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Kaspersky Cyberthreat real-time map

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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.

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

(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 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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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!

Haha, the first message says to use it in Chrome.

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

Cool and totally confusing and uninformative.

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

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

If you are using Linux...

You can use this...https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver

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