U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

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InfoSec News: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
By Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com June 6, 2010
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of [...]

Defcon To Host 'Capture The Flag' Social Engineering Contest

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InfoSec News: Defcon To Host 'Capture The Flag' Social Engineering Contest: http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225400253
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Jun 04, 2010
In a twist to the popular "capture the flag" game played by hacking teams every year at Defcon, the hacker conference is hosting a contest [...]

Hack on e-commerce co. exposes records for 200,000

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InfoSec News: Hack on e-commerce co. exposes records for 200,000: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/digital_river_hack/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 4th June 2010
E-commerce company Digital River exposed data belonging to almost 200,000 individuals after hackers executed a "highly unusual search [...]

Butterflies may hold key to more secure bank cards

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InfoSec News: Butterflies may hold key to more secure bank cards: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/02/butterflies-color-bank-card-security.html
CBC News June 2, 2010
The way light hits a tropical butterfly's wings could make your bank card safer, according to a new U.K. study.
That's because scientists are now able to mimic the cell structure of [...]

EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax

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InfoSec News: EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/ftc-floats-drudge-tax/
By The Washington Times June 4, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to "reinvent" journalism, and that's a cause for concern. According to a May 24 draft proposal, the agency thinks government should be at the center of a media overhaul. The bureaucracy sees it as a problem that the Internet has introduced a wealth of information options to consumers, forcing media companies to adapt and experiment to meet changing market needs. FTC's policy staff fears this new reality.
"There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism," the report states. With no faith that the market will work things out for the better, government thinks it must come to the rescue.
The ideas being batted around to save the industry share a common theme: They are designed to empower bureaucrats, not consumers. For instance, one proposal would, "Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of copyright licenses."
In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place.
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