Tuesday, February 23, 2016

UK online fraud losses higher than realised, University study suggests

UK online fraud losses higher than realised, University study suggests | Security | Techworld: In the Centre for Cyber Security’s initial survey of 1,500 people using Google Customer Surveys, 11.6 percent reported computer fraud losses in excess of more than �65 ($100), although the majority of the rest lost only trivial amounts.

Monday, February 22, 2016

The Black Market For Stolen Health Care Data : All Tech Considered : NPR

The Black Market For Stolen Health Care Data : All Tech Considered : NPR: "A breach happens at one of these companies. The hackers go direct to that company and say, 'I have your data.' The cost of keeping this a secret is X dollars and the companies make the problems go away that way," he says.

Coalition aims to educate policymakers on cybersecurity - Help Net Security

Coalition aims to educate policymakers on cybersecurity - Help Net Security: "A group of vendors launched the Coalition for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, a new organization that will focus on education and collaboration with policymakers on the increasingly complicated legislative and regulatory policies related to cybersecurity."



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FBI Fires Back at Apple: 'We Don't Want To Break Anyone's Encryption' - NBC News

FBI Fires Back at Apple: 'We Don't Want To Break Anyone's Encryption' - NBC News

"seeking to force Apple's compliance, writing in court documents that
Apple shouldn't be allowed to "design and market its products to allow
technology, rather than the law, to control access to data" found by a
court to be important to an critical investigation"

Sounds like BB to me...

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/we-don-t-want-break-anyone-s-encryption-fbi-fires-n523186

Charles Koch: This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right - The Washington Post

Charles Koch: This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right -
The Washington Post

So many errors...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-koch-this-is-the-one-issue-where-bernie-sanders-is-right/2016/02/18/cdd2c228-d5c1-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html

Sunday, February 21, 2016

How Technology Could Identify and Stop Fraud in the Future - The Atlantic

How Technology Could Identify and Stop Fraud in the Future - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/the-future-of-fraud-busting/426867/

Hook Em: The 4-Point Approach to Writing an Effective Blog Post for Your Business

Hook Em: The 4-Point Approach to Writing an Effective Blog Post for
Your Business

http://unbounce.com/content-marketing/how-to-write-an-effective-blog-post/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=direct-ongoing&utm_campaign=blog

Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world

Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world

"Behold the EFF lapel pin! The days of wondering how to champion EFF
while wearing a suit are over."

https://supporters.eff.org/shop

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals :
Nature : Nature Publishing Group

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16544.html

15 of the Most Requested Karaoke Songs | Mental Floss

15 of the Most Requested Karaoke Songs | Mental Floss: “Don’t Stop Believin’” is often described as the perfect rock song and an anthem for anyone who hasn’t lost hope in the face of adversity

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

EPIC - Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens

EPIC - Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens:



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White supremacist Craig Cobb pushes for new enclave in north central North Dakota | Grand Forks Herald

Sadly, some Cobb's are less evolved than others....

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/3764700-white-supremacist-craig-cobb-pushes-new-enclave-north-central-north-dakota

Stockholm to Oslo route planner - ViaMichelin

I like this trip planner!

http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Routes?departure=Stockholm%2C%20Sweden&arrival=Oslo%2C%20Norway&index=0&vehicle=0&type=0&distance=mi&currency=EUR&avoidClosedRoad=&motorway=&toll=&vignette=&orc=&crossing=true&caravan=&car=hatchback&fuel=petrol&fuelCost=1.36&allowance=&corridor=

Papers Past — Poverty Bay Herald — 26 February 1883 — The Poverty Bay Herlad AND EAST COAST NEWS LETTER. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE:MONDAY, FEBUR... [truncated]

...lords of Romney Marsh...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=PBH18830226.2.9&srpos=33&e=-------25--26-byDA---2Robert+cobb--

Papers Past — Evening Post — 17 October 1878 — ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP WAIROA, FROM LONDON.

Arriving...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP18781017.2.3.3&srpos=2&e=-------25--1-byDA---2Robert+cobb--

Sunday, February 14, 2016

2016 State of Application Security: Top Health Care Apps in Critical Condition

2016 State of Application Security: Top Health Care Apps in Critical Condition: According to the IBM Security and Ponemon Institute research paper “The State of Mobile Application Insecurity,” 50 percent of organizations allocate no budget for mobile security.

Friday, February 12, 2016

ESET: 11 % пользователей взламывали почту, соцсети и мессенджеры своих близких

ESET: 11 % пользователей взламывали почту, соцсети и мессенджеры своих близких


http://www.iemag.ru/news/detail.php?ID=35920

America has a problem with trust, and it's getting worse - Chicago Tribune

America has a problem with trust, and it's getting worse - Chicago Tribune:



"Congress, President George W. Bush's administration, and the Federal Reserve failed to police financial institutions despite loads of warnings from consumer groups. Wall Street went wild turning mortgages, and even imaginary pieces of mortgages, into securities and made a fortune selling them around the world to large institutions that should have been doing their homework. As the poison infected the world's financial system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke assured Americans that the problem was contained and soon afterward begged for an emergency $700 billion bank bailout."

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Remarks by Director David H. Petraeus at In-Q-Tel CEO Summit — Central Intelligence Agency

Remarks by Director David H. Petraeus at In-Q-Tel CEO Summit — Central
Intelligence Agency

"I have boundless confidence in what the partnership between the CIA,
our Intelligence Community colleagues, In-Q-Tel, and our partner
companies can accomplish in helping us meet our global intelligence
missions. There is, after all, no limit to what American ingenuity can
achieve, whether in commerce, on the battlefield, or in the
intelligence realm."

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2012-speeches-testimony/in-q-tel-summit-remarks.html

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Students to unveil Silverstone race car design — University of Leicester

Students to unveil Silverstone race car design — University of Leicester: Top British motor racing engineer and Executive Director of Mercedes-Benz Formula One, Paddy Lowe, FREng, will be delivering a free public talk on ‘Formula One: More Than A Sport’ in the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre following the unveiling at the University of Leicester on Thursday 11 February at 6.30pm.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

EU Court Rules Mass Surveillance Unlawful - Clayton Rice

EU Court Rules Mass Surveillance Unlawful - Clayton Rice: "On January 12, 2016, the court released its judgment reported as Szabo and Vissy v Hungary (Application No 37138/14) finding that there had been a violation of the applicants’ right to respect for private and family life."



"the mere existence of legislation which allows a system for the secret monitoring of communications entails a threat of surveillance" ECHR.



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The European Court of Human Rights Constrains Mass Surveillance (Again) | Just Security

The European Court of Human Rights Constrains Mass Surveillance (Again) | Just Security: "In a decision that may someday be considered the penultimate nail in the coffin that European courts have been building for mass surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights has declared that Hungarian surveillance law contravenes the right to privacy enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. "



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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Digital Privacy: Europeans Threaten to Halt Data to US

Digital Privacy: Europeans Threaten to Halt Data to US

Haha ... "the robust system of checks and balances the U.S. has under
the Constitution which protects against unreasonable searches and
seizures"

http://www.newsweek.com/digital-privacy-europeans-threaten-halt-data-us-422097

Monday, February 1, 2016

Now I wanna sniff some Bluetooth: Sniffing and Cracking Bluetooth with the UbertoothOne — The Security Sleuth

Now I wanna sniff some Bluetooth: Sniffing and Cracking Bluetooth with the UbertoothOne — The Security Sleuth: "Once your Ubertooth is setup and configured you can run the following commands to analyse Bluetooth traffic."



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Build Guide · greatscottgadgets/ubertooth Wiki · GitHub

Build Guide · greatscottgadgets/ubertooth Wiki · GitHub: "There are some prerequisites that need to be installed before building libbtbb and the Ubertooth tools"



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Sniffing Bluetooth Packets with Kismet and Wireshark in Ubuntu 12.04 Ceres Controls

Sniffing Bluetooth Packets with Kismet and Wireshark in Ubuntu 12.04 Ceres Controls:

Example of how open source can work well, although links need updating:

"I made this guide because was painful for me to follow some tutorials on the web. By basically probe a variety of options of Linux (BackTrack 5 R3 and others) i finally could put the things on the way using Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin),"