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Posted May 18, 2010

Pakistani Site: Drones Only Killed One Terrorist in 2010 (If You Don't Count ...Wired NewsLast month, Faisal Shahzad attempted to bomb Times Square ? allegedly as some sort of revenge for drone attacks in Pakistan. That caused the political ......

Posted May 18, 2010

Stock WatchFacebook Backlash Sparks Transparency ToolsWired News... and its ongoing push to make its users share more data has insprired hackers to develop transparency tools that demonstrate the site's privacy threats. ...Facebook introduces new personal security featuresOregon Daily EmeraldFed...

Posted May 18, 2010

Changes coming to comments on edmontonjournal.comEdmonton JournalJust drop us a line at website@thejournal.canwest.com and we'll turn the comments on unless we have a compelling reason not to do so. ...and more »...

Posted May 18, 2010

Transit site coughs up private info for 168000 passengersRegisterAccording to an article in Webwereld magazine, the site is wide open to simple attacks that allow hackers to read, change, or delete passengers' personal ...and more »...

Posted May 18, 2010

New Zealand HeraldPentagon Hacker's Mother Is Confident Extradition Will Be HaltedITProPortalThe mother of Gary McKinnon, the autistic British man wanted in the US for hacking into the Pentagon, has expressed confidence that the UK's new coalition ...New British Government Considers McKinnon...

Posted May 18, 2010

TheCarConnection.com (blog)Hackers May Soon Control Your Car, Report SaysInfopackets (blog)If so, then you might be at risk for a potentially devastating cyber attack by hackers, says a recent scientific study. "We demonstrate the ability to ...News Security Alert Could Hackers Break Into Your ...

Posted May 18, 2010

Hackers control car by attacking 'fragile' ECUsAutoblog UK (blog)Researchers in the US have shown that the ECUs which manage the electrical functions of a modern car are highly susceptible to hackers. ...and more »...

Posted May 18, 2010

Beware of Hackers Controlling Your AutomobilePhysOrg.comThe hackers created software called 'CarShark' to monitor communications between the ECUs and used fake packets of data to carry out the attack. ......

Posted May 18, 2010

Saying information wants to be free does more harm than goodThe Guardian"Information wants to be free" (IWTBF hereafter) is half of Stewart Brand's famous aphorism, first uttered at the Hackers Conference in Marin County, ...and more »...

Posted May 18, 2010

Online Social Media (blog)Facebook Users: Do you restrict profile access?Online Social Media (blog)With Internet scams and phishing attacks becoming more and more common these days, it is quite understandable that users are now becoming less willing to ...and more »...

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