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Some photos of the 'massive' Iranian naval maneuvers ...

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I wonder if the tasing had been the other way around he would have been talking about how dangerous it makes the LPO ...

Police say he would distract young women shoppers, and then cut their buttocks with a razor blade or box cutter.[nbcwashington.com]

"If we could do away with knife fights, or knife-related assaults, we would resolve a lot of issues in the Victorian community."[ninemsn.com]

"Continuing the week long celebration of wreaking utter havoc on global financial systems, militaries, and governments, we are announcing our next target: the online piggie supply store SpecialForces.com," the group wrote in a Pastebin posting today.[cnet.com]

Hatanaka and U.S. Army Japan commander Maj. Gen. Michael Harrison later agreed that senior U.S. Combatives instructors will train at the Japanese school, while Japanese troops will learn Combatives at Camp Zama, Munoz said. The first exchange is slated for February, he said.[stripes.com]

The Navy wants the "Switchblade" drone designed by AeroVironment to become a flying scout capable of spotting enemy ships over the horizon, even as the "mother" submarine remains hidden underwater.[msn.com]

Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian 'Nerpa' nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet "in the next few days" on a 10-year lease worth USD 920 million.[indiatimes.com]

They could use the vulnerability in the GSM technology -- which is used by most telecom operators globally and by billions of people -- to make calls or send texts to expensive, premium phone and messaging services in scams, said Karsten Nohl, head of Berlin-based Security Research Labs.[reuters.com]

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Deeply satisfying ...

Anonymous struck again on Monday morning -- and the backlash by the infamous hacking group may not be over yet. Anonymous, which took down Strategic Forecasting's Web site over the weekend, has vowed to strike again. This time, the targets are Stratfor members who are speaking out to support the firm.[newsfactor.com]

Chinese submarines are a hell of a lot noisier than anyone expected. The sound you hear is the Pacific balance of power tipping in Washington’s favor.[wired.com]

Drone-maker AeroVironment has created a special maritime-ready unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which stealthily hovers over the sea eying enemy ships and transmitting what it sees to a lurking submarine.[dailytech.com]

Some interesting thoughts on the Stratfor breach ...

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You can't see what the third suspect was doing but the two that went over the counter were so much dead meat to an armed defender (assuming that #3 wasn't in a position to intervene) ...

No surprise that the government of the nation's second-largest city got cold feet when it cameto trusting sensitive law enforcement email to the cloud. It is, however, an indictment that maydelay other enterprises from accepting public cloud-basedemail.[techtarget.com]

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"That pace, that sprint away from the bank doesn't appear to be consistent with someone who is 60 or 70 years old. It appears to be someone younger in age, given the pace of that sprint, FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said.[cbs8.com]

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If this is legit, it's probably best not to mess with them ...

In today’s information security environment, there can be little doubt that the human element is the weakest link in cybersecurity. Recent high-profile security compromises, including the RSA breach, started with targeted phishing – underscoring the vulnerability of human interactions in the cybersecurity chain.[crn.com]

Encrypted USB unlocks with onboard PIN pad.[pcmag.com]

You're right; we've written a lot of articles about how to protect yourself over the years, but sometimes it can be confusing as to exactly what's happening behind the scenes.[lifehacker.com]

Interesting technical discussion ...

So, my question to fellow Slashdotters is 'Do you encrypt your email? If not, 'Why not?' and 'Why has email encryption using PGP or something similar not become more commonplace?' The use of cryptography used to be a hot topic once upon a time."[slashdot.org]

There is some interesting discussion in the comments ...

Microsoft has warned people of a localised strain of malware that masquerades as a message from a country's local law enforcement.[zdnet.co.uk]

CryptDB, on the other hand, manages to emulate fully homomorphic encryption for most of the functions of the SQL databases used in many applications, computing only with encrypted data and adding just 15% to 26% to those applications’ computing time.[forbes.com]

A new piece of malware encrypts images, documents and other files stored on infected systems and advertises a demo version of a paid-for program that can recover them.[pcworld.com]

Washington State armed citizens are being lobbied to push for adoption of a proposed statute that will strengthen the Evergreen State’s lethal force self-defense law, a measure that was introduced in January and now waits for more co-sponsors.[examiner.com]

Following a defeat in a karate match, a B Com II-year student who holds a black belt in the martial art, hung herself to death in Begum Bazaar on Saturday evening.[indiatimes.com]

Unfortunately, the really important lessons don't seemed to have been taught in this case ...

Although the government is set to announce its selection of the F-35 fighter jet as a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force's frontline jet, concern remains over whether the next-generation fighter can be delivered to Japan during fiscal 2016 as promised.[yomiuri.co.jp]

Motorola’s Assured Mobile Environment uses an encrypted hardware card that can be inserted into most commercial handhelds on Android and Linux platforms.[gcn.com]

Yesterday, a security researcher discovered that Google Wallet, a groundbreaking app that lets you store and process credit cards with a simple tap of the phone, stores unencrypted pretty much everything except your credit card numbers and CVV numbers.[pcmag.com]

This is very cool ...

Good advice in general, but especially now ...

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This is darned impressive from a 'good fortune' standpoint ...

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This is one of the most enlightened LP ops I've seen lately. No one is getting hot. They're all just hooking on and acting as sources of drag as he tries to leave ... (I refer to this approach, when performed as a coordinated technique, as 'The Octopus'.) I bet by the time the cops arrives, the perp just wanted to lie down and take a nap.

Lancope, Inc., a leader in flow-based security, network and application performance monitoring, today unveiled its top five security predictions for 2012.[sacbee.com]

Sounds about right ...

Gungrabbers equate armed self-defenders with ‘executioners’[examiner.com]

How ... uh ... unfortunate ...

Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo says a man in the casino south of Ferndale told security guards yesterday afternoon he had a bomb in a suitcase.[privateofficernews~.com]

It's way more intense when you have someone standing there saying it's so than when you have some cheesy note left tucked in the toilet paper dispenser or something ...

Mobile developers building applications for Android devices are making many of the same mistakesas enterprise developers, and those poor coding practices may be rendering encryption and othersecurity features ineffective, according to a new study.[techtarget.com]

Adobe is working on a patch for a newly discovered Adobe Reader vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild to infect computers with malware.[pcworld.com]

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Pima County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a suspect that snatched a purse from a woman loading groceries into her car outside a northside supermarket, and his accomplice, who nearly hit the victim and another person as he drove away. This is the third attack in three days by the same suspects in the same supermarket, PCSD officials state.[kvoa.com]

Running into the escape path isn't a particularly bright move. She appears to be lucky that the perp swerved to miss hitting her ...

With associates positioned within the United States military, gang members have taken advantage of opportunities to acquire military-grade weapons, such as assault rifles, grenades, and body armor, according to a recent report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Gang Intelligence Center.[washingtonexaminer.com]

The value of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks has now been proven, Swiss scientists and engineers claim, by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network.[kursweilai.net]

Interesting ...

If the Carrier IQ saga and Wikileaks spyware docs weren’t enough mobile insecurity for you, the hits keep coming. Scientists from NC State have identified an exploit in select Android phones that allows an app to get permissions to do nearly anything: record calls, take pictures or video, log SMS, and track locations.[geek.com]

The melee resulted in about a dozen people hurt. Many of the injuries were sustained when fans jumped onto the field from a barrier as high as 15 feet in places, said Michael Authement, director of operations for emergency medical provider LifeNet EMS. Others were stomped on in the push to get to the field, he said.[wsj.com]

This is a 'Darwinian' problem, not a security problem ...

It is amaz­ing and even quite sad how in this advanced age of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, some­thing as impor­tant as self defense is still so vastly mis­un­der­stood.[military.com]

Interesting analysis ...

Witnesses have described the bandit as an older man, but authorities have suggested that the suspect may be wearing a theatrical mask to appear old.[myfoxspokane.com]

I'm surprised that they don't release video of him walking. There's a good chance someone would recognized the body dynamic and dime on him for the $20K ...