Pin ItemailprintAnonymous has had a busy weekend so far. Mere hours after its biggest release to date, the hacktivist collective crashed the official website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Just before 4 p.m. EST yesterday afternoon (Friday), DHS.gov was taken offline. Members of the group immediately took credit for the attack. Within minutes, [...]
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SOPA or no SOPA, the Feds are still cracking down on illegal websites. Just three days before Super Bowl XLVI, prosecutors say they’ve shut down a total of 16 websites that illegally stream live sporting and pay-per-view events over the web. They’ve also charged a Michigan man with running nine of the sites. The 16 [...]
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It was only a matter of time. Tonight, President Barack Obama ordered a redoubling of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts as the result of a “credible but unconfirmed” threat just before the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (UPDATE: The threat has just been confirmed) U.S. officials say the threat involved Washington D.C. and New [...]
The death toll the in the U.S. from Hurricane Irene is now officially at 1 after a North Carolina man was killed today by a tree limb that was knocked down by the storm. The accident happened just outside the victim’s home near Rocky Mount, in the western part of the state. This storm is [...]
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You can rest easy, America. Terrorists will not be able to hide weapons or bombs in Depends undergarments. The Transportation Security Administration apparently had a 95-year-old, cancer-stricken woman patted down and forced her to remove her adult diaper in Florida earlier this month. The blogosphere and Twitter are ablaze with commentary on the matter today. [...]
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Take a look at what could be coming soon to a sporting event or shopping mall near you. At first, I thought this was a joke. Sadly, it isn’t. Homeland Security will soon be implementing its “Future Attribute Screening Technology”, or F.A.S.T. program for short, that will basically try to predict “malintent”. It looks as [...]
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Color-coded terror alerts will soon be a thing of the past. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday in New York that the new National Terror Advisory System (NTAS) will go into effect on April 26. Napolitano told reporters that many Americans either flat-out ignore our current, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), or choose [...]
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Here’s something that will get your Spidey-senses tingling. The Michigan State Police have a new, high-tech forensics device that officers are using to download information from the cell phones of motorists that have been pulled over for traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has gotten involved, demanding that state officials stop [...]
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Yes, it’s true. No one is safe. You can’t run, you can’t hide from the TSA. Just ask actor Mark Ruffalo. It seems he’s been added to the Pennsylvania terror watch list. Ruffalo said he was told recently that he had been placed on the list by Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security. Why, you ask? [...]
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The U.S. government appears to be cracking down on websites that facilitate copyright infringement and the sale of stolen goods. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, targeting sites that help users download copyrighted music, along with those that sell bootleg and / or stolen goods, [...]
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The notorious Stuxnet computer virus could be modified to attack many other industrial control systems, a Homeland Security official testified yesterday. Sean McGurk, acting director of Homeland Security’s national cybersecurity operations center, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that variations of the Stuxnet worm, which was discovered in July, could be engineered [...]
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Wait, this must be a mistake. There can’t be an 8-year-old on the Transportation Security Administration‘s “No-Fly” list, can there? This 2007 “mythbusters” clip from the official TSA website should clear things up: No 8-year-old is on a TSA watch list. Airlines can and should automatically de-select any 8-year-olds out there that appear to be [...]
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