Gary McKinnon wins 10 year fight against extradition

Gary McKinnon wins 10 year fight against extradition

A British computer hacker has won his 10-year fight against extradition to the U.S. with the U.K. government saying he was unfit to face the charges against him. In a statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Britain’s Home Secretary Theresa May said that the extradition of Gary McKinnon, a 46-year-old computer administrator from [...]

Artificial Intelligence Algorithms now Writing the ‘News’ you read

By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA While the military are trying to do away completely with human soldiers, high tech companies are now doing the same with the journalistic profession. Although in the past, the military and intelligence agencies infiltrated news rooms and literally began to write the news most of the public reads, [...]

Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say

ShareThis Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say 25 Jun 2012 A small surveillance drone flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. Then, as if some phantom has given the drone a self-destruct order, it hurtles toward the ground… Professor Todd Humphreys [...]

Military computer upgrades 30 years behind schedule, cost $7 billion

ShareThis Military computer upgrades 30 years behind schedule, cost $ 7 billion 22 Jun 2012 Nine computer network upgrade projects across the Defense Department were collectively 30 years behind schedule and more than $ 7 billion over budget, government auditors have told Congress. The problems first identified in 2010 persist, the auditors told lawmakers in [...]

Six nabbed for cyber attacks on Quebec websites

ShareThis Six nabbed for cyber attacks on Quebec websites 19 Jun 2012 Six people have been arrested in connection with attacks that paralyzed Quebec websites. The arrests were made in an operation that involved five police forces – the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec, and three municipal forces. Members of the group are expected to [...]

NY Rally for Alleged Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond

ShareThis NY Rally for Alleged Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond Posted by http://www.legitgov.org/ 17 Jun 2012 Jeremy Hammond is a political activist accused of criminal computer hacking. The alleged hacks targeted Stratfor, a company that high-profile national security agents employ to transmit data in the interest of suppressing dissent and perpetuating world capitalism, and the Arizona State [...]

Alleged hacker Ryan Cleary to be tried in UK not US

ShareThis Alleged hacker Ryan Cleary to be tried in UK not US 15 Jun 2012 An Essex teenager suspected of masterminding an international computer hacking ring is not expected to be extradited to the United States despite facing charges in California. Ryan Cleary, 19, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is alleged to have been in involved [...]

Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line for Genetic Engineering

The military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally. That’s because Darpa has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them to living cells. Think of it like an assembly line, but one that would churn out modified biological matter — man-made organisms — instead of cars [...]

Barack Obama ‘ordered Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran’

ShareThis Barack Obama ‘ordered Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran’ 01 Jun 2012 President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet attack on Iran as part of a wave of cyber sabotage and espionage against the would-be nuclear power, according to a new book citing senior Washington sources. The computer virus, aimed at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, [...]

Israel Hints at Role in New ‘Super Virus’ Spreading Across Mideast

It is perhaps the most sophisticated piece of malicious software ever designed – a digital surveillance device so complex it ran on sensitive government computer networks for years, undetected. The new “Flame” surveillance virus that has been hitting computers across the Middle East appears to have come from Israel in an attempt to attack computers [...]