Bastille Day 2011: Malware Alert

Bastille Day Spam: C'est Très Mal This Bastille Day, heed the warning of Sophos and avoid a malicious email going around with the subject line "Bastille Day" or "Bastille Day Activities". The email contains an .rar...

Civil Liberties, Privacy, + Security

"If privacy is an essential component of personhood, how is personhood compromised by the information age, surveillance technologies, and other potential invasions of privacy? Similarly, what constitutes sufficient justification for the invasion of privacy by government,...

What happened in the case of the Pentagon Shooter?

This story post about a suspicious car near the Pentagon on Washington Boulevard amounts to nothing. Yet, what about the shots fired at the Pentagon and Marine Corps recruiting sites last year? Apparently people...

Lunch with a radical Muslim

What this story from Fox News illustrates is the lack of intelligence and deficient vetting procedure by the Department of Defense at this point in the Bush Administration following 9/11. To be fair, I am sure that...

LulzSec Releases Sony BMG User Info after SQL Injection Hack

Lulz Security hacks Sony BMG, Steals 1 Million Users' Info Lulz Security, fresh from their PBS Tupac hack, has released the user info of a million Sony subscribers... info that was not encrypted in the first...

Pentagon: 'Cyber Attacks are Acts of War'

Pentagon Vows to Respond to Cyber Attacks with Military Force The Pentagon has declared that it will treat cyber attacks as acts of war, and will reserve the option to retaliate with military force. This comes on the heels of the attack on Lockheed-Martin, a major US ...

O'BAMA POWER - President Barack Obama Arrives in Dublin On Monday

I live in the city centre and have found the security arragements for the Queen to be a bit tedious but I did accept that they were necessary. Today the bus routes through the city centre were changed because work...

Sony Phishing Site: Hacked Again

Sony Hacked Again: Phishing Sites on Sony Servers Sony, having just relaunched PSN after a month-long outage, has been hacked again. F-Secure found fishing sites run on Sony servers. While the latest hack that put up...

Pakistan to Yemen, Drone Attacks are Greatest Security Risk

With the May 5th Hellfire missile attack in Nissab in Yemen’s Shabwa province the United States has continued yet another campaign of military airstrikes inside a country that is thought to have a significant population of Taliban fighters. As in Pakistan, the US...

Are Cruise Ships Equipped To Handle Bomb Threats On The High Seas

The local news media is reporting that Royal Caribbean recently received a bomb threat aboard the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. According to a news release by the U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Caribbean's reservation center in Wichita, Kansas received a call...

Facebook Leaked Personal Data to Advertisers says US Sec. Company

"US computer security firm Symantec on Tuesday said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for advertisers to access profiles, pictures, chat and other private data at the social network. Symantec discovered that certain Facebook applications leaked tokens that act...

SafeHouse: WSJ WikiLeaks Rival Has Weak Security

WSJ's SafeHouse Blasted for Poor Security If you are a would-be whistleblower who is considering sharing secrets, stay away from SafeHouse for the time being. The Wall Street Journal launched SafeHouse as a would-be...

'Watch bin Laden Death Video' on Facebook: Not Virus but Scam

Fake BBC Osama bin Laden Death Video: Facebook Survey Scam If you see a post on your Facebook wall from a friend that says something like "BBC News- Osama bin Laden Killed (LIVE VIDEO)", don't click it. It's a scam....

Real-Life V for Vendetta: Pre-Emptive Royal Wedding Arrests

Squatters, 'Anarchists' Arrested Before Royal Wedding The Met didn't get the memo that V for Vendetta was a work of fiction. 20 people were arrested before the Royal Wedding, despite committing no crime to warrant a...

PlayStation Network Hacked: Was Credit Card Info Stolen?

Sony: Playstation Network Hacked, User Info Taken The attack on the Sony Playstation Network was worse than originally thought. Rather than just causing a service outage  (PSN is still down), hackers were able...

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