Topic: NASA - on February 27, 2014 at 5:00:00 PM CET
Hundreds of New Exoplanets Validated by Kepler Telescope Team
A huge new haul of planets has joined the tally of alien worlds discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, scientists announced today. All of the new planets are members of multiplanet systems—stars with more than one orbiting satellite. Researchers used a new method for weeding out false signals from among the candidate planets found by Kepler, allowing them to add hundreds of "validated" planets to the count of Kepler's finds. "We studied just over 1,200 systems, and from there we were able to validate 719 planets," says Jason Rowe of NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who led the research. "This is the biggest haul ever."
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 27, 2014 at 4:59:00 PM CET
GCHQ hat 1,8 Millionen Yahoo-Nutzer durch ihre Webcams angeschaut
Wir wussten ja bereits, dass sich der britische Geheimdienst GCHQ in seinem steten Bemühen, die Erde zum sichersten Planeten dieses Sonnensystems zu machen, erstaunliche Sachen einfallen lassen hat. Fast wie eine Krönung wirkt dabei das, was der Guardian heute veröffentlicht hat: Mit dem Optic-Nerve-Programm hat GCHQ massenhaft Webcam-Bilder von Yahoo abgegriffen. Dabei wurden innerhalb von sechs Monaten 1,8 Millionen Benutzer Opfer der Spähattacke.
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 27, 2014 at 4:57:00 PM CET
360 million recently compromised passwords for sale online
Underscoring the insecurity of many online dating, job, and e-mail services, security researchers said that they have tracked almost 360 million compromised login credentials for sale in underground crime forums over the past three weeks.
The haul, which included an additional 1.25 billion records containing only e-mail addresses, came from multiple breaches, according to a statement posted Tuesday by Hold Security. The biggest single list contained 105 million details, making it among the bigger online finds, the firm told Reuters. The cache included e-mail addresses that most likely served as user names and corresponding passwords. It remains unclear what service the account credentials unlock.
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