Topic: SECURITY - on June 24, 2012 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
A virus specialized for AutoCAD, a perfect cyber espionage tool
In recent years we are assisting to a profoundly change in the nature of malware, it is increased the development for spy purposes, for its spread in both private and government sectors.
The recent case of Flame malware has demonstrated the efficiency of a malicious agent as a gathering tool in a typical context of state-sponsored attack for cyber espionage.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 24, 2012 at 8:36:00 AM CEST
Die Furcht vor dem Shitstorm
Eine anonyme Masse treibt die Politiker im Netz vor sich her. Das hat jüngst der Fall des internationalen Urheberrechtsabkommens Acta gezeigt. Dessen Scheitern ist Ausdruck eines „Governance by Shitstorm“. Demokratie sieht anders aus.
Ein Mittwoch im Februar, 14.30 Uhr. Anruf bei einem, der sich Netzpolitiker nennt. Wie lautet wohl die Position seiner Partei zu Acta, dem geplanten internationalen Abkommen zu Urheberrechten im Internet, dessen Abschluss kurz bevor steht? Die Antwort kommt zögerlich. „Wir sprechen off the record? Ehrlich gesagt: Keine Ahnung. Ich glaube wir haben noch keine.“
Die Position der Internet-Gemeinde zu Acta war zu diesem Zeitpunkt längst klar. In aller Welt bereiteten Hunderttausende Aktivisten in diesen Februartagen Demonstrationen vor, unterschrieben Online-Petitionen, leiteten einander Info-Videos von Youtube weiter und schickten über den Online-Dienst Twitter ihre kurzen Schmäh-Botschaften gegen das angeblich freiheitsfeindliche „#acta“ - das „Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement“ zwischen der Europäischen Union, den Vereinigten Staaten und Japan.
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Topic: food - on June 24, 2012 at 8:35:00 AM CEST
GMO food: Hybrid poison grass that kills Texas cattle not genetically modified
Reports that GMO grass suddenly started producing cyanide and killed almost an entire herd of cattle in Texas are only partially true. CBS News reported June 23, 2012 that rancher Jerry Abel of Elgin, near Austin, Texas had been growing Tifton 85, a GMO version of Bermuda grass, for 15 years when the grass suddenly started emitting poisonous cyanide. However, Tifton 85 is not GMO grass, but a hybrid.
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Topic: food - on June 24, 2012 at 8:26:00 AM CEST
Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths
A mysterious mass death of a herd of cattle has prompted a federal investigation in Central Texas.
Preliminary test results are blaming the deaths on the grass the cows were eating when they got sick, reports CBS Station KEYE.
The cows dropped dead several weeks ago on an 80-acre ranch owned by Jerry Abel in Elgin, just east of Austin.
cbsnews.com Potential Toxicity Issues with Tifton 85 Bermudagrass Mysterious Mass Cattle Deaths May Be Caused By Random Grass Mutation TIFTON 85 BERMUDAGRASS
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 24, 2012 at 8:15:00 AM CEST
Smoking First Day At The High Times Med Can Cup
To say it was just a “great” first day at the High Times Cannabis Cup 2012 – would be an understatement. The sun was shining, the crowds were out, and the meds were flowing. It was an interesting transformation to watch this peaceful and sleepy area grow, into the hectic, and smoke-filled hub of the bay area’s Med Can cup 2012.
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Topic: WEB - on June 23, 2012 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Track the trackers with Collusion
Even by using privacy add-ons and telling sites not to track you, tracking that builds behavior profiles is out of control. Collusion is an add-on that will help you visualize that tracking. It was introduced by Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, during a TED talk titled Tracking the Trackers. Here is an interview with Ryan Merkley, Chief Operating Officer for the Mozilla Foundation, about Collusion, being tracked online and privacy.
There are many flavors of privacy add-ons for different browsers, but to get the global tracking "big picture," if you haven't already then you really need to try out Collusion. The "interactive, real-time visualization of entities that track your behavior" when you are surfing says a lot. After the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) struck out at Microsoft for turning on Do Not Track (DNT) by default in IE10, I scoffed at DAA's statement about advertisers supporting and enforcing the "appropriate standards for collecting and using web viewing data" through "strong self-regulation." Try out Collusion and you'll see how laughable that statement seems to be. Here's the demo as well as the add-on for Firefox or for Chrome.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on June 23, 2012 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Venezuela to Germany: Give Us Back Our 35-Ton Rock
Venezuela is demanding that Germany hands back a 35-ton rock regarded as a "grandmother" by a tribe of South American Indians that claims its removal from their native land has precipitated a series of natural disasters.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on June 23, 2012 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Indianer fordern Felsbrocken von Deutschland zurück
In Caracas haben venezolanische Ureinwohner vor der Deutschen Botschaft demonstriert. Sie fordern die Rückgabe eines 35 Tonnen schweren Steins. Der Felsbrocken liegt seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt als Kunstobjekt im Berliner Tiergarten.
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Topic: Drone - on June 23, 2012 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Drone dogfights by 2015? U.S. Navy preps for futuristic combat
Imagine an aerial dogfight of epic proportions: Fifty aircraft on a side, each prowling the sky for advantage over dozens of adversaries.
If Timothy Chung has his way, such a battle could take place over Southern California by 2015. But before you worry that war is coming to American soil, you should know that Chung's vision is really about a high-tech game of Capture the Flag played by as many as a hundred small, lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles playing their role in a grand challenge of an experiment.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 23, 2012 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
IDair's new fingerprint reader captures prints from 6 meters away
Forget the key card to your office building? Just wave your hand at the door, and you're in. "You don't have to stop at a station. Nobody checks your ID. You just walk through," explains Clemson-educated physicist Joel Burcham of his new Huntsville company called IDair.
IDair makes a machine that Burcham says can photographically capture a fingerprint from as far away as six meters in enough detail to match against a database. Add facial and iris-recognition technology, Burcham said, and you have the basis for a good biometrics system that can control access to any building or room within a building.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 23, 2012 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Breaking the Code - The Biography of Alan Turing
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk. Adapted for Television
Turing Week To celebrate 100 years since Turing’s birth, Wired.co.uk has curated a series of features, interviews and guest posts that shed light on his contributions Top 10 fascinating facts about WWII code breaker Alan Turing
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Topic: NASA - on June 23, 2012 at 10:09:00 AM CEST
Time lapse
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expedition 31 onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Image Courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
I downloaded the high-resolution image sets that have been made available by the NASA Johnson Space Center and constructed this short time-lapse film.
Video:
Post Processing: in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 I imported every image set in a new composition at 4256x2832, re-escaling, etc. and exported clips at 1280x720 in Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec.
Final process in Premiere Pro CS5.5, color correction with MB Looks, sound, titles, etc.
Exported from Premiere with the Vimeo HD presset.
Audio:
Music: JAN JELINEK -- Moiré
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