Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 10, 2012 at 9:19:00 AM CET
Bundespolizei-Beamter überwacht Tochter: Was kann da schiefgehen?
Ein spektakulärer Hackerangriff auf die Bundespolizei geht nach SPIEGEL-Informationen offenbar auf ein kompliziertes Vater-Tochter-Verhältnis zurück. Kölner Fahnder ermitteln gegen einen hohen Beamten der Bundespolizei aus Frankfurt am Main.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 10, 2012 at 9:01:00 AM CET
Paybacks are hell: Parental spying prompts infiltration of German police system
Der Spiegel published a story in yesterday's edition of their magazine that the hack on the German police surveillance system "Patras" was prompted by a senior officer spying on his daughter's internet activities.
The Patras system is used by the police to track suspects using so-called "silent" SMSs and GPS tracking devices planted on automobiles.
It appears that a senior policeman from Frankfurt am Main installed spyware onto his daughter's computer to keep an eye on her online activities.
nakedsecurity.sophos.com German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 8, 2012 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Interpol Secretary General Wants Global Cyber Fusion Center
Meeting The Independent before visiting Scotland Yard to discuss arrangements for the Games, Mr Noble said he recognised that some people are scared the event could bring an increased threat of violence to the UK.
"One of the things I want to do... is to create a cyber-fusion centre, where police around the world can go to one place quickly and find out the source of any kind of message or communication that's come across the internet."
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 8, 2012 at 12:55:00 PM CET
Symantec confirms hacker theft of Norton anti-virus source code
Summary: Symantec, the anti-virus maker, has confirmed that a hacking group has stolen a “segment” of its flagship product. The group said it would make the source code available.
Symantec has confirmed that a “segment” of its flagship Norton anti-virus product’s source code was leaked onto the web this week.
The firm said that the code relates to two older enterprise products, one of which is no longer in production. But it said the breach was on a third-party network rather than its own, and will “not affect any current Norton product”.
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Topic: NASA - on January 8, 2012 at 12:39:00 PM CET
NASA questions Apollo 13 checklist sale
NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than $388,000 US, about 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the 1995 film Apollo 13 in which actor Tom Hanks plays Lovell making the calculations.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on January 7, 2012 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Stephen Hawking at 70
When he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged just 21, Stephen Hawking was only expected to live a few years. He will be 70 this month, and in an exclusive interview with New Scientist he looks back on his life and work
STEPHEN HAWKING is one of the world's greatest physicists, famous for his work on black holes. His condition means that he can now only communicate by twitching his cheek (see "The man who saves Stephen Hawking's voice"). His responses to the questions are followed by our own elaboration of the concepts he describes.
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Topic: WEB - on January 7, 2012 at 12:10:00 PM CET
Internet Access Is Not a Human Right
FROM the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Though the demonstrations thrived because thousands of people turned out to participate, they could never have happened as they did without the ability that the Internet offers to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere, instantaneously.
It is no surprise, then, that the protests have raised questions about whether Internet access is or should be a civil or human right. The issue is particularly acute in countries whose governments clamped down on Internet access in an attempt to quell the protesters. In June, citing the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, a report by the United Nations’ special rapporteur went so far as to declare that the Internet had “become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights.” Over the past few years, courts and parliaments in countries like France and Estonia have pronounced Internet access a human right.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 30, 2011 at 4:01:00 PM CET
Unter Hackern: Es brodelt im Untergrund
Der Jahres-Kongress 28C3 des Chaos Computer Club hat neben vielen Sicherheitslücken vor allem eines aufgezeigt: Die Hacker-Kultur zieht immer mehr Menschen in ihren Bann, gewinnt stetig an gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung und könnte sehr schnell auch in Österreich zu einem wichtigen politischen Faktor werden.
Woher die populäre TV-Serie “The Big Bang Theory” rund um vier Technik-Nerds die Idee hat, ihre vier Hauptprotagonisten in augenschmerzend bunte Kleidung zu stecken, darüber kann man viele Vermutungen anstellen. Fix ist: Der “Chaos Communication Congress”, der zum 28. Mal in Deutschland stattfand (28C3), ist nicht Quelle der Inspiration. Denn auf dem größten und wichtigsten Hacker-Treffen Europas, veranstaltet vom Chaos Computer Club, dominiert die Farbe Schwarz. T-Shirts, Kapuzenpullis, Notebooks - das Gros der rund 3000 Besucher gab sich am liebsten schlicht und dunkel.
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Topic: health - on December 30, 2011 at 12:53:00 PM CET
Club-Mate [ˈklup ˌmaːtə]
Sagen Sie doch einfach laut und deutlich: “Club-Mate, bitte” - das hilft!
Denn Club-Mate erfrischt und regt an, ohne aufzuregen. Club-Mate wird nämlich aus Mate gemacht - eine jahrhundertealte Urwaldpflanze aus Südamerika. Mit ihrer in der Natur einmaligen Kombination von
Wirkstoffen wirkt sie auch hier und jetzt und heute immer noch Wunder!
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 30, 2011 at 11:46:00 AM CET
28C3: Your Disaster/Crisis/Revolution just got Pwned
People are using technology to try to save the world, whether in the disaster response world, or in activist or revolutionary work. Many of the people involved are not technologists. Many of the people building tools for these situations do not understand security. This is a problem because: Privacy issues for disaster response Creepy uncle Creepy government agency Gaming the aid process with crowdsourced reports Activists and revolutionaries are subject to direct attack, coercion, harrassment, etc.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 30, 2011 at 11:10:00 AM CET
28c3: Print Me If You Dare
We first present several generic firmware modification attacks against HP printers. Weaknesses within the firmware update process allows the attacker to make arbitrary modifications to the NVRAM contents of the device. The attacks we present exploit a functional vulnerability common to all HP printers, and do not depend on any specific code vulnerability. These attacks cannot be prevented by any authentication mechanism on the printer, and can be delivered over the network, either directly or through a print server (active attack) and as hidden payloads within documents (reflexive attack).
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 30, 2011 at 11:08:00 AM CET
Jeder gegen jeden: Schlammschlacht bei US-Republikanern
Am 3. Jänner wird es für die US-Republikaner ernst. In Iowa findet die erste Vorwahl zur Kür des Herausforderers von US-Präsident Obama statt. Dabei wir ein Dreikampf zwischen Romney, Gingrich und Paul erwartet. Experten lassen an allen Kandidaten kaum ein gutes Haar: Blass und ideologisch verquer seien sie. Langweilig wird der Wahlkampf aber nicht. Denn durch Gerichtsurteile sind erstmals Unterstützungskomitees ohne Spendenlimit erlaubt, die noch dazu politische Gegner scharf attackieren dürfen. Schon jetzt wird dafür fast mehr Geld ausgegeben als für eigene Wahlkampfspots. Und die Schlammschlacht hat bereits begonnen.
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