The FBI is investigating whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email compromised national security . And now the staffer who set it up is planning to stay silent during questioning to avoid incriminating himself. Read more…
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Subpoenaed Clinton Staffer Will Plead the Fifth Over Email Scandal Questions
Hillary Clinton’s email scandal isn’t going away any time soon. The Associated Press is now reporting that the intelligence community found classified information in two of the 40 randomly selected emails from the 30, 000 that Clinton handed over to investigators. Think about those numbers. Read more…
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Spooks Keep Finding Classified Information in Hillary’s Private Emails
The cost of housing in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area is cripplingly expensive . But what does housing value look like across the whole of the country? Read more…
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The Incredible Housing Value Across the U.S., Mapped
IBM has announced that it’s designed a new kind of ultra-dense chip, which squeezes in four times as much computing power as the best silicon currently available. Read more…
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IBM’s New Chip Is Four Times as Powerful as Today’s Best Silicon
Penguinisto writes According to a scan by Qualys, Hillary Clinton’s personal e-mail server, which has lately generated more than a little controversy in US political circles, has earned an “F” rating for security from the security vendor. Problems include SSL2 support, a weak signature, and only having support for older TLS protocols, among numerous other problems. Note that there are allegations that the email server was possibly already hacked in 2013. (Note: Mrs. Clinton plans on Giving a press conference to the public today on the issue.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Clinton’s Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating
sarahnaomi writes: It could have been any other morning. Felipe del Jesús Peréz García got dressed, said goodbye to his wife and kids, and drove off to work. It would be a two hour commute from their home in Monterrey, in Northeastern Mexico’s Nuevo León state, to Reynosa, in neighboring Tamaulipas state, where Felipe, an architect, would scout possible installation sites for cell phone towers for a telecommunications company before returning that evening That was the last time anyone saw him. What happened to Felipe García? One theory suggests he was abducted by a sophisticated organized crime syndicate, and then forced into a hacker brigade that builds and services the cartel’s hidden, backcountry communications infrastructure. They’re the Geek Squads to some of the biggest mafia-style organizations in the world. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The Mexican Drug Cartels’ Involuntary IT Guy
alphadogg (971356) writes “Cisco Systems will cut as many as 6, 000 jobs over the next 12 months, saying it needs to shift resources to growing businesses such as cloud, software and security. The move will be a reorganization rather than a net reduction, the company said. It needs to cut jobs because the product categories where it sees the strongest growth, such as security, require special skills, so it needs to make room for workers in those areas, it said. ‘If we don’t have the courage to change, if we don’t lead the change, we will be left behind, ‘ Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on a conference call.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs — 8% of Its Workforce — In "Reorganization"
First Class on domestic flights can be a bit of a joke, offering luxury commensurate with what regular passengers used to get. This Sunday, jetBlue will change the cross country long-haul game with the launch of their new Airbus A321. It’s cheaper than most first class trips and, as I found out, nicer in many ways. Read more…
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JetBlue’s New ‘Mint Class’ Is Now The Nicest Way To Fly Cross-Country
theodp writes “CNN reports that the U.S. government shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT Tuesday after lawmakers in the House and the Senate could not agree on a spending bill to fund the government. Federal employees who are considered essential will continue working. But employees deemed non-essential — close to 800, 000 — will be furloughed, and most of those are supposed to be out of their offices within four hours of the start of business Tuesday.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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U.S. Government: Sorry, We’re Closed
An anonymous reader writes “MIT announced that despite a long history of running an open network (so that any student can run a server on any port, without any questions asked), it will now end this policy due to recent denial-of-service attacks and gunman hoax. From a letter sent by Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz: ‘I am deeply and personally committed to safeguarding our community, protecting our campus and securing our systems. Together with our colleagues dedicated to campus safety and security, with the support of senior academic leadership and in collaboration with the campus community, we are deploying all necessary resources to this effort. It will require the dedication of all of us to promote safety awareness, complete necessary emergency training, and adhere to reinforced cyber security guidelines. IS&T staff members are working with information technology (IT) leadership and partners across campus in making the changes described above. We continue to explore all opportunities to further strengthen our preparedness, and will communicate additional information as these plans evolve.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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MIT To End Open-Network Policy In Response To Recent Attacks