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June 7 memorandum from the DoD warning employees not to read information on any leaks

June 18, 2013

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DoD Warns Employees of Classified Info in Public Domain Categories: Leaks, Secrecy As a new wave of classified documents published by news organizations appeared online over the past week, the Department of Defense instructed employees and contractors that they must neither seek out nor download classified material that is in the public domain.“Classified information, whether […]

DoD: If You See A Leaked NSA Document, Press SHIFT And DELETE To Get Rid Of It

June 18, 2013

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from the this-again dept We saw this back when Wikileaks released a bunch of documents and the Defense Department and other government agencies told employees that they weren’t allowed to look at any of the documents, even though they were being splashed all over the press.  Now, it appears, the same thing is happening concerning […]

‘Tell your boss I owe him another friggin’ beer:’ Hot mic catches NSA boss praising FBI chiefs for supportive testimony on surveillance programs

June 18, 2013

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By  Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 15:23 EST, 18  June 2013 |  UPDATED: 15:24 EST, 18 June 2013   The director of the National Security Agency  was overheard offering a round of beer to the FBI’s second-in-command following  Tuesday’s congressional hearing on the NSA’s controversial surveillance  programs. The three-hour hearing had just wrapped up  around 1 p.m. […]

Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers

June 18, 2013

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      13:49 18 June 2013 by Paul Marks Magazine issue 2922.  Subscribe and save A garish yellow slime that grows on rotten leaves and logs could one day form the brains behind living computers. The feeding fronds of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum turn out to have memory resistance – or memristance. This […]

Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense

June 18, 2013

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  By IULIA FILIP   FORT LAUDERDALE (CN) – Citing the NSA telephone dragnet, a federal judge ordered the United States government to deliver telephone records demanded by a man on trial for an armored car robbery in which a Brink’s employee was killed. Terrance Brown is charged with the attempted robbery of armored cars, […]

Anon posts Filipino president’s phone numbers

June 17, 2013

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EEV: As with all information being claimed to be leaked ,or hacked information, without validation. This information is for entertainment value only.       Attempts to give Aquino a wake-up call and democracy a kick-start By Phil Muncaster Posted in Security, 17th June 2013 06:23 GMT Customer Success Testimonial: Recovery is Everything An Anonymous hacktivist has published […]

Obama: NSA secret data gathering ‘transparent’

June 17, 2013

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By KIMBERLY DOZIER / AP Intelligence Writer / June 17, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. ‘‘It is transparent,’’ Obama told PBS’s Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. […]

Local hero and ‘Christ-like’ millionaire accused of massive fraud in Utah

June 17, 2013

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Jeremy Johnson,  37, is charged with defrauding more than $275 million from ‘unwitting’ customers  over five years in an online marketing scam The scam would  allegedly sign customers up to online programs with monthly fees without their  knowledge Johnson, who has  grabbed headlines for charitable acts including flying his own helicopter on  rescue missions to […]

GCHQ surveillance – the documents

June 16, 2013

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2013/jun/16/gchq-surveillance-the-documents?guni=Network TOP SECRET STRAP1 Economic crisis [edited for classification] Sigint continues to provide occasional high-value, sensitive and timely reports. More strategically, a key focus for the Prime Minister is the G20 heads of state meeting in London on 2 April. He is determined to use the meeting to make progress on two objectives: - to […]

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits / phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009

June 16, 2013

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Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009   Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball The Guardian,              Sunday 16 June 2013 15.46 EDT Documents uncovered by the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reveal surveillance of G20 delegates’ emails and […]

We want to put a KILL SWITCH into your PHONE, say Feds

June 14, 2013

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  The only good mobe is a dead mobe By Bill Ray Posted in Security, 14th June 2013 11:44 GMT Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery US law enforcement is calling for a mandatory kill switch on all mobiles, enabling the shut down of stolen phones in the hope of rendering them worthless. Mobile phone theft keeps […]

All Hackable from fetal monitors used in hospitals to pacemakers implanted in people

June 13, 2013

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FDA, facing cybersecurity threats, tightens medical-device standards   By  Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, Published: June 12 | Updated: Thursday, June 13, 6:01 AM The Food and Drug Administration is tightening standards for a wide range of medical devices — from fetal monitors used in hospitals to pacemakers implanted in people — because of escalating concerns that […]

Parents of SEAL killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash join billion-dollar lawsuit against the government after ‘their Verizon phone was tapped when they started asking questions over their son’s death’

June 12, 2013

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Charles and Mary Anne Strange, from  Philadelphia, said they heard strange tapping on the line in the months after  son Michael’s death Mr Strange said: ‘When  I started asking questions, that’s when my phone  got tapped’ By  Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 21:31 EST, 12  June 2013 |  UPDATED: 21:55 EST, 12 June 2013   A […]

Europe warns US: Do what you like to Americans, but Do Not spy on Europeans

June 12, 2013

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  Wednesday, 12 June 2013 The EU has warned President Barack Obama’s administration of “grave adverse consequences” to the rights of European citizens from a huge US Internet surveillance programme, officials said Wednesday. Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, wrote a letter on Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder demanding “swift and concrete” answers […]

Americans start operation “Troll the NSA”

June 11, 2013

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  Tuesday, 11 June 2013 An operation to troll the NSA has started up online in a bid to jam the spy scanners. The plan is to ‘test’ the system by sending a message full of terrorist buzz words to the agency Wednesday at 7pm EST. The website was set up in response to the […]

Hacker who helped find Steubenville rapists threatened with decade in prison

June 10, 2013

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  While the rapists get minimum sentence and rehab By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 10th June 2013 18:13 GMT Free whitepaper – Customer Success Testimonial: Recovery is Everything A security consultant who helped uncover evidence of the repeated rape of an Ohio teenager has been raided by the FBI and charged with […]

The spy who came in for your soul – ” We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

June 9, 2013

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COLUMN – The spy who came in for your soul Source: Reuters – Sun, 9 Jun 2013 08:00 PM Author: Reuters (Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer June 9 (Reuters) – Leaks to the press, like hillside rain tugged seaward by gravity, gather momentum only if […]

William Hague: Law-abiding Britons have nothing to fear from GCHQ

June 9, 2013

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The Foreign Secretary will appear before the House of Commons tomorrow to try to allay concerns about the Prism spy scheme which enables the USA’s spy agency to mine data from Facebook and other web companies Andy McSmith Sunday, 9 June 2013 The only people with anything to fear from the secret activities of British […]

NSA sucks realtime data from FIFTY companies

June 9, 2013

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Companies are all compelled by the Foreign  Intelligence Surveillance Act to hand over any information requested under the  law, but they’re not required to make access easier PRISM data-mining program was launched in  2007 with approval from special federal judges Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo,  YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in spying program […]

Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data

June 8, 2013

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Revealed: The NSA’s powerful tool for cataloguing data – including figures on US collection • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides • Read the NSA’s frequently asked questions document   Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk,              Saturday 8 June 2013 15.10 EDT The color scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through […]

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