Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Auraya Granted U.S. Patent Rights For Voice Biometric Technology
from biometricupdate.com: Auraya Systems announced that it has been granted patent protection in the USA from the U.S. Patent Office for its core Speaker Adaptive Voice Biometric technology, quickly following its patent from the Australian Patent Office. The announcement comes a month after Auraya’s win of the “best and most innovative solution” in the iAwards…
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Probe Makes Space History With Rendezvous With Comet
from spacedaily.com: The space probe Rosetta made a historic rendezvous with a comet on Wednesday, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “We’re at the comet,” Rosetta’s flight operations manager, Sylvain Lodiot, declared in a webcast from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. It marks the first…
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Feds Doled Out Millions Towards #Tor Online Anonymity Tools
from RT.com: The National Security Agency may be working to crack the anonymous Tor browser, but the US government actually donated close to $2 million to the project in 2013. In fact, the large majority of the money gifted to the Tor Project has its origins in the State Department and the Department of Defense.…
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NASA: Humans Will Prove ‘We Are Not Alone In The Universe’ Within 20 Years
from cbslocal.com: NASA predicts that 100 million worlds in our own Milky Way galaxy may host alien life, and space program scientists estimate that humans will be able to find life within two decades. Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope…
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GCHQ’s Dark Arts: Leaked Documents Reveal Online Manipulation and Facebook, YouTube Snooping
from zdnet.com: GCHQ has developed a toolkit of software programs used to manipulate online traffic, infiltrate users’ computers and spread select messages across social media sites including Facebook and YouTube. The UK spy agency’s dark arts were revealed in documents first published by The Intercept, and each piece of software is described in a wiki…
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UK Moves to Legalize Mass Surveillance
from commondreams.org: The UK government is pushing to pass an emergency law that would allow for storing and tracking the public’s phone calls, text messages, and internet use. The bill, which is set for inter-party reforms later this week and is expected to pass, was created as a response to alleged domestic terrorism threats — although…
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Big Banks Want Power to Declare Cyber War
Merger of Big Banks and National Security Power … What Could Possibly Go Wrong? from washingtonsblog.com: Bloomberg reports – Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic by temporarily wiping out account balances, according to an internal document. The proposal by…
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US Military Studied How To Influence Twitter Users In DARPA-Funded Research
from blacklistednews.com: The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds. Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of…
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PLA Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center Founded
from ecns.cn: The Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center was officially founded at an information center of the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on June 26, 2014. Experts believe that the center will provide strong support in obtaining high-quality intelligence research findings and help China gain advantage in national information…
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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions…
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Predictive Policing And The Fantasy Of Declining Violence In America
from forbes.com: In May, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told a City Council meeting that predictive policing “is real and it is here.” The LAPD has already implemented a predictive policing system, using a network called PredPol developed by a private company of the same name that tracks crime incidence and location to predict where crime…
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#Facebook’s Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
from scgnews.com: It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook’s recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas. There has been quite a bit of chatter this past week after it was revealed that a recent Facebook outage was the result of a…
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California Removes Ban on Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Other Alternative Currencies
from pcworld.com: A new California law removes a ban on using currencies other than the U.S. dollar, which is intended to accommodate the growing use of alternative payment methods such as bitcoin. The law, signed by state Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday, is likely to boost confidence around bitcoin, as regulators and tax authorities worldwide…
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#FalseFlag Watch: Spying Malware Leaves Countries’ Energy Grids Open To Attack
from engadget.com: Cyberwarfare campaigns against Western energy grids aren’t just the stuff of action movies these days. Symantec has discovered a “likely state-sponsored hacking group”, nicknamed Dragonfly, that has been using phishing sites and trojans to compromise energy suppliers in the US and several other countries. Unlike targeted, destruction-focused malware like Stuxnet, this appears to…