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Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico
Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico
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kkleiner writes “The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some… Continue reading
Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran
Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran
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eldavojohn writes “The BBC and AFP are releasing more juicy details about the now infamous Stuxnet worm that Iranian officials have confirmed infected 30,000 industrial computers inside Iran following those exact fears. The targeted systems that the worm is designed to infect are Siemens SCADA systems. Talking heads are speculating that the worm is too complex for an individual or group, causing blame to be placed on Israel or even the United States — although the US official claims they do not know the origin of the virus. Iran claims it… Continue reading
Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage
Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage
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Julie188 writes “That was probably the only time "DNS" will ever be a trending term on Twitter . The cause was Facebook’s 2.5 hour outage on Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts who’ve read Facebook’s explanation say that the site went down because Facebook gave itself a distributed denial-of-service attack when a system admin misconfigured a database. So why was DNS blamed? The 27-year-old communications protocol has been known to cause other, somewhat similar outages.”
UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details
UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details
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Andrew Smith writes “The UK taxman (HM Revenue & Customs) is reportedly using a stolen list of bank details to pursue wealthy individuals with off-shore accounts. The list was stolen by an employee of HSBC, and gave details of the bank’s customers with money in Swiss accounts. The bank employee fled to France, and the authorities there passed the details on to the UK tax collection agency.”
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Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China
Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China
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Trailrunner7 writes “Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading ‘Your account was recently accessed from China,’ and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged… Continue reading
Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts
Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts
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koterica writes “The Washington Post explains why the military prefers to have combat veterans rather than geeks running network security. ‘”It was supposed to be a war fighter unit, not a geek unit,” said task force veteran Jason Healey, who had served as an Air Force signals intelligence officer.
A fighter would understand, for instance, if an enemy had penetrated the networks and changed coordinates or target times, said Dusty Rhoads, a retired Air Force colonel and former F-117 pilot who recruited the original task force members. “A techie… Continue reading
Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime
Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime
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An anonymous reader writes “Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world.”
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DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service
DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service
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An anonymous reader writes “Viewable with Tor installed, search engine DuckDuckGo has erected a hidden service for secure, encrypted searches through the Tor network. While past attempts at hidden service search engines failed due to uptime or quality issues, DuckDuckGo marks the first time a real company operating a public search engine has offered a solid search engine as a hidden service for Tor users.”
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CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code
CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code
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skids writes “Coders hate having to rush code out the door before it’s ready. They also hate it when the customer starts making unreasonable demands. What they hate even more is when the customer reverse engineers the product and starts selling their own inferior product. But what really ticks them off is when that buggy, knockoff product might be used by targeting systems in military unmanned drone attacks, and the bugs introduce location errors of up to 13 meters. That’s what purportedly happened to software developer IISi, based on an… Continue reading
Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy’s Computer
Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy’s Computer
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An anonymous reader writes with an update to a story we discussed in August about Neil Weiner, a man who sought to ruin the life of a school caretaker by planting child pornography on his computer. Weiner has now been convicted on two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to 12 years in jail.
“The judge told Weiner that his plot to have Mr. Thompson sacked and prosecuted very nearly succeeded. Police had been… Continue reading