Tag: conference
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Defcon 5/6: Global Cooperation & Orwellian Legislation
Summit in Dallas targets cybercrime – sponsored by Goldman Sachs & Microsoft, etc // IBM’s city sim trains planners to tackle future problems for growing urban centers // Cyber attacks hyped to justify net regulation // Report reams admins for secretly snapping student pics
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4/22 Binge & Purge: Pinkwash, Raw Milk & Meat Residues
Komen makes mockery of self with KFC pinkwash campaign // Fake food safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time // US government continues its war on raw milk // ABC grills Vilsack on meat residues // Wholesale prices rise most in 26yrs as food costs explode
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Pentagon’s Cybercom Says Civilian Infrastructure “Legitimate” Target
When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates launched Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) last June, the memorandum authorizing its stand-up specified it as a new “subordinate unified command” under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), one that “must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and…
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Global Food Reserve Needed to Stabilize Prices
A global crop reserve system is needed to reduce price volatility, curb speculation and prevent a food crisis, said researchers from Germany and France. Centralized global stocks could bring “peace and quiet” to world food markets…
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Black-Cyber-Operations On The Rise
Black-Cyber-Operations have become all too common, launching highly sophisticated cyber actions against their targets that go undetected for months or years.
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pentagon searches for ‘digital dna’ to identify hackers
from danger room: One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to develop the “cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA” that can identify even the best-cloaked hackers… It’s the…
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defcon 10/8: search results, saturn rings & cybersoldiers
google pulls pirate bay from search results*’strategic space symposium’ nov 2-4*saic forms strategic alliance with smart grid tech company bpl global, ltd.*after 5yrs, space tourism a work in progress*astronomers discover massive saturn ring*keesler afb to train cyber warriors in mississippi*threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: un says*presidential powers during cybersecurity emergencies*
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EMP Prep: “E-Bomb” Doomsday Conference Starts Today
IT’LL FRY PACE makers, destroy iPhones, and turn laptops into useless paperweights. It’s the scariest thing most people outside the Washington Beltway have never heard of: electromagnetic pulse weapons. And you can learn all about it starting today at the EMPACT conference in Niagara Falls, New York.