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P Krolak

'Nitro' Hackers Reportedly Attack Dozens of Companies in Chemical, Defense Industries ... - 0 views

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Symantec Cyberwarfare Stuxnet Nitro Intellectual property theift

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  • P Krolak on 01 Nov 11
     
    Hackers reportedly used an off-the-shelf computer attack created in China to compromise the computers of at least 48 companies, including in the chemical and defense industries -- an attack described as being similar to the notorious Stuxnet virus, if not as severe. The goal of the attacks, reported Monday by security software company Symantec, "appears to be to collect intellectual property such as design documents, formulas, and manufacturing processes." The purpose: "industrial espionage, collecting intellectual property for competitive advantage." Symantec dubbed the attack "Nitro" and said a total of 29 companies in the chemical industry were targeted, in addition to 19 in other sectors, starting in late July. Among the companies were some that develop materials used primarily in military vehicles. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/31/nitro-hackers-reportedly-attack-dozens-companies-in-chemical-defense-industries/?test=latestnews#ixzz1cTIClsp4
P Krolak

Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says - 0 views

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cyber warfare US infrastructure water plant Springfield Il

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  • P Krolak on 18 Nov 11
     
    And so it begins in the real world and not in a movie, or lab demo. This is a real attack on US infrastructure via the internet. Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what appears to be the first reported case of a malicious cyber attack damaging a critical computer system in the United States, according to an industry expert. On Nov. 8, a municipal water district employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city's water pump control system, and a technician determined the system had been remotely hacked into from a computer located in Russia, said Joe Weiss, an industry security expert who obtained a copy of an Illinois state fusion center report describing the incident. "This is a big deal," said Weiss. The report stated it is unknown how many other systems might be affected.
Beibei Yang

New Facebook Trusted/HTTPS Settings Allow You To Browse Securely - 0 views

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  • New Facebook Trusted/HTTPS Settings Allow You To Browse Securelyby Meghan Stabler on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 2:40pmRecently there have been a number of simple hacks that allow your Facebook to be compromised. Today, Facebook announced a new feature that will help solve many of your security issues. You can now easily prevent that with this awesome (and long overdue) new feature from Facebook that allows you to browse the website securely. Spread the word! Why?  Because it’s optional and you have to enable it yourself ! To enable it simply go to the Account Security section of the Account Settings page and enable it. Note that I have tested this feature and should you use Facebook over a Corporate Network (VPN) and other similar secure access systems, not all images and photos will display due to the security layer in place.  Essentially it works by adding secure encryption to your browser, similar to when you’re checking out on an e-commerce website. This should become a DEFAULT setting for anyone who uses Facebook. Until it becomes the default setting make sure to protect yourself and change it today, it only takes a second… “Starting today we’ll provide you with the ability to experience Facebook entirely over HTTPS. You should consider enabling this option if you frequently use Facebook from public Internet access points found at coffee shops, airports, libraries, or schools,” the post says. “The option will exist as part of our advanced security features, which you can find in the Account Security section of the Account Settings page.” Using HTTPS may mean that some pages will take a little bit longer to load, and some third-party applications aren’t currently supported, the company said. The option is rolling out over the next few weeks. “We hope to offer HTTPS as a default whenever you are using Facebook sometime in the future,” the post says. “Every user’s Facebook page is unique and it’s been complex pulling together all the different parts,” said Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan when asked what the time frame is to making HTTPS the default setting. “It’s an interesting technical challenge for the company.” Click here for more information on HTTPS After you modify that account setting you will notice that whenever you browse Facebook your browser bar will show “https://www.Facebook.com/“  and you should notice the LOCK graphic denoting that you are now browsing on a secure encrypted protection.  It will look something like this:  typically appearing in your browsers bottom right corner,this will vary by browser.  If you don’t see a lock, then you’re not protected.
    • Beibei Yang
      Beibei Yang on 28 Jan 11
       
      In Facebook, go to Account -> Account Settings -> Account Security, and check "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible".
Beibei Yang

The untouchable Mean Girls - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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bostonglobe cyberbullying bullying phoebeprince 91.113 facebook socialnetwork

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  • Phoebe kept walking, past the abuse, past the can, past the white picket fence, into her house. Then she walked into a closet and hanged herself. Her 12-year-old sister found her.You would think this would give the bullies who hounded Phoebe some pause. Instead, they went on Facebook and mocked her in death.They told State Police detectives they did nothing wrong, had nothing to do with Phoebe killing herself.
  • “Things like this aren’t supposed to happen in South Hadley,’’ said Darby O’Brien, a high school parent, wondering why the bullies who tormented Phoebe are still in school. “And so instead of confronting the evil among us, the reality that there are bullies roaming the corridors at South Hadley High, people are blaming the victim, looking for excuses why a 15-year-old girl would do this. People are in denial.’’
P Krolak

Surveillence Society -- security and privacy in the Internet Age - 0 views

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surveillence society smart sensors Internet law security

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  • P Krolak on 25 Sep 11
     
    The advance of wireless technology, smart sensors, and cloud computing have changed the government's approach to security in the face of 9-11 and global terrorism. The Internet is being used in ways we could not have imaged a decade ago. This powerpoint explores issues of surveillence, privacy, and evovling law in the context of world events.
P Krolak

Dead Sea Scrolls available online - 1 views

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  • P Krolak on 27 Sep 11
     
    Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts. The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images.
  • P Krolak on 28 Oct 11
     
    Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts. The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images.
P Krolak

Feds concerned about hackers opening prison doors - 0 views

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STUXNET Federal prison hacks security

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  • P Krolak on 04 Nov 11
     
    This almost reads like something out of a made for TV movie but is real.;-( Federal authorities are concerned about new research showing U.S. prisons are vulnerable to computer hackers, who could remotely open cell doors to aid jailbreaks. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is "aware of this research and taking it very seriously," spokesman Chris Burke told The Washington Times. Mr. Burke was reacting to research by private experts who found that the security systems in most American prisons are run by computer software vulnerable to hackers. "You could open every cell door, and the system would be telling the control room they are all closed," said John J. Strauchs, a former CIA operations officer who helped develop a cyber-attack on a simulated prison computer system and described it at a hackers' convention in Miami last week. The security systems in most American prisons are run by special computer equipment called industrial control systems, or ICS. They are also used to control power plants, water treatment facilities and other critical national infrastructure. ICS has increasingly been targeted by hackers because an attack on one such system successfully sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009.
P Krolak

Foundations of security: what every programmer needs to know (Google eBook) - 0 views

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Security Networks indentity theft

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  • P Krolak on 18 Oct 11
     
    Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know teaches new and current software professionals state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques they need to build secure software systems. Once youre enabled with the techniques covered in this book, you can start to alleviate some of the inherent vulnerabilities that make today's software so susceptible to attack. The book uses web servers and web applications as running examples throughout the book. For the past few years, the Internet has had a "wild, wild west" flavor to it. Credit card numbers are stolen in massive numbers. Commercial web sites have been shut down by Internet worms. Poor privacy practices come to light and cause great embarrassment to the corporations behind them. All these security-related issues contribute at least to a lack of trust and loss of goodwill. Often there is a monetary cost as well, as companies scramble to clean up the mess when they get spotlighted by poor security practices. It takes time to build trust with users, and trust is hard to win back. Security vulnerabilities get in the way of that trust. Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know helps you manage risk due to insecure code and build trust with users by showing how to write code to prevent, detect, and contain attacks. The lead author cofounded the Stanford Center for Professional Development Computer Security Certification. This book teaches you how to be more vigilant and develop a sixth sense for identifying and eliminating potential security vulnerabilities. Youll receive hands-on code examples for a deep and practical understanding of security. Youll learn enough about security to get the job done.
P Krolak

Devs respond to Google Maps API limits - 0 views

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map developer fee for use Google Maps API

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  • P Krolak on 01 Nov 11
     
    Google Maps has introduced usage limits. According to a blog post by Thor Mitchell, product manager, Google Maps API, developers must now reduce their usage below set limits, opt-in to paying for excess usage or purchase a Maps API Premier licence. Update: A Google spokesperson has provided .net with the following statement: "Non-profits are not subject to these usage limits. For example, a disaster relief map is not subject to the usage limits even if it has been developed and/or is hosted by a commercial entity. In addition we recommend that eligible non-profits apply for a Maps API Premier license through the Google Earth Outreach program. This provides a number of benefits, including the right to opt-out of advertising, higher quotas for Maps API web services, and technical support." "We understand that developers need time to evaluate their usage, determine if they are affected, and respond if necessary," said Mitchell, noting that enforcement will only occur as of early 2012. He reasoned as follows on the changes: "[For] continued growth in adoption of the Maps API we need to secure its long-term future by ensuring that even when used by the highest volume for-profit sites, the service remains viable." Developers we contacted were split on the decision. Matthew Budd of Yammayap told us he's "been using the Google Maps API for years and restrictions come and go". He said that Google realises its system is widely used and imposing restrictions is inevitable. "All this restriction does is clarify the reasoning behind using Google Maps as a solution and shouldn't affect general everyday usage, where a whole online application doesn't rely on it," he added, suggesting that if you do need to use Google Maps as the basis for a whole application for a client, it makes sense to purchase a Premier license to lift the restrictions.
michaelpenta

Earthquakes | xkcd - 0 views

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  • michaelpenta on 02 Sep 11
     
    FROM THE BLOG: As many people have pointed out, my comic about tweets outrunning seismic waves seems to have been widely verified in yesterday's earthquake: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/earthquake-twitter-users-learned-tremors-226481 It's always nice to see real-life confirmation of your calculations! The quake started in Virginia at 13:51:04 EST, where most of my family lives.
P Krolak

Cleaning machines 'based on military robots' - 0 views

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irobot cell phone and vision war robots

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  • P Krolak on 05 Oct 11
     
    Experts have been promising for decades to put a robot in everyone's home - and finally robots are beginning to make the transition from specialist to everyday use. Spencer Kelly discovers the similarities between robots used for cleaning and those used by soldiers in Afghanistan for a very different purpose.
P Krolak

Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet - 0 views

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drone fleet virus

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  • P Krolak on 07 Oct 11
     
    A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military's most important weapons system.
P Krolak

Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When? - 0 views

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data ownership in social media privacy twitter

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  • P Krolak on 06 Oct 11
     
    We have been investigating how the government seeks information from social networking sites such as Twitter and how the sites respond to these requests in our ongoing social networking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, filed with the help of UC Berkeley's Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. As part of our request to the Department of Justice and other federal agencies, we asked for copies of the guides the sites themselves send out to law enforcement explaining how agents can obtain information about a site's users and what kinds of information are available. The information we got back enabled us to make an unprecedented comparison of these critical documents, as most of the information was not available publicly before now.
P Krolak

How US Government Spies Use Facebook (Updated) - 0 views

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givernment spying Facebook social networks

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  • P Krolak on 06 Oct 11
     
    The US Department of Justice this week released slides from a presentation deck titled Obtaining and Using Evidence from Social Networking Sites. The document was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The DoJ presentation describes Facebook as much more co-operative with law enforcement requests for user information than Twitter and MySpace are. Update: Facebook's Barry Schnitt contests this interpretation of the document, says the company is resistant to illegitimate government requests for user information and offers one example of that resistance in a comment posted below. The document also explains to officers what the advantages of going undercover on social networking sites are. The EFF posted IRS training documents for using various internet tools as well, including Google Street View, but those were much tamer than the Justice file.
P Krolak

Google Maps to charge for usage 31 October 2011 - 0 views

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Google maps map api developer fee fro use

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  • P Krolak on 01 Nov 11
     
    Users of Google Map links for their websites will be charged for heavy usage of the service, it has been revealed. From 1 January 2012, Google will charge for the Google Maps API service when more than the limit of 25,000 map "hits" are made in a day. Websites, especially travel firms, use Google Maps to link customers to a view of the destinations they inquire about. Google is rumoured to be charging $4 per 1,000 views in excess of the limit.
P Krolak

'Hackers' cut Palestinian phone and internet systems - 0 views

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Palestine Attack UNESCO vote cyberwarfare

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  • P Krolak on 01 Nov 11
     
    The main phone network in the West Bank and Gaza has suffered a sustained attack by computer hackers, the Palestinian Authority (PA) says. It says most of the Palestinian territory has lost internet service. PA spokesman Ghassan Ghattib said the attacks started in the morning and came from multiple sources around the world. He said he did not know if the hacking was linked to the Palestinian leadership's successful bid to get membership of Unesco on Monday. The move by the UN's cultural and scientific organisation was strongly criticised by Israel and the United States. The US immediately announced it was cutting off all of its funding to UN body. Prolonged lack of access to the internet would prove costly to many Palestinian businesses.
fgmart

Blown to Bits - 0 views

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  • fgmart on 02 Feb 11
     
    This is a new book by Hal Abelson (a renowned computer scientist and computer science education researcher) and two others that delves into how pervasive use of computing is changing our world. It combines technological and sociological material. The full title is "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion." The book is used in UC Berkeley's "CS 0" introductory/non-majors course. It's a goldmine of material. It's published under a Creative Commons license, so you can buy a hard copy or just download the PDF. I am sure that you will find it valuable if you assign readings for any of the topics we have been discussing over the last few weeks.
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