Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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#Google’s robots and creeping militarization
from dailycaller.com: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. This development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company…
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#Christie Scandal a Cautionary Tale About Technology
from usatoday.com: When e-mails became public Wednesday linking top aides of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, it was a stark reminder of one of the first rules of political handlers: electronic communications live forever, just waiting to be exposed. So think twice before hitting the send…
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Smartphones replace keys in smart door locks
Physical keys could increasingly become a thing of the past as technology catches up. from channelnewsasia.com: Las Vegas – Gabriel Bestard-Ribas got tired of his house keys scratching his smartphone in his pocket, so he combined them. The result was a Goji lock, which senses when a resident’s smartphone is near and not only unlocks…
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#Pentagon puts Hellfire missile, #drone deliveries to #Iraq on fast track
from endthelie.com: Washington has decided to expedite delivery of missiles and reconnaissance drones to Iraq. The move comes after the US said it would not return to assist Baghdad’s forces, despite the country plunging deeper into a fight against Al-Qaeda-linked rebels. The latest promise of sophisticated military hardware to Iraq, which continues to struggle against…
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Yahoo Malvertising Attack Linked to Larger Malware Scheme
from computerworld.com: A deeper look by Cisco Systems into the cyberattack that infected Yahoo users with malware appears to show a link between the attack and a suspicious affiliate traffic-pushing scheme with roots in Ukraine. Yahoo said on Sunday that European users were served malicious advertisements, or “malvertisements,” between Dec. 31 and last Saturday. If…
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India successfully launches cutting-edge cryogenic rocket
from channelnewsasia.com: India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another step forward in its ambitious space programme. The Indian-made cryogenically-powered rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota as scheduled, as Delhi tries to join an elite club of countries which…
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#Google Glass Military Ambitions: SWAT and Fully Unmanned Military Special Ops Teams
from blacklistednews.com: Special operations teams handling tactical maneuvers for U.S. military and law enforcement could become the next viable industries for Google Glass. It could explain some of the acquisitions the company made late last year. Picture a 10-person special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team surrounding a home where an armed gunman barricaded himself. Each…
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For 2nd Time Ever, We Saw an Asteroid Before It Hit Us
from newser.com: While working a solo shift on New Year’s Eve, an Arizona astronomer spotted a car-sized asteroid en route to Earth. There are a few amazing things about this: 1) It’s only the second time ever that an asteroid has been spotted before impact, and 2) The previous one was spotted by the same…
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Over 1,000 chosen for one-way #Mars reality-TV mission
from channelnewsasia.com: More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches…
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype
from RT.com: Syrian computer hacker conglomerate, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), has kicked off the New Year with a number of cyber-attacks, compromising Skype’s Twitter, Facebook accounts, and its official blog. Social media accounts belonging to Skype, Microsoft’s voice-over-IP service, were hacked around 19:30 GMT. SEA posted on Skype’s Twitter account a rogue message saying…
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#NSA Fallout Hits American Defense Contractors To The Tune Of $4b
from falkvinge.net: Brazil ditches Boeing’s F/A-18 in favor of SAAB’s JAS 39 Gripen over the NSA’s rogue behavior. In a press conference tonight, Brazil’s defense department announces that Brazil will buy the Swedish fighter jet, according to multiple Brazilian sources. The direct reason for rejecting Boeing’s F/A-18 was the United States’ hostile and unacceptable spying…
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Who Owns the World’s Biggest #Bitcoin Wallet? The #FBI.
from wired.com: Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government. In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online black marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross…
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Facebook to Show Video Commercials That Play Automatically
Facebook Forces Video Ads on You Because Marketers Told It To* from mercurynews.com: Some Facebook users will see video commercials Thursday that start playing automatically when users scroll through their usual stream of posts and updates from friends, the social networking company said Tuesday. But the commercials won’t make a sound unless a user taps…
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NSA Phone Spying ‘Almost Certainly’ Unconstitutional
from online.wsj.com: A federal judge on Monday ruled against the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records, saying the program “almost certainly does violate” the Constitution. However, the ruling will have little immediate effect and faces a lengthy future of court proceedings. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who was nominated to the Washington, D.C., bench…