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Plan X – Cyberwarfare Plan Centralized Under DARPA Project
Fox News is reporting on a DARPA-created cyberwarfare plan called “Plan X” that was released in a broad agency announcement. The plan is aimed at creating a playbook for deploying cyberweapons and running it from an Arlington VA management center. DARPA – yes the same DARPA that is credit with inventing the internet – has ...
End of Days for Windows XP – Less Than 500 Days of Support
493 days, and counting – that’s what’s left for Windows XP. Active support runs out on April 8, 2014. It’s Microsoft’s most successful operating system ever, enjoying a very long run that debuted in 2001. The name XP is short for eXPerience, and was developed under the codename “Whistler”. Windows XP was the first operating system ...
Big Data Up to 100X Faster – Researchers Crank Up the Speed Dial
Researchers at the University of California Berkeley are working on a project that is looking to change Big Data, taking it up a whole new gear and extremes of speed. The project aims to lower search and analysis times that take place when analyzing unstructured data. The open-source, next-generation data analytics stack includes components known ...
High Stakes in UN Siege of the Internet
Somewhere in Dubai, a plot to takeover of the internet is being hatched. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is a body of the United Nations and this group is meeting this week on creating government controls that will mean effective control of the internet. 193 countries are taking part in this highly secret two-week meeting, ...
2012 Campaign Big Data Wins While Privacy Rights Suffer
There’s a lot of people recovering from their post-Thanksgiving food comas today, but there’s another post-gluttony story going on right now that has many people concerned. The 2012 Presidential election is noted as one of the biggest Big Data stories of the year, capped by a masterful data operation that concluded with the re-election of ...
Microsoft Announces a BioGas-Powered Data Center
Microsoft this week announced the arrival of the “Data Plant” – a research project that features a zero-carbon data center that utilizes waste bi-products for power. And so the jokes will commence, I can think of a few stinky ones, but this is still a significant development as it marks a further evolution of a ...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Shopping Safety Tips – Protect Your Identity and Credit
Many will be out lapping up the deals come Friday, before even getting to the leftover turkey. Others will be jumping in on the Cyber Monday online shopping frenzy that will follow. I’m more inclined to be a part of that second group, lines and crowds are not for me. Just know however that anytime ...
US Accused of Hacking, Spying on French President
Espionage – Spying – Intelligence – It all brings a number of iconic pictures to mind, from James Bond, to spy satellites, but it’s becoming clearer by the day that these types of surveillance operations are becoming more and more digital. On Tuesday, French news magazine l’Express stated that the US hacked into the French ...
Guilty Verdict for iPad -AT&T “Hacker” Weev
Andrew Auernheimer, also known as “Weev” was found guilty today in a federal case being tried in a in New Jersey federal court where the personal data of more than 114,000 iPad owners was harvested. The incident happened back in June 2010 in a release by Goatse Security, a division of the “Gay Niggers Association ...
Democrats Doubling Down on Big Data
This year, we’ve witnessed the value and the power of Big Data in politics. We’ve seen the phenomenon throughout the last few weeks, from Nate Silver, to the failure of Orca – through it all the story being told is that Obama’s data was better than Mitt’s. A story in the Washington Post today indicates that the Democrats are ...