India will get lightweight anti-submarines torpedoes to arm the eight P-8I maritime patrol aircraft it is buying from the US, with the Obama administration notifying the potential sale to the US Congress on Tuesday.[indiatimes.com]

Imagine yourself in that pharmacy.  You are facing an obvious threat from a man with a gun.  You cannot retreat because the gunman is too close.  You have no weapon, because the State of New York has made it extremely difficult to posses any sort of a weapon, and certainly not a gun.  Hence, your only means of self-defense is to plead for compassion from a soulless thug.  At that point, with your right to life materially impaired by the government restricting your right to self-defense, you simply die.[biggovernment.com]

Hoplophobia, the irrational fear of weapons, including firearms, is rampant and on the rise. It is an as of yet unclassified mental disorder that has been avoided for political reasons by the powerful left wing liberal American Psychiatric Association—the keepers of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM-IV. Many anti-gun rights, pro-gun control, gun banners tend to be hoplophobic. That is, they project their own mistrust and fear of their own anger onto most everyone else.[humanevents.com]

Police say they organized a flash mob and then went on a crime spree.[myfoxboston.com]

Apparently, they thought that flash mobs were immune to police intervention ...they were mistaken ...

“Rule No. 1 is, don’t open suspicious links,” Rasch said. “Rule No. 2 is, see Rule No. 1. Rule No. 3 is, see Rules 1 and 2.”[bloomberg.com]

So true ...

At least 11 people, including two transit police officers, were gunned down in separate incidents over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital, officials said.[foxnews.com]

According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Russian military-industrial complex, this year's first test launch of the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) Bulava will be implemented on Tuesday, June 28.[newsbcm.com]

In reality there are terrorists in prisons all over the world, to include America. They have friends who want to break them out of prison, and the techniques that worked in the past perhaps, will not work now or in the future. Another reality is that if there is an incident at a prison, there is a good chance that there will be another incident going on somewhere else (in that facility) that will draw resources and create more confusion.[corrections.com]

An interesting discussion of post-9/11 hostage negotiation considerations ...

The streamlined screening procedures affecting the nation's more than 75,000 airline pilots also may help lead to lines moving more briskly for passengers going through security. At least officials hope that will happen.[baltimoresun.com]

This is likely exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. The crews should experience the most harsh treatment just so the populace in general will go along with it. It's like they want to have their whole department dissolved so they can go out and get jobs at the local Circle K ...

The Borders store was open for business on Sunday. When 9NEWS was inside the store shortly after it opened, there were customers were inside checking out books, buying coffee and carrying on as normal.[9news.com]

This is the proper response to such things ...

Delia Francis Soto was arrested for two counts of terrorism, said Sacramento Metro Fire Asst. Chief Scott Cockrum.[news10.net]

Hmmm ... no word on what she was trying to get everyone to submit to by starting the fires ... seems more like a firebug than a terrorist ...

Logitech Alert can even send motion-activated alerts to your email.  Anyone walks in where they’re not supposed to be — bam! — you get an emailed alert.  Then you open up the Logitech Alert app and view exactly what’s happening. All without professional installation or service fees.[geardiary.com]

I'm not sure if it's there yet, but it does seem to be on the way ...

One could make the argument that it's easier to be an anonymous group that attacks a target rather than the target defending against cyber attacks (the old "we have to be right every time while they only have to be right once" argument).[ibtimes.com]

It's cheaper to be invisible than it is to be invincible (Richard's Second Natural Law of Security) ...

About 2,800 soldiers were deployed to 22 of 43 cities in the state, which borders Texas and is among the most violent in the country. The show of force came as President Felipe Calderon defended his drug war strategy in the face of mounting criticism from activists.[cnn.com]

Just because it's never worked in the past is no reason to think that it won't work this time ...

A Royal Navy submarine commander has been accused of killing five French fishermen by accidentally dragging their boat underwater.[dailymail.com]

It would likely be really fast and you'd be going WTF!!! every moment of it ...

As more companies conduct global business, the need to monitor global risks rises.[bigfatfinanceblog.com]

Limited or no posting for approx. one week

In addition to my normal work-load, I am taking a week-long class.

Sorry ...

In April, Imperial Palace was found liable for assault, battery and false imprisonment in its handling of a gambler who had complained about a faulty slot machine, resulting in a $250,000 judgment against the casino.[vegasinc.com]

Screwing up can be costly ...

An Australian 32 year old female blackjack dealer, croupier and table supervisor is suing Casino Canberra, alleging that her employer has been negligent in protecting her safety and further destroyed her already unstable mental health.[blackjackchamp.com]

Posted mostly for the cool pic ...

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, has joined two other Texas Republicans to sponsor a bill that would create a federal definition of cross-border violence. The bill would also require the Department of Homeland Security to develop ways to quantify border crime and to regularly report that data to Congress.[canseco.house.gov]

NEW DELHI: A government panel set up to examine security threats regarding 15 forms of communications, Gmail , BlackBerry services, Nokia's email offerings and Skype , among others, that cannot be tracked by law enforcement agencies here has recommended that no service be banned purely on the grounds that it cannot be monitored.[indiatimes.com]

The device looks like something straight out of the movies, but in reality is a futuristic new tool that may be the next step in self-defense.[cbn.com]

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It's way scarier when your vic is trying to kill you back ...

One man climbed onto the bonnet of the car and slammed a brick through the windscreen. Dozens of the others desperately tried to get to the suspected criminals.[dailymail.co.uk]

When the populace is willing to fight the cops to get at the bad guys, you know that ... uhh ..."stuff" has officially gotten real ...! The last line is precious. "A deep social study is required to find out why people have acted like this." What they need is a deep social study to find out why you don't understand why people have acted like this, because it is obvious. They are pissed about the corruption and bumbling incompetence.

The company Cellcrypt released an application on Tuesday for mobile phones running Android that encrypts voice calls, addressing increasing concern that voice traffic over cellular networks could be intercepted with off-the-shelf equipment.[pcworld.com]

As they say - "Faster, please" ...

With millions of implantable medical devices in the U.S. alone, and some 300,000 more people receiving them worldwide every year, the need to protect these wireless devices from being hacked is increasingly urgent.[cnet.com]

The U.S. Navy faces a fundamental dilemma: It needs more submarines, but the overall defense budget required to build those submarines is headed south. How should it square this circle?[aei.org]

The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not get behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said.[guardian.co.uk]

I wonder why it's news, then ...

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If you're trying to make friends and your targets start to encircle you, you may have already made your last friend ...

On January 20, 2010, while tending to his lawn, Childs intentionally sprayed a lawn chemical on Pena’s Ford Excursion.  Although Pena didn’t notice the damage for a few days, she was able to review the surveillance video to witness the defendant spraying the chemical on her car.[fortbendnow.com]

While he's in jail, you may want to look into a carry pistol ... it doesn't sound like he's the type to live and learn ...

We live in a world where data rules. Sharing your files, from docs to pictures to videos is as easy as breathing. But we've all got some stuff that we'd like to keep to ourselves.[pcmag.com]

That’s not vandalism; it’s domestic terrorism. And in a free society, it cannot be justified or tolerated. We trust that the authorities are treating this case in that light.[thenewstribune.com]

Your being really powerless to prevent it doesn't make it terrorism ...

The recent online intrusion into International Monetary Fund servers may have been the work of malicious hackers working for a foreign government, according to online reports.[pcworld.com]

The RoboCop look is coming nationwide, a law enforcement supplier says, and Johnson County deputies are on the cutting edge as they test cameras they wear on their ears.[kansascity.com]

Newspapers are piling up on the stoop, shrubs block the windows, no lights come on when the sun goes down and, to top it all off, postings on Facebook show you enjoying a tropical getaway.[silive.com]

It's cheaper to be invisible than invincible ...

Nine current and former executive security officers and a former driver for Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson have sued the company and the billionaire owner, claiming violations of overtime law and other rules.[therepublic.com]

This will probably not increase their employability ...

Thirty-six Transportation Security Administration workers at Honolulu Airport, including the top director, were given termination notices today, and 12 more were suspended because they allegedly were not screening checked-in baggage for explosives as their jobs require.[staradvertiser.com

It goes on to warn, "do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."[time.com]

Don't fvck with the Wongs Anons ...

The recent high-profile hacking of Skype could have been prevented - or at least delayed - by better software protection says Russian copy protection software specialist StarForce Technologies.[industrytoday.co.uk]

Maybe ...

The Australian understands the entire fleet of six Collins-class submarines cannot be put to sea despite the navy's claim that two of them remain officially "operational".[theaustralian.com]

It turns out Citibank was hacked in early May. Wait, you hadn't heard? Me neither. Well, that's just because Citibank chose to keep quiet about it until now.[time.com]

Also:

Most U.S. banks currently allow customers to easily access their accounts online or on mobile devices without jumping through too many security hurdles to confirm their identities.[reuters.com]
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Blammo. Sony has just confirmed that 37,500 Sony Pictures visitors have had their passwords, emails, and other potentially identifying details stolen from the Sony Pictures website.[crunchgear.com]

Taxpayers could save nearly $39 million annually if Los Angeles International Airport replaced its federal security screeners with a privatized force, according to a report by the chair of the House Transportation Committee.[contracostatimes.com]

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It looks like an accidental discharge and he just missed blowing his other hand off ...

In a move reminiscent of Soviet style repression, the FSB claimed the "uncontrolled use of these services could lead to a large-scale threat to Russian security."[rian.ru]

Or, more likely, to Russian government security ...

The Fukushima disaster's dramatic demonstration of how nuclear plants are vulnerable to cooling-system failure could "awaken terrorist interest" in attacking such plants, says a new joint study by US and Russian experts on the threat of nuclear terrorism.[csmonitor.com]

On the plus side, it's way more likely that someone less restrained than us would decide to exterminate Islam ...

A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials.[wired.com]

You may want to make sure that the bank you choose IS specifically responsible for this sort of thing before opting to do business with them ...

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This happened yesterday morning ...

Also ...

“The pain and the impotence make me want to scream,” she says, her voice breaking. “I am the mother of four sons who disappeared. Today they were mine, but tomorrow, they could be yours.”[thestar.com]

You're not going to like hearing this: The arsenal of mental and physical resources out there right now could easily bring down our cyber-security system, which protects the trivial, such as e-mails, to the critical, think banking system. The only reason it hasn't happened yet: the intent hasn't been there.[scientificamerican.com]

The Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Corner Brook hit bottom near Vancouver Island.[allheadlinenews.com]

The government has allocated more than 1 billion US dollars to purchase submarines for the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL).[tempinteractive.com]

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It looks like he was probably being a drunken jerk, right before they committed the aggravated battery on him ...

On the streets of a Mexican border town notorious for its vicious drug war, 'Las Guerreras', a brave group of female bikers, are fighting back.[independent.co.uk]

Is the United States’ next war already being fought – in cyberspace?[thenewstribune.com]

"We do not intend to threaten any country with the modernization of our military force. I know many people tend to believe that with the wealth of China's economy, China will be a military threat," he said, speaking dressed in full military uniform.[reuters.com]

And to prove it, we're going to let all our captive-states go ...

Another massive data breach at Sony has left hackers exulting, customers steaming and security experts questioning why basic fixes haven't been made to the company's stricken cybersecurity program.[freep.com]

The hardware at the centre of the deal is said to be the world's first commercial quantum computer, a device that - in theory at least - could make today's computers seem as sluggish as an abacus.[thenational.ae]

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fl.) took a swing at the Obama Administration Friday for refusing to privatize security screening at more U.S. airports.[transportationnation.org]

China’s increased assertiveness could be characterised as ‘non-confrontational assertiveness’. This rationale is likely to undergird China’s security policy in the coming years; a reality the rest of the region should be prepared for.[eastasiaforum.com]

"In the last couple of days, Trusteer have witnessed a malware campaign that targets LinkedIn users. It starts with a simple connect request sent to the victim's mailbox", he adds.[infosecurity-magazine.com]

Security researchers say that a Gmail spear phishing attack targeting high-profile users might have spread to Hotmail and Yahoo Mail services, while it remains uncertain if the attack, originating from China, was state-sponsored.[crn.com]

WARNING…SOME OF THE PHOTOS IN THIS PART ARE VERY DISTUBING…AND YOU NEED TO BE DISTURBED TO APPRECIATE THE DANGER THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO EXPERIENCE DAILY AND WHAT WE FACE FROM THE DRUG CARTELS

Kinda gruesome ...

Whether the objective of the ambush was simply to trap and kill a Zetas military team conducting a raid or to steal a high-value load of narcotics, a look at this incident from a protective intelligence point of view provides many lessons for security professionals operating in Mexico and elsewhere.[stratfor.com]

Very interesting ...

A new laptop security product for Windows ...

Also, an encrypted wireless keyboard.

Failing to recognize that computing as we know it is changing is the basis for many securityproblems.[searchenterprisedesktop.com]

As promised, Apple's released a security update to address the MacDefender malware, as well as its known variants.[cnet.com]

The death of a man who drove his car off of the seventh floor of the Sands Bethlehem Casino parking deck has been ruled a suicide, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office.[salisbury.patch.com]

Sergeant Kenneth Vann was "targeted because he represented the government," Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz told Reuters.[reuters.com]

Hmmm, I think waxing cops might be seen as being bad for business. I can't picture them doing it to blindly strike out at 'the government' ...