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Here is a recent article that discusses additional exploit kits besides the Blackhole kit discussed in the video.

Update: Apple restored the password resets on Friday night. Apple suspended the password-reset functionality for its iCloud and iTunes services following a published report that hackers could exploit it to hijack other people's accounts. The password reset page stopped loading a few hours after The Verge reported there was an online tutorial that provided detailed instructions for taking unauthorized control of Apple accounts.

With everything going on in the news about this I found this to be a humorous approach to the whole thing. This article basically describes the NSA program on a fundamental level and how an everyday Joe (if they had enough data storage that is) could create their own spy program using these tactics.

A spy kit to go. Virtually everything you need to set up shop to gather information and spy on something ( corporate or private). All the hacking tools are nearly " off the shelf" and are most likely used for spying. Great post and article.

This article gave me a headache thinking about all the data collection. I am not surprised by this at all Google and Facebook are the biggest privacy violators out there. At what point do people drop off the grid to hide from this potential? The reality is that most people have no idea that this potential is out there except for the ones that want to exploit it.

Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, envisions a day in the not too distant future when a patient with severe memory loss can get help from an electronic implant. In people whose brains have suffered damage from Alzheimer's, stroke, or injury, disrupted neuronal networks often prevent long-term memories from forming.

WO!!!! Shut the front door this article is like a science fiction read but the technology if approved for humans can have a dramatic impact on folk who have family members with dementia/Alzheimer as this can possibly make life less stressful for caregivers. It would be nice to see parents and grandparents not have to suffer this dreaded disease if science and technology can provide solution. But I would like to have one myself as I can get all the help I can for TOTAL RECAL!!!

Wow, this is crazy. I don't know if I should be terrified or excited. This reminds of the old movie Jonny Mneumonic in the 90s. All these new sciences are great. The only problem that I have is bad people getting a hold of such technologies to exploiting weaker humans. I'm thinking along the line of putting false memories into people's brain and turning them into someone that they are not.

A site that you can subscribe to bi-weekly updates to computer security as a way to keep current on potential emerging threats.

This is a great site with a simple archive system. I read the article on the 80% increase for android malware in China. The Android platform is a security nightmare. Everyday it seems like a new exploit is exposed and it takes months for a update.

Interesting story that I'm sure some of you are already aware.

I was going to post this as well. I have done a number of projects on body sensors ad telemedicine that pointed out the type of vulnerabilities he said he could exploit up to the point of death. I sad story.