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News, yesterday, of the latest censorship actions targeting BlackHat presenters. This time, Juniper Networks has muffled the presentation slated for the hack confab by Barnaby Jack, an employee of the networking concern. Not surprisingly, his presentation, focused on Automated Teller Machine vulnerabilities, was seen as a threat. A short snippet of the original news item [...]

Google User Tracking Now Confirmed…Is It Evil?
Google Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) has announced the search giants’ tracking of individual web browsing habits (through the company’s DoubleClick cookie insertion) to facilitate AdSense pattern matching and delivery of targeting placements. As is to be expected, privacy advocates are enraged, and in response, the company is offering a Mozilla [...]

Infosecurity.US wishes all a safe, happy and fun Independence Day July 4th, 2009.
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Excerpted and edited from an original post I published last year on 2008/05/05:
Lest We Forget: On this date, in 1961, the late, great, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Retired), became our First Astronaut, after serving our country in the Pacific during World War II. Talk about a career…. Read his Official [...]

Perhaps Remembering The Events Of Sixty-Four Years Ago, This Week , Will Permit A Modicum Of Recollection Of Why, In Truth, We Are Free.

Infosecurity.US continues our popular Genius Series with a focus on Luis von Ahn, Ph.D., MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A short bio from the MacArthur Foundation appears after the page jump, along with a video.

News, of the demise of Verified Identity Pass, Inc. the highly touted owners of the Clear® Registered Traveler identity verification system, designed to permit relatively easy airport check ins, et cetera. The company apparently lost funding, not to mention thousands of user records in a publicized data breach event reported here on Infosecurity.US some time [...]