Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Optic Nerve: GCHQ Steals 1,000s of Explicit Webcam Pics from Innocent Users
from mirror.co.uk: Millions were hacked into by a secret programme called Optic Nerve – whether the user was a security threat or not – that collected mugshots every five minutes. British spies intercepted hundreds of thousands of explicit webcam pictures from innocent users, it has been revealed. Spooks at GCHQ targeted people indiscriminately as part…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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Wi-fi Computer Virus Goes ‘Airborne’ Like Common Cold
from RT.com: Researchers in Britain have shown for the first time how a computer virus can spread through Wi-Fi “as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans.” The ‘Chameleon’ Wi-Fi AP-AP virus infiltrates dense networks and spreads at an alarming rate. Chameleon was designed by a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool,…
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World’s largest bitcoin broker goes offline
from NHK World: The website of a major Bitcoin exchange in Tokyo say they have halted all dealings as a security measure. The announcement came after the exchange went offline on Tuesday. MtGox was considered one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, boasting more than 1.1 million accounts in and outside Japan. Company officials suspended…
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NASA’s IRIS Spacecraft Captures Its Biggest Solar Flare
from frenchtribune.com: NASA’s ‘Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph’ (IRIS) spacecraft has captured an amazing video of the mid-level solar flare on January 28, which is its biggest since it launched into orbit last summer. The spacecraft is trained to travel through a region of the sun in order to understand how solar materials move and gather…
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Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Dark in Blow to Virtual Currency
from ndtv.com: Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading on Tuesday and its chief executive said the business was at “a turning point,” sparking concerns about the future of the unregulated virtual currency.
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U.S. Air Force Reveals ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Spy Satellite Program
from reuters.com: The United States plans to launch a pair of satellites to keep tabs on spacecraft from other countries orbiting 22,300 miles above the planet, as well as to track space debris, the head of Air Force Space Command said. The previously classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) will supplement ground-based radars and…
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NASA to Send Robotic Doctor to Space
from RT.com: NASA is developing a humanoid robot to perform medical procedures, including surgery, at the International Space Station and even en route to Mars. The robot, which is named ‘Robonaut 2,’ is now undergoing further development and tests at Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Zsolt Garami, an instructor at the institute, told Computerworld that…
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In Venezuela, It’s The President Who Changes the Channels
from miamiherald.com: In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro controls the TV remote. A week after he turned off Colombian television station NTN24, he threatened to pull the plug on CNN. “They want to show the world that there’s a civil war in Venezuela,” Maduro told a cheering audience Thursday night. “CNN, get out of Venezuela, enough…
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Venezuela’s Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout
from EFF.org: For the last month, Venezuela has been caught up in widespread protests against its government. The Maduro administration has responded by cracking down on what it claims as being foreign interference online. As that social unrest has escalated, the state’s censorship has widened: from the removal of television stations from cable networks, to…
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Canada pursues wider biometric data sharing with Five Eyes allies
from globeandmail.com: Canada is eyeing greatly expanded sharing of immigration information — such as fingerprints of visa applicants — with not only the United States but other key allies. An internal memo prepared for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says the government is building an information technology system that could be used for the…
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Oregon Community College Prepares Course In Drones Operations
from storyleak.com: A course in drone piloting will likely be available to students at the Central Oregon Community College this fall, as schools across the country begin offering degrees in unmanned aerial systems. Just last December, the Federal Aviation Administration approved Oregon’s request to become one of the country’s six designated drone testing sites. As…
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Washington State House Passes Drones Restriction Bill
from sfgate.com: Two bills that would restrict the use of drones and government surveillance in Washington state have been passed by the House. House Bill 2178 passed by a vote of 92-6 Monday. It would ban the unauthorized use of drones, or other unmanned aircraft with sensing devices, in the airspace above private property. Under…
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Close Call In Space Tonight: Asteroid Zips By Earth
from cnn.com: Only in space would 2 million miles be considered a close call. An asteroid with an estimated diameter of three football fields zoomed by Earth late Monday, missing our home by about that distance. It traveled at some 27,000 miles per hour. The asteroid came just about a year after a relatively small…