The cyber-attacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing log-in credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com, according to a blog post signed by “Thehacker12″ on 22 August.More: Hacker Exposes US Government Staff Log-in (eWEEK Europe UK)
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27 ago 2011
Hacker Publishes Names And Data For 20,000 Individuals, Many Us Gov And Military Staff Or Contractors
A hacker broke into the network of an events management company and stole data for some 20,000 individuals, many of whom are identified as United States government contractors or employees.
26 ago 2011
Wikileaks Releases Tens Of Thousands More Us Cables
On Wikileaks' Twitter feed Thursday (presumed to be manned by Julian Assange): "We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today." The latest round appear to be from the massive cache of more than 250,000 US State Department diplomatic cables, which Wikileaks began releasing in smaller batches in 2010.
Several news organizations around the world, including Reuters, have had complete sets of the cables for months. But for the most part, media outlets have only cited or published cables when publishing specific news or investigative stories based on them.
By late afternoon Thursday, the WikiLeaks website said it had published 97,115 of the 251,287 cables it possesses. It did not specify its motives for releasing such a large amount of material at once.
A person in contact with Assange's inner circle told Reuters the rationale behind the mass release of documents was dismay among WikiLeaks activists that media organizations had lost interest in publishing stories based on the material.
The source described Assange and his associates as "frustrated" at the lack of media interest.
WikiLeaks releases tens of thousands more US cables
New Reports Of China State Tv Broadcasting Video Of Cyberattacks On Us
WSJ: "Chinese state television has broadcast footage of what two experts on the Chinese military say appears to be a military institute demonstrating software designed to attack websites in the U.S."Looks like old footage they're using as b-roll. I would … Continue reading
New reports of China State TV broadcasting video of cyberattacks on US
24 ago 2011
Oops: B-roll In Tv Report Said To Expose Chinese Military Cyberattack On Us
Oops: B-roll in TV report said to expose Chinese military cyberattack on US
Falun-Gong-founded newspaper Epoch Times reports that a "standard, even boring" Chinese military propaganda video broadcast in mid-July on state-run networks revealed screengrabs showing a Chinese military university actively engaged in cyberattacks against the US.
Now, some perspective on the Epoch Times itself is called for before you read. The New York-based publication is closely linked with the banned religious group Falun Gong, and is consistently critical of China and the government's treatment of Falun Gong (as you'll note in this piece). With that caveat out of the way, snip:
The documentary itself was otherwise meant as praise to the wisdom and judgment of Chinese military strategists, and a typical condemnation of the United States as an implacable aggressor in the cyber-realm. But the fleeting shots of an apparent China-based cyber-attack somehow made their way into the final cut.
The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the documentary for six seconds—between 11:04 and 11:10 minutes—showing custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university. As of Aug. 22 at 1:30pm EDT, in addition to Youtube, the whole documentary is available on the CCTV website.
The screenshots show the name of the software and the Chinese university that built it, the Electrical Engineering University of China's People's Liberation Army—direct evidence that the PLA is involved in coding cyber-attack software directed against a Chinese dissident group.
(thanks, Paul Pettross)
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Oops: B-roll in TV report said to expose Chinese military cyberattack on US
21 ago 2011
Superfast Us Military Plane Reaches Mach 20 Speed, Then Crashes
An unmanned U.S. military aircraft managed to reach speeds of more than 20 times the speed of sound, and to control itself for three minutes, before it crashed into the Pacific near Vandenberg Air Force Base on August 11. Space.com/MSNBC. Here's an earlier item in the LA Times. Above and below, DARPA images and video depicting the the prototype Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2), described as the fastest aircraft ever built.
Superfast US military plane reaches Mach 20 speed, then crashes
20 ago 2011
90 Percent Of Us Net Users Don’t Know From Crtl-f
Dan Russell, one of Google's anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of American Internet users don't know that crtl-F will let them search documents including Web pages. I recently discovered that a smart and technologically literate friend had never heard of alt-tab for application switching; alt-tab being my single most used key combo!
It strikes me that we could probable come up with a list of ten (or even three) things you could teach to the people around you the next time you sit down to help them with a technology problem, "three things every technology user should know."
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (via /.)One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"
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90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F
22 dic 2010
Assange: US pushing "Digital McCarthyism" in assault on Wikileaks
Assange: US pushing "Digital McCarthyism" in assault on Wikileaks - Boing Boing
Assange: US pushing "Digital McCarthyism" in assault on Wikileaks
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One law for them, another for us: is it illegal to record the police on the job?
In Reason magazine, Radley Balko takes an in-depth look at all the places in the USA where it's nominally illegal to record the police, and all the people who've faced fines or prison for recording law enforcement officers breaking the law with illegal beatings and harassment. High courts at the state and federal level are pretty consistent in ruling that privacy rules don't protect cops who are, say, beating someone up in an alley or waving their guns around at a roadside stop, but this doesn't prevent cops and prosecutors from dragging people who record law enforcement misdeeds through the criminal justice system. The second incident came on April 13, about the same time McKenna's case began to make national news. Maryland State Trooper David Uhler pulled over motorcyclist Anthony Graber for speeding and reckless driving. Graber had a video camera mounted to his helmet that was recording at the time of the stop. Uhler, dressed in street clothes, emerged from his unmarked car with gun drawn, yelling. Graber was given only a traffic ticket, but he was miffed at Uhler's behavior. So he posted the video on YouTube. Days later, Maryland State Police conducted an early-morning raid on Graber's home, held Graber and his parents for 90 minutes, confiscated computer equipment, arrested him, and took him to jail. Graber was charged with two felonies. The first was violating Maryland's wiretapping law by recording Uhler without the trooper's consent. The second was "possession of an intercept device," a provision in the same law that was intended for bugs and wiretaps but in this case referred to Graber's video camera, a device that is perfectly legal to own and use in just about any other context. Thanks to legislation written to prevent the surreptitious interception of communications, Graber faced up to 16 years in prison for recording a cop during a public traffic stop. Wiretapping statutes apply to audio recordings, with or without video. Maryland is one of 12 states with a wiretapping law that requires consent from all parties to a conversation for someone to legally record it. But in 10 of those 12 states, including Maryland, the statute says a violation occurs only when the offended party has a reasonable expectation that the conversation is private. This privacy provision prevents people who record public meetings or inadvertently pick up conversations while shooting video in public from accidentally committing felonies. Civil liberties advocates argue that on-duty police officers, like people attending city council meetings or walking down a public street, do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For Graber to be convicted under Maryland's wiretapping law, a prosecutor would have to argue that Uhler--a police officer who had pulled over a motorist, drawn his gun, and yelled at the guy on the side of a busy highway--had a reasonable expectation that the encounter would remain private. The War on Cameras (via /.) Video camera designed to record encounters with police - Boing Boing How to record the cops - Boing Boing Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts is "illegal ... Wiretap charges dropped against motorcyclist who videotaped cop ... Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop - Boing Boing It's okay for cops to track suspects via GPS without a warrant, VA ......
One law for them, another for us: is it illegal to record the police on the job?
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15 dic 2010
US builds case against Assange
The next court hearing for Julian Assange in London is scheduled to begin around 930am ET on Thursday. Assange is currently being held in London's Wandsworth prison (that's him in the van, above); Sweden wants him extradited over alleged sex crimes.
US builds case against Assange
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13 dic 2010
Obesity a greater threat to US military than homosexuality
"In 2008, some 634 military personnel were discharged for transgressing 'don't ask, don't tell.' That same year, 4,555 were discharged for failing to meet military weight standards." (via Souris)...
Obesity a greater threat to US military than homosexuality
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10 dic 2010
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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9 dic 2010
TSA subjects India's US ambassador to public grope because of her sari
The TSA is refusing to apologize to India's ambassador to the USA, who was flagged for an extended public grope because she was wearing a sari.
The Clarion-Ledger writes Ambassador Meera Shankar was in Jackson last weekend as a guest of Mississippi State University.It all goes to show you: security theater means never having to say "your sari.""While in town, Shankar met with Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, representatives from the Mississippi Development Authority and members of the Indian community in Jackson, and she spoke to more than 100 people at the Executive Lecture Forum of Jackson," the paper writes.
Shankar apparently was selected for enhanced screening, even though she did not set of the airport's metal detectors. Witnesses tell the Clarion-Ledger security agents told Shankar she was singled out because she was wearing a sari, which the paper notes is as "a traditional Indian robe that is draped across the body..."
The Clarion-Ledger writes "witnesses said Shankar asked for a private screening, but she was led to a clear box where two officers searched her in clear view."
"She is a very strong woman, but you could see in her face that she was humiliated," Tan Tsai, a research associate at MSU's International Security Studies center who witnessed the screening, tells the paper. "The Indian culture is very modest."
TSA subjects India's US ambassador to public grope because of her sari
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3 dic 2010
Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain's proposed copyright law
Spain's Congress is about to vote on a new and extremely harsh copyright/Internet law. It's an open secret that the law was essentially drafted by American industry groups working with the US trade representative.
Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain's proposed copyright law
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29 nov 2010
WaPo: Wikileaks' Assange could be charged in US under Espionage Act
"Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act."
WaPo: Wikileaks' Assange could be charged in US under Espionage Act
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US congressman wants Wikileaks designated as terrorist organization
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says WikiLeaks should be officially designated as a terrorist organization. This would "place the group in the same company as al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway."
US congressman wants Wikileaks designated as terrorist organization
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28 nov 2010
Wikileaks secret US Embassy cable site live
Wikileaks has begun publishing the leaked "embassy cables" at its website, with a handy 'explorer' at cablegate.wikileaks.org. In total, the cache includes 15,652 secret documents, 101,748 confidential ones, and 133,887 that are unclassified. Iraq is the 'most discussed' country, while Ankara, Turkey, produced the most cables. External political relations and internal government affairs account for most of the cache, but more than 100,000 items concern human rights and economic conditions. 28,801 concern terrorism.
Wikileaks secret US Embassy cable site live
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Wikileaks posts full set of secret US Embassy cables
Wikileaks has published the leaked "embassy cables" in full at its website, with a handy 'explorer' at cablegate.wikileaks.org. In total, there are 15,652 secret documents, 101,748 confidential ones, and 133,887 that are unclassified. Iraq is the 'most discussed' country, while Ankara, Turkey, produced the most cables. External political relations and internal government affairs account for most of the cache, but more than 100,000 items concern human rights and economic conditions. 28,801 concern terrorism.
Wikileaks posts full set of secret US Embassy cables
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US foreign policy gets enhanced patdown: oddities from the leaks
• An elderly American, Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi, rode a horse over an mountain rage to escape Iran after officials confiscated his passport.
US foreign policy gets enhanced patdown: oddities from the leaks
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"Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables: U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; military incompetence
The Guardian's coverage of the embassy cables is up: it reports that they've already sparked a global diplomatic crisis. Some more juicy revelations:
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The Guardian: "Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables. U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; U.S. and U.K. intimate but snarky with each other
The Guardian's coverage of the embassy cables is up: it reports that they've already sparked a global diplomatic crisis. Some more juicy revelations:
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