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Protect Any Hard Drive With This Drive Enclosure

2008-05-15 11:17:44 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Maybe you're a spy or you've got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you're going to want to lock your files down
 
Tags: hard drive, hot gadget, spy, files, lock, schematics
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

2008-05-14 20:10:50 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to--and "full control" of--any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected." The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online
 
Tags: air force, information infrastructure completely, info warriors, hacker tools, war online, control, government, tabs, adversaries
 
 
 
 
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Deep packet inspection under assault over privacy concerns

2008-05-13 01:43:30 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A Canadian law clinic has asked the country's Privacy Commissioner to take a closer look at the deep packet inspection being used by Bell Canada and others. While the technology also raises net neutrality concerns, in this case the issue is privacy
 
Tags: deep packet inspection, privacy, privacy commissioner, canadian law clinic, bell canada, country, issue, closer, technology
 
 
 
 
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DARPA Wants Matrix-style Virtual World for Cybergeddon

2008-05-11 12:15:00 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace battlefields of the future. This would allow America's fighting nerds to train for the net conflicts of tomorrow, mounting attacks on simulated enemies
 
Tags: national cyber range, mighty network, cyberspace battlefields, net conflicts, darpa, attacks, military, america, details
 
 
 
 
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Security Flaw Turns Gmail into Open-Relay Server

2008-05-11 04:02:32 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets
 
Tags: open-relay server, gmail, would-be spammers, spammers, e-mail delivery, newfound flaw, google, reach, treat
 
 
 
 
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How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net?

2008-05-06 12:00:41 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading? Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren't telling or sharing raw data
 
Tags: traffic, peer-to-peer file, raw data, backbone providers, middle, isps, lot, internet, represents
 
 
 
 
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Government wiretapsthe ones we know aboutup 20% for 2007

2008-05-06 01:00:31 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Data released this week on 2007 wiretaps shows that nearly all intercepts are for "portable devices" and 80 percent of all taps target drug criminals. Secret FISA warrants are also up, and no one knows what's happening with warrantless surveillance at the NSA
 
Tags: secret fisa warrants, warrantless surveillance, portable devices, nsa, percent, week, intercepts, data, wiretaps
 
 
 
 
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Wiretapping is really, really easy

2008-05-05 14:44:04 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Ask Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else
 
Tags: phone company networks, enjoy talk, encryption software, low-tech secrets, booby traps, week, arguably, pellicano, people
 
 
 
 
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100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered

2008-05-04 13:47:59 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you
 
Tags: vygara nad levytar, bounceback e-mail messages, bulk email, subject lines, apparently, hour, trickle, cyails
 
 
 
 
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The Internet as a Walled Garden?

2008-05-04 04:25:20 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Now it seems the only question is whether the government will be able to turn the net into a controllable, monitorable and trackable pre-internet AOL-type service or whether the chaotic net will live on as just another frontier for the military-industrial complex to start an arm's race and rake in billions of