This might grow interesting. When did
it start? What percentage of Mitsubishi locations have been
hacked/infected? Are they the ONLY defense contractor hacked?
"When Mitsubishi announced in
September it had been hacked
in August it was criticized for keeping quiet for a month. Now
it appears that the
attackers got nuclear power plant and military aircraft details
according to sources
quoted in the Japanese media."
[From the article:
The computers were found to have been
hacked in August, and 83 computers were
found to have been infected with a virus. Those computers were
spread out over 11 locations, including
the Kobe and Nagasaki shipyards that construct submarines and
destroyers as well as the Nagoya facility that is in charge of
manufacturing a guided missile system.
At that time, Mitsubishi Heavy
officials said no confirmation had been made that information related
to products or clients had leaked.
According to sources, a further
investigation into dozens of computers at other
locations found evidence that information about defense
equipment and nuclear power plants had been transmitted from those
computers to outside the company.
Identity theft is so simple, you can do
it while on parole... (Hey, a guy has to pay his lawyers!)
Identity
thief nabbed with over 300,000 victim profiles
Robert Delgado, 40, who lived in a Los
Angeles suburb called Monterey Park, pleaded guilty earlier this year
to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and was sentenced on Monday. At
the time of his arrest in March 2011, Delgado had already been on
parole for identity theft.
Court documents show Delgado was
accused of obtaining credit card numbers, forging credit cards and
government-issued ID sporting his (or a co-conspirator's) photograph,
and using the identity documents to buy flat screen TVs, power tools,
electronics, and jewelry. Those in turn would be sold for cash.
How ineffective is the TSA? The
article is funnier than a the Sunday Comics. If the TSA is such a
joke, why not eliminate the whole requirement for Airport security
rather than put a bunch of individual contractors in its place?
Congressman:
Secret Report On TSA Pat Downs, Body Scanner Failures Will “Knock
Your Socks Off”
October 26, 2011 by Dissent
Steve Watson reports:
The chairman of
the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees
the TSA, has asserted that the release of a classified report on TSA
security failures will renew calls for the replacement of the agency
with private airport security personnel.
“The failure
rate (for body scanning equipment) is classified but it would
absolutely knock your socks off,” Florida Republican, Rep. John L.
Mica told reporters during a briefing Monday.
Read more on Infowars.
There is just too much money
involved... I wonder what you would need to pay for an “anonymous
card?”
"The two largest credit-card
networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new
business: using what they know about people's credit-card purchases
for targeting
them with ads online. 'A MasterCard
document obtained by the Journal outlines some of the company's
plans, which included linking Web users with purchases. According to
document, the credit card provider said it believes "you are
what you buy." ... Visa
is planning a similar service, which would aggregate its
customers' purchase history into segments, including location, to
make ads more effective at appealing to people in a respective
area.'"
“Well, they have all this data just
sitting there – of course we want to browse through it!”
Google’s
updated Transparency Report reveals increase in government requests
October 25, 2011 by Dissent
Google released its semi-annual
Transparency
Report today, and it’s generating a lot of buzz. Here are two
articles on the report you may want to read:
Elinor Mills’ on
CNET, Google:
Governments seek more about you than ever
Ryan Singel on
Threat Level, U.S.
Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Percent in Six Months
The data are intriguing, but
frustrating, because of what they do not include or partial out.
Like other privacy advocates, I would like to see even greater
disclosure as to how many requests for user information were just
requests and how many were subpoenas, warrants, or “emergency
requests.”
For my Ethical Hackers. Just because
they claim the records don't exist does not mean they won't prosecute
you for hacking into their system and taking them – be sure to hide
your tracks.
Feds
Embrace Lying in Response to Public-Record Requests
The Justice Department is proposing new
Freedom of Information Act rules allowing the government to inform
the public that records do not exist even if they do.
The proposal, published in the Federal
Registrar for comment, may codify existing practice,
as the government has already lied to requesters of public records
that relevant documents did not exist. Under normal practice, which
seems Orwellian enough, the government may assert that it can
neither confirm nor deny that relevant records exist if the
matter involves national security.
Under the latest proposal, however,
FOIA requesters might not sue to challenge
the designation because the government has told them they
did not exist, civil rights groups said.
More significant that it appears at
first glance... Your automated “Power” searches will have to be
revised...
Google
Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
Google+ is the fastest-growing social
network in history, with 40 million users since its June launch. To
help them focus, Google’s quietly shuttered
a number of products, removing iGoogle and Google Reader’s social
features and closing Google Labs, Buzz, Jaiku and Code Search in the
last two weeks alone.
But in doing so, they also killed off
one of its oldest and most useful tools, from its most popular
product.
On Wednesday, Google
retired a longer-standing “plus”: the + operator, a standard bit
of syntax used to force words and phrases to appear in search
results.
Unlike their other recent closures, the
removal of + was made without any public
announcement. It could only be found by doing a search,
which advised the user to double-quote the string from now on, making
“searches” look like “awkward” “Zagat” “reviews.”
… Geeks from Reddit
and Hacker
News were quick to condemn the move.
The
Alternatives
As Google marginalizes its core base,
it’s opened the door for smaller, more nimble startups, such as
DuckDuckGo, a one-man project
that’s quickly becoming the go-to search engine for
discriminating nerds.
For those unwilling to leave Google’s
deep index, there are other solutions. One pseudonymous hacker made
FindErr, a simple
proxy that adds quotes to every search before shuttling
the user off to Google.
My personal favorite is this simple
userscript
created by electrotype
for Hacker News, which instantly adds quote marks to every submitted
search. It works in Chrome natively and Firefox with the
Greasemonkey plugin.
This could be fun
"The BBC reports that the Royal
Society is putting all of its old papers online and has a
fascinating sample of articles from the first several years. You
can reach all the old journal articles from this
page at the Royal Society by selecting a journal and going to
past
issues."
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