Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
Scharfe Rüge für den BND - afghanische Regierung fordert Erklärung
Das Vertrauen ist dahin: Deutschlands Geheimdienst-Kontrolleure haben den BND wegen der Bespitzelung einer SPIEGEL-Reporterin scharf gerügt - von einer "schweren Krise" ist die Rede. Auch die afghanische Regierung ist verärgert. Der überwachte Minister fürchtet um sein Leben.
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Topic: NATURE - on April 26, 2008 at 4:14:00 PM CEST
25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Urban Overgrowth to Awesome Arbosculpture
Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art. Properly pruned and cultivated they can be made into curious, compelling and useful shapes of all sorts. From tree furniture designs to unchecked acts of nature here are 25 examples of the amazing malleability of trees. Of course, there are many forms of strange green art and other subversive ways to garden.
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Topic: MAKE - on April 26, 2008 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
Personal G-Force Meter
After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple project of my own with this cool sensor just seemed natural. The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For this application A G-Force meter for my car will be made to see how many "G's" I pull while driving. Below is an example of what the Personal G-Force Meter offers you and how it fits nicely right onto your dash. I put suction cups on it as well but they weren't necessary.
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Topic: TV - on April 26, 2008 at 4:08:00 PM CEST
Four sound effects that made TV history
The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory?
Deep in the bowels of BBC Maida Vale studios, behind a door marked B11, is all that's left of an institution in British television history.
A green lampshade, an immersion tank and half a guitar lie forlornly on a shelf, above a couple of old synthesisers in a room full of electrical bric-a-brac.
These are the sad remnants of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, set up 50 years ago to create innovative sound effects and incidental music for radio and television.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 26, 2008 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
How HAARP works
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has been entwined with controversy since its birth. Originally envisioned as a way to facilitate communications with nuclear-armed submarines, HAARP took almost two decades to build and has incurred around US$250 million in construction and operating costs. It consists of 360 radio transmitters and 180 antennas, and covers some 14 hectares near the town of Gakona about 250 kilometres northeast of Anchorage.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
Hackers warn high street chains
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned.
They claim it is only a "matter of time" before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 4:01:00 PM CEST
Department of Homeland Security website hacked!
The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security.
While so-called SQL injections are nothing new, this latest attack, which we we reported earlier, is notable for its ability to infect huge numbers of pages using only a single string of text. At time of writing, Google searches here, here and here showed almost 520,000 pages containing the infection string, though the exact number changes almost constantly. As the screenshot below shows, even the DHS, which is responsible for protecting US infrastructure against cyber attacks, wasn't immune. Other hacked sites include those belonging to the United Nations and the UK Civil Service.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 3:58:00 PM CEST
500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked
According to F-Secure, over 500,000 webservers across the world, including some from the United Nations and UK government, have been victims of a SQL injection. The attack uses an SQL injection to reroute clients to a malicious javascript at nmidahena.com, aspder.com or nihaorr1.com, which use another set of exploits to install a Trojan on the client's computer. As per usual, Firefox users with NoScript should be safe from the client exploit, but server admins should be alert for the server-side injection. Brian Krebs has a decent writeup on his Washington Post Security Blog, Dynamoo has a list of some of the high-profile sites that has been hacked, and for fun you can watch some of the IIS admins run around in circles at one of the many IIS forums on the 'net.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 3:56:00 PM CEST
FBI wants to move hunt for criminals into Internet backbone
FBI director Robert Mueller's testimony to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday gave a tiny glimpse of the future of law enforcement online, and it raised some tough questions about the evolving line between public and private in a networked world.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 26, 2008 at 3:24:00 PM CEST
Which Gov Agency Should Be Your Computer's Firewall?
First the NSA says it needs to examine every search and email on the internet to prevent an e-9/11 attack, then President Bush signs a secret cyber-security Presidential Directive to make that possible, while the Air Force has set up a cyber warfare division where cyber-security is played like a game of Space Invaders.
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