The FBI is looking into the creation of a new application that would allow them to not only monitor on-going threats, but also predict potential terrorist attacks and other crimes before they even happen. Here's everything you need to know, and why you should be concerned. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the creation of an application that would allow it to better mine social media content, in an attempt to more accurately identify, target and fight "emerging threats" in real-time. The application could also be used to predict potential threats before they even happen. According to a Request for Information (RFI) posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website, the FBI says it hopes to "determine the capability of industry to provide an Open Source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application solution." This tool would allow the FBI to "quickly vet, identify, and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats" using "publicly available" information posted to social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, as well as local and national news publications...This entire article appears on Our Forum.
Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:40
A federal judge has ruled that a Colorado woman can be compelled to decrypt her encrypted laptop so that the police can inspect it for incriminating evidence. The woman, Ramona Fricosu, is a defendant in a mortgage scam case. She had argued that the Fifth Amednment's privilege against self-incrimination protected her from having to disclose the password to her hard drive, which was encrypted using PGP Desktop. In previous cases, judges have drawn a distinction between forcing a defendant to reveal her password and forcing her to decrypt encrypted data without disclosing the password. The courts have held that the former forces the defendant to reveal the contents of her mind, which raises Fifth Amendment issues. But Judge Robert Blackburn has now ruled that forcing a defendant to decrypt a laptop so that its contents can be inspected is little different from producing any other kind of document...We have more on this posted on Our Forum.
SOPA, PIPA Stalled: Meet the OPEN Act
Written by Wayne
Monday, 23 January 2012 05:00
SOPA and PIPA may have been put on hold -- thanks to possibly the most contentious uproar seen on Capitol Hill and in the tech world ever -- but other legislation was introduced this week to combat online piracy. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) introduced H.R. 3782, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the same day as an Internet protest when a number of high-profile websites such as Wikipedia went dark. Issa says the new bill delivers stronger intellectual property rights for American artists and innovators while protecting the openness of the Internet. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has introduced the OPEN Act in the U.S. Senate. OPEN would give oversight to the International Trade Commission instead of the Justice Department, focuses on foreign-based websites, includes an appeals process, and would apply only to
Last year, Google decided to shutter Google Labs, a place where a number of incredibly wonderful experimental projects lived. Among the projects that got the ax was one of my favorites: Google's Android App Inventor. Sure, The New York Times' David Pogue gave it one of his most scathing reviews ever. But as this was something designed in part by Hal Abelson, one of the people behind Scratch -- no doubt, the single best learn-to-program projects available to this day. And as such it was terribly disappointing to see the Android App Inventor be shelved. Much like Scratch, App Inventor presupposes zero programming knowledge, and yet while teaching computational thinking, it also allows users to build something they find both useful and important -- in the case of Scratch, it's animations and games. In the case of App Inventor, it's mobile apps. After announcing the closure of App Inventor, Google handed over App Inventor to MIT...Complete details and a download link are posted on Our Forum.
Anonymous launches largest attack ever
Written by Wayne
Friday, 20 January 2012 02:18
Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America. In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America. "It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org," Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon. Only hours before the DoJ and Universal sites went down, news broke that Megaupload, a massive file sharing site with a reported 50 million daily users, was taken down by federal agents. Four people linked to Megaupload were arrested
Remo Software, a leading software company who provides consumer software utilities today has announced the availability of a RAR file repair utility for repairing corrupt or damaged RAR archive files created by WinRAR. The current available product supports all major versions of Windows including Windows XP, Vista, 2003, 2008 and Windows 7. Remo Repair RAR version 1.0 helps repairing unlimited number of corrupt / damaged RAR files. Remo Repair RAR has special algorithms for repairing severely damaged or corrupted RAR files. "RAR files are compressed archives and are generated using WinRAR, which is popular software for creating RAR archive files. RAR file is widely popular for its strong compression algorithms and helps saving lot of disk space. The RAR archive files created using WinRAR mostly contain important data, which makes it easier to save backups...Follow the download link on Our Forum.
Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28
Written by Wayne
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:33
Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 — at least that’s what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming in the name of the hacker network. And you thought a day without Wikipedia was bad. "An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people and the government of the United States," the video begins. "While SOPA and PIPA may be postponed from Congress, this doesn’t guarantee that our Internet rights will be upheld." Following the U.S. government shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload Friday, Anonymous attacked the U.S. Department of Justice’s website, among others. Monday’s YouTube video calls on the American people to participate in the hack by downloading Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), the tool that was successfully used to target the Department of Justice. LOIC crashes websites by sending thousands of information packets to their
Now you can jailbreak an iPad 2, iPhone 4S on Windows too
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 18:01
A day after the first tools for jailbreaking an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S were released for Mac users, the iPhone Dev Team has updated their utility to work with Windows. The process is a bit more involved since it relies on a command-line utility that walks you through the process one step at a time for debugging purposes. But if you don’t want to wait for the Windows version of the tools to get a graphical user interface, now you don’t have to. Just download the latest CLI from the bottom of the official post at the iPhone Dev Team Blog, unzip it to a folder on your computer, open a command prompt and type "cinject -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig" (without quotes) to get started. Even though apple trys to stay a step ahead of the Dec Team it is impossible, and now you can follow the step-by-step tutorial posted on Our Forum.
5G Technology
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 03:10
5G Technology stands for 5th Generation Mobile technology. 5G mobile technology has changed the means to use cell phones within very high bandwidth. User never experienced ever before such a high value technology. Nowadays mobile users have much awareness of the cell phone (mobile) technology. The 5G technologies include all type of advanced features which makes 5G mobile technology most powerful and in huge demand in near future. The gigantic array of innovative technology being built into new cell phones is stunning. 5G technology which is on hand held phone offering more power and features than at least 1000 lunar modules. A user can also hook their 5G technology cell phone with their Laptop to get broadband internet access. 5G technology including camera, MP3 recording, video player, large phone memory, dialing speed, audio player and much more you never imagine. For
Facebook has confirmed it is releasing as much information as it can about the Koobface worm, which wreaked havoc on the social network a few years ago, and the five hackers behind it. As expected, Facebook today started to release information about the Koobface worm (its name is an anagram of "Facebook") and those behind it. The update comes almost a year since Facebook’s last post about the infamous piece of malware. After more than three years and numerous hours of working closely with industry leaders, the security community, and law enforcement, Facebook has announced its social network has been free of the virus for over nine months. In July 2008, the Koobface gang, as they are often referred to, sent out invitations to watch a funny or sexy video. If you clicked the link, you were told you needed to update your Adobe Flash plugin, but the download was in fact the Koobface malware...Read more and get removal instructions on Our Forum.
Lawmakers raise privacy concerns as DHS crafts social media monitoring program
Written by Wayne
Monday, 16 January 2012 18:27
Members of Congress are pressing the Department of Homeland Security to provide more information about a controversial social-media monitoring program, citing "privacy and civil liberties concerns." The lawmakers, the Republican and Democratic heads of a House counterterrorism panel, expressed support for the goal of the program, calling social media a "crucial source" of intelligence around the world. They said in a letter last month that it is "advantageous" for DHS to draw out information to "identify current or emerging threats to our homeland security." Related Stories White House cites free speech concerns over online piracy bills But they also urged the department to "be mindful of the rights" of citizens to "express themselves online."...Follow these developments and more on Our Forum.
