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413 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 00:12:22 by angel.wardriver | 50 comments
A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for
allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security
workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause
damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date...
302 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 22:15:56 by LaurenElder | 119 comments
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today on the future of the F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter, and things are not looking pretty for the next-generation stealth aircraft. It now appears
likely the Air Force will have to declare the program has soared past a key cost-containment
barrier, in addition to being over 2 years behind schedule.
543 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 02:55:53 by TheEngineer2008 | 126 comments
For many years, the Internet was the “final frontier,” operating largely unregulated — in part
because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws. That was then; this is
now. Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at
the local, state and federal levels.
288 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 05:07:37 by MikeWesten | 92 comments
Notorious as a malware ghetto, LimeWire takes its first steps to integrate authoritative threat
protection by signing on AVG to provide premium users with download scanning and blocking.
231 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 01:08:57 by vtstarin | 40 comments
Scientist from the University of Michigan reports to have found a weakness in the key encryption
system used for almost all authentication process. They also describe the associated way to exploit
it to crack the key in about 100 hours while it would have taken years by brute force attack. Most
...
387 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 03:47:55 by angel.wardriver | 48 comments
The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information
about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a
household's activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and
maybe even when they take a hot bath...
345 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 21:54:50 by angel.wardriver | 43 comments
You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government's no-fly list, but death won't guarantee
removal. The government's no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government
officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the
suspect’s identity...
262 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 02:22:26 by ScarlettMadi | 116 comments
What's a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School
administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.
618 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 23:03:51 by KrBP | 39 comments
The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on
television ads and banners painted on trucks promising his $10 monthly service would protect
consumers from identity theft.
1113 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 12:52:50 by hijack | 186 comments
The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects
computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May
2007.
824 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 01:32:58 by angel.wardriver | 197 comments
Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world's favorite search engine, and the company whose
motto is "Don't be evil"...Meet Google the beast, the hungry beast.
326 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 18:42:23 by KrBP | 14 comments
he Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the
ground. It’s only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon
begin to wane — at least until now.
467 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 15:52:30 by DiggUnderground | 65 comments
In a conversation with Ars Technica, Google's top privacy people defend the company's data retention
policies and the tracking practices of (Google-owned) Doubleclick.
356 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 02:42:44 by angel.wardriver | 19 comments
Researchers dissected ZeuS botnet blueprint - a little knowledge and a few thousand dollars is all
it takes to build a fully functional botnet. Cisco researchers told delegates at the 2010 RSA
conference in San Francisco that a botnet running the infamous ZeuS malware could be built for
$2,753.50.
412 votes | submitted 2010-03-06 19:21:36 by Burento | 74 comments
Aged malware returns in a new wave of ransom-style online scams.
207 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 21:06:19 by duphregne79 | 9 comments
The Pentagon last week issued a new open door policy on social media last week. So how did an Air
Force network administrator find out about the change? Not through their chain of command, but by
reading about it on Danger Room.
381 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 23:41:21 by angel.wardriver | 118 comments
Despite concerns of privacy and their effectiveness, 11 more airports are to get 150 full-body
imaging machines beginning Monday at Boston’s Logan International Airport, and one at the O’Hare
International Airport in Chicago. In all, 30 U.S. airports will employ the scanning devices...