Topic: NEWS - on August 19, 2014 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
Von Microsoft zu Linux und zurück
Unabhängig von Microsoft wollte die Stadt München werden und führte in der Verwaltung die Linux-Betriebssysteme ein. Doch jetzt prüft sie eine Rückkehr, sagt der Zweite Bürgermeister Josef Schmid. Der Grund, heißt es: die vielen Beschwerden.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 17, 2014 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Woman hides 2 kilos of cocaine in breast implants, gets busted
In Madrid, police arrested a 43-year-old at Adolfo Suarez Airport after discovering 1.7 kilos (3.7 pounds) of cocaine in her fake breast implants.
The Venezuelan in question landed at the airport on Friday. She was on a flight from Bogotá, Colombia, and, according to Euro Weekly News, was “displaying a nervous attitude and strange behaviour,” which then prompted a thorough search at customs.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 16, 2014 at 5:00:00 PM CEST
BND überwacht seit Jahren die Türkei
Der Bundesnachrichtendienst führt den Nato-Partner Türkei als offizielles Aufklärungsziel. Neben Hillary Clinton hörte der Dienst auch John Kerry mindestens einmal ab.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 16, 2014 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text
Citizen Lab released new research today on a targeted exploitation technique used by state actors involving "network injection appliances" installed at ISPs. These devices can target and intercept unencrypted YouTube traffic and replace it with malicious code that gives the operator control over the system or installs a surveillance backdoor. One of the researchers writes, "many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites...many of these commonly held beliefs are not necessarily true." This technique is largely designed for targeted attacks, so it's likely most of us will be safe for now — but just one more reminder to use https.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 15, 2014 at 4:39:00 PM CEST
Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene
BBC News is reporting findings published in the journal ACS Nano by Dr David Mitlin from Clarkson University. Dr. Mitlin's team took waste hemp stems and recycled the material into supercapacitors with performance as good, or better, than those built from graphene, at a fraction of the raw materials cost. "We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste. The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities,
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 15, 2014 at 4:37:00 PM CEST
Kroatische Polizei nimmt Penis-Sammler fest
Die kroatische Polizei hat in der Stadt Slavonski Brod im Osten des Landes einen bizarren Fund gemacht: Sie nahm einen Mann fest, der eine Kollektion von Penissen hatte. Die Körperteile waren in Glasbehältern in Formaldehyd eingelegt.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 15, 2014 at 4:36:00 PM CEST
NSA/GCHQ: Das HACIENDA-Programm zur Kolonisierung des Internet
Portscans sind ein bekanntes Tool und werden regelmäßig eingesetzt, um Schwachstellen in lokalen Systemen zu finden. Neue, als streng geheim klassifizierte Dokumente des britischen Geheimdienstes General Communication Headquarter (GCHQ), die heise online exklusiv vorliegen, zeigen jetzt, dass Geheimdienste das Scannen offener Ports ganzer Länder (Folie 1 in der Bilderstrecke) als Standardtool einsetzen.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 15, 2014 at 4:34:00 PM CEST
Großer Bundestrojaner ist “einsatzbereit”, kleiner Bundestrojaner wird noch eine Zeitlang ausprobiert
Das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) verfügt über mindestens drei verschiedene Trojaner-Programme für unterschiedliche Zwecke. Dies geht aus den Antworten auf mehrere parlamentarische Anfragen der letzten zwei Wochen hervor. Es handelt sich demnach um ein Modell zur “Online-Durchsuchung”, eines zur “Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung” sowie die “Übergangslösung” der britisch-deutschen Firma Gamma International.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 15, 2014 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Sharks Want to Bite Google’s Undersea Cables
There are many, many things that can go wrong as you lay thousands of miles of fiber optic cable along the ocean’s floor. Earthquakes can rip things up, as can fishing hooks. But now we know of a new threat: Shark attacks.
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Topic: Space - on August 14, 2014 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Earth Time Lapse, International Space Station
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 13, 2014 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
Scientists Announce Worlds Fastest Camera, Capable of Capturing 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second
No, that’s not a typo. A team of 12 scientists from The University of Tokyo and Keio University, have developed a camera that is capable of capturing 4.4 trillion frames per second using a technology called Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography (STAMP) according to a release posted on Nature.com. According to the team, STAMP makes it possible for their camera to outperform current high speed cameras by achieving capture rates that are 1,000 times faster than any other known camera.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 13, 2014 at 5:15:00 PM CEST
Blackphone goes to Def Con and gets hacked—sort of
When the Blackphone team arrived at Def Con last week, they knew they were stepping into a lion’s den. In fact, that's exactly why they were there. The first generation Blackphone from SGP Technologies has been shipping for just over a month, and the company’s delegation to DefCon—including Silent Circle Chief Technology Officer Jon Callas and newly hired SGP Technologies Chief Security Officer Dan Ford—was looking to both reach a natural customer base and get help with further locking down the device.
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