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Endoflow2010 writes:
(AP) WASHINGTON — A popular jihadist Internet forum has been knocked off the Internet, and counterterrorism experts say it appears it was hacked.
Cybersecurity analysts say the al-Shamukh forum appears to have been taken down by a fairly sophisticated cyberattack that hit not only the website, but the server — which is the main computer that enables people to access the site over the Internet.
Evan Kohlmann, a counterterrorism expert who tracks jihadist websites as a senior partner with Flashpoint Partners consultancy in New York, described the site as a key al Qaeda propaganda forum.
He said it bounces around between Internet hosts every few months, but has seemingly been allowed to exist as an open secret, possibly allowing a Western government to use it as an intelligence resource.
"These sites can be like spy satellites, they're great ways of gathering information about your adversaries," he said in an interview late Wednesday. "Bringing them down is like shooting at your own spy satellites. But there are others who don't agree with that."
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Endoflow2010 writes:
President Obama’s National Strategy for Counterterrorism, was presented today by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named “Ensuring al-Qa’ida’s Demise”. The strategy articulates the United States’ broad, sustained and integrated campaign against al-Qa’ida, its affiliates and its adherents, consistent with the President’s enduring commitment to protect the American people.
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Endoflow2010 writes:
Millions have been made from accidental discoveries, proof of the adage that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi were birthed as medicinal remedies. Plastic was first synthesized in a failed effort to reproduce the shellac once made from beetle husks and Charles Goodyear, as in Goodyear, made no secret that his revolutionary process for vulcanized rubber was discovered randomly.
Here are 10 other big products that went from being missteps to life-changing discoveries:
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Endoflow2010 writes:
Looks like the hacker group Anonymous is at it again. This time they are targeting the City of Orlando, FL. Anonymous said it would start "a massive campaign" against Orlando and "city web assets."
Anonymous said it would remove www.orlandofloridaguide.com from the internet at 10 a.m. ET Tuesday until 6 p.m. ET. It also said it would also target the owners of this site, identified as "Utopia, Inc" rather than the city itself.
The reason behind the attacks is because of the arrest of people handing out food to homeless people, according to a report in The Washington Post.
In a press release, the group announced the creation of "Operation Orlando" over the city's treatment of the Food Not Bombs group.
The Orlando Sentinel reported that what started as a spat over distributing food without a permit in a park had escalated, with Mayor Buddy Dyer describing the activists charged with the misdemeanor offense as "food terrorists."
The Anonymous press release said the city had "ignored our warnings, and our generous offer of a cease fire. "On Wednesday last you not only arrested two more people for feeding but you arrested the worldwide President of Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry. This is a declaration of war," it said.
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Endoflow2010 writes:
Looks like PBS and Writerspace have been hacked again. The 'hacker' taking credit for the hack goes by the handle Warv0x and is also know by Kaihoe. The previous PSB.org hack was claimed by Lulzsec to be a zero day exploit for MoveableType . This time Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) expose the whole Database of PBS.org using and SQL injection attack.
According to Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) "This wasn't done for fame or fun,just proving LulzSec aren't as good as they think they are. I haven't rooted the box or been up to crack the hashes, I'm just proving that most of their attacks are very lame and basic (i'm pretty sure and automated) SQL injections and further privilege escalation, which is just matter of time." He also said "Support for WebNinjas & Jester, good job at exposing them. Sad to mention, but I really agree with th3j35t3r & WebNinjas — LulzSec are just a bunch of script kiddies..."
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Dangerous_Minds writes:
There's an increasingly testy war between LulzSec and The Jester as of late. The Jester recently posted chatlogs and compromising data on LulzSec security leader Sabu. In response, LulzSec ridiculed The Jester by belittling his efforts to take down terrorist websites and even going as far as rewriting one of The Jester's PHP scripts from 60 lines to 3. One can only expect more fireworks between the two after this.
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Endoflow2010 writes:
A California man today pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in a “brute force” hack on AT&T that yielded the personal data of 120,000 iPad owners.
During an appearance in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, Daniel Spitler, 26, copped to identity theft and conspiracy charges. Each felony count carries a maximum prison term of five years and a $250,000 fine.
According to prosecutors, Spitler helped write the computer code that allowed him and fellow members of the “Goatse Security” hacking collective to gain unauthorized access to AT&T computer servers holding details on iPad purchasers like Diane Sawyer, Rahm Emanuel, and Michael Bloomberg.
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fergus07 writes:
Austrian research company IAT21 has presented a new type of aircraft at the Paris Air Show which has the potential to become aviation's first disruptive technology since the jet engine. Neither fixed wing nor rotor craft, the D-Dalus uses four, mechanically-linked, contra-rotating, cylindrical turbines for its propulsion, and by altering the angle of the blades, it can launch vertically, hover perfectly still, move in any direction, and thrust upwards and hence "glue down" upon landing, which it can easily do on the deck of a ship, or even a moving vehicle. It's also almost silent, has the dynamic stability to enter buildings, handles rough weather with ease, flies very long distances very quickly and can lift very heavy loads. It accordingly holds immense promise as a platform for personal flight, for military usage, search and rescue, and much more.
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Endoflow2010 writes:
Ryan Dunn of MTV's "Jackass" series died in an early morning crash Monday in Chester County, Pa.
Police in West Goshen confirmed a fatal accident occurred but were not immediately releasing any other details.
Fox 29 News spoke to April Margera, mother of "Jackass" star Bam Margera, who said she was told Dunn was killed in the wreck.
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Orome1 writes:
Sega Corporation was attacked and its database breached last week, and the fact was confirmed by the company the day after it took its SEGA Pass system offline on Thursday. The breach resulted in the compromise of email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of 1.3 million users, but luckily no personal payment information was acquired by the attackers since SEGA doesn't store it and uses external payment providers.
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Endoflow2010 writes:
James Mangold is, according to reports, in final negotiations to direct "The Wolverine" for 20th Century Fox from the screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie.
This is the same script that Darren Aronofsky was attached to for a while, and it will take Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, to Japan. Fox has been looking at possible directors for a while now, since Aronofsky left the project, and with Mangold aboard, they can start to get serious about when they're going to make this.
Right now, there's no date for "The Wolverine," and there's no start-date for production. But if Mangold is indeed the man for the job, things will probably start moving more quickly in the very near future.
