Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology, Video
Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Physicists Proposed That the Future Could Be Preventing Higgs Boson Discovery In 2009, two respected physicists put forward one of the most unusual hypotheses in modern particle physics. Danish physicist Holger Bech Nielsen and Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya...
Jan 26, 2012 | Activism, Black Technology
On return to Europe from the 2008 NEXUS Conference in Australia, flying out of Sydney, we stopped off in Thailand to visit a close friend who lives on the island of Koh Samui. Samui is well known as a travelers’ international crossroads, and is also a place...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
The world is changing fast–maybe faster than we ever thought. And within five years, science fiction is going to turn into non-fiction. We’ll be able to read each other’s minds, forget all our passwords, and create all our own homes’ energy....
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology, Video
RSA was hacked in March. This was one of the biggest hacks in history. The current theory is that a nation-state wanted to break into Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman to steal military secrets. They couldn’t do it, since these companies were using RSA...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
GE Developed a Faster Holographic Disc Format In 2011, General Electric announced a significant breakthrough in holographic data storage technology. At an IEEE symposium in Hawaii, the company revealed a new micro-holographic material that was 100 times more sensitive...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
In June 2011, a virulent strain of E. coli swept across Europe, killing 22 people and sickening over 2,153 others with severe symptoms including bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome, a condition that causes kidney failure. The outbreak was eventually traced...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda
The FBI CIPAV: A Digital Surveillance Tool The FBI developed a computer surveillance program known as the Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, or CIPAV, designed to covertly monitor suspects through their own machines. Court documents from the Josh...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Nuclear Engineer, Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, has came forward as being the developer of the technology being used in Iran’s new “flying saucer.” His technology is claimed to harness magnetism and gravity to allow travel throughout the solar system and beyond. On March...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda
Encryption, Warrants And The FBI Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing focused on law enforcement surveillance of modern Internet services. Although both the New York Times and CNET have stories on the hearing, I don’t think either...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
One of the demands of the Egyptian revolution was to demolish one of the well-known security services for torture, grave human rights violations and spying on activists which is the State Security Investigations (SSI) and to have its officers set onto trials. Few...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf Russian DNA Discoveries: Original version THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:37:56 -0500 From: Marsh Ray <marsh[at]extendedsubset.com> To: Discussion of cryptography and related <cryptography[at]randombit.net> Subject: [cryptography] Another data point on SSL “trusted” root CA reliability (S...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities developed by Maxeler Technologies. The investment bank worked with HPC solutions...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Neural Network Taught to Exhibit Schizophrenic Behavior In 2011, computer scientists at the University of Texas at Austin conducted a remarkable experiment: they deliberately induced symptoms resembling schizophrenia in a neural network, causing the system to generate...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
FDA Approval of Implantable Microchips In the early 2010s, the Food and Drug Administration approved the VeriChip, a subcutaneous microchip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical applications. Manufactured by Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Florida,...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
CarrierIQ This information is written to the best of my knowledge using publicly available resources. No security was bypassed to obtain anything marked confidential, and Carrier IQ made no effort to protect said documents. You can take the Carrier IQ training...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
Brazilian police will use futuristic ‘Robocop-style’ glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify and root out troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup. Military Police officials from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have been given demonstrations...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable. Folks were using it to buy and sell drugs online, support content they liked and worst of all — gasp! — play poker.Bitcoin is a P2P...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
July 19, 2011: Anonymous Arrests and the Aaron Swartz Indictment Two major cybercrime stories collided on July 19, 2011, marking one of the most consequential days in hacking-related law enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled charges against sixteen...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology
All these pictures are from the book ‘ Microcosmos’, created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too...
Jan 26, 2012 | Black Technology, Video
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Jan 26, 2012 | Anonymous, Black Technology
Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary Federal reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users In February 2011, the hackers’ collective Anonymous released 70,000 emails from security contractor HBGary Federal, which revealed...
