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Manning pleads guilty, hoped leaks would "cause society to reconsider" war on terror

Manning pleads guilty, hoped leaks would "cause society to reconsider" war on terror
  • Posted March 1, 2013, 10:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • During his military trial at Ft. Meade, Bradley Manning, age 25, plead guilty yesterday to 10 of 22 charges stemming from the submission of classified information to Wikileaks in 2010. Manning has claimed responsibility for obtaining and sharing hundreds of…

Pentagon to quintuple cyber defense personnel

Pentagon to quintuple cyber defense personnel
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • Although yet to be formally announced, a report by the Washington Post reveals plans by the Department of Defense to bolster its Cyber Command unit. The Pentagon's cyber defense force is currently comprised of roughly 900 military and civilian personnel,…

NASA hacker won't be extradited to U.S. due to Asperger's

NASA hacker won
  • Posted October 16, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, IT Security
  • U.K. citizen Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the U.S. for his suspected role in the intrusion of sensitive government computers, namely those of NASA, the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. British officials have refused to send McKinnon abroad…

Researchers: Don't trust satellite phones, encryption broken

Researchers: Don
  • Posted February 2, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Mobile Computing
  • Two researchers, Be­ne­dikt Dries­sen and Ralf Hund, managed to break the proprietary ciphers used for satellite phones, GMR-1 and GMR-2. In a public talk about their discovery, the researchers said, "Don't trust satellite phones". …

Mobile phone users to be punished as "war criminals" in North Korea

Mobile phone users to be punished as "war criminals" in North Korea
  • Posted January 30, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, The Web
  • According to the country's government, North Koreans caught using a mobile phone will be deemed as war criminals and punished accordingly, The Telegraph reports. The same punishment also extends to those attempting to flee the country's borders, an offense that…

Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere after source code leak

Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere after source code leak
  • Posted January 26, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Software
  • In a PDF outlining the impact of its proprietary source code being stolen, Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere until the next update is issued. This warning includes users who are running pcAnywhere 12.0, 12.1 and 12.5, which is the latest version.…

China, not India, may be behind government espionage

China, not India, may be behind government espionage
  • Posted January 20, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • A series of memos leaked earlier this month implicated the Indian government in possible espionage against the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). Reuters reports that new information stemming from a U.S. investigation suggests Chinese hackers may actually be…

Hackers DDoS Israel websites, will expose Norton source code tomorrow

Hackers DDoS Israel websites, will expose Norton source code tomorrow
  • Posted January 16, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • Fueled by anti-government sentiment, hackers continue their string of attacks against Israel. On Monday, a distributed denial of service attack was launched against two websites: the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national Israeli airline. The DDoS attack…

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