File-Sharing Website The Pirate Bay Brushes Off Guilty Verdict

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-brushes-off-guilty-verdict.php

McAfee Says Cameron Diaz Most Dangerous Person in Cyberspace August 19, 2010 10:50 AM EDT

Old internet trick.

It has happened to Technopolitical too.

During the first years of this blog Spammers would copy and paste MY whole blog into their infected websites,

so if i Google myself -I would find the spam page.

I did fall for the trick and lost my data.

Never Again, Be careful out there.

McAfee Says Cameron Diaz Most Dangerous Person in Cyberspace

August 19, 2010 10:50 AM EDT

"Surprisingly, teen stars Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus were at the bottom of the list and considered relatively safe choices.

Yes, Cameron Diaz is very pretty, but think before you push that download button."

http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978455267

Cyber attack seen as emerging threat for London 2012

~~ Cyber Wars are now a daily fact. Every single gov't , biz , org., or person must be continually on guard for cyber attack. We tend to forget how much of our national security , industrial base and electrical/energy grid, is all very venerable to gifted hackers of ill intent.

Cyber Security is among the foremost issues of our times. Good Jobs there for gifted computer geeks for millennium to come!

If I was in high school or college and looking for a good economically safe career,

Cyber Security Network Admin seems a good bet. ~~~~

Cyber attack seen as emerging threat for London 2012
Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:53pm BST
By Avril Ormsby


http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56K3TM20090721

LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic organisers are "very alive" to the threat of a cyber attack on the London 2012 Olympics, made more challenging because of its evolving nature, senior Home Office officials said on Tuesday.

Ticketing systems, the transport network and hotel bookings as well as security are among potential targets.

Olympic security officials are also planning for the possible diversion of aircraft to protect airspace around the venues from terrorist attacks, the officials said.

The greatest threat to security at the Games is international terrorism, the government's latest "Safety and Security Strategy" report said.

"There's no current evidence of a terrorist threat to 2012," one of the Home Office officials said.

"But if you look at precedents for sporting events, and to some degree about Olympic events, it would not be beyond the point of imagination to imagine a terrorist threat to 2012 nearer the time."

~~~ The Internet is a very interesting place. Just be careful.~~~~

Most Attacks Come from Legit but Hijacked Sites

Web attacks are routinely hosted by actual sites infected and acting as zombies, security firm warns.

John E. Dunn, Techworld.com

Sunday, May 17, 2009 01:10 PM PDT
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165014/attacks_come_from_legit_hijacked_sites.html?tk=rss_news

Artwork: Diego Aguirre

The number of legitimate Websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed.

Data taken from the days between May 4 and 8 showed that 84.6 percent of Websites blocked by the company for hosting malicious content were 'well-established' domains that have been around for a year or more.

During the same period, 10.2 percent of blocked domains were less than a year old and only 3.1 percent were less than a week old.

At first glance this, this runs counter to the assumption that malicious Websites more commonly exist for only days or hours in some cases, the better to avoid detection and filtering. This is termed "fast-fluxing," cycling websites through a maze of bogus sub-domains.

However, according to MessageLabs, the likely explanation is that a move to genuine domains means that the fast-fluxing has now migrated to use a different part of the domain tree.

"The bad guys will compromise the DNS and add sub-domains," said MessageLabs' Paul Wood. The recent figure represented a high mark, admitted Wood, but still represented a gathering storm.

"People need to be extra vigilant and understand that even sites they know and trust can be compromised through attacks such as SQL injection attacks, while businesses need to ensure they take the necessary precautions to block all the latest malicious sites," said Wood.

"With the ever advancing world of cybercrime, nothing can be taken at face value."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/165014/attacks_come_from_legit_hijacked_sites.html?tk=rss_news

~~ The Cyber Cat and Mouse wars  are with us daily. Really makes you wonder if cyber record keeping is secure at any level~~

http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10236793-83.html

UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk

May 8, 2009 1:53 PM PDT

Posted by Michelle Meyers

This post was updated at 2:16 p.m. PDT with comment from an outside database security software vendor.

Hackers broke into the University of California at Berkeley's health services center computer and potentially stole the personal information of more than 160,000 students, alumni, and others, the university announced Friday.

At particular risk of identity theft are some 97,000 individuals whose Social Security numbers were accessed in the breach, but it's still unclear whether hackers were able to match up those SSNs with individual names, Shelton Waggener, UCB's chief technology officer, said in a press conference Friday afternoon.

~~ With the issues of Cyber Security at the forefront now
, do not count on the USA giving in so easily here ~~

EU calls on Obama to give up Internet oversight

Major decisions on Internet made solely by a California-based nonprofit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30559082/

updated 10:43 a.m. ET, Mon., May 4, 2009

BRUSSELS - A senior European Union official called on President Barack Obama to give up United States' oversight of the Internet.

Major decisions on how the Internet is run are made solely by the California-based nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — which is overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department under an agreement that expires September 30.

In the pursuit of cybercrooks, the FBI is casting itself as an ethical hacker.

I have mixed feelings here. While I want  the FBI to catch crooks in cyberspace , the civil libertarian in me is a little spooked here. 

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Is the FBI Behind Spyware?

In the pursuit of cybercrooks, the FBI is casting itself as an ethical hacker.

Scott Bradner, Network World

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 06:55 PM PDT

More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.

This story goes back to at least 2001 when Bob Sullivan of MSNBC and Ted Birdis of AP broke the story of Magic Lantern. At the time the FBI did not want to say much, but now there is real information that clears up some things and reinforces real concerns over this approach.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163590/is_fbi_behind_spyware.html?tk=rss_news

Hackers Steal Secrets Of US Strike Fighter

Cyber Spying as we see above is a serious concern of our Technopolitical Age.  As always in human history , all technology finds its war into warfare and spying.   

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3:02pm UK, Tuesday April 21, 2009

Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's £200bn Joint Strike Fighter project and copied information about its design and electronics systems.

The F-35 Lightning II fighter

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Computer-hackers-target-US-Pentagon-Joint-Strike-Fighter-project/Article/200904315266157?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15266157_Computer_hackers_target_US_Pentagon_Joint_Strike_Fighter_project

:: For more on this story click here to go to the Wall Street Journal.

~~ This is almost Surreal !!!

But it is the Technopolitical Age we
live in . Cyber-Spying among nations ,
even Cyber Warfare , and also Big Time Corprate Cyber-Biz Spying where billions of billions of $$ are at stake.

Man it is a

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this
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30280436/

U.S. seeks hackers to protect cyber networks: 

Homeland Security wants someone who can 'think like the bad guy'.

updated 12:06 p.m. ET, Sat., April 18, 2009

WASHINGTON - Wanted: Computer hackers.

Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers — not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30280436/
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All rights reserved.

This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 

~~~  Please Be Real !! 

 Anyway  MSNBC / AP,  you guys  are 

free to post my stuff on your site ! 

Thats fair , right? ~~~

Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'

BUY BATTERIES !!!!
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Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'
9 Apr 2009 3:30 BST

By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

The US government has admitted the nation's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attack, following reports it has been infiltrated by foreign spies.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper reported that Chinese and Russian spies were behind this "pervasive" breach.

It said software had been left behind that could shut down the electric grid.

BBC © 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/technology/799/79909/story7990997.shtml

When the law chases the Internet | csmonitor.com

~~~ Cybercrime in Cyberspace.
The Internet will never be a totally safe place.
Just be careful out there !! ~~ TP

When the law chases the Internet | csmonitor.com: "And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. And the latest worry to individual PC owners is a type of 'spyware' that can remotely follow a person's keystrokes to steal a password or other vital information.

Google itself is quite aware of potential abuse by new software, and how much governments, from Washington to Beijing, want to control or snoop on Google users.

It is primarily up to Congress to pass new laws that can provide the tools to fight cybercrime while also balancing privacy concerns.

One pending bill would provide national standards for companies to notify customers if personal data on their computers has been breached. About half the states have such laws. Another bill would provide protection against spyware intrusion on PCs."

" Hackers fuel Peru-Chile rivalry" BBC NEWS | Americas |

~~~ Now this is really Technopolitical. Maybe cross-border Political-Hacking could replace military wars. But probably not. ~~ TP
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Hackers fuel Peru-Chile rivalry: "The historic rivalry between Peru and Chile has spilled into cyberspace with hackers from both countries striking at government websites."

"US warns of fake net domain data" / BBC NEWS | Technology |

BBC NEWS | Technology | US warns of fake net domain data: "More than 5% of the net's most popular domains have been registered using 'patently false' data, research shows."

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~~~ But the USA also went to war in Iraq using " 'patently false' data."
So I guess that evens it all out, huh ?
{While I do not directly put my real name and etc, here at technopolitical.com ,
a few clicks around my profile will lead you to my ID if you really care to know. ] ~~~ TP

It's official: Diebold election bugware can't be trusted | The Register

To have elections -- the core of the American democratic process---

become an activity of cyber-space,
is something I find spooky. .

Hackers have proven to be some of the most talented minds of

our time and there has yet to be a cyber-system that has

been made impregnable to attack. When it comes to voting for

President or anything else, I would rather take my chances

with the hanging chads. than risk electronic election chaos . ~~

~ TP

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It's official: Diebold election bugware can't be trusted | The Register: "Due to irregularities in the 2004 election traced to touch screen terminals, North Carolina has taken the very reasonable precaution of requiring vendors of electronic voting gizmos to place all of the source code in escrow. Diebold has objected to the possibility of criminal sanctions if they fail to comply, and argued for an exemption before Wake County Superior Court Judge Narley Cashwell. The judge declined to issue an exemption, and Diebold has concluded that it has no choice but withdraw from the state."

Next-Gen "Analog Hole" Legislation Proposed

~~ Mixed fellings here.
I believe copyrights should be honored. People do not honor them.
If everyone on the internet acted nice & honest this law would not be needed.

But then there is the Libertarian in me sayin' ,,
"Whaooh,, here !! Hold on a sec...." ~`
~~ tp
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Next-Gen "Analog Hole" Legislation Proposed: "The bill would essentially require all analog devices, such as televisions, to either re-encode a signal into a digital form, complete with rights restrictions, or to encode the rights restrictions into the analog stream itself.

Manufacturers would also be forbidden to develop a product that would remove those restrictions. Exectives at Veil Interactive, the developer of the VRAM technology at the heart of the legislation, described the technology as one that would not be noticeable by consumers."
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