Internet Cloud Security Quiz

Worried about your online passwords being compromised? Think you're playing it safe? Take the quiz to find out if you're doing all you can to protect you information online.

Internet Cloud Security Quiz

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Intel Chip Design Gives Hollywood Security for Movie Downloads

Intel—aiming to alleviate piracy concerns—is building security into a new design that would let Warner Bros. and other studios sell high-definition films online

Intel Chip Design Gives Hollywood Security for Movie Downloads

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-03/intel-chip-design-gives-hollywood-security-for-movie-downloads.html

Pilot raided for YouTube video exposing airport security flaws

Antinous sez, "An anonymous airline pilot posted cell phone video of security lapses at SFO to YouTube. Federal air marshals and the sheriff's department showed up at his house to take his gun away."

"Well, folks, I just wanted to give you an idea of what type of security for the ground personnel there is. This is their screening. As you can see, there's only a card slide and one door," the pilot says in the video. "And right here's a sign, 'Think security.' Well, I don't think there's much security here."

...According to sister station ABC7 in San Francisco, the disclosure resulted in federal air marshals and sheriff's deputies showing up at the pilot's home -- an event the pilot, a deputized federal air marshal, also recorded -- to confiscate his federally issued handgun.

Attorney Don Werno, who represents the pilot, says he believes the TSA was sending a message that "you've angered us by telling the truth and by showing America that there are major security problems despite the fact that we've spent billions of dollars allegedly to improve airline safety."

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Pilot raided for YouTube video exposing airport security flaws

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National Security Archive director on "Wikimania," and the dangers of demonizing WikiLeaks

Thomas Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive, was among those who testified today before the House Judiciary Committee on the aftermath of "Cablegate" and Wikileaks. Blanton believes efforts to tighten secrecy and crack down on leakers and press will be "fundamentally self-defeating."

"There is more heat than light," Blanton stated, citing calls for broadening the Espionage Act and assassinating Wikileaks leader, Julian Assange. Hasty punitive reactions, he predicted, "will actually produce more leaks, more crackdowns, less accountable government, and diminished security."

"History shows we end up doing more damage from the overreaction than from the original leak."

More on his statements here. (via Submitterator, thanks jennybean42)

National Security Archive director on "Wikimania," and the dangers of demonizing WikiLeaks

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NC teen stowaway breaches US airport security, hides in plane wheel well, dies, falls in Boston

The mangled body of a 16-year-old boy from North Carolina mysteriously dropped from the sky down to a Boston suburb last month. Authorities now believe the teen breached airport security, and managed to hide himself inside the wheel well of a US Airways Boeing 737. He is believed to have then fallen to his death as the plane lowered its landing gear on approach to Boston's Logan Airport.

The corpse of Delvonte Tisdale, 16, was found in a quiet neighborhood in Milton, Mass., Nov. 15, below a flight path to Logan.

"It appears more likely than not that Mr. Tisdale was able to breach airport security and hide in the wheel well of a commercial jet airliner without being detected by airport security," Norfolk County District Attorney William R. Keating said at a news conference Friday afternoon.

Mr. Keating said he alerted federal authorities and the Charlotte Airport that the teenager was able to breach airport security and get onto the plane. While the case is a tragedy, Mr. Keating said, it also underscores fears that someone with malicious intention could do the same thing.

NC teen stowaway breaches US airport security, hides in plane wheel well, dies, falls in Boston

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Bucks: Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans

New rules from the Social Security Administration make it harder to receive interest-free loans from the agency.

Bucks: Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans

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