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I recommend that anyone looking to test the entrepreneurial waters give e-commerce a start. You can actually sell goods without ever owning them.I got started with E-Commerce when I was just 13, buying custom bicycles and selling all of the parts separately.Later I realized that I could sell just about anything without owning it at all. When a customer would place an order with me, I would get their money and use it to place an order with my supplier straight to my customer’s house.The difference in price and cost is my profit to keep. This is a business model known as dropshipping.A customer places an order on my website, I then buy much cheaper from a supplier and ship the order straight to my customer’s house.Keys to success:Start with one product (or a very small niche selection, if you must). Remember, Amazon started with Books on the internet.That flagship product should cost you less than $10, and sell for $29. In my experience, $30 is the maximum strangers are willing to spend with a stranger on the internet, with no recommendations from trusted sources or other social proof.Most people stress over what they will sell. The truth is, it’s all about angle. Super generic products are totally fine, when combined with the right audience.That last point is very, very important. I’ll share an idea I had the other day to help you better understand—I recently left a job that provided a company car. I’m out on my own for the first time, and despite making more money now, I’m still stressed over losing my steady, predictable income.So, I’m driving my sister’s old Lexus SUV. I love it.Leather interior, good gas mileage, has a little more get up and go…But the ONLY audio input is a cassette player!!So, I put in a little Casette-to-Auxiliary adapter that I sell through my B2B dropship business.I connected that device to another product I sell B2B— bluetooth-to-auxiliary adapter…I connected my phone via bluetooth, and voila!! I was playing Spotify wirelessly to/through a cassette deck!To my surprise, the audio quality was actually EXCELLENT.These two devices cost $6 combined.Find out what cars only have tape/cd decks and no auxiliary, and figure out how to target owners of those cars. Sell the combo for $29.BAM. Hungry audience, fantastic margin.Craigslist? Facebook ads?I haven’t fleshed that part out yet.Go ahead, steal my idea :)

Let’s step this down a bit to a more common language way of explaining encryption. You have seen the definitions but that only helps if you understand the rest of the terms.Data encryption is data security, plain and simple. It is the locked door and drawn curtain that keeps people from seeing and stealing your data.When you parade through your home naked, you expect a measure of privacy. To insure this, you purchase curtains and hanging them over windows and doors. You use this to keep prying eyes from seeing the cool stuff you got last Christmas or keep people from seeing that you stay up late watching reruns of The Bachelor. Curtains are there to make your stuff less human visible.This is part one of encryption. A mathematical formula is run that scrambles your data in the packets that you are sending between computers. If someone intercepts that data, all they will see is gibberish and nonsensical information. For instance, the formula might say that every instance of the letter “lowercase a” should be turned into e, then turn that into 6, then turn that into Z. Now, we have just encrypted lowercase a to become Z, but through a process whereby someone cannot guess the steps backwards to decipher it because the first backstep makes Z a 6 and still leaves a nonsense word. So, this is the curtain that obscures the data and restricts prying eyes from seeing the original.To keep people from stealing your fine china, big screen TV, and leather couch, you deadbolt your doors and slide lock your windows. This restricts access to your belongings. The more intense your locks are, such as using combination, hidden key, or biometrics in place of the old fashion master lock, the more difficult your home will be to access. Bars on windows, reinforced doors, motion lighting, all are additional security measures that restrict someone’s ability to access your home without your permission.That is the second part of encryption. Now that the data is scrambled, it needs to be protected. This is where public key infrastructure comes into play. Without going into too much detail, PKI is what companies and users trust to keep data safe and guarantee that the two people who should be sharing data are and that no one else can interject or steal data along the way.This is done with keys, both public and private. This is just like giving your favorite nephew a key to your house. You don’t give it to someone else to give to him. You go see him in person and give it to him. PKI is a system developed to insure that digital keys are exchanged safely with only the people that they are supposed to go between. This lets them then unscramble the data so that they now know a Z is really an a and they can read your data and you can read theirs.Notice in all cases, I said restricts, not prevents. The goal of information security as a field is to make information more difficult to attain and less appealing to would-be thieves. Companies that spend more time and money on security experience fewer intrusions than those who take shortcuts or cut costs. Home and business owners enjoy only as much security as they plan for and purchase. If you purchase biometric locks, security lighting, a well-trained guard dog, armed security agents, automated gates, perimeter cameras, a reinforced concrete wall, electrified fencing, etc., then you see how increasing security also increases cost and restricts personal movement.However, your neighbors deadbolt only heavy wooden door now looks like a piece of cake by comparison when it comes to picking which home to rob. It is the same with encryption and data security.

1971The Creeper system, an experimental self-replicating program, is written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies to test John von Neumann's theory. Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. Creeper gained access via the ARPANET and copied itself to the remote system where the message "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" was displayed. The Reaper program was later created to delete Creeper.1973In fiction, the 1973 Michael Crichton movie Westworld made an early mention of the concept of a computer virus, being a central plot theme that causes androids to run amok. Alan Oppenheimer's character summarizes the problem by stating that "...there's a clear pattern here which suggests an analogy to an infectious disease process, spreading from one...area to the next." To which the replies are stated: "Perhaps there are superficial similarities to disease" and, "I must confess I find it difficult to believe in a disease of machinery." (Crichton's earlier work, the 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain and 1971 film were about an extraterrestrial biological virus-like disease that threatened the human race.)1974The Rabbit (or Wabbit) virus, more a fork bomb than a virus, is written. The Rabbit virus makes multiple copies of itself on a single computer (and was named "Rabbit" for the speed at which it did so) until it clogs the system, reducing system performance, before finally signNowing a threshold and crashing the computer.1975April: ANIMAL is written by John Walker for the UNIVAC 1108. ANIMAL asked a number of questions of the user in an attempt to guess the type of animal that the user was thinking of, while the related program PERVADE would create a copy of itself and ANIMAL in every directory to which the current user had access. It spread across the multi-user UNIVACs when users with overlapping permissions discovered the game, and to other computers when tapes were shared. The program was carefully written to avoid damage to existing file or directory structures, and not to copy itself if permissions did not exist or if damage could result. Its spread was therefore halted by an OS upgrade which changed the format of the file status tables that PERVADE used for safe copying. Though non-malicious, "Pervading Animal" represents the first Trojan "in the wild".The novel The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner is published, coining the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.1981–19891981A program called Elk Cloner, written for Apple II systems, was created by Richard Skrenta. The Apple II was seen[by whom?] as particularly vulnerable due to the storage of its operating system[clarification needed] on floppy disk. Elk Cloner's design combined with public ignorance[not in citation given] about what malware was and how to protect against it led to Elk Cloner being responsible for the first large-scale[not in citation given] computer virus outbreak in history.1983November: The term 'virus' is coined by Frederick Cohen in describing self-replicating computer programs. In 1984 Cohen uses the phrase "computer virus" – as suggested by his teacher Leonard Adleman – to describe the operation of such programs in terms of "infection". He defines a 'virus' as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself." Cohen demonstrates a virus-like program on a VAX11/750 system at Lehigh University. The program could install itself in, or infect, other system objects.1984August: Ken Thompson publishes his seminal paper, Reflections on Trusting Trust, in which he describes how he modified a C compiler so that when used to compile a specific version of the Unix operating system, it inserted a backdoor into the login command, and when used to compile itself, it inserted the backdoor insertion code, even if neither the backdoor nor the backdoor insertion code were present in the source code.1986January: The Brain boot sector virus is released. Brain is considered the first IBM PC compatible virus, and the program responsible for the first IBM PC compatible virus epidemic. The virus is also known as Lahore, Pakistani, Pakistani Brain, and Pakistani flu as it was created in Lahore, Pakistan by 19-year-old Pakistani programmer, Basit Farooq Alvi, and his brother, Amjad Farooq Alvi.December: Ralf Burger presented the Virdem model of programs at a meeting of the underground Chaos Computer Club in Germany. The Virdem model represented the first programs that could replicate themselves via addition of their code to executable DOS files in COM format.1987Appearance of the Vienna virus, which was subsequently neutralized—the first time this had happened on the IBM platform.Appearance of Lehigh virus (discovered at its namesake university), boot sector viruses such as Yale from USA, Stoned from New Zealand, Ping Pong from Italy, and appearance of first self-encrypting file virus, Cascade. Lehigh was stopped on campus before it spread to the wild, and has never been found elsewhere as a result. A subsequent infection of Cascade in the offices of IBM Belgium led to IBM responding with its own antivirus product development. Prior to this, antivirus solutions developed at IBM were intended for staff use only.October: The Jerusalem virus, part of the (at that time unknown) Suriv family, is detected in the city of Jerusalem. The virus destroys all executable files on infected machines upon every occurrence of Friday the 13th (except Friday 13 November 1987 making its first trigger date May 13, 1988). Jerusalem caused a worldwide epidemic in 1988.November: The SCA virus, a boot sector virus for Amiga computers appear, immediately creating a pandemic virus-writer storm. A short time later, SCA releases another, considerably more destructive virus, the Byte Bandit.December: Christmas Tree EXEC was the first widely disruptive replicating network program, which paralyzed several international computer networks in December 1987. It was written in Rexx on the VM/CMS operating system and originated in what was then West Germany. It re-emerged in 1990.1988March 1: The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz), an MS-DOS boot sector virus, is discovered at the University of Turin in Italy.June: The CyberAIDS and Festering Hate Apple ProDOS viruses spreads from underground pirate BBS systems and starts infecting mainstream networks. Festering Hate was the last iteration of the CyberAIDS series extending back to 1985 and 1986. Unlike the few Apple viruses that had come before which were essentially annoying, but did no damage, the Festering Hate series of viruses was extremely destructive, spreading to all system files it could find on the host computer (hard drive, floppy, and system memory) and then destroying everything when it could no longer find any uninfected files.November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX that are connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.1989October: Ghostball, the first multipartite virus, is discovered by Friðrik Skúlason. It infects both executable .COM-files and boot sectors on MS-DOS systems.December: Several thousand floppy disks containing the AIDS Trojan, the first known ransomware, are mailed to subscribers of PC Business World magazine and a WHO AIDS conference mailing list. This DOS Trojan lies dormant for 90 boot cycles, then encrypts all filenames on the system, displaying a notice asking for $189 to be sent to a post office box in Panama in order to receive a decryption program.1990–19991990Mark Washburn, working on an analysis of the Vienna and Cascade viruses with Ralf Burger, develops the first family of polymorphic viruses, the Chameleon family. Chameleon series debuted with the release of 1260.June: The Form computer virus is isolated in Switzerland. It would remain in the wild for almost 20 years and reappear afterwards; during the 1990s it tended to be the most common virus in the wild with 20 to more than 50 per cent of reported infections.1992March: The Michelangelo virus was expected to create a digital apocalypse on March 6, with millions of computers having their information wiped, according to mass media hysteria surrounding the virus. Later assessments of the damage showed the aftermath to be minimal. John McAfee had been quoted by the media as saying that 5 million computers would be affected. He later said that, pressed by the interviewer to come up with a number, he had estimated a range from 5 thousand to 5 million, but the media naturally went with just the higher number.1993"Leandro" or "Leandro & Kelly" and "Freddy Krueger" spread quickly due to popularity of BBS and shareware distribution.1994April: OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus.1995The first Macro virus, called "Concept", is created. It attacked Microsoft Word documents.1996"Ply" — DOS 16-bit based complicated polymorphic virus appeared with built-in permutation engine.Boza, the first virus designed specifically for Windows 95 files arrives.Laroux, the first Excel macro virus appears.Staog, the first Linux virus attacks Linux machines1998June 2: The first version of the CIH virus appears. It is the first known virus able to erase flash ROM BIOS content.1999January 20: The Happy99 worm first appeared. It invisibly attaches itself to emails, displays fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wishes the user a happy New Year. It modifies system files related to Outlook Express and Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 95 and Windows 98.March 26: The Melissa worm was released, targeting Microsoft Word and Outlook-based systems, and creating considerable network traffic.June 6: The ExploreZip worm, which destroys Microsoft Office documents, was first detected.December 30: The Kak worm is a JavaScript computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a bug in Outlook Express.2000–20092000May 5: The ILOVEYOU worm, also known as Love Letter, or VBS, or Love Bug worm, is a computer worm purportedly created by a Filipino computer science student. Written in VBScript, it infected millions of Windows computers worldwide within a few hours of its release. Using social engineering techniques, it is considered to be one of the most damaging worms ever.June 28: The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus geared at children. It contains the character "Pikachu" from the Pokémon series, and is in the form of an e-mail titled "Pikachu Pokemon" with the message: "Pikachu is your friend." The attachment to the email has "an image of a pensive Pikachu", along with a message stating, "Between millions of people around the world I found you. Don’t forget to remember this day every time MY FRIEND." Along with the image, there is a program, written in Visual Basic 6, called "pikachupokemon.exe" that modifies the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and adds a command for removing the contents of directories C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System at computer's restart. However, a message would appear during startup, asking the user if they would like to delete the contents of those folders. This is because the author, instead of writing the lines “del C:\WINDOWS\*.* /y” and “del C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\*.* /y” to AUTOEXEC.BAT, the author did not include the /y switches, which would have automatically chosen the yes option. The operating systems affected by this worm are Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME.2001February 11: The Anna Kournikova virus hits e-mail servers hard by sending e-mail to contacts in the Microsoft Outlook addressbook. Its creator, Jan de Wit, was sentenced to 150 hours of community service.May 8: The Sadmind worm spreads by exploiting holes in both Sun Solaris and Microsoft IIS.July: The Sircam worm is released, spreading through Microsoft systems via e-mail and unprotected network shares.July 13: The Code Red worm attacking the Index Server ISAPI Extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services is released.August 4: A complete re-write of the Code Red worm, Code Red II begins aggressively spreading onto Microsoft systems, primarily in China.September 18: The Nimda worm is discovered and spreads through a variety of means including vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and backdoors left by Code Red II and Sadmind worm.October 26: The Klez worm is first identified. It exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.2002February 11: The Simile virus is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly.Beast is a Windows-based backdoor Trojan horse, more commonly known as a RAT (Remote Administration Tool). It is capable of infecting almost all versions of Windows. Written in Delphi and released first by its author Tataye in 2002, its most current version was released October 3, 2004March 7: Mylife is a computer worm that spread itself by sending malicious emails to all the contacts in Microsoft Outlook.2003January 24: The SQL Slammer worm, aka Sapphire worm, Helkern and other names, attacks vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server and MSDE becomes the fastest spreading worm of all time (measured by doubling time at the peak rate of growth), causing massive Internet access disruptions worldwide just fifteen minutes after infecting its first victim.April 2: Graybird is a trojan horse also known as Backdoor.Graybird.[28]June 13: ProRat is a Turkish-made Microsoft Windows based backdoor trojan horse, more commonly known as a RAT (Remote Administration Tool).August 12: The Blaster worm, aka the Lovesan worm, rapidly spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in system services present on Windows computers.August 18: The Welchia (Nachi) worm is discovered. The worm tries to remove the blaster worm and patch Windows.August 19: The Sobig worm (technically the Sobig.F worm) spreads rapidly through Microsoft systems via mail and network shares.September 18: Swen is a computer worm written in C++.October 24: The Sober worm is first seen on Microsoft systems and maintains its presence until 2005 with many new variants. The simultaneous attacks on network weakpoints by the Blaster and Sobig worms cause massive damage.November 10: Agobot is a computer worm that can spread itself by exploiting vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows. Some of the vulnerabilities are MS03-026 and MS05-039.November 20: Bolgimo is a computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability at Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface.2004January 18: Bagle is a mass-mailing worm affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows. There were 2 variants of Bagle worm, Bagle.A and Bagle.B. Bagle.B was discovered on February 17, 2004.Late January: The MyDoom worm emerges, and currently holds the record for the fastest-spreading mass mailer worm. The worm was most notable for performing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Xinuos | Home, which belonged to The SCO Group.February 16: The Netsky worm is discovered. The worm spreads by email and by copying itself to folders on the local hard drive as well as on mapped network drives if available. Many variants of the Netsky worm appeared.March 19: The Witty worm is a record-breaking worm in many regards. It exploited holes in several Internet Security Systems (ISS) products. It was the fastest disclosure to worm, it was the first internet worm to carry a destructive payload and it spread rapidly using a pre-populated list of ground-zero hosts.May 1: The Sasser worm emerges by exploiting a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows LSASS service and causes problems in networks, while removing MyDoom and Bagle variants, even interrupting business.June 15: Caribe or Cabir is a computer worm that is designed to infect mobile phones that run Symbian OS. It is the first computer worm that can infect mobile phones. It spread itself through Bluetooth. More information can be found on F-Secure[33] and Symantec.August 16: Nuclear RAT (short for Nuclear Remote Administration Tool) is a backdoor trojan that infects Windows NT family systems (Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003).August 20: Vundo, or the Vundo Trojan (also known as Virtumonde or Virtumondo and sometimes referred to as MS Juan) is a trojan known to cause popups and advertising for rogue antispyware programs, and sporadically other misbehaviour including performance degradation and denial of service with some websites including Google and Facebook.October 12: Bifrost, also known as Bifrose, is a backdoor trojan which can infect Windows 95 through Vista. Bifrost uses the typical server, server builder, and client backdoor program configuration to allow a remote attack.December: Santy, the first known "webworm" is launched. It exploited a vulnerability in phpBB and used Google in order to find new targets. It infected around 40000 sites before Google filtered the search query used by the worm, preventing it from spreading.2005August 2005: ZotobOctober 2005: The copy protection rootkit deliberately and surreptitiously included on music CDs sold by Sony BMG is exposed. The rootkit creates vulnerabilities on affected computers, making them susceptible to infection by worms and viruses.Late 2005: The Zlob Trojan, is a Trojan horse program that masquerades as a required video codec in the form of the Microsoft Windows ActiveX component. It was first detected in late 2005.2006January 20: The Nyxem worm was discovered. It spread by mass-mailing. Its payload, which activates on the third of every month, starting on February 3, attempts to disable security-related and file sharing software, and destroy files of certain types, such as Microsoft Office files.February 16: discovery of the first-ever malware for Mac OS X, a low-threat trojan-horse known as OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A, is announced.Late March: Brontok variant N was found in late March. Brontok was a mass-email worm and the origin for the worm was from Indonesia.June: Starbucks is a virus that infects StarOffice and OpenOffice.Late September: Stration or Warezov worm first discovered.2007January 17: Storm Worm identified as a fast spreading email spamming threat to Microsoft systems. It begins gathering infected computers into the Storm botnet. By around June 30 it had infected 1.7 million computers, and it had compromised between 1 and 10 million computers by September.[40] Thought to have originated from Russia, it disguises itself as a news email containing a film about bogus news stories asking you to download the attachment which it claims is a film.July: Zeus is a trojan that targets Microsoft Windows to steal banking information by keystroke logging.2008February 17: Mocmex is a trojan, which was found in a digital photo frame in February 2008. It was the first serious computer virus on a digital photo frame. The virus was traced back to a group in China.March 3: Torpig, also known as Sinowal and Mebroot, is a Trojan horse that affects Windows, turning off anti-virus applications. It allows others to access the computer, modifies data, steals confidential information (such as user passwords and other sensitive data) and installs more malware on the victim's computer.May 6: Rustock.C, a hitherto-rumoured spambot-type malware with advanced rootkit capabilities, was announced to have been detected on Microsoft systems and analyzed, having been in the wild and undetected since October 2007 at the very least.July 6: Bohmini.A is a configurable remote access tool or trojan that exploits security flaws in signNow Flash 9.0.115 with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 under Windows XP SP2.July 31: The Koobface computer worm targets users of Facebook and Myspace. New variants constantly appear.November 21: Computer worm Conficker infects anywhere from 9 to 15 million Microsoft server systems running everything from Windows 2000 to the Windows 7 Beta. The French Navy, UK Ministry of Defence (including Royal Navy warships and submarines), Sheffield Hospital network,[48] German Bundeswehr, and Norwegian Police were all affected. Microsoft sets a bounty of US$250,000 for information leading to the capture of the worm's author(s). Five main variants of the Conficker worm are known and have been dubbed Conficker A, B, C, D and E. They were discovered 21 November 2008, 29 December 2008, 20 February 2009, 4 March 2009 and 7 April 2009, respectively. On December 16, 2008, Microsoft releases KB958644 patching the server service vulnerability responsible for the spread of Conficker.2009July 4: The July 2009 cyber attacks occur and the emergence of the W32.Dozer attack the United States and South Korea.July 15: Symantec discovered Daprosy Worm. Said trojan worm is intended to steal online-game passwords in internet cafes. It could, in fact, intercept all keystrokes and send them to its author which makes it potentially a very dangerous worm to infect B2B (business-to-business) systems.August 24: Source code for MegaPanzer is released by its author under GPLv3. and appears to have been apparently detected in the wild.2010–present2010January: The Waledac botnet sent spam emails. In February 2010, an international group of security researchers and Microsoft took Waledac down.January: The Psyb0t worm is discovered. It is thought to be unique in that it can infect routers and high-speed modems.February 18: Microsoft announced that a BSoD problem on some Windows machines which was triggered by a batch of Patch Tuesday updates was caused by the Alureon Trojan.June 17: Stuxnet, a Windows Trojan, was detected. It is the first worm to attack SCADA systems. There are suggestions that it was designed to target Iranian nuclear facilities. It uses a valid certificate from Realtek.September 9: The virus, called "here you have" or "VBMania", is a simple Trojan horse that arrives in the inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line "here you have". The body reads "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here" or "This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here".September 15: The virus called Kenzero is a virus that spreads online from Peer to peer (P2P) sites taking browsing history.2011SpyEye and Zeus merged code is seen. New variants attack mobile phone banking information.Anti-Spyware 2011, a Trojan horse that attacks Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, posing as an anti-spyware program. It actually disables security-related process of anti-virus programs, while also blocking access to the Internet, which prevents updates.Summer 2011: The Morto worm attempts to propagate itself to additional computers via the Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Morto spreads by forcing infected systems to scan for Windows servers allowing RDP login. Once Morto finds an RDP-accessible system, it attempts to log into a domain or local system account named 'Administrator' using a number of common passwords.[65] A detailed overview of how the worm works—along with the password dictionary Morto uses—was done by Imperva.July 13: the ZeroAccess rootkit (also known as Sirefef or max++) was discovered.September 1: Duqu is a worm thought to be related to the Stuxnet worm. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab)[67] of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary discovered the threat, analysed the malware, and wrote a 60-page report naming the threat Duqu. Duqu gets its name from the prefix "~DQ" it gives to the names of files it creates.2012May: Flame – also known as Flamer, sKyWIper, and Skywiper – a modular computer malware that attacks computers running Microsoft Windows. Used for targeted cyber espionage in Middle Eastern countries. Its discovery was announced on 28 May 2012 by MAHER Center of Iranian National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. CrySyS stated in their report that "sKyWIper is certainly the most sophisticated malware we encountered during our practice; arguably, it is the most complex malware ever found".August 16: Shamoon is a computer virus designed to target computers running Microsoft Windows in the energy sector. Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, and Seculert announced its discovery on August 16, 2012.September 20: NGRBot is a worm that uses the IRC network for file transfer, sending and receiving commands between zombie network machines and the attacker's IRC server, and monitoring and controlling network connectivity and intercept. It employs a user-mode rootkit technique to hide and steal its victim's information. This family of bot is also designed to infect HTML pages with inline frames (iframes), causing redirections, blocking victims from getting updates from security/antimalware products, and killing those services. The bot is designed to connect via a predefined IRC channel and communicate with a remote botnet.2013September: The CryptoLocker Trojan horse is discovered. Cryptolocker encrypts the files on a user's hard drive, then prompts them to pay a ransom to the developer in order to receive the decryption key. In the following months, a number of copycat ransomware Trojans are also discovered.December: The Gameover ZeuS Trojan is discovered. This type of virus steals one's login details on popular Web sites that involve monetary transactions. It works by detecting a login page, then proceeds to inject a malicious code into the page, keystroke logging the computer user's details.December: Linux.Darlloz targets the Internet of things and infects routers, security cameras, set-top boxes by exploiting a PHP vulnerability.2014November: The Regin Trojan horse is discovered. Regin is a dropper that is primarily spread via spoofed Web pages. Once downloaded, Regin quietly downloads extensions of itself, making it difficult to be detected via anti-virus signatures. It is suspected to have been created by the United States and United Kingdom over a period of months or years, as a tool for espionage and mass surveillance.2015The BASHLITE malware is leaked leading to a massive spike in DDoS attacks.Linux.Wifatch is revealed to the general public. It is found to attempt to secure devices from other more malicious malware.2016February: Ransomware Locky with its over 60 derivatives spread throughout Europe and infected several million computers. At the height of the spread over five thousand computers per hour were infected in Germany alone. Although ransomware was not a new thing at the time, insufficient cyber security as well as a lack of standards in IT was responsible for the high number of infections. Unfortunately even up to date antivirus and internet security software was unable to protect systems from early versions of Locky.February: Tiny Banker Trojan (Tinba) makes headlines. Since its discovery, it has been found to have infected more than two dozen major banking institutions in the United States, including TD Bank, Chase, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC and Bank of America. Tiny Banker Trojan uses HTTP injection to force the user's computer to believe that it is on the bank's website. This spoof page will look and function just as the real one. The user then enters their information to log on, at which point Tinba can launch the bank webpage's "incorrect login information" re [1] turn, and redirect the user to the real website. This is to trick the user into thinking they had entered the wrong information and proceed as normal, although now Tinba has captured the credentials and sent them to its host.September: Mirai creates headlines by launching some of the most powerful and disruptive DDoS attacks seen to date by infecting the Internet of Things. Mirai ends up being used in the DDoS attack on 20 September 2016 on the Krebs on Security site which signNowed 620 Gbit/s. Ars Technica also reported a 1 Tbit/s attack on French web host OVH. On 21 October 2016 multiple major DDoS attacks in DNS services of DNS service provider Dyn occurred using Mirai malware installed on a large number of IoT devices, resulting in the inaccessibility of several high-profile websites such as GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Airbnb and many others. The attribution of the attack to the Mirai botnet was originally reported by BackConnect Inc., a security firm.2017May: The WannaCry ransomware attack spreads globally. Exploits revealed in the NSA hacking toolkit leak of late 2016 were used to enable the propagation of the malware. Shortly after the news of the infections broke online, a UK cybersecurity researcher in collaboration with others found and activated a "kill switch" hidden within the ransomware, effectively halting the initial wave of its global propagation. The next day, researchers announced that they had found new variants of the malware without the kill switch.June: The Petya (malware) attack spreads globally affecting Windows systems. Researchers at Symantec reveal that this ransomware uses the EternalBlue exploit, similar to the one used in the WannaCry ransomware attack.September: The Xafecopy Trojan attack 47 countries affecting only Android operating systems. Kaspersky Lab identified it as a malware from the Ubsod family, stealing money through click based WAP billing systems.September: A new variety of RAT Trojan, Kedi RAT (Remote Access Trojan) distributed in a Spear Phishing Campaign. The attack targeted Citrix users. The Trojan was able to evade usual system scanners. Kedi Trojan has all characteristics of a common Remote Access Trojan and it could communicate to its Command and Control center via gmail using common HTML, HTTP protocols.2018??????????

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Here are some good ideas[1] if you want to know which businesses that can be started with little capital:Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districtsIncubator site providing office space, hosting, etc. for startups that are seed funded.In-grocery store prep service (buy vegetables first and drop them off to be chopped to your specs – pick them up on the way to checkout)A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line.Online discount brokerage that has no closing hours and provides access to all exchanges throughout the world and handles currency and legal issues automatically.Stamphead, where stamps can be custom made in the likeness of an avatar the user creates.Aggregator site for affiliate marketers to collect daily reports. Would work on a tiered pricing structure giving you more info the higher up you go. Basic would be for people like me who just want to know if they made something and how much; advanced would pull down all available data.A gadget to cook beans/lentils/vegetables/rice for the same amount of time (quicker than what can be done in a slow cooker.)Herbal Flavored Gum. MMM…rosemary.Church issued credit card with automatic 10% for religious tithingBrainstorm Consulting – Teach companies how to brainstormCreate a website for non-profits and a list of their projects/needs and a similar list for foundations. Its a central meeting place for people to look for funding from the right people.Tutorial videos for technological skills (word processing, internet applications, email) for people who don’t know how to navigate technology but need it.Website where musicians can collaborate on tracksSigns in restaurants on menus that list all the ingredients.Network of chefs that rotate being personal chefsNuclear waste storage facilities completely removed from society.Hedge fund that makes bridge loans to homeowners facing foreclosure.Small-town / city – websites (through city and Chamber of Commerce) – most small town websites are terriblewhistle It.com: download audio of people whistling popular songs.A food service where you can email them your mom’s recipes and have them make it for you and deliver it during lunch time.Multiple camera angles on live television (especially for sports) or online viewingReplicate reality TV shows for foreign countries.SIM card swap serviceAn alternative medicine or homeopathic online service that diagnoses your ailment and gives you the proper corresponding alternative treatment; also provides you with doctors in your area that treat with alternative medicines.Create the double snuggie.A company that installs a monitor at a building entry and hosts virtual door attendants.Web-based language tutors leveraging Skype and Google Docs for curriculum.Meal delivery in hospitalsWeb package for a school system that allows parents to see their kids’ school schedules, grades, lunches, sports activitiesSanta Delivery Service – A dressed Santa will come to your home during the holidays and deliver your gifts as SantaPresentation Consulting – Teach companies how to improve their presentationsA website that boasts: Buy one product, have one mystery product of lesser value shipped to a friend for the cost of s&h. the user don’t know what they’ll get, but it will be fun as hell and keep the user in touch in an interesting way.Tribe Consulting – Help individuals (not companies) discover what Tribes they should lead and help them do itMusic Box manufacturer that will turn any inanimate objects mailed to then into music boxes. Users buy direct online, picking from available stock. Added charge for sending in the you own inanimate object.Customer feedback software for mobile phones sold to marketers.Web-based rent-a-CFO.Application to sell to universities that allows students to access their transcripts onlineExchange clothing (like PaperBackSwap. com) for men’s & women’s clothingMonthly subscription service for unlimited ebooks on your ebook reader device. Rhapsody/Netflix model for ebooks.Cell phone made of biodegradable materialsiPhone app that tells you odds for a poker handLet’s Get Coffee – for couples; pairing service similar to matchmaking service “It’s Just Lunch” to help couples find other couples with similar friendsA service that discounts newspapers after 8pm the day of print. I do not want to buy a NYTimes for $5 at the end of the day.Nonprofit that takes old CD electronics to developing countriesA unified affiliate marketing program for every store on the web.Contest company for small local businessesWebsite mock-ups for people seeking VC fundingGrocery delivery service for college campuses: Fresh direct for dorm rooms.Independent calorie testing company – A company that actually does testing on food for consumers to determine calorie contentEarplugs that go deeper into your ears but don’t hurt them.Online transcription service for conference calls – leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk.Google for video & audio – Dragonspeak -> voice to text -> with searchable tagsA service that just vacuums and dust your apartment.A way to ensure that each person can only create one account on a website, without having to sacrifice anonymity.A small flap or cover (separate or built-in) for computers and technology with little lights that flash when they sleep (so you can sleep.)Crutches that stand upright by themselves. The base would have feet that fold up or spring out so you don’t have to lay them on the ground where they get in the way and people trip over them, etc.Interior Design on a Budget – for people who still want their homes to look good but can’t afford Restoration Hardware – client defines a set budget and consultants design using budget pieces from TJMaxx or Marshall’s or odds & ends shopsLandscaping business specializing only on LEED rooftop gardens.Company that records your voice message and other digital forms of media and sends it out into space as a message in a space bottle.Fireplace rehab – clean, paint, resurface, whatever to make it pretty. Big in places where same brick as outside the house is used for the fireplace and it’s not attractive (I’ve had two houses now like this.)“How to live on a small budget” website written by college students for college student for all sizable college towns sponsored by local merchant coupons.Someone/service that keeps inventory in a household (products, cleaning, etc.)A drink company that brings the Shirley Temple back – the best drink ever!Online Firewood Sales – Sell firewood online directly to consumers and businessOn-click online data storage and streaming of a clients entire media library. (never lose anything again and have anywhere anytime access) Charge by the GB and bandwidth. Provide conversion services from CD to MP3.Cupcake Shop (fresh and creative cupcakes)A mobile job fair in a tractor trailer that pulls up in the parking lots of offices of businesses performing massive layoffs. You then make money by renting out space in the trailer to companies in similar industries.Online Professional Wrestling Memorabilia Store – Sell pro wrestling memorabilia online directly to consumersSoftware to manage energy sales back to the grid generated by home systems.Analytics software for customer profiling, not just click analysis.Disposable mittens made from biodegradable materials in vending machines at supermarkets.OnlineConfessions. com. read other confessions and share the you own anonymously.Instant Flash builder, providing motion templates with easy upload graphic and text to fit template animation.Technology licensing agency.Consulting business creating a series of Squidoo lenses for an author on and around specific book titles. Pitch to publicists and literary agents, as well as directly to authors.Hire voice actors to read popular blogs to create podcasts where they don’t yet exist (“Best of the Blogosphere Podcast”)Personalized cereal boxes (to celebrate child’s achievements)Local business-sponsored community bike programAntique wedding jewelry shopping – another eco/reuse theme. Rather than buy something new that requires mining and blood diamonds, get an antique that comes with a story (about the long marriage of the previous couple, of course). We find it for you in the style you think you want.Surgery-specific recovery packs in hospital (if Sucrets and a can of cranberry juice is better than water & crackers, that pack exists)Personal lessons for using your cell phone featuresVenture capital consulting for startups.A company that makes hybrid fruits. Instead of drinking a lime pomegranate drink you can eat a lime granite.Photography studio that casts you as characters from moviesCentralized web portal for university technology transfer offices.A service that gives well-known business people a public email address, so that if an email get sent there you can read the email and then read the response. The idea being that it will give you insight into the mind of the person and what made them successful, and it will also teach you how to write good emails and learn email etiquette.A technology/service that PsignNowers/Rabbi’s/Clergy can use that creates a way to gather feedback during the service from the attendees.Online flower shop with one-hour deliveryA non-profit that provides credit consulting for youth and impoverished.Local fresh restaurant that opens off-peak hours to hold cooking classes to locals.Fractional Ownership of Technological Conference Room in Office ComplexRent-a-wife – a woman who cleans, cooks, does laundry, picks up dry cleaning, mail, etc but without the emotional relationship.Project management website for volunteer shift scheduling – church nurseries, hospital auxiliary members, protest marches, etc.Pencil sharpener type device to grind down dog toenailsAn iPhone app that allows you to search a database of unique and obscure beers and drinksGlow in the dark non-toxic washable paint that you can spray on your kids/pets when they are trick-or-treating so they don’t get hit by a car.A party planner for kids birthday parties, but with educational and fun activities.Instant Ad builder where sexy templates are linked with creative common photos.Spring Shadows – program where kids can shadow business people for a short two weeks internship to see what they want to major in once they go to college and what they might want to do once they graduateGPS / location based meetup based on pre-selected preferences (i.e. – Manchester United)A paperless hospital.Whack-a-Mole style game with political figuresAutomatic thank you notes, sent to contacts as a postcard generated from uploaded contact lists. On the card is a highly realistic signature that users digitally upload.National Restaurant Customer Service Association – traveling customer service training systemArtists’ Playground. This is a building that has rooms setup for ceramics, painting, silk screenings, theater, writing, open mic, dance, photography, etc. This building will also have social areas for people to mingle over coffee and healthy foods. People pay a monthly membership to have access and it is also rented out for events.Concierge services for an office building. Sell as a value add to the building managers or to the specific businesses as a benefit for their employees.A place where people could go to eat/study but would HAVE to do it at the same table with a stranger. It would encourage us to talk to/meet new and interesting people.Street Bar – bar inside a huge vehicle that drives you aroundFeng Shui website where you upload your floor plan and other details and get a recommendation on how to construct your space.Web-based rapid prototyping service that allows amateur product designers to test their designs and have our RP machines “print” their products in 3D.Training company that teaches people to be brave.Retractable spikes for boots to walk on the ice on sidewalksRecipe Subscription Business – Subscribe to the website and pay for premium recipesOnline eulogies (recorded by your friends before you die)Software that automates Search Engine Optimization without registering as black hat.iPhone app that is specifically for ski maps. Shows number of runs made and has lots of cool interactive features. Even shows which runs are groomed. Every ski resort would need their own app. Probably provide the app for free and the ski resort pays an arm and a leg for being featured in the app.Publisher of web-based children’s games.Horoscope porn site that provides the user with a personalized video stream based on preconceived notions assigned to your “sign”.A travel company that arranges people to stay at others houses.Slow cooker meals in a bag – drop it in and forget itA travel mug that’s not plastic or aluminum (ceramic) but with a rubber lid (tight-sealing), that has a good grip. Most travel mugs retain the smell of the material and give the liquid a strange taste after a while. Also, something that doesn’t allow Tupperware to smell.Employee monitoring service that provides detailed reports on employee’s online and offline activities. – include hardware scrubbing and “forensic” proof removal of data, footprints and histories.Tattoo parlor for petsStory Consulting – Help companies define and refine their story and teach them how to tell itA service that tells your neighbors to be quiet (nicely). They will draft a letter or note and send it to your neighbor so you can be the objective third party.Graffiti generator .com, where friends can type in text and, using different styles and palettes, create a tag-like version of their name, poems, etc.Internet and webcam set up for seniors to communicate with grandkidsTheme restaurant – Karaoke in front of a live bandGraph consultants – Company that specializes in making effective graphs from any data you give them.A conflict negotiation service (online or regular) where you submit a problem and we provide an answerSchool real estate rental company – Company that specializes in renting out underutilized school rooms during the summerTuning rooms for entry level home theatersBuild Your Own Perfume Shop.Front door cleaning service – get rid of all the stuff that gets left on your door every day before you get homeA company that sells framed book covers, so that you can hang the covers of your favorite books on the wall of your office.Standing in line for peopleBrainstorming. com – put in an idea and gives you 10 ideasChewing gum that is good for braces and dentures.Glass repair company – Company that specializes in repairing scratches or slightly broken glassTwitter third party app to help drivers find vacant parking spaces in crowded metro areas; sponsored by local merchants and advertising.Make your own batch of whiskey – takes 12 years, you pick flavors and types of oak barrels at the distillery, pickup in 12 yearsFranchise business consulting that helps large franchisees improve their businesses.Repossession agency for the most dangerous jobs in foreign lands.Digital tombstones that serve rich multimedia messages and memories of the deceased.Marketing and Advertising agency that excels at telling stories.A site like intrade that would allow investors to make bets on analytics type data, like the number of page views Wikipedia will get next January, or how many copies Malcolm Gladwell’s new book will sell.A service that pairs you with the right tools and helps you find a career by pairing you with the right resources (NOT an uninformed headhunter)Web portal to help large corporations source physical building contractors for specialized facilities.A company that digs your car out of the snow and removes snow from your driveway and starts car in the morning.A trend of the month club, where each month you get mailed something hip with a glossy booklet explaining how cool that item is about to become. Limited to 5,000 people. Gives you a cool story to tell yourself for the rest of the month, and something to talk about with your friends.Come to your house alterationsCustom adventures using Virtual Reality goggles and a windfan (i.e. – basejumping a waterfall or the Grand Canyon)Performance art as advertising – i.e. Cirqu de Soleil actors selling an item / brandService to teach doctors how to use technology to signNow out to patientsCompany working with magazines to help them develop a social networking presencesA pill that gradually dies body hair.Technology scout for large corporations that looks for acquisitions.Create book trailers for small publishers/authors to place on YouTubeIP Scanner. Scans images straight to flickr or similar service. Great for archiving family pictures or kids drawings.Independent account fraud company – A company does regular checkups of your online accounts (like social networking sites) to check for fraudulent activityWeb-based devil’s advocate service for startups looking for someone to critique their ideas. Perhaps also provides referrals to cheap services for startups, like cheap graphics design, cheap business plan feedback, etc.A half refrigerator/freezer/microwave in the trunk of a car. That way, wherever you go in the car, you can always have food handy. How great for road trips.Pandora for spin bikesA non-profit that documents the stories told by elderly in nursing homes.A company that will apply your logo in glow-in-the dark removable paint around a town so it appears at night.Replication service for clothing items – make you a new pair just like the old pairImprove soft contacts so you can wear for 1 year at a time.An online counseling program via webcam (for therapists, inmates)Not-for-profit that works with people to help cure their acne.Service that takes your text messages from your phone to your computerFast food restaurants with healthy, organic and tasty foods. Similarly, healthy foods in cafeterias and grocery stores in low-socioeconomic areas.Software company that builds marketing dashboards sold to CMOs, brand officers, etc.A Build Your Own Robot Shop.A store that sells all inflatable products. So, for example, large inflatable cushions that kids can use to make play forts that compress flat afterwards. Good for Manhattan apartments where you buy a 30 dollar toy that takes up $800 of floor space.Offshore software development company based in China.A company that will sell a large digital frame for close to free and then provide a service for a fee that sends artwork to the digital frame every week.Desk mounted lighting systems for video chatThe Black Cow (least innovative product)A way to turn recipes on the web into peapod orders. A way to turn the customized diets that Weight Watchers or WebMD create into a peapod order.Online petition forms with compliant signature verification software.Customer service solution for general contractors that allows them to put in notes and they’re generated as an email or voicemail to customer to provide them with regular reports on how the work is going and what is holding things upNetworked home alarm systems so that neighbors can check on each other’s homes during break-ins.Scavenger Hunts, Inc. – We setup pre-defined scavenger hunts for small business team building (like a mini Amazing Race) or even for kid’s birthday parties (in a local park)Eyeglasses that you can adjust to the light. Not that they adjust on their own.Worst, etc.Clipping service for high school athletes parentsEZPass for humans on public transportation (key fob?)A company that creates baseball trading card style packets for restaurant chains.A cleaning service using only eco friendly productsCustom Hypnosis CD Business – Customers go to a studio and record their own voice reading self-hypnosis scriptsOnline Suspenders store – Company sells nothing but suspendersA non-profit that supports poor on using technology in classes taught by young freelance artists.Online Antique Appraisal Service – Send pictures of your antiques online to have them appraisedMicrobrewery with high-octane beers with boutique labels that cost as much as good winesTechnology consulting for venture firms.Harmonica It. com: download audio of people playing popular songs on the harmonica.A site that aggregates naturopathic medicines that have been shown to work to peer reviewed journals, but which for whatever reason aren’t prescribed by mainstream doctors. The site would then show the medicines proven effective for each condition, with a link to the journal article or clinical data or whatever.A hyperlocal iPhone app to find food, but for a series of use cases more specific than what Zagats and yelp are designed for. For example, list the best 3 food places within one mile of each highway exit that take less than 20 minutes. Or what wine tastings are within 10 miles of me within the next week.Anti-drug education program for inner city schools. In conjunction with a touring program that sends a message to parents across the country.Food consulting company that helps local restaurants with calorie measurement and other health issues – and publishes calorie, fat, vitamin data to third party apps on smart phones.Mushroom/compost farm that uses the Matter of Trust “lasagna” to eat cleaned up oil spillsCompany working with small local newspapers helping them develop a social network presenceGiant Magnadoodle for teachersComputer Remote Technician – Fixes your computer by remotely connecting to your PC or MacConference organizing company that handles all the logistics of creating and running conferences for other organizations.Retro-fitting older school buses with seats with seatbeltsOnline Town HallSpeed dating online.Adopt a prisoner “charity” that allows people to adopt an inmate and assure that they are visited and receive cards/letters on important dates.Prius Cab Fleet (www.greenfares. com)Buzz-monitoring of brands with software tools sold to enterprises and brand managers.The Purple Cow (most innovative product)Feng Shui experts that tells you the best way to put your stuff/furniture in your house.Expert roommate negotiator – Expert negotiator specializing in solving roommate disagreementsRent a scout that gives you a good idea of your child’s sports potentialBook packaging for great college writing and emerging writers.Online Palm Readings – Readings done via SkypeSelf-righting picture hangerWebsite for online job searching with IM capabilities so you can ask questions to other people searching or people who are advertising.An IMDB for people who have won awards. I want to a quick way to find the professors with the most citations in any given subject, the chefs in the area with the best Zagats reviews, the local high school football players with the most touchdowns, etc.A digital coloring book.SMS messaging for television tickers scrolling at the bottom of popular shows.A website that users can program in advance to take some action if some event happens. For example, a national chain of tire stores could send an email reminding its customers to get their snowtires on two days before the first predicted snowfall of the season in that user’s zipcode.Garanimals for adult menDating Consulting – individualized service on how to find, meet and date quality peopleBoat or Yacht share program.DeadCells Art: mail your old, hated cell phones to a factory that smashes it and returns it to the user as framed work of art.Girls Getaway – a company that sets up ‘girls week / weekend’ vacations (shopping, Broadway shows, hiking, wine tasting, etc.)Toilet seat covers for public toilets that don’t fall off the seats.For younger students, nap time is often hard to relax and in a bright room. There should be a company that creates comfortable nap time products for kids.A company that you can hire that will come to your town and make a 4 show realty series that you can show to your friends or play on local stations.A service that manages the risk of house swapping.Build the you own Barbie. com. Pay $100 to dress and color the you own doll.Twitter or SMS restaurant reservationsDigital family whiteboard on fridge (like an iTablet for the family)A website that connects people with Objects of Sociability. For example, you have a group of friends you want to do something with and it connects you with an open hibachi table or a deep sea fishing boat rental. You can also rent objects of sociability, so for example you could rent a bread maker or a super nice tea set with 30 looseleaf teas. It would also connect people to third places that would be suitable for, say, a first date.Dissolvable contacts that deliver medicine to the eye overnightA charity that works with major retailers to encourage buyers to bring in their old clothes for a discount. The company will then take the clothes from the retailer and send to a third world country or American red cross.TV Show Summary Service – Brief summaries of your favorite shows are e-mailed to you in case you missed them.Globalization consultancy.Creating a website community for freelance professors (professional educators with a specific expertise; different from tutors in the sense that they are not preparing students for a certain test or “actual class”) to connect with students who want to be educated via an alternative route. The ideal site would essentially be a hub for professor profiles/portfolios with a variety of mediums for conversation between the students and the professors for hire. comments/rating system (no anonymity including a record of that person’s comments rates so you can get a better picture of who is saying what). The idea is similar to something like pick a prof. that most college kids use now to pick their classes; however, the emphasis with pick a prof is typically to pick easy classes to graduate where as this would be an effort to allow professors and students to negotiate the value of the education without going through the university as a middle man. Monetization routes: site advertisements, membership fees for students and/or profs, selling books written by professors for commissionBuild Your Own Back Pack Shop.Group dating website.Online mentoring program for students of all ages (Pen pals that teach each other skills online.)Citizen journalism website.A website that teaches kids how to do quant trading. The site would come with a data feed, dozens of pre-packaged statistical tests that could be deployed or combined in various ways, and the ability to do backtesting to see if this strategy would have been effective on previous data.Designer bibs for patients during their teeth cleaning. This could be a cartoon design for kids or pattern for adults.RingTone this. com: upload audio and have computer-like versions automatically generated and sent to the you cell phone as a ringtone.A book about the history of the internet made from recycled phone books.A cutting-edge fashion company that tells the story of wearable computing.A virtual interior decorator that will make suggestions via digital photographs.A company like 800CEOREAD that does bulk book rentals. So for example you could rent 1,000 copies of Jeff Jarvis’s new book for a month instead of purchasing them.A company that sells high quality sawdust / sand in bulk to put on the floor of restaurants or bars. The company would then be responsible for removing the old material and replacing it when necessary.IP Camera security company – software solution – offsite remotely recordingMilitary Peak Performance Consulting – Consult the military on matters of peak performance (nutrition/stress management/etc.)An event planning organization that markets to stay-at-home moms with big ideas, eager to share there inventions and business ideas with other mothers.Educational youth iPhone gamesAn automatic dimming light bulb coated in that same stuff that is on glasses that the user wear on the you face.Frozen venison shipping store – Company that specializes in shipping the best venison across the countryA safe vice for your head when you have a headache (made from strong fabric maybe)Apprenticeship management company for high profile business personalities.Celebrity voice wake up callsObama TARP consulting for financial institutions.For Americans book series – Cricket for Americans, Bollywood for Americans, World History for Americans, French Film for Americans – would be topics that go outside our country to hopefully explain that the rest of the world isn’t just like us, nor should it beA consulting company that works with aerobic instructors to trademark their exercise routine.Webcam security set up to watch kids, dogs, older parentsA recipe holding cell online for all your recipes to edit, print, and send to friends.A small handheld set up to video chat only via satellite.A business model that implements a ‘couples fare’ if you are in a long distance relationship you register for a year deal where you get specialized pricing and discounts.iPhone app that has similar features to Nike plus (who doesn’t have an app yet). For runners. Pace, speed, etc. All reports back to a website that has monthly subscription costNetwork of restaurants where chefs rotateAgency that trains people for doctor’s offices. Doctor’s offices need etiquette training for their employees desperately.A service that transfers CDs -> LPs (not the other way around)Organic grapes and wine brokerage.If you’re doing home exchanges, a personal website devoted to you and your trip and all of its details. It will have an itinerary on a main page so you don’t have to access your email to see it and it has all the details there.Collectibles investment club.After Party Art where the user send in bottles collected from special gatherings to a factory that melts and shapes glass into guest gifts.Stickers for backpacks (stick well to nylon, etc.)Roomba type toy for dog to chase around house. Should move faster, be fairly indestructible and make appropriate noises.An online toy that introduces children to audio mixing through a Mr. Potato Head-like interface. Add a nose, add an instrument to the band!Children’s school that finds the right balance between Marine Corps boot camp methods, Montessori methods, and liberal arts education – located half the year in big cities worldwide and half the year in wilderness camp setting.Dashboard painting of car interiorsAmusement park based on video gamesPersonal chef for a day. A formalized service where you can call and get a chef with a specific specialty to come and cook a few days worth of food. In cities, this would be very popular and in demand.After party cleaning crewFence store – Sells nothing but designer fences with custom designsInvestment bank that helps non-profits tap the public market with stock listings.An invite only site that allows friends to create video playlists from Hulu, the userTube and third party programming.Online Astrology Readings – Readings done via SkypeGym review company – Company that reviews gyms and creates a guide like ZAGAT that we sellNetflix for freshwater aquariums. If you get bored of some of your old fish you can swap them out for new ones.Phone booth style device that you walk into and it steam presses your clothesA website that you can put in a characteristics of a person and it will come up with an avatar.A store for really obscure food products that change regularly. Every time a customer checks out, you ask them if there are any products that we don’t know about that we should know about, and if there is then the customer ten dollars off their bill and that product shows up in the store within a week or two. Maybe even more narrow than just foods in general, so for example a store for niche meats that come from animals you’ve never heard of.Religious Karaoke Bar – Bar where only religious songs allowed to be sung, and no alcoholSoda Pop flavored mochi balls.A sophisticated website that uses an eHarmony-like algorithm to match nannies and familiesSolid state lighting retrofits of vintage light fixtures (art deco, 40’s 50’s 60’s fixtures) get them at Goodwill and other second hand shops and turn them into $300 “green works or retro art”A dating service where only your friends can set you up on dates.Fractional Ownership of Season Tickets / Box SeatsAffordable home matting and framing kitConsumer fingerprinting business – Company provides trained experts to apply fingerprints tests for household eventsA relocation service for Americans looking to permanently move to a new location for global opportunities.Website where musicians can collaborate on lyricsRoomba for the backyard to pick up dog poop and enzyme it. Or it works with the Doggie Doolie and dumps the poop in it on a regular basis.Fish Burial Kit.Mail in your old mixtapes and get a playlist sent to you via email with a digital version of that mix.A not-for-profit that pairs experts with eager and willing pupils for an apprenticeship program.Actor research consulting service – Consulting service for actors to be setup with people who can mentor them in research for their rolesAutomatic documentary maker, where families upload clips, photos and music from their special occasions generating a smooth transition clip that captures the essence of the moment.Executive Power nap business – Locations where executives can take a 20 minute energizer nap during the dayGraphic novels based on video gamesProfessional protesters agency.Lip reading school – School that teaches students how to read lipsDigital Workflow Consulting – “We’ll get your precious memories (files) into the cloud”Brand of energy ice cream.Cereal Bar (cereal the way you like it with “extras” – open late)Sell web stats back to website owners who are computer illiterate (Google Analytics)Anti-inflammatory Hot SauceFirefox Plugin for Autosave ClipboardUndercover Teenager – hire a teenager to spy on your kidiPhone app that uses the GPS to measure amount of accumulated gains in altitude for climbers, hikers, skiers.Pay at the pump carbon offsetsRoof-mounted Active Denial System (pain ray) to keep deer out of your garden. Or possibly a sounder laser. The system would be mounted next to a camera with an image recognition system that could pick out a deer.Netflix for conversation pieces. Get bored of your coffee table book and send it back for another.Box removal after people move – green message of recyclingRelationship Hotline – Relationship experts answer phone calls 24/7Age verification company – A company that solely does research to verify someone’s age (little league baseball would be a big client)Campaign Suite -> Political Suite – set of web apps – all the good things Obama did in a “package”A seminar business that trains people to be tribe leaders.Mobile software for a picture-based wishlist. When you see something you like at a store, you can take a picture of it and record the info about it either so you can comparison shop or someone can shop for you. Might replace the print-out-20-sheets-of-info gift registries in places like Target.An Urban Dictionary for texting.Salon for blind peoplePicture book series for adults explaining technology topicsCloset organization for adult men – Garanimalize their clothing for them after the factVision board builder site that provides a virtual design for users to focus on their goals daily.A website that teaches you about what is involved in the day-to-day training for different sports, so you can make an intelligent decision about what sport to take up instead of just choosing based on what it looks like on TV. Has links to where you can go to take up a sport as a beginner, what the competition structure looks like, how far you typically have to travel, etc. Can drive traffic to consultants who help get kids recruited to college, to genetic testing firms, to sports physiology labs, etc.DeadTV Art: mail your old, hated TV sets to a factory that smashes it and returns it to the user as framed work of art.Organic vitamin pills and supplements for vegetarians sold through health stores.Teach companies how improv comedy can help them in their business (comfort zone, setup your partner)Herb garden planting – plan, plant and basically get your herb garden going.Legal Advice Hotline – Legal staff and call center charges consumers to call in for advice charge per hourA website for elementary and middle school kids that helps them build a portfolio of their best artwork, writing, sports accomplishments, etc.A data aggregator of global statistics on death, destruction, catastrophes, violations of human rights, freedom in media, etc. There is so much attention put on the middle east. It would be interesting to see and compare what is happening in your neighborJelly Belly for gumTeam in Training – supporting a family or village instead of a causeFilmmakers café-It would be great to have a place that people could go and use a TV and DVD player in a cool coffee house setting–similar to how the internet cafes are run…It could be a place where people could just leisurely watch something midday and also people can meet and discuss their work and others’ work while watching through it.Website that allows people to share clothes and shoes (fractional closet ownership)iPhone app that measures the speed of a pitch. Utilizing the built in accelerometer, you throw the phone as fast as you can. When you pick it back up it tells you the speed of your throw. This pairs well with the iPhone insurance idea.A site that gives you a step-by-step system to build a large web presence and a large group of followers, and makes it easy to track how many people are reading your blog, commenting, sending you emails, etc. so you can work on growing your number of followers and increasing your influence as efficiently as possible. Gives you detailed instructions each step of the way based on your performance.Affordable set top box with video chat (less functionality and cheaper than Media Center)Robotics sports entertainment company – Create robotic athletes that play sports using AI, charge for admissionA storytelling site that markets to families who want easy ways to archive the voices of their elders.Interactive billboard advertisements with codes for coupons sent to mobile phones (mobile-location-based-presence advertising).One stop shop custom photo labs – bring in digital pictures and you have access to Photoshop expert, printing matting, framing,A village in china that paints portraits of pop culture icons as various dog breeds. Look, Obama as a GreyHound!Fish babies. Specifically market a female and a male fish capable of mating to customers interested in seeing the miracle happen at home.A consumer hotline to advise people on electronic purchases and installation on a $ per minute basis.BestOf. com A website that only sells one specific type of each product…but you know its the best.Create YouTube channel with local restaurant reviews (or any kind of local business)Words sewn into a certain brand of clothes – need to find people with same clothes to spell out a word or phrase on the website to win a prize (like McDonald’s Monopoly but with clothes and a website)Public bathrooms that you pay to use. There is a room attendant for your bags.A bio-degradable “plastic” to be used in developing countries where outsiders come in and drink lots of things in plastic bottles because they can’t drink the water. These countries don’t have trash and thus no way to deal with the plastic trash Westerners bring with them.A free live music concert video site streaming a huge archive with limited commercial breaks.Portable safety landing zone for emergency extractions sold to government first responders.A mentoring program (website) that connects entrepreneurs with specific mentors they seek.Art co-op that sells memberships and the art travels among the homes of the members. Kind of a Netflix for art, maybe. Art to eventually be sold at auction via exclusive contract with Sotherby’s and profit made. Could be sold as a shared-art program or as an investment co-op. Or both.Senior friend – hire people to come by to spend 30 minutes just hanging with your older relative who live away from you.Website that generates naming and branding ideasTravel agency that shows you dying civilizationsA service that provides specific enthusiastic people who want to volunteer or have time to go engage with people at nursing homes and doing activities with them.Private investigation company for restaurant employees – Restaurant companies pay to have PI’s investigate whether employees are washing their hands in the bathroomA service that takes your records and digitizes them into MP3’s.Unique Bachelor & Bachelorette Parties – we work with you to design a fun, unique bachelor or bachelorette party experienceA singer/song-writer could offer to write, record, and perform personalized songs for people’s special occasions (anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, or just because). Many would love to have the ability to write, record, and perform an original song for a special someone, but they just don’t have what it takes musically. Then, there are those of us who do have the ability but don’t know how to market themselves.Outsourced sales staff for high-ticket items.Manufacturer of flying cars (courtesy of Tim Draper).Mobile app with hospital floor plans, maps, info about area restaurants, etc.Digital Painted Blinds. Every time a dorm student closes their blinds, the window becomes a poster of rotating images he/she uploads from a flash drive.A service of highly trained babysitters specialized in all ages that you could call upon last minute any night of the weekA service where people are employed to talk specifically to antisocial or shy people at a party (they’ll feel better about themselves and will be more likely to open up next time with their new confidence.)Live Tutor (online tutoring via webcam, chat)The “C-Games” – like the X-games, but real people and celebrities compete in wacky (think Japanese game show) events & all $$ goes to charityA website that aggregates tastemakers. Collect the people who do for other things what Fred Wilson does for music. Give them a really good platform. Give them points for picking up on trends before they go mainstream.A consulting company that creates tribes for your business.USB stick into a cell phonesite that allows people to upload stock video in HD for use by other filmmakers. Low cost per minute. 50/50 split between site and uploader when a purchase is made.Positive news TV channel (PNN) – TV news network that only plays positive TV programming, nothing negativeGrocery checkout efficiency consulting service – Company consults grocery stores on their checkout process to increase efficiency10% for the world – an association of businesses who add 10% to their prices and donate the 10% to charity.Traveling Poker school – weekend intensive poker school – get some prosAssist business people (authors, bloggers, executives) organize speeches and presentations – establish relationships with many venues & marketing channelsBaby fitness class company – Organize fitness classes for babies and their parentsiPhone app that is a recorder (like the ocarina app, but more familiar).Globalization import-export trading company.Really good collaboration software for creating mindmaps, with version control that’s as easy to use as Wikipedia’s history tab. Uses the same open data format as FreeMind.English speaking, US educated virtual assistantRestaurant where you cook alongside the chef , choose your ingredients and learn a new technique.A virtual world future’s exchange, so you can bet on how much a Linden dollar will be worth in US dollars six months from now.Script Assistants-A business that assists screenwriters as they are developing their script by aggregating credible/hard to find reference material that is diverse. Often a young (or firsttime) screenwriter has a great idea and may not know what to reference to develop their idea. This business would evaluate the theme/tone/genre of the script and assist in coming up with a solid and effective reference package pulling from books/TV/movies/screenplays.Web cam at school events so you can see your kid when you can’t make itUse Google Earth to determine green improvements to a given residenceA personal education coach-they pick blogs, books, resources for you to learn based on your personal interests and career goals. They gather all the materials and for you and make recommendations on the best way for learning the material.Non-profit that takes old technology items (computers, monitors, phones) to make them usable for non-profit use – clean off the software, ensure it has all the pieces, etc.)We come to your house to list only your good stuff on eBay or Amazon so you don’t have to bring it to a store. You could have a portable photo studio in the van so the product never leaves the premises until they have cash in hand after the sale. Charge a commission and have college students working for you.All electronic gadgets in one. Phone charger, mp3 player, computer, radio, watch) should all be able to be charged by the computer. (Travelsize/lightweight.)Gold reclamation service from old electronicsA guitar pedals that make exotic animal noises.Kids choose a week’s worth of lunches online with their parents and a van delivers them everyday at lunchtime.An organization devoted specifically to growing awareness over an obscure problem that no one really looks at (i.e. kids that grow up in negative environments and what that does to them as adults.)Fractional Ownership of Segway3D personalized bubblehead dolls ordered over the Internet based on submitted photos and scans.Art for the blind – Company that translates art into some type of Braille system where blind people can appreciate it.A place online that has all your usernames and passwords for all of your bank accounts, bill paying (cell phone, grocery, utilities)…keeps track of them.Vanity audiobook company for Lulu. com authorsWebsite that allows groups to document their lottery ticket purchases and each individual members’ shares to avoid problems when they win – there are a lot of winners beside the jackpot winner.Wikipedia search hotline for those who don’t have access to the internet and simply want quick answers to their inquiries sent to them as SMS texts.Build Your own Mardi Gras mask site.RSS Batches – supported with ads (so you can subscribe to a batch of the top 10 marketing blogs and in addition to the feeds you get an occasional relevant and anticipated ad)Philanthropic tourism – pay a huge fee with part of it going to help the people you visitGrocery store with only junk foodHeadphone buds that look like headphones but that are really powerful earplugs so people can’t tell the difference.A store completely filled with weird vending machines.Offer private curbside recycling service in towns where it isn’t offered. For a monthly fee, provide a container and service it once a week. All the contents are taken to the city’s collection site.Marketing Awards (like the Oscars, potentially online)A private site where corporations hire street artists to Tag over their build boards in an ongoing campaign to draw attention to the location of the sign. Then at its peak awareness, replace it. And start the process again.Online judge dispute resolution – Submit your disagreements onliine and for a fee a judge will email you back the verdict on who is rightSteroid scandal consultant – Firm specializes in advising baseball players that are in the midst of a steroid scandalCasino Airlines – Airline that has casino games on the plane as soon as the plane gets over the seaTrade Ya. com where users trade their personal goods for other user’s crap.A drive through fast food place that has healthy sandwiches.A laundromat/video arcade – Play video games with your kids as you wait for your clothes to be doneA crowd-sourced social filter. So you type in something you think would be funny to say or do to someone else, and the site tells you whether it’s actually a good idea or whether it would be wildly inappropriate.Instead of cryogenic freezing of bodies, store genetic signatures and compile multimedia memories.Change Consulting – Teach companies how to change – “stories of change” workshopsWebsite that is an aggregator of all the charities that celebrities support and how you can get involved.To-go food materials that are 100% recyclable such as a straw.Company that anonymizes current case studies from real companies facing real struggles that others can subscribe to to be aware of current day challenges, sold as subscriptions.Delivery service of food from local restaurants that don’t offer deliveryRestaurant of the month club – diners pay $100 – get $200 gift certificates for a rotating set of restaurantsPolice texting alerts-in case of an emergency you can text the police instead of calling them.An application that is a Thesaurus for your phone.Will you marry me. com, that allows viewers to share video of wedding proposals and live stream real ones.Neighborhood phone bookTravel agency for the rich and famous.Improv comedy coach comes to dinner parties or can order “Improv Party” DVD setMobile pet neuter vans.A software that will allow you to change the channel and adjust the lights in the room through you computer.Etiquette guides for various social mediaStart a multi-level marketing company that specializes in sex toy parties for men.Snow Man kit: a packaged snow man parts, encouraging fun times building a Snowman with family and friends. Biodegradable.A digital book reader that provides an OED, so that readers can look up words as they come across them.Web-based portal that allows people to invest in or fund movie scripts written by new writers and allows studios to scout for good stories.FamousNoses. com, pick the you favorite hollywood star and get a rubber version of their beak for the you own!Online Executive Betting System – Online trading system that allows you to trade CEOs like securities to make moneyCreate your own ice cream flavorsTech adventures. Expensive one and multiday adventures where we put the players in scenarios where they get to play with the latest cool technology…night vision…robots…James bond type stuff. Real life role playing game.A PhD site where students and teachers post thesis.Casual escrow service – Escrow service for more casual transactions, like between family or friendsA software program that functions like Pandora for television programs.A company that creates baseball trading card style packets for fashion designer lines.Government sign business consultant – Company finds infrastructure signs (roads, bridges, etc.) that are ineffective or misleading that by fixing will save the government moneyStacked Twitter iPhone App (like TweetDeck or PeopleBrowsr for the iPhone)A place where kids can go and dress up like their favorite childhood book. There will be a set and costumes to dress up. Perfect for birthday parties.A car sharing service that manages the risk and coordination of sharing a car in major cities.Video messaging service where people can tape their messages (birthdays, holidays, etc.) and they give us the content from their own camera and we edit them and send them to the people they love.A not-for-profit company that works with the NYC government to spray paint North/south/east/west signs on the street or on a sign outside the subway stations to help the directionally challenged.A YouTube VC firm, that will invest money in people who are willing to do stupid stuff on video in hopes that the video will go viral and they will make a profit.AngryClickers. com: a streaming site that allows users to cue live face punches in an online fight. This is sick.Job swap board for stay at home moms – I’ll do your laundry if you do my grocery shopping.A high school homework site that markets to the schools and teachers who want to know what their neighbors require and post best-of results.Bicycle that generates electricity to run the clubInterview practice company – A company that will do mock interviews with you and give you feedback on your performance.A website or iPhone app that finds places for large groups to hang out in real time. So for example if you’re wandering around union square with fifteen friends at night, find the nearest ten places that can accommodate that many people right now.In store sales (for the next 60 minutes – x is 50% off – sent via SMS to customers who have signed up)Design agency for Second Life and other digital worlds.Private Security Insurance – promise trained “Blackwater-esque” security in the event of civil disturbance.Green Architecture Best Practices CommunityNap stations throughout the city. To integrate it into our culture, we can introduce them through napping stations similar to coffee houses.Video creation for local businesses to put on YouTubeInstall digital screens on shopping carts and sell advertising to national packaged goods companies. This would replace the current printed adds on the shopping carts. Grocery store shares in ad revenue. The carts could be location aware and tell you about products you were close to.Company that creates widgets that advertise high-end jobs on the most influential and specialized bloggers in the areas of tech, medical, finance, etc.Pillow case store – Store that only sells customers a large variety of custom pillow casesTactical fire arms training for urban environments.Be a sports team mascot for dayA digital medicine cabinet where patients upload their latest prescriptions and receive automatic feeds that relevant Google alerts.Dedicated sms/twitter service responding to shopping people about “greenness”/ethics of products.Software to build social graphs based by comprehensively integrating all the different online and offline social networks.Footnotes[1] Software Secrets Book