Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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How the Adobe hack could fuel next wave of cyberattacks
from usatoday.com: Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and critical source code to hackers. The company has begun advising enterprise customers that Adobe product users will be required to change their account password at their next login attempt… Meanwhile, corporations would be…
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Twitter Advertisers Say Service Needs More Users
from wsj.com: For some advertisers, 218 million people isn’t a big enough audience. That’s their message to Twitter Inc., which Thursday detailed plans for an initial public offering. Ad buyers say that the short-message service will need significantly more users, and a bigger sales force, to win more spending from their mass-market clients. “Scale still…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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F-16 Flies With Empty Cockpit
from boeing.com: As a pilotless F-16 roared into the sky last week at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., members of Boeing’s QF-16 team and the U.S. Air Force celebrated. The flight represented the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight. Put another way, fighter pilots now have an adversary for which to train against…
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NSA accused of hacking into India’s nuclear systems
from thehindu.com: The public assertions made by Indian and American officials that no content was taken from India’s internet and telephone networks by U.S.’s National Security Agency (NSA) and that the American surveillance programs just looked at “patterns of communication” as a counter-terrorism measure are far from the truth, if not outright misleading. According to…
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World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
Credit: Fraunhofer ISE from phys.org: German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research,…
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Is Outer Space the Sustainable Energy Solution?
from trueactivist.com: Sources of sustainable energy continue to be pursued with little to no avail; while well-thought out strategies are presented with good intention, it seems there’s always a fatal flaw that is uncovered. Solar power, hydro-power, nuclear, and wind power have all been dragged through the mud to some extent; ‘traditional nuclear fission is…
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‘Naming the Dead’ project will name and number people killed by drone airstrikes to challenge CIA claims of no civilian deaths
from rawstory.com: A project launched on Monday aims to record properly the names and numbers of people who are killed by US drone airstrikes in Pakistan. The website, “Naming the Dead”, is an initiative by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), a not-for-profit organisation that has won awards for its work exposing some of the…
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11m Users Abandon #Facebook on Privacy Concerns
from alalam.ir: Millions of Facebook users are reportedly abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns. New research shows Facebook has lost a total of 11 million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found they quit…
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Tri-City hockey crowds to be taped for U.S. security research
from tri-cityherald.com: Hockey fans at the season opener of the Tri-City Americans will have a chance to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security improve its facial recognition capabilities. Video will be taped by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Sept. 21 game in a portion of the Toyota Center in Kennewick. It is planned…
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Northrop Grumann producing more LCS mission modules
from upi.com: Three additional mission modules for the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships are being produced by Northrop Grumman under a $25.2 million contract. Two of the modules are for surface warfare missions and one is for mine counter-measures. Each module package is comprised of a specific set of sub-systems such as data processing equipment,…
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How the cops watch your tweets in real-time
from arstechnica.com: Recent leaks about the NSA’s Internet spy programs have sparked renewed interest in government surveillance, though the leaks touch largely on a single form of such surveillance—the covert one. But so-called “open source intelligence” (OSINT) is also big business— and not just at the national/international level. New tools now mine everything from “the…