State Rep. Sharon Cissna made headlines around the country a year ago when she refused an airport security pat-down in Seattle and said she'll never go through an invasive check again. Now the Anchorage Democrat is pushing a package of four bills in an attempt to reform airport security across Alaska.[thenewstribune.com]

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It looks like the guy that comes walking up at approx 00:48 (the lede says he's an ex-cop) is using the two girls to keep the bouncers from finding his concealed weapon. The backup guy either knows him or has his hackles come up because he has the pat-down guy keep searching him. After the the ex-cop gets through (that's how it looks, anyway) he comes back out to toss the drink he had with him (clubs all over the world won't let you bring your own drinks in with you) and decides to mess with the back-up guy by pulling his gun on him. Unfortunately, the back-up guy was ready for it, directed that gun away from him while drawing his own gun and pap-papping the ex-cop on or about the C-7, dropping him like the proverbial sack of poo. From the video, it doesn't look like the ex-cop really intended to do anything, but the bouncer likely didn't know it ...

Exploit code targeting a newly identified vulnerability in Symantec's pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published on the Internet, exposing its users to possible attacks that disrupt the software's functionality.[pcworld.com]

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What can you do ...?

Four martial arts students have died while attempting to achieve invulnerability in extreme tests in separate incidents in Greater Jakarta, and East Nusa Tenggara.[thejakartapost.com]

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Police officers who are drilled and drilled and drilled again in two-handed shooting reverting to a one-handed grip when the metaphorical fur starts to fly. And why the hell not? It’s a handgun not a handsgun . . .[thetruthaboutguns.com]

Interesting ...

A woman shopping on a busy downtown El Paso street became the first victim of bullets flying across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday when she was hit in the calf and wounded, authorities said.[abcnews.go.com]

I'm going to show you how to use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG for short) to encrypt and decrypt as you need..[businessinsider.com]

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A woman who invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect herself from having to turn over a password as part of a criminal case has lost her appeal in federal court.[zdnet.com]

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I wonder how a defense of "I never robbed them, I just walked in, asked for stuff and they gave it to me" would work ...

Nine guards have confessed to helping Zetas drug gangsters escape from prison before other Zetas slaughtered 44 rival inmates, a state official said late Monday, underlining the enormous corruption inside Mexico's overcrowded, underfunded prisons.[whbf.com]

Hmmm ... I wonder why they would confess to something like that ...

Pesce, who is better known locally for being a judge on the ABC's The New Inventors series and co-inventor of Virtual Reality Markup Language, said that "it has become clear that Twitter users require a secure communication channel; one that, even when subpoenaed, would not easily give up its secrets".[zdnet.com.au]

Photons of light beamed between satellites could be the key to future global security, according to scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science being held in Vancouver.[abc.net.au]

Another day, another lost memory stick: this one with details of a UK nuclear power station including plans and a stress test lost in India.[infosecurity-magazine.com]

Kinda makes you wonder if they're actually 'losing' them, don't it?

About 66 percent of public middle schools nationwide are likely to choose judo as a mandatory martial arts class from the start of the new school year in accordance with a new government initiative, a Yomiuri Shimbun survey has revealed.[yomiuri.co.jp]

Naturally, they're talking about Japan ...

As police agencies in the tri-city area settle into new digital radio systems, many departments have made, or are considering making, those communications secret, saying it is a response to a growing propensity of listeners to interfere with operations.[burbankleader.com]

RSA's short answer is a little like the difference between RSA the company and RSA the encryption algorithm. RSA, the encryption algorithm, is quite sound, thank-you-very-much. The implementation of that algorithm, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired.[ieee.org]

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The good news: Unless you’re a bank CTO, it doesn’t affect you. It’s not a huge security breach. There’s no need to shutter your online bank accounts and stow your assets in the Bank of Pillowcases.[businessweek.com]

As the Arab Spring hits its first anniversary, tech activists around the globe are continuing their efforts to enable secure communications—especially in areas of the world that are in conflict or transition. After all, it's become an open secret that governments ranging from Assad's Syria to local American law enforcement to the newly created government of South Sudan are actively trying to find out what is being said and transmitted over their airwaves and networks.[arstechnica.com]

Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.[pcworld.com]

For the system to provide security, however, it is essential that the secret prime numbers be generated randomly. The researchers discovered that in a small but significant number of cases, the random number generation system failed to work correctly.[nytimes.com]

Twitter this week took another step towards securing its network by making encryption opt-out rather than opt-in.[pcmag.com]

The world is justifiably concerned about a nuclear capable Iran, but the Islamic Republic's prime ally, the Russian Federation, is putting into active service a weapon with more destructive capability than Tehran could ever dream of possessing. While Iran's main target is America's ally Israel, Moscow still aims its atomic weaponry primarily at the United States.[rightsidenews.com]

In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe.[techworld.com]

Weeks before college students begin going on Spring Break, the U.S. State Department is warning about the potential danger of traveling to Mexico.[foxnews.com]

Distributed -- or ambient -- cloud storage requires that users chip in by providing disk space and gives them equivalent space in the cloud. Can storing others' data locally be secure?[darkreading.com]

Interesting ...

“For almost an entire day, Russia was on the verge of the worst anthropogenic catastrophe since Chernobyl,” the paper said.[ria.ru]

[Sneer] It figures ...

[T]he reporter is after one thing: A great visual that makes you look guilty. If you respond with defensiveness, anger, or shock, the news outlet will run the tape of your bad reaction repeatedly, often for days.[prdaily.com]

Cryptome, a sort of proto-WikiLeaks website best known for exposing the CIA analyst who found Osama Bin Laden, announced this week that its entire website had been hacked. But, in a surprising response from Cryptome founder John Young—a man suspicious even of tap water—no foul play was suspected. At least no more foul than the usual Internet hijinks.[betabeat.com]

"Internet hijinks" ... I love it ...

Iran's official news agency reported Thursday that the navy has added two more domestically built light submarines to its fleet.[cbsnews.com]

Gee, I bet there's a real battle over who 'gets' to ride in them ...

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A travel advisory issued this week urged U.S. citizens toavoid all but essential travel to 14 states in northern andcentral Mexico, warning that U.S. citizens have fallen victim todrug-cartel related activity "including homicide, gunbattles,kidnapping, carjacking and highway robbery."[reuters.com]

The IDF now demands that new candidates for service in Israel's submarine fleet waive their foreign citizenship in order to join the elite unit.  [ynetnews.com]

Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can’t detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.[techworld.com]

India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it modernizes its military to match China's.[ajc.com]

If their religious literature is to be believed, the Hindu folks are inherently peaceful right up to the moment they decide to provide you with a whole new definition of the concept of 'total war'. Fortunately, they're also are natural allies ...

The friend at first thought the 10-year-old had a bloody nose, but soon realized her friend lying on the ground had a knife protruding from her neck.[thelocal.se]

I recently saw a really fun talk by Amisha Gadani, an artist in residence here at UCLA in the Alfaro Lab. Her recent work is a playful exploration of animal self-defense mechanisms incorporated into fashionable cocktail dresses.[scientificamerican.com]

Seems like potentially fertile ground ...

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Pretty embarrassing performance on the part of the perps if you asked me ...

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Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture.[computerworlduk.com]

Here’s a look at how blackjack dealers, casino staff, pit bosses, casino security, and gaming managers spot card counters.[onlineblackjack.com]

Interesting ...

Now, Ramona Fricosu's attorney is saying that the defendant may have forgotten her password, further prolonging the case and getting prosecutors nowhere with the hard drive.[dailytech.com]

Russia announced that its SSBNs (nuclear powered ballistic missile boats) would resume long range "combat patrols" later this year. In recent years, there have been only about ten such patrols a year, each lasting three months or less. Most have not gone far from Russian waters and some were not even made by SSBNs.[strategypage.com]

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The Russian Navy will acquire at least ten new Borey class strategic nuclear submarines in line with a revised state armament procurement program aimed at raising the submarine fleet as the core of the country's naval force in future, the Kommersant daily reported on Tuesday.[rttnews.com]

This merchandise — it also comes in purple and black — is atotally feminine line of self-defense products, including pepperspray, stun guns and keychain weapons.[bismarcktribune.com]

In a fresh illustration of growing turmoil among ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan Province, three livestock herders have set themselves on fire to protest what they saw as political and religious repression at the hands of the Chinese authorities, according to a Tibetan rights group and an ethnic Tibetan living in Beijing. [nytimes.com]

Tibetan Buddhism sure presents a sharp contrast to what passes for religion in the Middle East ...

The Apricorn Aegis Padlock DT, as the name might suggest, uses an onboard keypad to unlock data on the drive via a PIN. In this case, the PIN can be anywhere from 6 to 16 digits and you can enter up to 5 passkeys for different users.[everythingusb.com]

Everyone wants to know; how could a person in custody stab an officer, steal his cruiser, and flee the scene at Mobile Metro Jail? News 5 asked expert police analyst and retired Captain C.W Jensen just that.[wkrg.com]

Today's the day, EVERY day ...

A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.[wsj.com]

Very interesting ...

The probe, the first of its kind in France, could raise uncomfortable questions about whether a government can be held to account for the death of its soldiers at war _ a prospect France's top military man rejects.[lasvegassun.com]

Motorola alerted customers on Friday that it shipped about 100 refurbished Xoom tablets that were not completely cleared of the original owner's data prior to resale. The tablets were sold between October and December of 2011 through Woot.com. Oops.[informationweek.com]

German academics said they had cracked two encryption systems used to protect satellite phone signals and that anyone with cheap computer equipment and radio could eavesdrop on calls over an entire continent. Hundreds of thousands of satellite phone users are thought to be affected.[telegraph.co.uk]

After a gap of 26 years, Russia will resume patrolling the world's oceans with its strategic nuclear submarines, the country's Navy said.[zeenews.india.com]

Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund from Ruhr University have reverse engineered the GMR-1 and GMR-2 voice ciphers used in a lot of satellite systems. These are used by, among others, government agencies and the military.[theinquirer.net]

A smart phone can do pretty much anything a PC can. But, aside from password protection, phones have very little security—a real problem with more and more people using phones for online banking and shopping.[scientificamerican.com]

The spam-spewing Kelihos botnet has returned from the dead.[theregister.co.uk]

VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.[computerworld.com]

Here is an interesting exposition on improvised weapons ...

Security experts speculate that the 128-bit XTS-AESW encryption used in FileVault would take millions of years to crack with a brute-force approach, so while Passware's approach clearly does not employ a brute-force option, why is it able to crack it in under an hour?[cnet.com]

A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment.[dailymail.co.uk] 

An exposition on 'digital forensics' ...

Interesting ...

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With groups like Anonymous actively looking to embarrass your company, laptops thefts occurring every second, and the recent poor US District Court ruling on fifth amendment password protection rights, it is time you actually encrypt your data properly.[idg.no]

Over 30 percent of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in just five metropolitan U.S. counties.[science20.com]

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Looks like a gang execution to me ...

Anonymous history here and here ...