Topic: NATURE - on September 22, 2011 at 9:07:00 AM CEST
Monsanto Denies Superinsect Science
As the summer growing season draws to a close, 2011 is emerging as the year of the superinsect—the year pests officially developed resistance to Monsanto's genetically engineered (ostensibly) bug-killing corn.
While the revelation has given rise to alarming headlines, neither Monsanto nor the EPA, which regulates pesticides and pesticide-infused crops, can credibly claim surprise. Scientists have been warning that the EPA's rules for planting the crop were too lax to prevent resistance since before the agency approved the crop in 2003. And in 2008, research funded by Monsanto itself showed that resistance was an obvious danger.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on September 22, 2011 at 9:04:00 AM CEST
Italian parents bring in lawyers to evict 41-year-old stay at home son
An exasperated Italian couple has resorted to legal help to kick their 41-year-old son out of the house, in the latest case to highlight the phenomenon of Italy's stay-at-home "bamboccioni" or mummy's boys.
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Topic: Religion - on September 22, 2011 at 8:59:00 AM CEST
Religious Fundamentalists Are the Ultimate Nerds
When you think of a nerd, you probably have a very specific image in your mind of someone who wears thick glasses and lacks physical and social grace, but if you were to think about the general qualities that characterize a nerd, you'd find things like borderline-insane obsession with very narrow pursuits, a general inability to relate to folks who don't share their passions, a megalomaniacal sense of self-importance because they happen to hold what they mistakenly believe to be some ultimate and transcendent truth, virtually zero athletic prowess, a tendency to interpret fiction as facts... and probably not much in the way of pre-marital sex.
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Topic: TV - on September 12, 2011 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Egypt security forces raid unit of Al Jazeera
Security officers raided the offices of an Al Jazeera channel in Egypt and detained some of its staff, the Qatar-based broadcaster said on Sunday, describing the move as an attempt to drive the channel off the air.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 3, 2011 at 9:06:00 AM CEST
FBI / IFPI Teach How To Bust Private Torrent Sites
A diplomatic cable recently published by Wikileaks reveals how the U.S. Government has spent $125,000 to educate Ukraine’s police officers on Internet piracy. Among other things, experts from the FBI and IFPI taught 30 of Ukraine’s top cyber-crime officers how to bust private torrent sites. Whether the investment will pay off is doubtful though, as some police officers said that they have no Internet connection at their workplace.
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Topic: * - on August 21, 2011 at 9:08:00 AM CEST
The Godfather of Hacking - Kevin Mitnick
In the '90s there was no bigger hacker than Kevin Mitnick. In his new book, 'Ghost in the Wires,' he relives his glory days, talks about the new generation of media-savvy hacktivists, and warns of new threats.
The 48-year-old security consultant, once known to America as the world’s most notorious computer hacker, has finally returned home to Las Vegas after a three-week vacation in Spain—his first in 11 years—and there’s no time to reboot.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 18, 2011 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Security flaw found in feds' digital radios
Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security are designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children's toy, CNET has learned.
A GirlTech IMME, Mattel's pink instant-messaging device with a miniature keyboard that's marketed to pre-teen girls, can be used to disrupt sensitive radio communications used by every major federal law enforcement agency, a team of security researchers from the University of Pennsylvania is planning to announce tomorrow.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 15, 2011 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
Chaos Computer Club wirft Domscheit-Berg raus
Zoff zwischen dem Hacker-Verein CCC und Wikileaks-Aussteiger Domscheit-Berg: Der Vorstand schließt den Gründer der Plattform Openleaks aus, er habe den Ruf des Vereins ausgenutzt. Domscheit-Berg reagiert mit Unverständnis.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 14, 2011 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
THC-IPV6 - v1.8 - CCC Camp release
A complete tool set to attack the inherent protocol weaknesses of IPV6 and ICMP6, and includes an easy to use packet factory library.
[0x00] News and Changelog
Please note that public versions do not include all tools available!
Only those who send in comprehensive patches and new tools for thc-ipv6 get the private
versions which are released more often, include unreleased tools and more!
If you want to participate, here is a list of tools that would be interesting:
* Adding raw mode (sending into a sit 6to4 tunnel) to the library (the current implemetation doesnt work)
* Enhancing the library so it works on FreeBSD and OSX too
* Create a tool which tests an ipv6 address if it is an endpoint for various tunnel protocols
* Adding more exploit tests to exploit6 (I can supply a long list of exploit files)
* Adding more denial of service tests to denial6
* Add a dhcp6 client fuzzer
* Add a dhcp6 server fuzzer
If you want to work on a topic on the list, email me, so not multiple people are working on the same tool.
Next Trainings: DeepSec, Vienna, 15-16th November 2011, "Pentesting & and Securing IPv6 Networks" CanSecWest, Vancouver, 5-6th March 2012, "Pentesting & and Securing IPv6 Networks"
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Topic: WAR - on August 13, 2011 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
Neo-Nazis tricked by T-shirt that changed message after it was washed
Festival goers at a nationalist, right-wing concert in Germany were taken by surprise when souvenir T-shirts they were given had a secret anti-far right message that emerged only after being washed.
The slogan on the shirts first read “hardcore rebels” along with a skull and nationalist flags. But once washed the slogan turned into a message from a group offering help to right-wing extremists break away from the neo-Nazi scene.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on August 11, 2011 at 9:13:00 AM CEST
Blackberry kündigt an, Londoner Plünderer auszuliefern
In mehreren Teilen Londons finden gerade Scharmützel und Plündereien und Ausschreitungen statt. Das ging am Samstag in Tottenham los, dann kamen auch Brixton, Enfield und Hackney dazu.
Der Blackberry-Hersteller RIM kündigte dazu gerade via Twitter an, dass man die Behörden auf jede mögliche Weise unterstützen werde. Eine dieser möglichen Weisen ist das Entschlüsseln der als tolles Sicherheitsfeature der Blackberries beworbenen BBM-Kurzachrichten, die wegen ihres geringen Preises und ihrer Verschlüsselung recht beliebt sind.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on August 11, 2011 at 9:11:00 AM CEST
Dressage enthusiast limbers up for London Olympics
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