Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 14, 2012 at 1:06:00 PM CET
German Court: ISP Must Not Block Access To Foreign Sites, Even If They Are Illegal
Against a background where some European courts are telling ISPs that they must block access to certain sites (in Finland and the UK, for example), this news from Germany comes as a refreshing change (original German article in Der Spiegel):
Deutsche Telekom must allow access to online betting sites, even if they are illegal in Germany. So ruled the Cologne Administrative Court on Thursday.</p>
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 14, 2012 at 1:00:00 PM CET
Has Israel Been Killing Iran’s Nuclear Scientists?
Circumstantial evidence suggests the Mossad is responsible for a string of slayings of Iran’s nuclear experts, most recently Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. At the very least Israel’s defense establishment would like allies to believe its spies have pulled off these “events that happen unnaturally.”
Six weeks ago in Washington, on the sidelines of a major U.S.-Israeli meeting known as the “strategic dialogue,” Israeli Mossad officers were quietly and obliquely bragging about the string of explosions in Iran. “They would say things like, ‘It’s not the best time to be working on Iranian missile design,’” one U.S. intelligence official at the December parley told The Daily Beast.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 14, 2012 at 12:58:00 PM CET
Handcuffed man steals police car
Blankenship was pulled over for speeding on Tuesday, handcuffed with his hands behind his back and put in the back seat of a police car after an officer reported seeing drug paraphernalia in his car, authorities said.
As the officer checked the suspect’s car, Blankenship drove off with the police car, which was found on Wednesday in a pond.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 14, 2012 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Netzzensur per SSL-Tunnel aushebeln
Wer Zensurmaßnahmen per Tunnel zu externen Proxy-Servern umgehen will, kann dafür Protokolle nutzen, die immer zur Verfügung stehen – etwa HTTPS. Ein speziell konfigurierter Apache-Webserver dient als externer Proxy.
Viele Unternehmen sowie manche Länder gewähren nur gefilterten Zugriff auf das Internet. Einen Ausweg aus solchen Sperren bietet ein externer Proxy unter eigener Kontrolle. Wenn die Zugriffe auf ihn wie gewöhnlicher HTTPS-Datenverkehr aussehen, funktioniert das durch die meisten Firewalls hindurch und minimiert das Risiko einer Entdeckung.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 14, 2012 at 12:47:00 PM CET
Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon
Chinese hackers have deployed a new cyber weapon that is aimed at the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and potentially a number of other United States government agencies and businesses, security researchers say.
Researchers at AlienVault, a Campbell, Calif., security company, said on Thursday that they had uncovered a new variant of some malicious software called Sykipot that targets smart cards used by government employees to access restricted servers and networks. Traces of Sykipot malware have been found in cyberattacks dating back to 2006, but AlienVault’s researchers say this is the first time Sykipot has compromised smart cards.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 13, 2012 at 4:16:00 PM CET
‘Facebook Security’ Phishing Attack Steals Accounts and Makes Threats
Facebook members are advised to be on the lookout these days for a malicious operation that’s designed to take over their accounts by requesting the user to confirm his identity and provide sensitive information.
"Last Warning: Your Facebook account will be turned off Because someone has reported you. Please do re-confirm your account security by: [LINK] Thank you. The Facebook Team," reads the phony message.
Kaspersky Lab Experts came across this attack and analyzed it to find out how it works.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 13, 2012 at 3:57:00 PM CET
Korruption: Europarat kritisiert Österreich hart
Telekom Austria, Abfangjäger, Blaulichtfunk: Die Liste der heimischen Korruptionsverdachtsfälle, in denen Schmiergeld geflossen sein könnte, ist lang. Der Europarat verstärkt mit seinem aktuellen GRECO-Bericht über Korruption und Parteienfinanzierung den Druck auf Österreich, berichtete das Ö1-Morgenjournal. Schärfere Maßnahmen gegen Bestechung werden empfohlen, und zwar dringend.
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Topic: EU - on January 13, 2012 at 3:55:00 PM CET
German priest admits 280 counts of sexual abuse
A German Catholic priest has admitted 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, saying he did not think he was doing harm.
Named only as Andreas L, the priest told a court in Braunschweig that he had first abused the nine-year-old son of a widowed woman parishioner.
After being banned by his diocese from making further contact with the boy, he abused two brothers, aged nine and 13.
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Topic: LEGO - on January 13, 2012 at 3:51:00 PM CET
LEGO Saturn V Rocket
Here I am standing next to my model, I hope it gives an idea of scale!
120,000 bricks is the approximate count, and 5.76m tall.
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Topic: ART - on January 13, 2012 at 10:37:00 AM CET
PressPausePlay
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.
But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 13, 2012 at 9:14:00 AM CET
Top 10 Lesser-Known Friday 13th Events
Happy Friday the 13th, the first one of 2012. The year 2012 is one of the rare years in which there are three Friday the 13ths – January, April, and July. That combination of a year where Friday the 13th happens three times in January, April, and July only happens on leap years, and has only happened seven times since 1860, and not since 1984. The other three-month combination in which Friday the 13th can happen in three different months is February, March, and November of a given year (non-leap years). Friday the 13th cannot happen more than three times in a Gregorian calendar year. In a 400 year Gregorian calendar cycle, the odds of the 13th falling on a Friday is slightly more likely than any other day of the week (it will happen 688 times in those 400 years, slightly more frequent than Sundays or Wednesdays).
Friday the 13th of any month, of course, is considered to be unlucky but it is just another ordinary day. Some years, not much happens on a month that has a Friday the 13th. Other years, history is made, for better or worse.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 12, 2012 at 10:31:00 PM CET
Israeli, Saudi Hacker Battle Escalates
A war of words and website hacks is escalating in Israel over the purported hack of credit card data by a hacker from Saudi Arabia.
Last week, a hacker known as xOmar 0, who claimed to be part of the Saudi hacking group Group-XP, released credit card numbers and other sensitive information he'd stolen, saying it affected 400,000 Israelis. The Israeli banks affected, however, said the total number of people involved was only about 14,000.
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