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Submission + - Really secure Remote Access for small company?

Submitted by pirateRob
pirateRob writes: I am a sysadmin at a small financial services company. We have large corporate partners which require us to have strict compliance and security policies in place. We need a solution for remote access into the environment for directors and IT staff ~ 5-10 staff. We need access to our Terminal Server. I am looking for a solution which would be secure and demonstrate our compliance to our partners. Basic VPN wont really cut it. The authentication needs to be something preceivably better. Some kind of Two Factor Authentication would be ideal, but I cant see us purchasing Citrix and RSA tokens for 5-10 people. I want a solution whereby it is easy for a director to setup, internet cafe ready and easily demonstrated to suits as "secure".

Submission + - NASA Removes Images From August 1st Solar Storm (astronomyreport.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: When performing date searches on the SDO Data Browser, you can search by either Day or Date Range. Using either, try to search for data on any day in the last 2 months, and you'll be amazed with high-res images recorded from NASA's new SDO spacecraft in 16 different spectrums. However, if you search for data on 8/1/2010, the date of the alleged Solar Eruption, you'll be greeted with this message "There were no images found for that date, wavelength, and resolution."
Space

Submission + - Incoming! The Sun Unleashes CME at Earth (discovery.com)

Submitted by
astroengine
astroengine writes: "It's been an exciting day on the sun. This morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot cluster. 100,000 kilometers away, deep within the solar atmosphere (the corona), an extended magnetic field filled with cool plasma forming a dark ribbon across the face of the sun (a feature known as a "filament") erupted at the exact same time. It seems very likely that both eruptions were connected after a powerful shock wave produced by the flare destabilized the filament, causing the eruption. A second solar observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), then spotted a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) blast into space, straight in the direction of Earth. Solar physicists have calculated that this magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles should hit Earth on August 3, so look out for some intense aurorae, a solar storm is coming..."
Cellphones

Submission + - Cellphone interception at Defcon (tombom.co.uk)

Submitted by ChrisPaget
ChrisPaget writes: I'm planning a pretty significant demonstration of GSM insecurity at Defcon next week, where I'll intercept and record cellular calls made by my attendees, live on-stage, no user-input required. As you can imagine, intercepting cellphones is a Very Big Deal in the eyes of the law; this blog post is an attempt to reassure everyone that their privacy is being taken seriously despite the nature of the demo. I'm not just making it up either — the EFF have helped significantly with the details.
Privacy

Submission + - Facebook Adds Delete Account Option 1

Submitted by roseability
roseability writes: Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account. 'Deactivate Account', under Account Setting, has become 'Deactivate or Delete Account', and when checked it purports to permanently delete your account and all information you have shared. Facebook is actually willing to erase your data permanently? They must be counting on very few people doing so.

Submission + - Non-human sugar drugs causes inflammations

Submitted by wog777
wog777 writes: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a kind of sugar molecule common to chimpanzees, gorillas and other mammals but not found in humans provokes a strong immune response in some people, likely worsening conditions in which chronic inflammation is a major issue.This non-human sialic acid sugar is an ingredient in some biotechnology drugs, and may be limiting or undermining their therapeutic effectiveness in some patients, the scientists report in a letter published in the advance online July 25 edition of the journal Nature Biotechnology. However, they also propose a simple modification to the drug-making process that could solve the problem.
Censorship

Submission + - Porn sites still exposed in China (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Could it be that Internet censorship in China has a pecking order? Politics & human rights are bad....but porn is okay? The porn sites that suddenly popped up in China two months ago are still accessible...leaving people wondering if it's a change in policy, a glitch....or maybe a test by the Internet police. The Chinese government isn't saying, but one internet analyst speculates "Maybe they are thinking that if Internet users have some porn to look at, then they won't pay so much attention to political matters."
Open Source

Submission + - The Sad State of Open Source in Android tablets (projectgus.com)

Submitted by projectgus
projectgus writes: I went looking for an Android tablet whose manufacturers were complying with GPL, or supporting open source at all. I couldn't find a single one. Extremely discouraging, for an ostensibly open source operating system. From the article: "If you care about open source you may actually be better off buying an iPad..."
Space

Submission + - Two protons walk into a black hole. (newscientist.com)

Submitted by StygianBrood
StygianBrood writes: The idea of other universes hidden inside black holes is alive again. Following the article of Anil Ananthaswamy in 2770 issue of NewScientist: "In an analysis of the motion of particles entering a black hole, published in March, Nikodem Poplawski of Indiana University in Bloomington showed that inside each black hole there could exist another universe (Physics Letters B, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.029). "Maybe the huge black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and other galaxies are bridges to different universes," Poplawski says. If that is correct — and it's a big "if" — there is nothing to rule out our universe itself being inside a black hole."
Medicine

Submission + - Scientists Find 2,700-year-old marijuana (grabi.co.cc)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ``cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

Comment IFPI Norge (Score 0) 223

by Jake Dodgie (#31488660) Attached to: Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway

Considering that a lot of the Pirate Bay listings are Porn I was impressed to see the International Federation of the Pornographic Industry Norway was taking a stand untill my brain re-registered the name correctly and I realised that are probably a bunch of old guys in beards muttering about all the illegal downloads of 78" vinyl.

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