This image shows a great white expanse on the surface of Earth, but it’s not snow or super-fine sand: in fact, it’s a dried up salt lake in Turkey called Lake Tersakan—and satellites even use it as a calibration tool. Read more…
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This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance
It’s a sad day: the photoshopping remix site Worth1000 is shutting its doors , victim of being “technologically orphaned” after refactoring its codebase and then losing its programmer.
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Worth1000 shutting its doors
The NSA is to cut 90% of its 1, 000 sysadmins in a bid to reduce the risk of leaks. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a network administrator, charged with keeping the machines running on the network of vast data-centers used by the NSA to harvest, store and analyze unimaginably large quantities of data.
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NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens
Kwikset makes an incredibly popular line of reprogrammable locks that can be easily re-keyed, meaning that landlords don’t have to physically change the locks when their tenants move out.
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Attacking the popular Kwikset lock: open in 15 seconds with a screwdriver and a paper clip
Brian Krebs is a security expert and investigative journalist who has published numerous ground-breaking stories about the online criminal underground, much to the consternation of the criminal underground.
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Cyber-crooks mail heroin to Brian Krebs
A pair of crooks in Oklahoma made more than $400, 000 with a whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmer that they installed in Wal-Mart gas stations, using rental cars while they were doing the installation.
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Whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmers
Justin Engler and Paul Vines will demo a robot called the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) at Defcon; it can work its way through every numeric screen-lock Android password in 19 hours.
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PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hours
It sometimes feels like there’s a big data breach in the news every week—but some are far worse than others. This data visulization shows the world’s biggest data breaches to date, and how they compare over time. Read more…
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The World’s Biggest Data Breaches, Visualized
A woman who valet-parked her car at Rochester airport returned to find a notice informing her that the valet had searched her car, on orders from the TSA.
CNet’s Declan McCullagh reports on a rumor that Google is testing a system for encrypting its users’ files on Google Drive; they are reportedly considering the move as a means of making it harder for government spies to harvest user-data.
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Google experimenting with spy-resistant encrypted Google Drive