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Kaspersky Cyberthreat real-time map

27 points by slater 12y ago

lsh123 12y ago
Pretty cool map and a great marketing tool: "scare because we care" :)
tommccabe 12y ago
Not sure exactly what I'm looking at, but damn - that is a beautiful visualization !
- borplk 12y ago
  If you click on the countries and then one of the icons it explains it quite well. It's a visualisation of the events generated by their security software. For example when the anti-virus finds an infected file. Or the email attachment scanner finds a threat, etc...
cyanbane 12y ago
I feel like it is too quick/busy to be valuable other than to emphasize that there is "a lot" of this going on. After that though, not sure how good it is at conveying any other information that can be acted on. Certainly does look cool.
antonmaju 12y ago
Beautiful visualization, however I noticed there's no Singapore there
nobullet 12y ago
It would be great to differentiate by OS. I believe this is data from OS Windows mostly.
schultz9999 12y ago
Cool and totally confusing and uninformative.
re1ser 12y ago
Would be cool if it was available as a screensaver :)
- ticktocktick 12y ago
  If you are using Linux... You can use this...https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver
4way 12y ago
That's really cool, good to know that Russia is the #1 most infected place! These statistics are really helpful with companies.
MaikuMori 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but looks like a marketing stunt, there is nothing "realtime" about it, check the network log. While it's all nice and flashy with nice transitions, there is no way you can follow what's going on. The only information that is readable are country statistics. Galncing at the source it seems that all the "updates" are just startup number + random value.
- logn 12y ago
  I looked through the source code. Not totally sure, but it appears they use the current time to dynamically load events from this API: http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json (where "1" would be replaced with some time value) Edit: investigating a bit more, there are 24 URLs for http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json where <H> starts at zero. So you can see if tomorrow the files are all different. It could very well be near-time, maybe with 1 hour of lag/caching.
Lennu 12y ago
Crashed my Firefox. There is still much to be done in performance that these visualizations can be used properly and in larger scale. But cool map anyway!
- thejosh 12y ago
  Haha, the first message says to use it in Chrome.

27 points by slater 12y ago

lsh123 12y ago

Pretty cool map and a great marketing tool: "scare because we care" :)

tommccabe 12y ago

Not sure exactly what I'm looking at, but damn - that is a beautiful visualization !

borplk 12y ago
If you click on the countries and then one of the icons it explains it quite well. It's a visualisation of the events generated by their security software. For example when the anti-virus finds an infected file. Or the email attachment scanner finds a threat, etc...

cyanbane 12y ago

I feel like it is too quick/busy to be valuable other than to emphasize that there is "a lot" of this going on. After that though, not sure how good it is at conveying any other information that can be acted on. Certainly does look cool.

antonmaju 12y ago

Beautiful visualization, however I noticed there's no Singapore there

nobullet 12y ago

It would be great to differentiate by OS. I believe this is data from OS Windows mostly.

schultz9999 12y ago

Cool and totally confusing and uninformative.

re1ser 12y ago

Would be cool if it was available as a screensaver :)

ticktocktick 12y ago
If you are using Linux... You can use this...https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver

4way 12y ago

That's really cool, good to know that Russia is the #1 most infected place! These statistics are really helpful with companies.

MaikuMori 12y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but looks like a marketing stunt, there is nothing "realtime" about it, check the network log. While it's all nice and flashy with nice transitions, there is no way you can follow what's going on. The only information that is readable are country statistics. Galncing at the source it seems that all the "updates" are just startup number + random value.

logn 12y ago
I looked through the source code. Not totally sure, but it appears they use the current time to dynamically load events from this API: http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json (where "1" would be replaced with some time value) Edit: investigating a bit more, there are 24 URLs for http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json where <H> starts at zero. So you can see if tomorrow the files are all different. It could very well be near-time, maybe with 1 hour of lag/caching.

Lennu 12y ago

Crashed my Firefox. There is still much to be done in performance that these visualizations can be used properly and in larger scale. But cool map anyway!

thejosh 12y ago
Haha, the first message says to use it in Chrome.