“A secret program that allowed U.S. officials to examine hundreds of thousands of private banking records from around the world in search of terrorist ties has been “absolutely essential” to protecting the country from further attacks, Vice President Cheney said yesterday.”
Category: security
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Warantless Surveillance Program to Become Legal
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush's warrantless surveillance program into law.
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Digg will take over the world
When I was in high school, I read this book called Ender's Game, by a man named Orson Scott Card. The book is about a strategic prodigy named Ender who is the only hope for saving humanity from an alien invasion. It was a great book.
In the bookd Ender's brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, are just as bright
as he. Peter convinces Valentine to collaborate in his grand scheme
of controlling the planet Earth. They start by creating a huge following on the Internet.I think that the comment system created by Kevin Rose and the Revision 3 team is going to be copied enough to make it an unofficial standard. The one thing that is very powerful about digg is that it harnesses the power of the collective masses participating. Some topics that are supercharged with emotion moving hundreds of commenters on digg into action. The site becomes like a loaded gun.
Perhaps it won't be digg that starts catapults the current online revolution but it will almost definitely be something very similar.
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Too many passwords?
Hashapass automatically generates strong passwords from a master password and a parameter. Given the same master password and parameter, Hashapass will always give you the same result. That's so you don't have to store your generated passwords anywhere: just come back here with your master password and the parameter.
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Security Round Table #2
Episode 2 of the Security Roundtable is up and available. Michael Santarcangelo from the Security Catalyst, Alan Shimel from StillSecure, After All These Years and Martin McKeay discuss how the VA and the loss of 26.5 Million records.
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Deputy Director of the NSA doesn't know what the 4th amendment says (Video)
MSNBC video of the NSA and the 4th amendment. (Click to play)
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Attacks Increasing on Web Services
“As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.”
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Free web browser Browsezilla is a click fraud engine.
The company claims their web browser is a tool for privacy protection, but according to Panda Software it's got some hidden adware. ''It's being used deceptively to get more hits on their site,'' Schoch says. ''This adware opens a series of adult web pages, although they are not visible to the user.''
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US agencies hit by ID theft
A HACKER may have stolen personal information for 26,000 current and former US Agriculture Department employees.
The department announced the security breach shortly before midnight on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after it occurred. It offered one year of free credit-monitoring services to the potentially affected employees.