Phishing: Fraudulent bid to gain user names, passwords, and other sensitive information by appearing as a trusted source, usually in e-mails or instant messages. Spear-phishing: Customized version of phishing directed at specific people, such as senior executives in companies. It might be a fake e-mail sent in the name of a boss to an associate. …
.. cyberespionage to help do that,” says Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department (ODCI) … nonprofit venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new cyberwarfare has become complex enough … At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have …
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According to a report in Germany’s news magazine Der Spiegel the European Commission warned that the euro area’s chances of survival would depend criticially on adjusting the internal imbalances. The reported quoted from a paper by DG Ecfin, accourding to which internal imbalances would weaken confidence in the euro and endanger the cohesion of the …
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BANGKOK — Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday. Stone, who is working on a 10-part documentary on the 20th century titled “The Secret History of …
New Mexico state representative Brian Egolf has introduced a bill to move the state’s money out of Bank of America and into banks and credit unions chartered in New Mexico. “I saw the Move Your Money video the day it came out and thought it made a lot of sense,” Egolf told HuffPost. So the …
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Avatar earned an additional $36 million this weekend, climbing to $552.8 million domestically and surpassing “The Dark Knight’s” $533.3 million domestic haul. If it continues to drop in the 20-percent range as it has the last few weekends this time it only fell 16 percent it’s on track to is top Titanic’s $600.8 million by …
PART PLANT Coke, under fire from environmentalists for using plastic bottles, has introduced a new packaging material made partly from plants. The container has “the same weight, the same feel, the same chemistry, and functions exactly the same way” as a regular plastic bottle, a Coke spokeswoman says. Coke isn’t the only beverage concern trying …
Page 2 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 By Nick Turse As a start, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue skies research outfit, is already looking into radically improving on Gorgon Stare with an “Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Infrared (ARGUS-IR) System”. In the obtuse language of military research …
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Page 1 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 (Used by permission Tomdispatch) Asia Times contributor Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly …
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PARK CITY, Utah — The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works. Times Topics: Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah Standard operating procedure over the years at …