Thursday, April 9, 2009

Digital Pearl Harbor, Cyber 9/11, and E-Qaeda . From today's print edition of The Washington Post come a pair of alarming stories about how Chinese hackers and terrorist groups have infiltrated our electric power grid and are using our own digital infrastructure against us. A piece on page A4 talks about cyber spies having left behind software...

[Wash Post Technology]
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Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life (AP). AP - The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. [Yahoo! News: Technology News]
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The Magnificent Mercury Seven: NASA's First Astronauts, 50 Years Ago Today [Techversary] . Fifty years ago today NASA announced The Mercury Seven: the seven men to make up their first astronaut class. To commemorate this event, here are some interesting factoids about these American... [Gizmodo]
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