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DARPA Wants Matrix-style Virtual World for Cybergeddon
theregister.co.uk — The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace battlefields of the future. This would allow America's fighting nerds to train for the net conflicts of tomorrow, mounting attacks on simulated enemies..More… (Security)
jaybolSecurity Flaw Turns Gmail into Open-Relay Server
arstechnica.com — A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets.More… (Security)
MakiMaki
How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net?
blog.wired.com — How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading? Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren't telling or sharing raw data).More… (Security)
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Government wiretaps—the ones we know about—up 20% for 2007
arstechnica.com — Data released this week on 2007 wiretaps shows that nearly all intercepts are for "portable devices" and 80 percent of all taps target drug criminals. Secret FISA warrants are also up, and no one knows what's happening with warrantless surveillance at the NSA.More… (Security)
MrBabyMan
Wiretapping is really, really easy
nytimes.com — Ask Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else.More… (Security)
verge100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered
pcworld.com — The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."More… (Security)
chris1234
The Internet as a Walled Garden?
blog.wired.com — Now it seems the only question is whether the government will be able to turn the net into a controllable, monitorable and trackable pre-internet AOL-type service or whether the chaotic net will live on as just another frontier for the military-industrial complex to start an arm's race and rake in billions of government dollars.More… (Security)
The 'Hard Disk Crusher' Doesn't Mess Around
crave.cnet.com — This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. "It basically 'drills' through the hard drive's spindles which physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover any data," OhGizmo says.More… (Security)
nowsourcingProtecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches
eff.org — EFF: HOWTO keep your laptop from being searched at the borderMore… (Security)
igeldardThe ABCs of securing your wireless network
arstechnica.com — Sometimes you don't need to know everything about wireless to secure a home or home-office network; you only need to know what's important. More… (Security)
spuncokeYahoo Banner Ads Infecting Visitors With Malware
cyberinsecure.com — Over the past few days, Yahoo has been exposing visitors to fraudware banner ads and also ads that try to trick them into installing malware. The ads are displayed across numerous web portal sections, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Astrology.More… (Security)
thebookmarkerBeating the codebreakers with quantum cryptography
alphagalileo.org — Cryptography is an arms race, but the finish line may be fast approaching. Up to now, each time the codemakers made a better mousetrap, codebreakers breed a better mouse. But quantum cryptography theoretically could outpace the codebreakers and win the race. Forever.More… (Security)
geekchic
Google's pointers on countering Web spam
news.com — Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team and an engineer who's been working on the problem for eight years, offered some tips about combating it during a speech at the Web 2.0 Expo here.More… (Security)
putergirlGenius Hacker Released from Prison; Lands Job with IT Firm
online.wsj.com — When Société Générale announced Jan. 24 that it had lost €4.9 billion (now valued at $7.68 billion) due to risky and unauthorized trading by Mr. Kerviel, the bank depicted the former trader as a devious information-technology whiz.More… (Security)
diggrnumber1
World's elite hackers warn chains of cyber terrorism threat
news.bbc.co.uk — High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned. Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia's government and some firms last year. More… (Security)
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