Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
from LifeHacker.com: In a blog post today, Twitter announced that they’re “experimenting with new ways of targeting ads,” which is their way of saying they’re planning to track you around the web—even when you leave Twitter—and relay that information to advertisers to craft better ads. Here’s how to opt out. If this sounds familiar, it…
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Homeland Security Considering Arming Border Drones With ‘Non-Lethal Weapons’
from StratRisks.com: Attacks by U.S. unmanned drones in the Middle East and Africa are commonplace, but it would be unheard of to see these aerial military weapons appearing over the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet it’s a possible scenario, according to a newly-unearthed document from the country’s leading federal border agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According…
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US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies
from washingtonexaminer.com: Revelations from European leaders on Monday that the National Security Agency bugged European Union offices in Washington and hacked into its computer network bring to light hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. government. In 2011, the Pentagon released its first formal cyber strategy, which called computer hacking from other nations an “act…
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VIDEO: Russian Proton-M rocket crashes, erupts in ball of fire
from RT.com: A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites crashed soon after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome. Immediately after takeoff, the rocket swerved to one side, tried to correct itself, but instead veered in the opposite direction. It then flew horizontally and started to come apart with its engines in full thrust. Making…
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Anti-virus software shows Facebook app stole Android users’ phone numbers without their consent
from EndTheLie.com: The mobile anti-virus and anti-malware software produced by Norton discovered that the Facebook application for Android was secretly identifying users’ phone numbers and sending them to Facebook’s servers. This news is especially interesting given Facebook’s role in the recently revealed National Security Agency (NSA) programs. Indeed, Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs…
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Voyager 1 Has Almost Left The Solar System
from forbes.com: Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977 – and now nearly 36 years later, it’s on the cusp of being the first human-made object to ever leave our solar system. Scientists at NASA believe it’s currently in the last region of the solar system before entering interstellar space. The boundary line (well, less…
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Three Potentially Habitable Planets Found Orbiting Gliese 667C
from universetoday.com: A closer look at the previously-studied nearby star Gliese 667C has revealed a treasure trove of planets – at least six – with three super-Earths in the habitable zone around the star. Gliese 667C is part of a triple star system (Gliese 667) and is just over one third of the mass of…
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US reportedly bugged EU offices, computer networks
from spiegel.de: America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to Der Spiegel information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyber attacks were also perpetrated against Brussels in New York and Washington. Information obtained by Der Spiegel shows that America’s National Security…
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Car Hacking Assassins
from PressForTruth.ca: George Orwell once said that “in a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Today activists, journalists and whistleblowers who are known for exposing corruption within our governments are finding themselves in the crosshairs of the information war. Many of the technologies at our disposal act as a double…
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#FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
from RT.com: Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out…
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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
from Wired.com: On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde…
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Ex-US general under investigation for leaks
Reports say former second-highest-ranking general at Pentagon is probed for leaks linked to Iran nuclear programme. from AlJazeera.com: One of the highest ranking military officers in the US is under investigation for allegedly leaking top secret information about a cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear programme, according to reports. NBC news reported on Thursday that retired…
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Know Your History: What is Project #ECHELON?
from nsawatch.org: Q – What is Project ECHELON? ECHELON is the term popularly used for an automated global interception and relay system operated by the intelligence agencies in five nations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (it is believed that ECHELON is the code name for the portion of the…