Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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New #Snowden Leak Reveals Secret $52.6 Billion Budget for Intelligence Agencies
from IntelliHub.com: A new leak from Edward Snowden shows a massive budget for the military spy industrial complex that is hidden from the public. The original leaks made my Edward Snowden were enough to totally change the whole collective dialogue about government spying, but those initial leaks were merely the tip of the iceberg. There…
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
from wired.com: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers…
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#Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System
from space.com: A spacecraft from Earth has left its cosmic backyard and taken its first steps in interstellar space. After streaking through space for nearly 35 years, NASA’s robotic Voyager 1 probe finally left the solar system in August 2012, a study published today (Sept. 12) in the journal Science reports. “Voyager has boldly gone…
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Outer space demilitarization agreement threatened by new technologies
from rawstory.com: Security experts warn weaknesses in treaties and exploitation of GPS are compromising the prohibition against space weapons. Developments in satellite technologies and cyber-warfare are threatening the internationally agreed demilitarization of outer space, according to legal and security experts. Weaknesses in existing treaties and military exploitation of GPS location systems are compromising the prohibition…
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Project aims to map giant galactic clouds of gas where stars are born
from UPI.com: Australia say they’ve begun to map the location of the most massive and mysterious objects in our galaxy, giant gas clouds where stars are born. Using a giant radio telescope in southeastern Australia, the researchers have identified the galactic clouds of molecular gas — some up to 100 light-years across — from the…
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New iPhone Has TouchID Fingerprint Authentication
from wired.com: When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology — reported as one of its most expensive purchases — there was a lot of speculation about how the company would incorporate biometrics in its product line. Many speculate(d) that the new Apple iPhone…will come with a fingerprint authentication system, and there are several ways it…
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Vietnam Bans Free Speech Online with Decree 72
from libertyblitzkrieg.com / by Micheal Kreiger: I’ve been watching the progressive erosion of civil liberties in Vietnam with a watchful eye for some time now. The country first appeared on my radar due to its particularly aggressive measures against the citizenry’s gold buying. As the progression usually goes, first a country will lash out against…
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Syria, Egypt Strife Sparks Surge In Cyber Attacks
from reuters.com: Syria’s civil war and political strife in Egypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet security company. More than half of incidents in the Gulf this year were so-called “hacktivist” attacks – which account for only…
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new…
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Why the Syrian Electronic Army loves to hack the American media
from washingtonpost.com: The New York Times web site went down on Tuesday afternoon in an external cyber attack that appears most likely committed by the Syrian Electronic Army. The informal pro-Assad hacker collective has made a habit of targeting prominent Western media outlets, typically by seizing their Twitter feeds but sometimes hitting their sites as…