as convincing as possible so you have been added by your friend to this and that email list please confirm. There is that very great website I found or simply offering you free porn, free downloads the stuff that everyone normally likes and we have recently seen that there is also a trend to go into the other direction where there is no exploit at all involved where there is just like one example is an interesting looking email with some generic text and then you've got a document with more information in it when you open the document yeah it opens fine there's no macro there is no macro code there is nothing wrong with that document and then somewhere inside the document is click here on this icon to learn more about that and well if you click on that icon then it is a simple normal Trojan or downloader that is just embedded inside that word document so this actually goes past a couple of technical defenses that people have put inside their networks now things like intrusion prevention systems have become common people are suspicious when someone sends them a document by email and that document then triggers the email warning so the attack is simply avoid all those technical mechanisms by writing something as low-tech as possible and just leaving everything else for the user and actually this is fairly successful at the moment as right now everyone is looking for something that tries to exploit his machine attack his machine or attack him directly another thing that we have seen lately is like you receive either the link to or directly as a detachment some kind of media file and many people still think media files yeah that's kind of harmless the JPEG exploit like two years ago changed that a little bit but most people that's okay I can double click on that or they play try to play safe and save it on disk and load it from there and then they get an error message like there is some codec missing to display this file so they better go and search for that codec and install that and then actually the codec is the Trojan that then takes control over the machine that's another attack that we've seen used quite a lot in the last couple of years last couple of years last couple of months really then for some other technology that we were expecting to see much more rootkit functionality and Trojans well there is a raising number of rootkits for the Windows 32 bit world and there are quite some systems that are actually affected by some Trojans but we have not seen Trojans being we have not seen rootkits being used so far as so much as we have expected it most Trojans nowadays still don't have a real rootkit component but the number that has it is increasing it has now become becoming at least fairly common that Trojan also installed some rootkit to defend itself to pretend to make detection and removal more difficult and then actually both detecting and removing of that Trojan really requires two step the first one is to detect the rootkit itself normally before you detect that and disable that there is well not really much you can do with a Trojan so that is then the first step that the rootkit must be disabled and removed the second one then would actually be to remove the very Trojan itself actually I am not quite sure why people really would want to remove a Trojan personally if my machine would be infected by Trojan that offers like some full remote control power over my computer I would never trust that computer again and simply reinstall from scratch but there may be two different things that should be taken into consideration for one thing like the availability of an operating system and everything else to recover from that situation you may be travelling somewhere and you may not have your installations with you and we have seen another thing that affects that well I have talked about that one virus that uses rootkit functionality and also downloads stuff that has spread to say 500 machines in your organization and you suddenly have 500 computers to set up again that is quite a lengthy and quite expensive task so that may be another instance where you may actually decide well detection and removal may be the better way to go but well that is really up to every single case one thing that we actually did release last week is the free tool to actually detect and remove rootkits at the moment especially as it is fairly new and rootkit autos autos didn't have the time to come up with something to to fend that off the rootkit detective is extremely effective so that is maybe something that you want to try out a download and try out actually the author of that one that is around here at DEF CON so if you want to talk to him about that that can probably be arranged then for the last thing that we have seen and changed a lot is the communication of the trojans with the various command and control servers one year ago 99.999% of those command and control communication used to be over the ISE protocol fairly often over public ISE service sometimes over private ISE service being configured to run at port 80 or port 22 or port 443 ports very likely to just let that traffic through we have seen a shift there that now many of those trojans are actually using pure html and also other increasingly other protocols sometimes encrypted to deliver the information from the trojanized machine to the command and control server and vice versa well alright so then I've come to the end of this presentation itself I'll also start a quick demo of one of those control and command servers if there are any questions we will still be here like 2-3 minutes and then we move on to the question and answers room which is like I think directly it's on the other side of that hall so this is another command and control page we just have a small walkthrough as I mentioned before some trojans are just sending emails with all the captured data others just uploading files to an ftp server and someone has to grab all the files which is not very convenient and if you have a large database it takes some time to download all the stuff and to get the updates in this case you have a nice web front end where you can define different kinds of plugins that can be applied to the trojan you can like this you can see an IE grabber, certificate grabber so even certificates from your machine get stolen and get uploaded to the page it's not only working for internet explorer even plugins for firefox are available on this nice overview about countries which are infected by this trojan although they have to work on the statistics, 118% that's a bit much they also offer they also offer socks proxies you can choose the country choose one of the wake terms and we'll get checked online if they are ready and then you get the IP address and the port number and you can do it for relaying but more interesting is the search function so you just enter on the web page what you're looking for like bank information, click on do search and then you get a report of the victims and the stolen data you can click on each of the victims and get separated reports online or you have been visiting for each of the victims you can specify your own profile saying which applications or which plugins should be applied just select one of the links and so finally you can even select for request information for big range and then click on the save to disk option in this case all the data will get stored in one zip on the FTP server or on the server where this command control page is located so you just need to download a single file which is pretty convenient saves you a lot of time so we are running out of time well actually we are finished now so thanks a lot for your time I hope you could try out something else please


International challenges have become the de facto standard for comparative assessment of image analysis algorithms. Here, the authors present the results of a biomedical image segmentation challenge, showing that a method capable of performing well on multiple tasks will generalize well to a previously unseen task. This article was authored by Mikayla Antonelli, Anika Wainka, Spirit and Barkas, and others.


What's going on everybody and welcome in to the playoff edition of the DFS studs fan duel hurry up I'm Ryan Williams. You can find me on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W And I'm here to talk about the three studs that I'm gonna be targeting for the Saturday Only slate this weekend on the fan duel slate there You can check that out on the fan duel app make sure or or on the website make sure you guys are getting the action there We got Saturday games Sunday games. We got a full Six game slate as well that we're offering so a lot of fun stuff to be had there But we're only gonna talk about the DFS studs here for the Saturday slate We got two games going on with the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Raiders and then later on the Patriots We'll take on the bills now before I get into these studs Thanks, everybody who's been rocking along with us all season long guys make sure you're subscribed to the YouTube channel You can hit that notification bell to make sure you know when we're going live and interact with the videos too Just hit that thumbs up. We really appreciate that and we're ready to kick off the playoffs here with you guys It's been a fun season. We still got a lot of football to cover. Let's get into the DFS plays We got to start it off as we always do here on the hurry up when we're talking about the DFS studs That's at the quarterback position. We're gonna talk about the boat the boy Joe burrow coming in at $7,800 Joey B. He got the rest last week and week 18. This dude's a stud probably You know, I guess competing with Dak for a comeback player of the year I know some people were talking about maybe he got into the MVP race Considering what he had done over the the final two games that he played in on the season You're looking at him throwing for 971 yards over two games eight touchdowns in those two games and really no turnovers as well That's absolutely incredible. You got Cincinnati who's hosting their first home playoff game since 2015 So you know that stadium is gonna be rocking and then they're going against the Raiders team who you know Just played an overtime game coming in on a short week This will be the first game of wild card weekend Maybe the Raiders are just maybe riding on that high too much and they don't come out here Willing to play now a lot of people will look at that game that these teams played in week 11 And Joe Mixon was really the kind of catalyst to get going Joe Burrow didn't have to do that much I think he only threw 400 some yards and a touchdown Joe Mixon was really the guy they were able to just run all over this defense But I think here with the edge if the Raiders don't come out flat if this game does it is competitive a little bit We do like what Joey B offers for upside and then you're also looking at you know Stud quarterbacks really popping off against this team Dak Prescott Patrick my home's in one game We he's through for 500 yards and four touchdowns Teddy B got over on this team for 300 yards and three passing touchdowns and we know what Justin Herbert just did to the secondary He just annihilated them. So love Joey B here, especially when we're looking at Josh Allen He with the weather there in Buffalo. He's had a tough go Having not thrown for over 250 yards since week three in a home game So with that weather in Buffalo that makes me want to stack up Joey B this week for my teams Let's move over to the running back position and we're gonna talk about this later game here with the Patriots and Buffalo and that's gonna be Damian Harris I think people might lean Devin single Terry as he's kind of taken over that lead row for Buffalo I think Joe mixing. Hey, if you want to lock in Joe mix and if you want to get all the points from Cincinnati I'm not gonna talk you off of it, but you do have two running back positions and the flex to consider So let's consider Damian Harris 7,500 is where he comes in at He's the lead back for this team if he has this questionable tag Which he was returning earlier this week in practice limited with the injury But we know that he played last week despite the injury and in week 18 to kind of keep him fresh We love seeing that and this guy's just been an absolute stud for this team Touchdown in five straight games. You're looking at in a touchdown in 10 over the last 11 games With with the Patriots. I mean, he's he's doing everything this when these teams have faced It's pretty much been a ground and ground and pound game. This the passing games are not Possibly gonna get it done this week And so we got a look at the running back positions And then you're looking at this matchup against Buffalo And he had a hundred yards in a touchdown in both of those matchups against Buffalo this year And in fact the only other game that he played against this team was last year in 2020 Which of course he had a hundred yards and a touchdown to go along with that So small sample size with this guy does love to play against Buffalo for whatever it's worth I think they have to lean on him if the Patriots are gonna have a chance to win this game They are road dogs there by I believe four and a half points But you know got to lean on Damian Harris to keep them in the game Also, you're looking at him dominating the red zone role for this team when he's healthy And especially with carries inside the five He has 16 carries inside the five yard line and Brandon Bolden and Ramon Drey Stevenson combined for eight So love the role for Damian Harris love getting him into my teams and he's my running back DFS stud for Saturday Let's close it out with a wide receiver to pair with Joe Burrow We're gonna play Joe Burrow. We got to stack him up and we're gonna stack him up with Jamar Chase who comes in at eight to price tag You know highest one on the slate. I believe Stefan Dix coming in at 8k and you know I just don't want to overthink this if we're playing jewelry be we got to run him with his You know college wide receiver with his favorite right receiver here and Jamar Chase Jamar Chase goes as Joe Burrow goes in vice versa Now T Higgins, you know, I think that he's catching he might catch a lot of steam He's he's Significantly cheaper than Jamar Chase if you wanted to you know, pay up at tight end or get all the stud running backs in your line Up and maybe that lowers Jamar Chase's ownership, but Jamar Chase compared to T Higgins He's really had more dominant performances when we're looking at the year three multi-score games for him So far in this year or in the regular season of this year and T Higgins only had that one real breakout game that helped people In week 16, I believe To get things going so I really like what Jamar Chase offers here Higgins has more targets per game, but really Jamar Chase. He has more targets than him over the season 20 more targets than him on the season and then in the past two weeks, you're looking at targets 22 for Jamar Chase and 18 for T Higgins Listen again first playoff game for this team Joe Burrow He's gonna be leaning on on his alpha wide receiver here I firmly believe that and I don't want to have a team without Jamar Chase on it And then you're looking at stuff on digs who you know, that could be the other guy that you're paying up for But he's in a in a rough match up there again with the Patriots There's the passing attacks just have not been stellar for either side of that ball So I'm really looking at Getting all of my exposure to the passing game in that early game with the Raiders and Bengals on Saturday That's gonna do it for the first playoff edition the wild card Saturday playoff edition of the DFS That's hurry up here Again, you can follow me on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W Ryan Williams is the name and we hope you guys have great success on Super wild card weekend. It's gonna be a fun one Make sure you're catching all the content again on the YouTube channel You can subscribe to that hit that notification bell see when we go live and we'll have fun all playoffs I'll post season long. Thanks guys for rocking with us. We'll catch you next time on the channel till then peace


Hi, I'm Prem Premser and I'm with Team Miramis and we were located in Brooklyn, New York. Winning XPRIZE has just been so amazing for our team. You know, everyone coming together, it's really boosted all of the spirit around, you know, working towards this common goal. So our technology pieces together a seamless workflow to conduct saliva pool testing, enabling up to 24 specimens to be pooled together and then tested using RT-PCR. With the XPRIZE team behind us, you know, we think the sky is the limit and we can easily scale, you know, from 25,000 tests a day to 2 million. It has been, you know, such an honor to compete in this competition and we thank XPRIZE and all of the team, you know, for choosing us as one of the winners. Thank you so much.


BPI Smart Burn Supplement Review. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. Today I wanna do a little review on this Smart Burn by the house of BPI. Now, I don't know if you guys have been following my channel, but I have very, very bad reactions to artificial colors, and this brand BPI, almost every single one of their products contains no artificial colors. This is a pretty medium level product. It's not something that has tons of advertising, and it's not something that's extremely expensive, but it contains some pretty good ingredients at some pretty good doses, and provides a pretty decent effect. So not that many ingredients, it's gonna be pretty easy to go through. Niacin, now it's this nicotique acid, I don't know if it's a special version of niacin, or if it feels better, but essentially just a B vitamin in a very normal dose of 188% of the daily value. Then you got this Smart Burn Complex, which is kind of like the main blend here, which basically seems just like a few forms of mainly carnitine, and most of the time when you're looking for carnitine or for a dose for fat loss, usually it's about one gram, maybe a hair or more, but I've taken carnitine supplements, and usually about a gram, maybe a little bit over a gram, you just start sweating. Now that's what the carnitine is supposed to do. It's nice to get in that blend of, you can slightly sweat, but you're not just dumping sweat. It is kind of weird when you take so much that you're just dumping sweat, it's kind of bizarre, you feel a little hot. Carnitine is pretty much the number one natural fat loss thing that I'm looking for. Like if I see a supplement that's aimed towards fat loss, I'm looking for carnitine, and I'm looking for it to be about a gram. We don't know how much they put in here, but the whole blend is 2.5 grams, and they have carnitine, betaine, and hydrous, which is interesting, because I think betaine and hydrous is supposed to increase your strength. Some people said betaine and hydrous just messes with your breath, and gives you bad breath. I think I'm not 100% sure. Other people claim that it is supposed to increase your strength, so you essentially have carnitine mixed with betaine and hydrous, L-carnitine tartrate, very, very famous version of carnitine. Usually it's a little bit cheaper, and it is mixed with the tartrate, so it's not 100% L-carnitine. Then you have this glycine propionol L-carnitine, so basically just another version of carnitine. I've honestly never heard of that. I know that glycine is supposed to be good for you. I think it's supposed to increase water to your muscles, and I think your brain. And then you have CLA, which from my understanding is just kind of like, I think it's a good kind of fat, and it also aids in fat burning, and sometimes when you take some sort of fat in a blend, it can slow down the digestion process a little bit, have a little bit more extended release on certain products. I don't know if that's where they did that. Then you have this green tea extract at 50% polyphenols. Now, it could always interest me when you have caffeine in a product, and then you have green tea, and then the green tea doesn't have caffeine. I always thought green tea did have caffeine, and I've always heard, I guess, that it helps weight loss. I would think the things that help weight loss are the caffeine, but maybe there is something else in green tea that helps with weight loss. I will definitely put it on screen if so. And then you have caffeine and hydrous at 150 milligrams, a very, very modest dose. I think that's the only version of caffeine in here. Maybe there is a little bit in that green tea. So they say it's about as much as two cups of coffee. I usually consider a cup of coffee about 100 milligrams to me personally, so I would say it's about 200 milligrams, but you also have this theobromine. Now, theobromine is a supplement that I've never actually tried on its own. I think you get it mainly from cocoa or chocolate, and it's supposed to have this extra brain boosting effect, and I think it's supposed to be somewhat similar to caffeine, but from my understanding, maybe a little bit more of a mood boost, I'm not sure. There was a company called Bulk Stimulants that basically lets me try any stimulant for review, and at one point they did have theobromine, but they said nobody bought it, so they stopped selling it all completely. So I've never tried theobromine by itself, but every time that it's been in a blend, I've really enjoyed the feeling that that blend has. And then the last thing we got here is dynamine, and I think this is like a perfect dose of it. I just did a review explaining my thoughts on certain eutropics, and dynamine is an interesting compound. To me, it feels very, very similar to caffeine. It's very rushy. If I'm having a peak dose of caffeine and I take dynamine, I'm just gonna straight get anxiety. If I'm gonna have caffeine and dynamine at once, I need kind of like a medium dose, and this is perfect. I mean, 150 milligrams of caffeine, perfect like a medium dose for like one of these products, and then you have 50 milligrams of dynamine. So the dynamine to me is already gonna feel like caffeine, so a minus will have about 200 milligrams of caffeine for me personally. This taste is pretty good. I ordered three of these on eBay. It was like a really, really good deal. These I think are about maybe 20, 25 bucks, very, very affordable on eBay. And I was worried that this flavor was gonna be like skittles because I absolutely hate artificial skittles flavors. Like, I like the normal skittles. I can't have them because they have artificial colors in them, but for the taste of them, I love normal skittles. The fake skittle drinks, I can't stand them. So this was actually a pretty nice tasting product, but I will say, what sucks about Tiacrine and dynamine so much is that they're just these next level stimulants that are so similar to caffeine and feeling, but they just taste so bad. Like, I don't understand why caffeine is tasteless, but you get Tiacrine, it ruins the drink, and then you have this in here, and there's times where I can taste the dynamine. Man, it's just so bitter and bad, but at the same time, they used a good dose of only 50 milligrams, any more of this or Tiacrine, and it would have been too much. Anyways, guys, I think this is a really good mid-level product. The only thing I really don't like about it is that it has those artificial flavors, but again, they cut out the artificial colors, so it's like, I'm happy that they did that. If you're somebody who doesn't want to spend too much money, you want a good fat burner and you want it to taste pretty good, I definitely recommend this product, and I love BPI because they don't do those colors, so. Anyways, guys, let me know what you think of Smart Burn, let me know what you think of BPI. We're on the road of $50,000 subscribers, and I couldn't do it without any of you guys' help. You guys are the best. Having a great time here, hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smartphone? Simple. With the Appalachian Advantage Plan, pay less upfront, and then just a few dollars more every month. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Today marks a historic day as free COVID-19 vaccinations are being distributed to the most vulnerable population right here in Williamson, West Virginia. I have no idea how many cars have gone through. I just know they've been backed up down the mountain since seven o'clock this morning. We expect, realistically, maybe to process a couple hundred vaccines today just because it's time-wise. That's probably all you've got time to do. Keith Blankenship, the administrator at the Mingo County Health Department, says that around 48 hours ago, they received word that around 570 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine would be available for distribution by their department. Since they provided free COVID-19 testing at the Williamson Memorial Hospital around April of last year, the health department decided to administer free COVID-19 vaccinations to the public. The only requirement being whoever wanted to receive the vaccine must be 80 years of age or older. So we do have that one requirement which is given to us by the governor in his phase-in plan for the vaccination program for the state of West Virginia. We are a vaccine. Anybody comes up to the hill that's in that age category. You cannot be a 40-year-old caregiver. You cannot be relative really like that. We are sticking to the governor's directions. With a total of 22 deaths in Mingo County, the majority of which are age 65 and older, Blankenship says addressing the more vulnerable population could help lower their death rate as elderly are more susceptible to complications from COVID-19. We have a lot of sectors of our population that needs to be vaccinated quickly. In other words, you can name them all day long, but I think it's a good choice to start with elderly. I think they deserve it and we should be there. I mean, we've been doing health care providers, we've been doing first responders already, we've been doing other things. I know I think the teachers is on board real, real soon, but we need to take care of this population. And thanks to the addition of 17 nurses from the Mingo County Extended Adult Nursing Program in Del Barton, West Virginia, the drop-through event was fully staffed and able to assist a larger number of elderly. But we're bringing them around the building. We're doing the documentation, recording the information in a computer software called VAM. So we're live and up to date. They come to the vaccine. They get vaccinated. We do it up to four cars at a time as they come through with all the nurses we have. They're given a card to remind them when the next vaccination is and then they're asked to pull around to a holding area where we're asking to stay in line for 15 minutes to make sure we have no side effects as far as allergy like that. We'll work with a lot of good people, Wimps and the Health and Wellness Center who grace us to use the property up here. We've got Hurley Drug, our Mingo County Health Department, we've got the Mingo County Sheriff's Department, the Wimps and Fire Department, I probably can't name them all. It just goes on and on. I spoke with Karen Justice, who said that there was no distance too far to drive her father, Joshua, to receive the COVID-19 vaccination as his previous elements put him at a higher risk than most his age. He's older, we're really concerned because he's got black lungs in the coal mines and a lot of other health problems and so we traveled an hour and a half for him to get this shot and it'll be freedom that I can take him supper, his medicines and not have that worry. Karen says she only had to wait 15 minutes before reaching the registration point. A pale comparison to the additional time the vaccine would allow her to spend with her father worry-free. It's not been bad at all, in fact, I'm kind of shocked that there are not more people taking advantage of this situation for our elder. We really appreciate them hosting an event like this where so many can just come through and get it and like I say, save so many lives and I just wish more people would take advantage of this opportunity. If they remain on the hill and we don't get them all vaccinated today, we will come back and expect to see many, many more of these events over the next coming days because it is our objective to make sure everybody gets vaccinated and as long as the federal government and the state of Washington can provide us the vaccines, we're here to do our job. Reporting from Williamson, West Virginia, I'm Jeremy Justice with Mountain Top News.


All right guys, what is going on? I think this video needs to be made. I'm gonna try and do it on the fly. I had a few notes written down, but You know, I don't know where they've gone, so I'm just gonna do this on the fly. I know that everything I want to say will eventually come to my head So let's just get into it. This video is going to be about how to grow Your social media how to grow your Instagram your YouTube, etc. the right way and in an effective way first things first is Look be real Be yourself right now. I'm being myself. I'm moving my arms around. I'm making facial expressions I'm not even thinking about it because I'm just being myself.  I made it made a couple of videos basically entering into the half-nady fake nanny debate I Did it because I thought that that was gonna grow my channel I literally thought that that was gonna get me views. It was gonna get me subscribers by having controversial title What I didn't realize at the time was that I was actually forcing it I was literally forcing this video out. I didn't really want to speak about it I didn't really know what I was talking about But yeah, I made this five or six minute video Long video talking shit to the camera and and I got told about it. I my subscribers voiced their opinion and they said that You can't keep making videos like that if you want to keep this channel if if if you want us to keep watching And it made me made me think, you know, what am I doing? Have I just like I literally had to talk myself out of of deleting the whole channel and If you yeah, I mean if you want to go back and watch that video that I made it was a reply video to everyone's feedback on On the original videos, it's called what's it called? It's called a wake-up call or getting my wake-up call because that's exactly what it was. It was a big wake-up call So yeah following that I took those videos down and just decided right any video I upload Not only am I going to edit it properly and make sure that it looks all right Because I've been caught out with that too like having voiceovers on different parts of the video and shit like that You just you got to be professional and that that leads myself into my next point, which is Professionalism so let's just take YouTube for example, okay? You want your audio quality? You want your video quality to be up to standard? You want to be able to you want to explain what you're trying to say if you say ah and um too much Cut them out from your videos. I say them a lot Some videos are cut them out if I'm saying it just way too much But if I say a few in there, I just leave it Because the whole video going through without any stops and starts makes it seem a lot more natural Now as far as quality goes you probably want at least 1080p to be honest with you Who knows in five years it might be 4k might be 8k I have no idea but at the moment you want at least 1080p for your videos or at least give people the option to watch it in that because Obviously, you know when I'm watching on my phone I would watch in 360 or 480, but when I'm at home I want at least 1080p if I don't have that it pisses me off so That's probably going to be your viewers opinion as well Make sure you do that for Instagram. I would say picture quality Once again professionalism is extremely important No one wants to go and see a blurry picture of something that I can't even see That's not related to your account or what you're what you're posting about and It's not interesting for anyone.  Not only that but you want to put a spell with it You don't want to just post up a picture. It might be a really good quality picture But all you've got is 30 hashtags underneath. You don't even have a message You don't have an explanation about the picture.  Give people what they want. They follow you for a reason Give them what they want they want a little bit of insight they want some writing And if you don't have enough inspiration to write something down, don't post the picture wait save it You know if you've got a really awesome picture you want to you want to put a nice piece of writing with that Because Instagram YouTube things are there forever.  You know what I mean? so try and put The best effort into each put into each product that you make whether that be a video or a picture or whatever Now once you've got an account obviously you want to get it out to people So there are various ways of advertising yourself. It's not vain guys if you have Genuine message and you want to share it with people.  It's like whoa bro So obviously your thumbnail is gonna be really really important if you want to make it even better Go into a video a picture editor software or something and put a title over the top of the thumbnail So they don't even have to read the title all they all they have to do is look at the thumbnail They know what the video is about they'll click it without even reading the title about what's what it's about And they're already at the video and so you've got all of these different social media platforms You want to link them together? So let's say you've got a Facebook and Instagram and a YouTube Just for fitness related things. I'm just referring to for you know for this video So let's say they're all fitness related.  I've tried many many times to do my own cover photos They just don't work guys.  I'm gonna be paying them to and they are doing my cover photo and my intro For my YouTube channel. So things are gonna be nice and professional from the start You've got your templates there then you can use them for for future Future posts now. I think I've rambled a little bit here But basically, I mean the first the first point was the most important be real guys As far as that as far as feeling vain about and feeling awkward about putting yourself out there I felt like that at the start, but you've just got to remind yourself that people follow you for a reason and They do actually want to be involved on your journey You might not realize it, but you probably are inspiring people out there. I Don't really realize it, but when people tell me that I am it's an amazing feeling and it makes it all worthwhile So keep it up guys. Don't give up. Don't give up on your social media Accounts don't give up on your dreams We're all gonna make it. It's taken me a year and a half to get to 317 subscribers on on YouTube. I've done over a hundred videos now, and I've got 300 subscribers so You know Put it that way. I Have still been able to keep motivated. I've still been able to make videos Post on Insta blah blah blah Even though I'm not getting views I want and the views I think I probably deserve, but I'm hoping That's investing in things like this camera To make the quality better to make the overall production More aesthetic and more viewable for you guys that hopefully hopefully in another year and a half We might be at 3,000 subscribers Who knows? Thanks for watching guys. I know I've rambled. I hope you learned something. We're all in this game together We're getting it We're making gains Peace out


This is stock number 9783 we are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin You're new and used light-duty truck headquarters. Remember we are the guys with the trucks on 41 today We are taking a look at that super clean 2013 Ram 1500 crew cab short box This truck has the 5.7 liter legendary v8 motor From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around Headlight lenses are nice and clear Deep cherry red Metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone vice turn them on right now because it is like you're right here Looking at the truck with me factory chrome step bars It has the 20-inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA 275 60R 20 tires with I would say just about all tried left Maybe 70 80% On these tires pretty new tires on this truck Didn't see any denser dings on that front fender has the chrome trimmed grill Hood is pretty clean So maybe one little ding on it, but nothing major Factory fog lights no denser dings on that front bumper Passenger side fender is in nice shape as well passenger side rim No scuffs no scrapes on that And as you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down You can still see the truck hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here Pretty clean down the this side of the truck. I didn't see any denser dings on the doors Factory chrome step bars all the lower rockers look like they're in nice shape This back rim is in nice condition as well No scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires Yeah, I'd say probably about 75% tread left on these tires Has the plastic wheel well liner which keeps your frame and under body looking good Speaking of that frame and under body Really clean underneath here Only thing I saw one tiny little ding on that Box side there just above the wheel well other than that very nice Rear bumper is in nice condition as well Dual rear exhaust full towing package which includes a receiver edge four pin and seven pin wiring The tailgate is in really nice condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that It does have a locking tailgate has a Truxedo low-pro soft tonneau cover I didn't see any rips or tears in that tonneau So that's in really nice condition and it has a drop-in Pendeliner bed liner. That's in nice condition as well Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side Didn't see any dents or dings on this box side and for full disclosure this back rim is in nice condition as well See just how reflective that paint is Very nice and clean Has the heated power mirrors with the built-in directional signals Inside the bighorn package gives you the gray cloth interior. You get the power driver seat lumbar Both of these seats are heated. There are no rips. There are no tears in the seats. They are in nice condition Has an all-weather format down there power windows power locks and power folding mirrors This one also has auto headlamps and as we hop inside the truck you can see that this truck has 80,000 and 14 miles you get the instrument cluster right there Get the digital speedometer outside temp compass display has a heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left you have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel It has the five-inch touchscreen radio with AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities On it you get the turn dial eight-speed automatic transmission the push button four-wheel drive with the four-wheel drive auto feature factory brake controller stability control you got your heated seats and Heated steering wheel button there as well and your climate controls finally you get a hundred fifteen volt hundred fifty watt plug-in Passenger seat is like new very very nice and clean. No rips or tears on that the headliner Is an exceptionally nice condition as well you get a power sliding rear window and Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems We will take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood The back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here You do get the latch child safety system for your car seats power sliding rear window these seats fold up for extra storage And it does have a load floor, which is really nice if you got pets you can put both sides down They got a nice flat place to lay or if you got money boots or tools you put them on there You're not going to get your seats dirty underneath here. You got storage and You have in-floor storage on both sides with removable bins for easy cleaning and you can see that the carpeting is Very clean back here We'll take a quick look under the hood I personally like to thank you for checking out the video today Hopefully from this HD video you'll been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out Under the hood we have the 5.7 liter v8 Hemi motor engine bay is very clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and This truck is 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans wranglers half tons two quarter tons one tons you name it We got to go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot videos of every single used vehicle that we have All at summit auto calm if you want to go to just our used inventory you can go to trucks on 41.com That's trucks on 41 the number 41.com and check out it just our used inventory there And if you want to make this truck ears give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER> ask for one of our sales associates To make this ram 1500 years today. Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and if you'd like to check out more HD videos it can go to youtube.com slash summit auto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link To more half-ton truck videos like this one on your right And if you have not been or a website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website Click those check us out like subscribe and share and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2013 ram 1500 crew cab short box. Thanks again


This is George Gilbert. We're on the ground at Spark Summit 2015. We're with Kumar Shrikanti who's CEO of Blue Data. Kumar, good to have you. Thank you. So what Blue Data does in a nutshell is takes Hadoop, not just Hadoop, but big data as a service on your premises. Combines the best of the cloud and on-premise. So why don't you tell us a little more how it works? So what we realized is that there's a lot of innovation in the big data, but very little around the infrastructure space. So we're building an infrastructure software that gives you a cloud-like experience all around the big data applications. We are focusing on Hadoop and Spark. That is being one of the most requested applications from the customer. You can configure different versions of Hadoop, unmodified, run on the same hardware. You can also run Spark native on your premises. Okay, so we know from innumerable customers and their struggles with the operational side of Hadoop and potentially Spark, we know that there are a lot of knobs to tune. How do you fix that? So Hadoop has many many configurations, but to bring the Hadoop and Spark to the main stream, we provide configuration, all configuration options available in blue data. But blue data comes with the pre-packaged distributions that are available in open source. You can create a cluster with literally five mouse clicks and you can run your jobs. I believe in what is called fail fast experiment. You can actually literally create a 100 node cluster in 10 minutes. You can run your experiments, you can go back and modify the parameters. We preserve everything. So there is an advanced option to be able to for the people to be able to go and set whatever the parameters they need. Okay, so let's start with on the Hadoop side, which distros do you work with? So today we support Cloudera Hardenworks, all versions of Cloudera, all versions of Hardenworks. We actually working with other vendors, including the ODP, Big Insights and other versions. For us, it's a very, the way we architect it, it's very simple to add the distributions. We also support Spark open source and whatever the latest version 1.1, 1.4 I think if I remember. Okay, now with Spark, you were mentioning to me earlier, there's a new way of managing the underlying hardware, the resources. Spark has MISOs, it can run on Yarn, it has its own, it has its own sort of new file system that's memory oriented, Tachyon. Tell us how you work with those. Spark can run inside the Hadoop Yarn as a scheduler and that is one of the, one of the ways that the existing Hadoop vendors are incorporating Spark. We actually run Spark as a native because Spark does not need any of the Hadoop baggage per se, but it supports HDFS as one of the options. One of the things that we built in Blue Data is actually, we actually support all different versions of the file systems. We separate compute from store. So we not only support HDFS, we support NFS, we support object store, we support other data. And the Spark can run native and then we provide all the data that is required for the Spark to run. And Spark can run independent of the Hadoop on the same hardware at the same time with the Blue Data software. Just to be clear, when you say runs independent, that means multi-tenant where some of the CPU and memory resources are dedicated to Hadoop jobs and Hadoop infrastructure and some are dedicated to Spark. Very well said, exactly. So you, for us the currency is the VCPUs. So you, let's say you have a 100 node physical cluster. To be clear, VCPUs, virtual CPUs. So for example, you have an eight core, let's say you have a 100 node cluster, physical cluster, and each of them has a 16 cores. So you have a 1600 cores. So you can take them and divide them and say, 400 cores, I'm giving it to run a Hadoop cluster one that's running Hadoop 2.0 from Hardenworks. We can allocate 400 nodes to the Spark and they run independent and we manage the resources underneath. You can actually pause the clusters. You can actually move the cluster resources around. All our compute clusters are stateless. They can be saved because they run on virtual machines. Okay, so to be clear, then would it be fair to compare you to like a VMware for Hadoop and Spark except that VMware is too heavy where you don't want an operating system on every core or every server. Exactly. So we just announced in the Hadoop Summit last week, we actually have a Blu-ray software that now is based on the containers. So we support both containers and virtual machines. We want to give that choice to the users, but the user experience will be exactly same irrespective of whether it is on containers or on open style. So just to close your previous question, yes, it is think of us as an Amazon EMR-like experience on premise or like a VMware for big data. What VMware has done for traditional applications, we are doing it for a big data. Okay, just then the last question, simplifying the deployment and operation is a big deal. Is there a way to measure the savings in terms of admins per node or admins per 100 node cluster? We have done TCO analysis. It's very difficult to do a reasonable analysis on the people. We actually did the analysis on the capex. We have done as much as you get a 70% savings with the Blu-Data. What we have not done is because operational expense is very subjective, certain people say I have 100 people, certain people, but suddenly by reducing the number of nodes and number of switches and all the hardware required and the making it very easy to use, you can reduce operating expenses very easily and we can actually demonstrate that. Okay, Kumar just wanted to say thank you. We're on the ground Spark Summit 2015. This is George Gilbert and we will see you later.


Chris Johns, I'm a systems architect for Maine Medical Center. Maine Medical Center is the premier hospital in Southern Maine that is also part of Maine Health. We have a centralized picture archive communication system with all the imaging and all the demographics of all your data that has been collected throughout the entire enterprise. I'm Gabriel Taurak, CEO of Brampton Solutions. Maine Medical's application allows healthcare providers to access patient record data from multiple places, painting a more complete picture of the patient's situation. Maine Medical Center has many problems when we merge with other hospitals. Hospital A may have databases of patient information, demographics, and Hospital B, us, would have other sets of imaging data in patient demographics. Merging the two can be quite difficult and daunting. So develop custom solutions to ensure that's done accurately, correctly, seamlessly, and make sure it's invisible to the providers in the back end. Preemptive has many solutions that we use and we're test running the analytics workbench software. One of our goals is to actually, as part of our team meetings, is what can we provide to them that they might not even know they need? And so we need to make sure that they have everything as trivial as possible. Visual Studio 2015 right on the box does everything that we need to collaborate between Hospital A and Hospital B, whether A is 100 miles away or on site locally, and it is the primary tool and everybody uses it.