Tag: defcon
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Defcon 4/8: Hack, Talk, Listen & Panic
Uncle Scam wants you (to fight hackers) // Federal infotech pros say US at high risk for cyberattack // Security ‘guru’ Richard Clarke talks cyberwar // NASA listens for signs of life from Mars lander // April Fool’s UFO report sparks panic in Jordan
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Defcon 4/1: CyberCensors & Torrents of Controversy
Censorship act: New amendment could block Wikileaks // Army intel ACORN-ing Wikileaks? Web publisher under attack // UK lords pass controversial internet piracy bill // Computer-controlled swarm of bacteria builds tiny pyramid
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Defcon 3/25: Killswitch, Siphons & Existential Threats
Large Hadron Collider cranked to ‘maximum redline power’ // US Secret Service paid TJX hacker $75k a year // Your health, tax & search data siphoned // Why CNN exec fears social-networking sites // Google exits China – except for part known as Hong Kong // Chinese media: Google is tied to US intelligence
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Defcon 3/18: Cyberpocalypse, Command & Control
US to roll out major broadband policy // Google ‘99.9%’ certain to pull China plug // FBI uses phony profiles on social networks to track suspects // Your new Facebook friend: the IRS
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Defcon 3/4: Cyberwar Hype, Hadron & The Grid
Cryptome’s John Young: Net is police state surveillance grid // Cyberwar hype intended to destroy the open internet // Critics not satisfied with partial revelation of secret cybersecurity plan // Don’t let White House ignore EMP threat
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Defcon 2/25 – Cryptome, Catastrophe, Echelon & CERN
Microsoft takes down whistleblower site, Cryptome.org* Update: Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart* Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ* Intel hit by cyber attack* Playstation 3: The future of big brother surveillance?* Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks* US pinpoints coder behind Google attack* Echelon computers can’t cope with bad lines* Italian…
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defcon 1/28: real-time tracking, cia connections & more
‘defects’ in e-passports allow real-time tracking*china to US: shut up about ‘so-called internet freedom’*google’s china hypocrisy ignores deep cia connections*google toolbar caught tracking users when ‘disabled’*oracle software & the cia*80% of fed sites miss dns security deadline*paypal freezes wikileaks account* computers down at all 168 california dmv offices*2nd US man admits ddos attack on scientology*internet…
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defcon 12/12: regimes, lists, biometrics & privacy promis
how to shut down the ‘net: a guide for repressive regimes* will 2010 bring a wake-up call for cybersecurity?*fbi: 19,000 matches to terrorist screening list in ’09* bank firewalls cracked by cyberhackers*men charged with hijacking dod paychecks* apple loses $21.7m patent suit, appeal in progress*surgery fools japan’s fingerprint checks* radio nodes may succeed rfid tags*verichip’s…
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defcon 11/19: arms race, web games, cern & biometrics
raytheon to provide cybersecurity across dod networks* obama said to be close again to naming cybersecurity chief*place your bets: is cyber czar announcement really near?*US cyber defenses full of holes* senate panel: 80% of cyber attacks preventable*web security company warns of ‘cyber arms race’* icann attendees: america, surrender the root zone file!*nasa: the moon is…