"Last summer I was threatened over and over and over again," he said. "People were threatening my wife, they were threatening my grandchildren."[cnn.com]

As a general rule, if your getting a lot of threats, you may want to consider the possibility that you're being a d-bag ...

Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service.[wired.com]

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Micron Technology, Inc. today introduced a new version of its popular RealSSD(TM) C400, featuring self encryption for unmatched data security.[marketwatch.com]

Work has begun on the first Virginia-class submarine to be built on an accelerated two-submarine-a-year basis, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. announced Monday.[hamptonroads.com]

South Korean patrol boats and corvettes are able to detect a mere 30 percent of submarines at a time when North Korea is increasing the frequency of submarine infiltration drills.[chosun.com]

“BEAST is different than most published attacks against HTTPS,” Duong wrote in an email. “While other attacks focus on the authenticity property of SSL, BEAST attacks the confidentiality of the protocol. As far as we know, BEAST implements the first attack that actually decrypts HTTPS requests.”[theregister.co.uk]

Japan's biggest defencecontractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd , said onMonday hackers had gained access to its computers, with onenewspaper saying its submarine, missile and nuclear power plantcomponent factories had been the target.[reuters.com]

The airline has cleared the backlog of passengers who had to be re-screened when two people went through an exit the wrong way and bypassed security checks.[abc.net.au]

This certainly lends confidence ...

Mr Dixon, 40, – who uploaded the private security video on to YouTube showing Zara Phillips’s husband kissing and cuddling the unnamed woman in Queenstown last Sunday – has been arrested and charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.[telegraph.co.uk]

This sounds like one of those things where someone thought they were doing someone a favor without bothering to ask whether it would be construed that way if it were done to them ...

One man was shot to death and a woman was wounded during an apparent carjacking that authorities believe began inside the parking garage of an Atlantic City casino early Sunday. [nbcnewyork.com]

One of the world’s leading Muslim clerics will issue a global declaration against terrorism at a speech in London on Saturday. Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri will make the declaration at the ‘Peace for Humanity Conference 2011’ at Wembley Arena.[independent.co.uk]

On Wednesday, the House overrode Gov. John Lynch’s veto of Senate Bill 88. The Senate had overridden the veto the week before. The bill changes state weapons laws in four important ways.[unionleader.com]

The discovery of a "suspicious vehicle" near an Atlantic City casino caused several street closures and the temporary shutdown of a parking garage earlier tonight, but authorities determined the vehicle to be harmless, according to a casino spokesman and witnesses at the scene.[nj.com]

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HMS Anson ...

Dozens of employees at Honolulu’s airport were fired or suspended after an investigation found workers did not screen checked bags for explosives, the Transportation Security Administration said Friday.[washingtonpost.com]

The new terms of service pushed out this week — which are mandatory for all PSN users — include an agreement that waives the right of any individual to sue Sony on a collective basis (i.e., through a class action)[whowatchesthewatchers.wordpress.com]

Instead of having one account number for all of an organization’s charges, the payee receives a unique 16-digit account number for each single payment with purchasing controls embedded in the system.[askbte.com]

At the Defence Security and Equipment International arms fair in London's Excel Centre, there is no shortage of options for dishing out bad days, weeks, months and whole lifetimes.[nzherald.co.nz]

Inside the bag were six assault rifles, a grenade launcher, a rocket launcher, 20 ammunition magazines for various-sized weapons and three packages of what appeared to be C-4 plastic explosives, a Border Patrol news release said.[reuters.com]

It's odd that everyone knows how to stop this but no one is willing to do it.

Also:

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network. "This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better (expletive) pay attention. I'm about to get you."[cnn.com]

Russia's first Graney class nuclear-powered attack submarine set course on Monday for scheduled sea trials, the Sevmash shipyard said.[rian.ru]

A year back, the Government of India warned telecommunication operators to avoid importing mobile network infrastructure components from China. The warning was based on fear of China misusing the equipment to monitor India. Back during the Cold War era, one of the theories presented for the West’s success was Russia using photocopiers by Xerox. It is believed that these photocopiers were fitted with cameras allowing the CIA to monitor Soviet communication.[zdnet.com]

The recent attack on the lesser-known certificate authority known as DigiNotar, and previously on Comodo, has security experts pondering the future of certificate-based encryption and authentication. For many people, SSL or what is now generally known as TLS is some arcane security measure that involves certificates and usually results in an ‘s’ being appended to the protocol they are using.[memeburn.com]

Islamic leaders from multiple local organizations and mosques met Sunday morning in Dearborn to publicly recognize the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, as well as to stand against terrorism.[rochester.patch.com]

Most religions seem to have canonical support for the killing of non-believers (or folks who have the misfortune of being in the way at an inconvenient time) but the difference between churchy neighbors and tangos is that the tangos practice or encourage the practice of harming others without first-order necessity such as self defense or counter-injustice ... of course, as we learned from Reagan - Trust, but verify!

He sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He created fake credentials that could allow someone to snoop on Internet connections that appeared to be secure. He then shared that bounty with people he declines to name.[nytimes.com]

The following are the chronology of the U.S. anti-terrorism campaign over the past 10 years.

It's interesting to see what Xinhua found the key moments to have been ...

Worse, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal now includes an inexpensive, small, mobile, tactical missile with a miniaturized nuclear warhead. These were designed to be deployed on the battlefield against potential invasion by India.[huffingtonpost.com]

I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused ...

If you want to convince us, don't put up a carefully orchestrated sales job ...

The Mexican navy says it has broken up a sophisticated communications network used by the Zetas drugs cartel in the eastern state of Veracruz.[bbc.co.uk]

IT IS another escalation in the computer security arms race. Software that can uncover all of a person's online activity could, in the hands of the police, put more sex offenders behind bars - but it may also be exploited to develop new ways of avoiding being caught.[newscientist.com]

Some cool abandoned sub pics ...

How many Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks insidethe United States since the September 11, 2001, atrocities?Arguably 16.[reason.com]

Microsoft is rolling out a worldwide patch that deems all DigiNotar SSL certificates to be untrustworthy except for OSes in the Netherlands, as requested by the Dutch government.[pcworld.com]

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This looks to me like the group (or at least the two guys that were all lovey-dovey) became self-conscious of their own behavior because Vic #1 wasn't responding to them in what they considered to be the 'expected' way and walked out, and then after they walked out, someone in the group said something like "Are you going to let him get away with that" and Perp #1, in his intoxicated state, couldn't resist going back and sucker-punching Vic #1.

If they were doing it on a PC, they would have perhaps asked themselves if the PC was secure. With smartphones, people aren't yet conscious about the risks involved. The fact is, smartphones, as they become popular, are also becoming vulnerable to cyber-crimes.[timesofindia.com]

People are just barely starting to think about Security on their PCs ...

Speaking via a video link, Assange told an audience at a Berlin technology trade fair that a Guardian journalist had published the password to the encrypted files in his book, creating a situation where some people got access to the uncensored files while others did not. "We had a case where every intelligence agency has the material and the people who are mentioned do not have the material," he said from a mansion about two hours' drive from London, where he is under virtual house arrest pending extradition proceedings to Sweden on unrelated sexual assault allegations.[AP via google.com]

This should be interesting to watch unfold ...

BAE Systems have tested a new camouflaging system called “Adaptive” that can instantly blend a combat vehicle into its natural surroundings by making it invisible to infrared and other surveillance technology.[zdnet.com]

Some more pics here ...

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Surveillance video shows a victim fighting off two men during an assault in New Hampshire. The suspects tried to get alcohol from a convenience store.[whdh.com]

He's certainly a wiry little dude ...

Here’s ten tips to keep yourself safe from common disasters that I see each year as a university TA.[whatsyourtech.ca]

The [Canadian] navy’s last operational submarine is now sidelined until 2016, leaving the service without an underwater capability and potentially throwing into question the future of the submarine fleet.[vancouversun.com]

Going dark through September 1 due to work and work-related travel

Signs of a fissure developing in the "all-weather" China-Pakistan relations became evident with Chinese officials in the border province of Xinjiang blaming Pakistan for the renewed spate of violence on Sunday in Kashgar town, which left nine people dead.[indiatimes.com]

Interesting ...

"President Cristina has requested us to come up with a nuclear propulsion development project for our submarines" said Defence minister Puricelli during a press conference.[bernama.com]

Their argument was that non-aligned security researchers who find security-related bugs ought to be paid for disclosing them to the relevant vendor. No money, no report.[nakedsecurity.sophos.com]

Even with crystal-clear surveillance photos of the serial slasher, he's still on the loose.[wjla.com]

Maybe you could share the actual video with us so that our subconscious' might key in on the way he walks and so forth ...

Within the ranks of Anonymous, one member had crossed a line: He granted an interview to a reporter, discussing his role in the shadowy hacker group.[huffingtonpost.com]

It would seem that they understand the Second Natural Law of Security: It's cheaper to be invisible than it is to be invincible.

Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not.[wired.com]

The modernization and recent blue water operations of the Chinese navy are altering the naval power balance in the Pacific.[timesdispatch.com]

With India grappling with a depleting underwater combat arm, coupled with both Pakistan and China fast bolstering their own fleets, the Navy has appointed a senior officer to oversee and fast-track all submarine acquisition plans.[indiatimes.com]

As a submarine moves, it churns the oceans around it, creating an easily detected disturbance. Could a high-tech mesh cloak keep the surrounding waters calm?[theatlantic.com]

One of five people charged in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent admitted Tuesday that the motivation behind the ambush killing was to rob the agent's night vision equipment.[sacbee.com]

If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.[nytimes.com]

Linux: Lightweight Portable Security (LPS-Public) is a bootable live CD designed by the Department of Defense so that government employees can access data from a public computer without worrying about security violations.[lifehacker.com]

Terrorists kill for two basic reasons: They want to disrupt and destroy institutions or symbols of a political order they despise and they want to intimidate people not touched by the attack directly.[cnn.com]

There is a third reason: they long for what Nietzsche referred to as 'the happiness of the knife'.

Fricosu update

The U.S. Department of Justice took a thinly veiled swipe at an online civil liberties group that's arguing a Colorado woman can't be forced to decrypt her laptop for police inspection.

Eleven years after 118 submariners met a grisly death at the bottom of the ocean in the Kursk, a British team has developed the most advanced underwater rescue system in the world. Andrew Preston watches them go into action[dailymail.co.uk]

China is following a two-prong strategy with its impressive maritime build-up. The West is making a mistake if it underestimates the implications.[the-diplomat.com]

In a recent opinion, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli affirmed the rights of concealed-handgun permit holders to possess firearms on campus despite an apparent conflict with University of Virginia policy.[timesdispatch.com]

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Pretty brazen ... of course, there's almost no chance of armed resistance thereabouts ...

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From Oslo: Not sure how long this will be up as it likely violates the relevant TOS ...

A federal jury says TASER International must pay $10 million in the March 2008 death of 17-year-old Darryl Turner after being shocked by a CMPD officer. This is the biggest jury award against the company.[foxcharlotte.com]

Dangerous malware links in Google's search results will bring up a warning as Google combats Search Engine Poisoning. Google hopes to help searchers update their antivirus software as Cisco Systems reports phishing attacks are getting more dangerous -- and profitable. An analyst warned, however, that hackers could exploit Google's warning.[sci-tech-today.com]

The rise of the Web as a communication platform as well as "hacktivism" have given whistle-blowing a makeover, and enterprises with lax security need to step up their defenses or risk putting themselves out of business.[zdnetasia.com]

Brazil has begun building four diesel-powered submarines as part of a 2008 agreement with France that includes the future construction of Latin America’s first nuclear submarine.[washingtonpost.com]

A senior Iranian army commander says enemies are amazed by Iran's huge naval achievements, emphasizing that the presence of Iran's frigates in international waters has caught them off guard.[presstv.com]

Mostly, we're amazed that they float ...

An academic team formed in a partnership between the University of Calgary and SAIT Polytechnic has used quantum technology to come up with an unbreakable method of transmitting and storing data.[vancouversun.com]

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrapped up a four-day visit to China with a rare visit to a submarine base on an island off the country's eastern coast, a day after being given access for the first time to a Su-27, one of China's most advanced operational fighter jets.[wsj.com]

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Why would anyone go to a club like this ...?

Fricosu update

Defendants can't be forced into providing law enforcement authorities with the encryption key to their laptops, or it becomes self-incrimination, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued in a court brief filed in a mortgage fraud criminal case.[eweek.com]

The result of this case will likely have serious implications for data security in general ...

USB flash drives are easy to lose if you don't keep track of them.[cnet.com]

I got to have one of these ...

Either way, Muhammad could become the first person sentenced to death in the U.S. for an act of terrorism — even if that is not the charge — since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.[latimes.com]

It would be interesting to see what definition of terrorism they're using. Shooting a couple of people and then saying you did it as terrorism doesn't make it terrorism.

It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium.[arstechnica.com]

The Colorado prosecution of a woman accused of a mortgage scam will test whether the government can punish you for refusing to disclose your encryption passphrase.[cnet.com]

If someone gets physical access to your system (it's stolen, say, or a computer repair technician is snooping around) then the best internet security suite will be no use at all, and there's only one way to ensure you're protected: encryption.[pcadvisor.co.uk]

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So ... how do you decide?

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In case you still think it's a good idea to 'shoot in' and 'take them to the ground' during a real-world fight, consider this ...

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The 18-year-old man was shot in the torso on June 18 after he left his apartment complex in the 8400 block of Langdon Avenue and happened to run into a tagger who had just started vandalizing the front of the building, according to the 50 second surveillance footage.[contracostatimes.com]

Wow ... broad daylight and everything ... too bad he didn't get to shoot back ...

Hacker groups that attack or steal — some estimates say there are as many as 6,000 of such groups online with about 50,000 "bad actors" around the world drifting in and out of them — are a threat, but the goals, methods, effectiveness of these groups varies widely.[netwrokworld.com]

Can't tell the players without a program? Here's one ...

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Rage, revenge and a baseball bat led to a horrifying attack at a Cleveland convenience store.[the33tv.com]

All together now: Don't bring a baseball bat to a car fight!

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Video released by the Atlantic County prosecutorThursday shows people running for their lives as a man shoots ontothe Boardwalk just hours after Atlantic City’s Fourth of Julycelebration ended.

It's hard to see, but the shooter appears to be a guy in a black shirt that is with the gang that goes diagonal across the street to head the other group off. The person of interest (wearing the white wife-beater and white long pants) appear to be retreating ...

Taiwan has testfired for the first time a locally developed submarine-launched missile designed to counter the threat of China's fast-expanding navy, a report Thursday.[AFP]

The Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday urged foreign security agencies to ramp up security after receiving intelligence reports that terrorists might try to surgically implant explosives in the bodies of suicide bombers.[usatoday.com]

Where do they think they're going with this ...

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This is funny on so many levels (I especially like when a perp's g-bloomers fall down around his ankles in mid-crime) ...

Mexican and international human-rights organizations say the Mexican military has often planted drugs or evidence on citizens in an effort to mark up arrests and convictions. Gustavo de la Rosa, a prominent human-rights lawyer in Ciudad Juarez, has said he knows of 70 such cases in the city alone.[latimes.com]

To maintain privacy while surfing the Web, you need to encrypt the data you exchange with websites and mask where that data is coming from. Enter the Tor Network, a free service maintained by the nonprofit Tor Project and a worldwide network of volunteers dedicated to keeping the Internet free and private.[pcworld.com]

"The facts of the case showed that InTown was blatantly ignoring the safety of its customers and employees," Ogden said. "You had a hotel where the office and its employees, including the manager, had been robbed four times at gunpoint in the six months leading up to the victims' attack. The manager was begging the corporate office for a security guard to protect the guests and employees of the hotel, and he was turned down."[clarionledger.com]

It would be interesting to see whether not having the S/O was a cost effective decision or not. Of course, the most likely fundamental problem was that the vics weren't ready to go when the time came. Their not being ready may have been a function of the legal environment but still, there's something perverse about suing a business for ALSO not being ready to go ...

Smith & Wesson Corp., announced that it is now shipping its new multi-caliber self-defense revolver, the Governor, along with the recently introduced Walther PPQ polymer pistol.[ammoland.com]

Besides a V6 as your engine, your car is very likely to soon be running Linux under the hood.[zdnet.com]

Interesting ...

A top lieutenant of one of Mexico's most feared drugs cartels, who was wanted in connection with the shooting of two U.S. customs officers, has been paraded in front of the media after being captured without a shot being fired.[dailymail.co.uk]

Dell has announced the launch of a file-based encryption solution.[scmagazineuk.com]

Last month, Russia had a successful test of its Bulava R-30 3M30 (SS-NX-30) SLBM (Sea Launched Ballistic Missile). Moreover, for the first time, a Bulava was launched from one of Borei class submarines it was designed for.[strategypage.com]

Imagine this: It's 2015. You walk into a store, buy your groceries and go to the cash counter. The store's barcode reader scans the pricing information on your purchases and flashes the total amount on a tiny device placed on the counter.[indiatimes.com]

Sounds like a lot of opportunity for mischief ...

The greatest current risk for iPhone owners is not viruses or malicious web pages, it is the danger that the phone might fall into someone else's hands. Although iPhones do offer elaborate security mechanisms, these mechanisms won't stand up to an imaginative hacker.[h-online.com]

Also:

The H's in-depth article on iPhone security, iOpener, vividly demonstrates that you can't turn your iPhone into a tamper-proof data vault, but the following measures will make life considerably more difficult for thieves.[h-online.com]

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This is kinda clever ...

SUPPLY of Russian nuclear submarine to India is being expedited in order to further strengthen the naval arm of the Indian forces which should be a source of concern of Pakistan. Russian Navy Chief was quoted as saying on Friday that the submarine would be delivered by the end of this year.[pakobserver.net]

It's odd that they would do this as the Indian aren't really 'natural' allies of Russia. The Indians should probably take it apart and put it back together before they use it for anything important ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia would boost its presence in the Arctic to protect its interests. "As far as our own geopolitical interests are concerned, we shall be protecting them firmly and consistently," Putin told a meeting of his ruling United Russia party in Yekaterinburg.[themoscowtimes.com]

Wonderful ...

An expansion of that doctrine, signed into law by Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday, eliminates the requirement to retreat and allows the use of deadly force outside of a home or business. The changes take effect Aug. 26.[goerie.com]

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Oopsy-daisy ...