Topic: SECURITY - on December 19, 2011 at 10:43:00 PM CET
Forensic Examiner Found No Match of Cables on Manning’s Laptop to WikiLeaks’
A day after a government forensic expert testified that he’d found thousands of diplomatic cables on the Army computer of suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, he was forced to admit under cross-examination that none of the cables he compared to the ones WikiLeaks released matched.
Special Agent David Shaver, a forensic investigator with the Army’s Computer Crimes Investigations Unit, testified Sunday that he’d found 10,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in HTML format on the soldier’s classified work computer, as well as a corrupted text file containing more than 100,000 complete cables that had been converted to base-64 encoding.
Six months after Manning was arrested for allegedly leaking documents to WikiLeaks, the site began publishing 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables that ranged in date from December 1966 to the end of February 2010. But Shaver said none of the documents that he found on Manning’s computer, and that he then compared to those that WikiLeaks published, matched the WikiLeaks documents.
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Topic: nuclear power - on December 19, 2011 at 10:26:00 PM CET
Is Berlin Still in the Nuclear Power Business?
The German government may be getting out of the nuclear power business at home, but it is still active internationally. Berlin is currently reviewing applications for federal export guarantees for four nuclear projects abroad. Environmentalists are furious, saying the phaseout must also apply to the sale of atomic energy technology.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was adamant. In a June speech to German parliament on her government's decision to phase out atomic energy in the wake of the March nuclear disaster in far-away Fukushima, Japan, she said "radioactivity is still rising into the atmosphere. ... Fukushima changed my attitude towards nuclear energy."
In the weeks after the disaster, Berlin ordered the immediate shut down of eight reactors. Not long later, her government resolved to decommission the rest by 2022. Now, though, it would appear that German industry is relying on government assistance to pursue the construction of nuclear power plants abroad.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 19, 2011 at 10:24:00 PM CET
Newt Gingrich star fading in Iowa, nationally
Presidential nominee Newt Gingrich's status as Republican front runner is fading after weeks of attack ads from rivals and intense media exposure of his political history and personality.
A Public Policy Polling survey of likely Republican caucus-goers in the key state of Iowa released on Monday showed the former House speaker dropping to third place there from first in the space of a week.
His lead also has evaporated in national poll.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 19, 2011 at 1:31:00 PM CET
North Korean State Television Breaks the News of Kim Jong Il's Death w/ Crying News Anchor
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack, a tearful state television announcer dressed in black reported.
She said that the 69-year-old "passed away from a great mental and physical strain" while on a train trip, on his way to give "field guidance".The news agency said he died at 8:30am on Saturday (local time) of a "severe myocardial infarction along with a heart attack".
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 19, 2011 at 1:09:00 PM CET
As the Drug War Goes Underground, Feds Call in the Robot
Suppose, for a minute, that you’re Joe Garcia, the deputy agent in charge of the San Diego office of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. You’ve just got word that your Border Tunnel Task Force has found a drug smuggling tunnel that’s clearly coming from Mexico. What you know about the tunnel: Somebody spent close to $1 million to build it -– tunnels usually turn up after neighbors have alerted police to truck traffic at unusual hours — signs that bales of marijuana are being loaded onto trucks and moved out of warehouses on the U.S. end. You know that it’s the work of a drug cartel –- these days mostly Sinaloa -– so you can assume dangerous people are involved.
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Topic: Phone - on December 19, 2011 at 1:04:00 PM CET
AT&T, Sprint: Carrier IQ Tracking Agreed To By Customers
More than two weeks ago, security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted a video about Carrier IQ, an obscure software installed on approximately 150 million smartphones. The 17-minute video sparked a firestorm not only because it alleged the software logged numerous details about users' activities, but also because it did so without their knowledge.
But this week, two wireless carriers that use Carrier IQ's software said customers should not have been surprised that some of their activities were being tracked. In letters to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who asked them to explain how they used the software, AT&T and Sprint said Carrier IQ's capabilities were clearly outlined in their privacy policies.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 19, 2011 at 1:01:00 PM CET
'XSS on steroids' crafted to highlight web security holes
A hacker has published code for potent cross-site scripting attacks that he claims go beyond the usual cookie stealing and phishing for users' private details.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws allow attackers to present content under their control in the context of a vulnerable yet trusted site, thus tricking marks into handing sensitive information to miscreants. As well as creating a means to present pop-ups that link to a hacker-controlled site, XSSes can also lead to cookie theft.
Niklas Femerstrand is the hacker who in October 2011 discovered that a debugging tool on the American Express website was vulnerable to an XSS flaw. He developed an "XSS on steroids" script while researching a similar flaw on the website of an unnamed Swedish bank.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 19, 2011 at 11:43:00 AM CET
Why Do We Have To Break The DNS?
Last month, we posted our position piece on the Stop Online Piracy Act, also known as SOPA or the E-Parasite Act. In this post, I’m going to examine the technical details of the act and how it relates to the operation of the global Domain Name System (DNS).
SOPA proposes the idea of using DNS-based filtering by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as a means to remove U.S. support of a foreign infringing website.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 19, 2011 at 10:32:00 AM CET
Newt Gingrich: I’ll ‘ignore’ any Supreme Court ruling I disagree with
“They just ignored it,” he said. “A commander-in-chief could simply issue instructions to ignore it, and say it’s null and void and I do not accept it because it infringes on my duties as commander-in-chief to protect the country.”
Gingrich also backed his position to subpoena judges or abolish courts entirely if he thought their final rulings were wrong.
rawstory.com FBI Considered a Sting Aimed at Newt Gingrich in 1997 [pdf] old shit
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 19, 2011 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Alleged Libyan rape victim struggling to start anew in America
Hers is a struggle shared by all freshly arrived refugees in the United States. Learning English. Getting a job. Adapting to American culture.
But starting life anew has been that much tougher for Eman al-Obeidi, the woman who came to embody the cruelty of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in the midst of Libya's brutal civil war. She lives every day with the scars of the rape she alleges was committed by Gadhafi's thugs.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 19, 2011 at 9:39:00 AM CET
Verfassungsschutz soll Polizeiarbeit sabotiert haben
Bei der Fahndung nach den Mitgliedern der Zwickauer Terrorzelle arbeiteten die Behörden offenbar gegeneinander: Der Thüringer Verfassungsschutz soll laut "Berliner Zeitung" Ermittlungen der Polizei behindert und detaillierte Informationen über Observierungen verraten haben.
Das Zwickauer Neonazi-Trio Zschäpe, Mundlos und Böhnhardt tauchte im Februar 1998 ab - bei der anschließenden Fahndung sabotierte das Thüringer Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz angeblich einzelne Fahndungsmaßnahmen der Polizei. Wie die "Berliner Zeitung" unter Berufung auf Sicherheitskreise berichtet, habe der Verfassungsschutz den Thüringer Neonazi-Anführer Tino Brandt über die gegen ihn gerichteten Observationsmaßnahmen der Polizei auf dem Laufenden gehalten.
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