Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Apple and Google Keep Voice App Data for Two Years
April 20th, 2013Via: Engadget: It’s no secret that Apple hangs onto your Siri data for some length of time (as other companies so with search data and the like), but it hasn’t been clear exactly how long it keeps that data sitting on its servers. Wired has now cleared that up somewhat, though, hearing from Apple spokesperson […]
U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA
April 20th, 2013Via: EFF: Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy […]
Attacks on Bay Area Data and Electricity Transmission Infrastructure
April 17th, 2013Via: CBS: In apparent acts of “sabotage” in the South Bay early Tuesday, someone cut fiber optic cables, knocking out some 911 service, and then fired a rifle at a PG&E substation, Santa Clara County’s sheriff said. The vandal’s objective appears to have been “shutting down the system,” Sheriff Laurie Smith said at a news […]
DARPA Cyber Chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Heads To Google
April 15th, 2013Via: The Security Ledger: Noted hacker and innovator Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a project manager for cyber security research at DARPA for the past three years- will be setting up shop in the Googleplex, according to a post on his Twitter feed.
Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utilities, According to U.S. Utilities
April 14th, 2013Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute […]
Guess At Satoshi’s Fortune: USD$100 Million
April 14th, 2013This reminds me of the proles debating aspects of the lottery in 1984. *chortle* But I went on to read both pages of the thread anyway. Via: Bitcoin Talk: I’ve estimated a lower bound of current Satoshi’s fortune. My estimation is that he owns more than 1M BTC, or 100M USD at current change. [sic]
Huge Attack on WordPress Sites Could Spawn Never-Before-Seen Super Botnet
April 13th, 2013Via: Ars Technica: Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers […]
DARPA’s ‘Physical Intelligence’ Brain
April 12th, 2013Via: National Defense Magazine: The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line. A Pentagon-funded team of researchers has constructed a tiny machine that would allow robots to […]
Hacker Uses Android to Remotely Attack and Hijack an Airplane
April 12th, 2013Update: No, That German Hacker Probably Can’t Hijack an Airplane with Software An alarming dispatch from the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam arrived on Wednesday: a hacker says he’s found a way to take over airplane controls. That’s probably not true. At least according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European […]
How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide
April 11th, 2013Full interview. Via: Democracy Now: Research Credit: ottilie
