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Nasty attack. IPOWER declined a phone interview for this story. But the company acknowledged in an e-mail that “over the past three months our servers were targeted. We take this situation very seriously and a diligent cleanup effort has been underway for many months already. We saw the StopBadware report on ...

Yet another step in the militarization of the police: The machines, which are flown by remote control or using pre-programmed GPS navigation systems, are silent and can be fitted with night-vision cameras. The images they record are sent back to a police support vehicle or control room As if there aren’t enough cameras ...

This is a joke, right? A TSA behavior detection team at a Florida airport helped catch a passenger allegedly impersonating a member of the military on May 10 as he went through the security checkpoint. We spend billions on airport security, and we have so little to show for it that the ...

From the U.S. GAO: “Aviation Security: Efforts to Strengthen International Prescreening are Under Way, but Planning and Implementations Remain,” May 2007. What GAO Found Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency responsible for international passenger prescreening, has planned or is taking several actions designed to strengthen the ...

I just now had leisure to read this story at SecurityFocus about the possibility that a cyber attack may have been the root cause of an August 2006 nuclear power plant failure. Operators at the Browns Ferry plant in Alabama shut the reactor down after recirculation pumps failed as a result ...

Good article on image spam: A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are. Meanwhile, image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006, according to antispam company Borderware. It is expected to ...

Ugh. Months of fill-in-the-blank bugs are SO last year. Regardless, the fad hasn’t yet worn off, and while the Month of Active X Bugs continues through May, a Ukrainian hacker naming himself “MustLive” is prepping for June, which will be his Month of Search Engine Bugs. I must caution MustLive, though, that ...