Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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What A Bitcoin Political Debut Could Mean For Transparency
from npr.org: Bitcoin, the virtual currency that exists as alphanumeric strings online, is on the verge of getting into politics. The Federal Election Commission is expected to vote Thursday on a proposal to allow bitcoin contributions to political action committees — even as skeptics say that bitcoins could undermine the disclosure standards of federal law.…
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Dazzling Nighttime Rocket Launch Puts Record 29 Sats In Orbit
from space.com: A spectacular rocket launch from Virginia’s eastern shore late Tuesday (Nov. 19) lit up the night sky like an artificial sun, kicking off a record-breaking mission to put 29 satellites into orbit. The Orbital Sciences-built Minotaur 1 rocket launched into space at 8:15 p.m. EST (0115 GMT Wednesday) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility…
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NASA’s MAVEN Mars Probe Roars Into Orbit
from theregister.co.uk: Scientists and engineers at the agency and Lockheed Martin have spent the last five years building the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft (MAVEN), a 2.5-ton orbital platform that will probe what remains of the Red Planet’s atmosphere to work out how Mars lived, and how we can live on it – as…
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Sony Says ‘Blue Light of Death’ Affect Less Than 1% of PS4’s
from washingtonpost.com: Sony said Tuesday that reported problems with the PlayStation 4 are affecting fewer than 1 percent of the customers who have picked up the console since its launch last week. News about the problems have cropped up on social networks and in news articles ever since the launch. But company spokesman Dan Race…
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Seattle Police Deactivate Downtown Wi-Fi Spy Network
from ap.org: The Seattle Police Department has agreed to deactivate a downtown WiFi network that some worried could be used to spy on residents. The ACLU raised concerns last week about the network, which has equipment visible on utility poles. KOMO reports the wireless mesh network was installed with Homeland Security money and was intended…
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Astronomers reveal guts of mysterious black hole jets
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a recent press release from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, an international team of researchers has solved an age-old question of the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. The findings appear in the latest issue of Nature, in an article entitled, “Baryons in the relativistic jets of the stellar-mass…
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No blackout, but two-day ‘GridEx II’ seeks to expose security flaws
from jconline.com: GridEx II is conducted by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a Georgia-based nonprofit whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the Bulk-Power System in North America. NERC is subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As a software simulation, Rogers said no individuals or businesses will actually suffer any…
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GridEx 2013 Power Grid Preparedness Drill This Week, Nov13-14
from blog.chron.com: For the next two days–November 13 and 14–the United States, Canada and Mexico, along with hundreds of companies and organizations in all three countries, will take part in the GridEx 2013 Preparedness Drill – one of the largest preparedness drills in our country’s history. It has been reported that the United States, Canada…
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‘Waking Shark II’: Cyber Attack Simulation Tested London Banks
from rt.com: A simulated cyber-attack on financial markets, codenamed “Waking Shark II,” took place in London on Tuesday to determine how well the City would respond to a large-scale disruption of Internet services. Hundreds of employees from London’s financial sector participated in the drill, led by a team from Credit Suisse, who created a ‘war…
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Obamacare Web Users Invited by U.S. to Try Signup Again
from bloomberg.com: About 275,000 people who tried and failed to sign up for Obamacare health plans are being asked by the U.S. government to return to the website as the software flaws that initially shut them out are being corrected. People are being contacted this week in a “series of e-mails in waves” to avoid…
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GOCE Satellite Hits Atlantic, But What About Next One?
from abcnews.go.com: This time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean — but what about next time? The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The 1,100-kilogram (2,425-pound) satellite disintegrated…
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Satellite fragments to crash to Earth
from smh.com.au: Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. In a statement, the agency said when and where the pieces would land was still unclear. Experts have previously…