Archive for the 'Technology' Category
TrapWire: Abraxas Also Provided ‘Internet Anonymity Services’
August 14th, 2012If you wanted a concentrated haul of the most interesting information what would you do? You would establish a honeypot: a service (free or paid) that purported to provide an anonymous web browsing/email capability. Who knows what people might get up to if they thought nobody was looking? That, of course, is the idea with […]
Kaspersky Asks for Help with Decrypting Gauss Payload
August 14th, 2012Via: Kaspersky Lab – SecureList: There are many remaining mysteries in the Gauss and Flame stories. For instance, how do people get infected with the malware? Or, what is the purpose of the uniquely named “Palida Narrow” font that Gauss installs? Perhaps the most interesting mystery is Gauss’ encrypted warhead. Gauss contains a module named […]
JPMorgan Spends $500 Million per Data Center
August 14th, 2012Via: Data Center Knowledge: JPMorgan Chase spends $500 million to build a data center, according to CEO Jamie Dimon. That figure places the firm’s facilities among the most expensive in the industry, on a par with investments by Google and Microsoft in their largest data centers.
Facedeals
August 14th, 2012“We can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them.” —Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’ Via: Los Angeles Times: A new app is being tested in Nashville, Tenn., that can check in people on Facebook and send them offers using facial-recognition cameras. […]
‘If you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data’
August 14th, 2012Keep in mind, we don’t know what happens when a drive is sent to NSA, as when laptops are stolen from people by the U.S. Government at airports. We only hear about encryption frustrating criminal investigations. I don’t know of a single case involving national security and full disk encryption. If you do, let me […]
Blind Mice Given Sight After Device Cracks Retinal Code
August 13th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Blind mice had their vision restored with a device that helped diseased retinas send signals to the brain, according to a study that may lead to new prosthetic technology for millions of sight-impaired people. Current devices are limited in the aid they provide to people with degenerative diseases of the retina, the part […]
America’s Secret Drone War in Africa
August 13th, 2012Via: Wired: More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type’s first mission over lawless Somalia, the shadowy American-led drone campaign in the Horn of Africa is targeting Islamic militants more ruthlessly than ever. Thanks to media […]
Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System
August 11th, 2012Via: Public Intelligence: Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor have shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails, which were released yesterday by WikiLeaks, provide information on the extent […]
AntiLeaks Group Claim Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attacks
August 11th, 2012Operational Mirror as of 12 August 01:30 NZ time. Via: Register: The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility. “We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with […]
Trapwire
August 10th, 2012Via: Privatepaste 1, 2: From: Justin Ferguson Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {6221} Domain Awareness System To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com, jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly abraxas applications– a subdivision […]
