Tag: defcon
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6/30 defcon: copywrong, dislike, discoveries
leaked: uk copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with govt to discuss national web-censorship regime* terrorists terrorised: al qaeda hacked* scotus term in review: it’s a mixed bag* as hulu flirts, comcast must stay mum* facebook 10th most hated company in US* news corp. on verge of myspace sale* judge: google can be sued for wiretapping…
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6/23 defcon: strategies, taxes & trident tribunal
executive orders give pentagon new cyberwar guidelines* officials ‘expected to announce the entire strategy soon’* ex-dhs chief warns of cyberwar with hackers* cyber attacks grow more severe, frequent, say it practitioners* bitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange* malware bitcoin theft a false flag on revolutionary currency?* states look to internet taxes to close budget gaps*…
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5/26 Defcon: Stuxnet, Square & Born This Way
Senior defense official squirms on US involvement in Stuxnet // Flashback: Israel tested Stuxnet at Dimona // Senator blocks bill giving feds power to blacklist piracy sites // Square tries to make wallets obsolete // Google faces lawsuit over mobile phone ‘wallet’
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5/19 Defcon: Blockage, Bills, Threats & Storms
Obama DOJ tries to block unclassified info from NSA leaker trial* new yorker mag sheds new light on nsa’s warrantless wiretapping & data mining* senate bill requires warrant for email, cloud content* senate bill makes illegal internet streaming a felony* bill clinton: create internet agency* US secret service questions 13yr-old over facebook ‘threat’* twitter feed…
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5/12 defcon: secret service, globalhell, expendables
cyberwarfare rules included in defense bill* white house to unveil cyber security proposal* US secret service takes to twitter* after approving nbc buyout, fcc commish becomes comcast lobbyist; fcc chairman applauds colleague departing to become fcc lobbyist* obama meets with giffords, husband (and his identical astro-twin) in florida* giffords aims to return for shuttle launch*…
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5/5 defcon: re-entry & removal
video: Spacecraft re-entry over Wash. & Oregon on may3?* Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn* Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains* Mozilla Refuses to Block Extension for dhs – As Government’s ICE Effort Continues to Look Silly* flashback: ‘mafiaa fire’: firefox add-on to reverse US govt domain censorship Gabrielle…
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4/28 defcon: guilt trips down the surveillance highway
obama on manning: ‘he broke the law’ – so much for fair trial* video: ‘pentagon papers’ whistleblower daniel ellsberg says bradley manning can’t get fair trial after obama’s comment* some fbi cyber agents lack adequate skills, report finds* tomtom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops* android data tied to users? some say yes*…
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4/21 Defcon: Manning Up & Tracking You Down
Manning under mental evaluation, being moved to Kansas // Protesters interrupt Obama to sing support for Wikileaks suspect // President Obama’s 4/20 Facebook townhall // Poker today, alternative news tomorrow?: US shuttering online gambling sites // White House authoring new cybersecurity bill granting expanded powers to DHS
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4/14 Defcon: Opt-Out Botnet & Fakebook Revolutions
Law would let you ‘opt-out’ of online web tracking // In a surprise appeal: TJX hacker claims US authorized his crimes as ‘key undercover secret service informant’ // ‘Facebook revolutions’ & people-powered coups: US trains activists to evade security forces
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3/31 defcon: morpheus, auroras, smartbombs & omg’s!
secret space plane can’t hide from amateur sleuths* secret x-37b space plane caught on video by skywatchers* nasa tracking ‘a large object approaching the sun’* video: will ‘morpheus’ be the first vehicle on the moon since apollo?* video: stunningly beautiful time-lapse footage of aurora* nsa said to focus its decrypting skills on nasdaq cyber attack*…
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3/24 defcon: mobile, micro, mystery, messenger
at&t to purchase t-mobile for US$39b; as strangling of the free internet begins continues* microsoft, feds pull plug on spam network* fbook traffic mysteriously passed through chinese isp* goldman programmer gets 8yrs for code theft* tracking your wi-fi trail at the airport* first tweet & other communication firsts* nasa ‘messenger’ enters orbit around mercury* chavez…
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Assange: Internet Greatest Spying Machine
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warned Cambridge students, who waited hours to hear him speak, internet is “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen,” in article at guardian.co.uk.
