12/15 defcon: god's particles, takedown sprees & more

ndaa gives pentagon a green light for cyberwar*

congress authorizes pentagon to wage internet war*
'blueprint for a secure cyber future':
dhs releases cyber strategy framework*
california unveils cyber crime unit*
florida arrests 48 in child computer sex crimes investigation*
cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries*
sopa tweet triggers political explosion, delays vote*
carrier iq meets with feds 'to educate them'*
carrier iq explains secret monitoring software to ftc, fcc*
lockmart delivers gps3 pathfinder satellite to denver on schedule*
judge gives universal music 24 hours to explain takedown spree*
amazon big brother patent knows where you'll go*
'flash gordon' supercomputer powers up in january*
galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to earth*
nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off his chair*
aug24 supernova was a 'white dwarf' star*
dna hackers: synthetic biology weaponized virus, zero-day exploit to infect your brain?*
higgs boson hunters have 'god particle' in their sights*
lhc may have revealed first hints of higgs*
video: boris chertok, russian rocket engineer, dies at 99*

US study shows teen sexting scare overblown

video: teen sexting rate drops*

from smh: One in 10 American children aged between 10 and 17 has used a mobile phone to send or receive sexually suggestive images, but only 1 in 100 has sent images considered graphic enough to violate US child pornography laws, a new study has found. The results of the study, published on Monday in the US medical journal Pediatrics, are based on detailed telephone interviews with 1560 children across the country. It is one of the largest surveys to look at the prevalence of sexting among minors, a phenomenon that has drawn concern from schools and law enforcement and that has prompted nationwide legislation trying to curb it. An earlier, often-cited study had estimated that as many as one in five teenagers engaged in sexting, but it included 18- and 19-year-olds, most likely increasing the overall prevalence.

9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace

facebook tracks you even after logging out*

australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies*
facebook to form its own political action committee*
after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection*
'retention periods of major cellular service providers':
secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest*
state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*
manning & assange nominated for nobel peace prize*
video: anonymous hacktivists go hip-hop*
video: ice official who 'fights' child porn arrested for it*
sun unleashes two massive x-class solar flares*
earth in cross-hairs of huge solar storm caused by sunspot 1302?*
'heavenly palace 1': china set to launch its own space station; mission: unknown*

8/4 defcon: black hat, shady rat, mantech & more

former cia official cofer black 'predicts' cyber 9/11*
stuxnet changes terrorism equation, says former cia official at black hat con*

vanity fair exclusive on 'operation shady rat':
unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign & intellectual-property bonanza*
hackers hit fbi merc mantech; online security contractor for fbi, nato, dod, doj & state dept*
US wants to build cybersecurity protection plan for cars*
'declassified' crypto report was already on google books*
the panopticon cometh: researchers say vulnerabilities could let hackers spring prisoners from cells*
US says online child pornography network dismantled*
facebook before water as indian shanty town kids get smartphones*
randi zuckerberg quits facebook, starts new company*
@navigatenetflix: so that's why they bought blockbuster - dish network planning to compete with netflix*

5/5 defcon: re-entry & removal

video: Spacecraft re-entry over Wash. & Oregon on may3?*

Department of Justice:
FBI Too Focused On Child Porn*
Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains*
Mozilla Refuses to Block Extension for dhs - As Government's ICE Effort Continues to Look Silly*
flashback: 'mafiaa fire': firefox add-on to reverse US govt domain censorship
Gabrielle Giffords leaves Florida after shuttle Endeavor delay*

'mafiaa fire': firefox add-on to reverse US govt domain censorship

from boingboing: Earlier this year, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement shocked the world by asserting the right to seize any .com or .net domain that it characterized as a "pirate" or child porn site, with little due process or judicial oversight. ICE conducted a series of high-profile seizures that were notable in that they were sloppy (80,000 sites were erroneously seized for being implicated in child porn and anyone who subsequently visited them was redirected to a page chiding them for being horrible perverts). They were also notable for being almost completely ineffective at shutting down the targeted sites. Once their domains were seized, the site operators simply registered new domains, avoiding .com and .net. It wasn't much of a challenge for their users to locate them again. Nevertheless, the ICE has promised more seizures in the years to come. But one developer decided that subverting ICE censorship was too important to be left to chance, so he created MAFIAA Fire, a Firefox plugin that automatically redirects links to the seized domains to their new homes, effectively undoing the seizures.

2/10 defcon: harsh sentences, trojan horse, hotfile

hackers hit nasdaq computers*
hypnosis by lcd becoming increasingly rampant*
pole shift threatens to cause weather chaos*
child porn prosecutions & harsh sentences rising dramatically*
fcc net neutrality is a regulatory 'trojan horse,' eff says*
motion picture association sues hotfile.com for direct copyright infringement & theft 'on a staggering scale'*
twitter valued at $10b as google, facebook & the social network sharks circle; will they be the latest sellout?*

1/13 defcon: crimestop, doublethink, disconnect

child porn probe leads to fbi headquarters*
ex-tsa worker gets 2yrs for planting 'logic bomb' malware in colorado springs screening system*
US subpoenas twitter for wikileaks info*
how secret were the wikileaks state dept. cables?*
wikileaks contributes $15k to bradley manning's defense*
assange claims 504 'insurance files' on news corp.*
algorithms take control of wall street*
cyberdyne is real & making thought-controlled exoskeletons*
video: 'stop. think. connect.' - dhs announces new fear agenda of 'crimestop. doublethink. disconnect.'*

video barbie: camera streams download to computer

FBI warns 'Barbie Video Girl', a doll with camera in necklace and LCD on her back, can be used for child porn! A Mail Online article, "FBI issues warning over Barbie 'Video Girl' which could be used by paedophiles to make child pornography", supplies the details. Wow! "Video Girl can capture up to 30 minutes of footage and the video can be downloaded and streamed live to a computer. There is no indication it can be streamed directly to the internet." There is nothing to see here please move along!