First, let us say that the safety of individuals is very important and this has nothing to do with the value of this particular device or the organization that has asked for its mandate. The story: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been lobbied by KidsandCars.org and as a result it will adopt regulations [...]
We really hadn’t discussed exercises that were carried out by South Koreatoward the “Northern Limit Line”, a virtual dividing line between North and South Korea. The North warned that if a South Korean weapon “strayed” from its course and hit any properties near the North, that it would retaliate with force 1,000 times worse. Well, [...]
Breaking late this afternoon is information that Anonymous has been (or is) attacking Greece Government websites and is threatening to wipe out all Greek Citizens Debt off of official rolls. Knowing that financial systems have backup plans in place, this is an idle threat of sorts. But, in another manner – it might not be. [...]
Users of various social applications on smartphones, including Twitter, have recently discovered that the applications will copy the contacts stored on their phones–often without asking permission. Social networks and user privacy generally do not mix well, as each increase[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right corner to continue.]
Violent pirate attacks have occurred with increasing frequency off the coast of Nigeria, including three times last week. Yesterday an attack against a bulk carrier ended with the killing of the vessel’s captain and chief engineer. Last week pirates hijacked a tanker off[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right [...]
The issue is as old as creative content itself. How does the person or company or institution that creates some form of intellectual property defend against those who would appropriate that content with paying the creator? You write a song and anybody can sing it, listen to it and perform it. How does one keep [...]
An employee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York walked out with a hard drive containing propriety code worth about $10M. The software was used to track billions of dollars transferred on the[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right corner to continue.]
Almost 1000 incidents of cargo theft were reported in 2011, an all-time high. However, the average value stolen dropped from previous years to $319,000 per incident. This is likely indicative[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right corner to continue.]
We picked this up in a Georgia (the nation) press piece buried within a Russian media source. Military personnel stationed in one of the front-most Russian military bases in Armenia have reportedly sent their families back to Russia – because they are concerned about conflict erupting in the region. Realize that this would suggest that [...]
Last week we wrote about a Facebook virus that was spreading itself among users’ friends and had infectedaround 50,000 users. New information has come to light that sets the total infectedat closer to 800,000. The virus was able to create fake user [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right [...]
