Du kan trygt si at jeg fikk tilleggspost. Hvis mine papirer skulle komme på avveie på denne måten, ville jeg opplevd det som meget ubehagelig, sier osloborgeren til Dagbladet

A Colorado sheriff's online database mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers of suspects, victims and others interviewed during criminal investigations, authorities said. The breach potentially affects some 200,000 people, and Mesa County sheriff's deputies have been sifting through the database to determine who, if anyone, is in jeopardy. "That in itself is probably the biggest concern we have, because we're talking about people's personal safety,"

Yesterday Gawker Media denied reports that their database of 1.5 Million usernames, emails and passwords had been hacked.  Comments broadcast via the apparently compromised Twitter feed of Gawker Media’s tech and gadget site Gizmodo strongly suggested a security compromise.  Gawker Editorial Director Scott Kidder claimed through his own Twitter feed that “No evidence to suggest any Gawker Media’s user accounts were compromised, and passwords encrypted anyway.” Mediaite can now confirm that the Gawker’s database has been compromised at least to some degree.

As the classic method of combating botnets by taking down command and control centers has proven pretty much ineffective in the long run, there has been lots of talk lately about new stratagems that could bring about the desired result.
A group of researchers from the Delft University of Technology and Michigan State University have recently released an analysis of the role that ISPs could play in botnet mitigation - an analysis that led to interesting conclusions.

Nettstedet Gizmodo presenterer nå avsløringa millioner av flypassasjerer håpet aldri ville komme.Røntgenbilder av kliss nakne besøkende i en rettsbygning i Florida, tatt av de nye, kontroversielle nakenscannerne, er på avveie.- Politiet i Florida lagret over 35 000 bilder. Flere av disse bildene har vi, skriver nettstedet.

Kjøtt har publisert alle utgivelsene sine for gratis nedlasting.

The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint.Vaizey anticipates that internet users could use the "service" to request that any material deemed to be inaccurate or privacy infringing is removed.

In 1999 Syse Data was converted to a limited liability company, and has since been trading under the name Syse Data AS[1]. As the names are so similar, searches for our company in the official Norwegian registry of just-about-anything (Brønnøysundregistrene) often resulted in potential customers looking up the wrong company. To prevent this confusion we recently changed the name of the old (non-LLC) company, and figured we’d use the opportunity for some harmless – or so we thought – fun.
The old company was renamed to:
';UPDATE TAXRATE SET RATE = 0 WHERE NAME = 'EDVIN SYSE'
Apparently, the tax authorities noticed. You’ll need to read their page for more details.

The switch to OAuth is a good thing! You, as the application developer,
don't have the burden of keeping potentially damaging credentials for your users (especially considering that a lot of people use the same password for multiple services);
don't have to worry about the user changing their password — a user can change his or her password and the OAuth "connection" to your app will still work;
don't have to worry about other applications masquerading as your application as only your application can set the byline with your application name;
will eventually have access to more trusted APIs from Twitter that will only be available to "trusted" OAuth-enabled applications; and
will be contributing to the web of trust between users, service providers, and applications.
Choose your authorization path.

A demo by Haujobb running on an ATM.
Won first place in the wild demo competition at Evoke 2010.

A way to intercept photons of light to create a security leak has been discovered
Quantum hackers have performed the first 'invisible' attack on two commercial quantum cryptographic systems. By using lasers on the systems — which use quantum states of light to encrypt information for transmission — they have fully cracked their encryption keys, yet left no trace of the hack.

Inger Marie Sunde viderefører i Aftenposten 26/8 deler av den politistatslogikk og nytale som preget hennes kolleger i Det nasjonale statsadvokatembetets høringsuttalelse om EUs datalagringsdirektiv.
Vi snakker om statlig tvangsregistrering og -lagring av alle våre forbindelser og bevegelser ved bruk av telefon, e-post m.v. Logikken er at man statistisk sett vet at noen av oss vil komme til å begå forbrytelser i fremtiden, men vi kan ikke på forhånd vite hvem av oss det gjelder. Derfor må bevis om oss alle sikres på forhånd, slik at de ligger klare, når staten fatter mistanke mot en av oss i fremtiden.

I bloggposten “Drømmedata” spurte fornyingsminister Rigmor Aasrud om hva deres “drømmedata” er. En av kommentarene til bloggposten var Håkon Dreyers forslag om å legge ut rådata om idrettsanlegg fra Kulturdepartementets www.idrettsanlegg.no. Nå har Kulturdepartementet gjort nettopp det og lagt ut rådataene i en CSV-fil! Her er uttalelsen fra Kulturdepartementet:
Kulturdepartementet opprettet i 1992 et register over anlegg for idrett og fysisk aktivitet. Idrettsanleggsregisteret inneholder informasjon om alle anlegg som har søkt om spillemidler, og informasjonen i registeret blir fortløpende oppdatert av kommuner, fylkeskommuner og departementet.
Kulturdepartementet har, etter oppfordring fra Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet, tilgjengeliggjort rådata fra idrettsanleggsregisteret. Rådata som er lagt ut gir opplysninger om anleggsnavn, anleggsnr., status, tilknytning til anleggssted, anleggseier, driver, universell utforming, om anlegget er ombygd og evt. når, anleggsklasse, anleggskategori, anleggstype, måldata og kartkoordinater.
Informasjonen er lagt ut som zip-fil på nettstedet www.idrettsanlegg.no, slik at aktører utenfor departementet skal ha mulighet til å foreta egne analyser.
Hvem blir den første til å lage en applikasjon som viser nærmeste bowlinghall? Eller til å regne ut kunstgressbanetettheten? Hva annet kan disse dataene brukes til?

The Federal Government has confirmed it is considering a policy requiring Australian internet providers to retain precise data on how their users are using the internet, with the potential to include information on emails sent and — reportedly — their web browsing history.

Dei siste åra har såkalla “phishing-angrep” blitt meir og meir utbreidd. Ordet “phishing” kjem frå det engelske “fishing”, og tydar akkurat dét: Å fiske etter informasjon – ofte sensitiv informasjon – som kredittkortnummer, brukarnamn og passord.
Korleis eit tradisjonelt phishing-angrep fungerar
Ein vanleg taktikk er å sende deg ein epost, der ein utgjev seg for å vere ei teneste du brukar. PayPal er ei teneste som har blitt mykje utsatt for phishing, då brukarane ofte har kredittkorta sine lagra i systemet.
Du kan då motta ein epost kor det f.eks. står at kontoen din har blitt satt inaktiv, og at du må logge inn på nytt for å sikre at kontoen ikkje vert sletta. I eposten er det også supplert ei lenkje med teksten “Log on to your PayPal account”. Når du så trykkjer på denne lenkja blir du sendt til ei side som til forveksling er identisk med den tradisjonelle påloggingssida til PayPal. Einaste forskjellen kan vere at URL-en i adressefeltet er http://paypal2.com/ i staden for http://paypal.com/. Når du så fyller inn brukarnamn og passord, blir dette ikkje sendt til PayPal, men til fiskarane i staden.
Tabnabbing
Tabnabbing er det siste som har kome ut i frå “phishing-verda”. I staden for at du via ein epost får servert ei lenkje, utnyttar tabnabbing fiffig JavaScript-funksjonalitet som er tilstades i dei fleste av dagens nettlesarar.

Politiet skal håndheve loven, ikke forfatte den. Man må skape en balansert, demokratisk debatt, der partene møtes på like vilkår, til samme tid. For man får rett og slett ikke begge deler – både godt personvern og det totale, mest effektive systemet for politiet. Man må velge.

Yes we sell pubic lice and yes we are proud of it
We sell you crabs to give to your ex girlfriend or whoever has pissed you off enough to make you seek revenge on them.. If you want a method of revenge that doesn’t involve permanent damage or risk of personal injury or jail time, you have come to the right place.

Inaturs løsning for kjøp av fiskekort fra mobiltelefon er klar til bruk. Har du internett på mobilen og kredittkort i lomma, kan du nå kjøpe fiskekortet midt ute i naturen, uten tilgang til pc og skriver. Kvitteringen, det vil si ditt fiskekort, får du på sms.

There’s Up, there’s Shrek, and then there’s…this. It’s a bit of experimental computer animation of a cat done in Russia in 1968. The scientists who made it created hundreds of ASCII art images of the kitty, then printed them out and filmed them pose by pose.

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.

- Politiet har i dag ekstremt mange gode datakilder til rådighet. Samkjøring av registre, analyseverktøy og bedre metodebruk er veien å gå. Jeg synes det nærmest er en fallitterklæring når Politiet sier de trenger datalagringsdirektivet, sier Gottschalk.

Google truer igjen med å trekke seg ut av Kina. Nettgiganten vil gi avkall på det kinesiske markedet, hvis regjeringen i Beijing opprettholder kravet om sensur, sier en talskvinne for selskapet.
Googles stedfortredende sjefjurist Nicole Wong sa onsdag at selskapet ikke vil sensurere søk gjort av nettbrukere i Kina. Denne beslutningen ligger fast, selv om den kan få store følger, tilføyde hun under en høring i Kongressen i Washington.

Tidligere i år skrev jeg et innlegg om konspirasjonsteorier og deres tilhengere her på bloggen, med utgangspunktet i Nyhetsspeilet, en nettside som representerer noe nytt innenfor konspirasjonsteorier i Norge. Uten å gå i detaljer kan det sies at NS er profesjonelt teknisk, med en pen og "alvorlig" nettside og det er en samleside hvor mange aktørerer innen alt fra alternativ medisin til UFO-er samles og hisser hverandre opp. Det som særlig gjør at nettsiden skiller seg ut er at gruppen faktisk klarer å få medieoppmerksomhet og går til drastiske steg for å "få sannheten ut".
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Viljen til å drive kildekritikk var ikke-eksisterende, selv når åpenbare faktafeil ble utpekt og etter vaksinekaoset bestemte jeg meg for å ta en mer aktiv rolle i begivenhetene. Jeg satte på Miles Davis, fylte glasset med skotsk røykvann og begynte å hamre løs på tastaturet. Hva er den beste måten å vise at noen ikke har kildekritikk på? Gi dem noe som ikke tåler kildekritikk, og se om de sluker det. Dermed var DT født, sivilingeniør, varsler og en brikke i NWOs storspill.

Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of the more popular handsets right now. A researcher at Panda Security received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it to her PC, found that the phone was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Mariposa has been in the news of late thanks to some arrests connected to the operation of the botnet.

Selv syntes Per Morten Hoff en av verdens første elektroniske motorsykler kanskje var det mest spennende teltet hadde å by på.

Det danske turistrådet avslørte denne uken en 20 millioner kroners reklamekampanje for landet laget av Lars Von Trier.

- Von Triers evne til å arbeide med forskjellige danske temaer som voldtekt, incest og sivilisasjonens iboende ondskap, gjør ham til en nasjonalskatt, sier Ghita Hjalmar i Dansk Turistråd til Kanal 4.

Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website via a page on Google.com titled Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser:

Pennsylvania parents are suing their son's school, alleging it watched him through his laptop's webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being observed. Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley are suing the Lower Merion School District, its board of directors and the superintendent. The parents allege the district unlawfully used its ability to access a webcam remotely on their son's district-issued laptop computer.

This pithy and funny chart does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of "business model" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online. I rip all my kid's DVDs (not least because she has a tendency to scratch them to hell), and the difference between firing up a movie on a laptop and it just starting versus trying to explain to a toddler why Daddy has to spend five minutes pressing next-next-next menu-menu-menu is enormous. I think it all comes down to the stuff in the DVD-CCA spec that allows DVD creators to flag sequences as unskippable: that's such an attractive nuisance, it's bound to attract every hard-sell marketer and power-tripping fool in any media company, who will eventually colonize it with so much crapola that it comes just short of destroying the possibility that anyone will voluntarily pay for the product. (Be sure to click below for the whole thing)

Hvorfor bør jeg gjøre som i denne guiden?
Mailene dine blir lettere å lese, og det er mindre rom for tvil om hva du egentlig skriver. Det betyr enkelt og greit at folk bruker mindre energi på å forstå deg, og det blir lettere å ta deg alvorlig.

A lot of commercial software comes with H.264 encoders and decoders, and some computers arrive with this software preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they like. Unfortunately for them, it ain’t so.

Over the past few months we've received a lot of great feedback from our developers about what they wanted to see in the Google Analytics API, and it included adding access to Google Analytics newest and most powerful features, such as advanced segments, custom variables and more. Today we want to let you know about improvements to the Google Analytics Data Export API-

A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs and other sources and create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set.
Google has just announced it's releasing an API for Fusion Tables. The API integrates with Google Maps, App Engine, Base Data and Visualizations APIs, as well, to allow for motion charts, timelines, graphs and maps with all the data available and running on Google's infrastructure. The API allows users to upload data from any source, from text files to full databases, and see their data merged and compared in cool visualizations. Surprisingly, that's not even the best part.

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The system is called 3-D Secure (3DS) but known better under the names Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode. Implemented and paid for by e-commerce vendors, the systems require a person to enter a password or portions of a password to complete an on-line purchase.

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Dersom vi hadde overvåket alle hjem, kunne vi avverget de aller fleste overgrep mot barn og partnere. Opptakene kunne lagres og kun benyttes hvis det senere oppsto mistanke.

Win3.11, emulert med HTML of CSS

Det foreslås en glidende overgang fra dagens valgsystem (bildet) til elektronisk stemmegivning.
Risikoen for juks må være på et akseptabelt lavt nivå når elleve kommuner nå skal teste ut et elektronisk valgsystem.

It’s almost a decade to the day that the Year 2000 bug was supposed to cause our civilization to end in one glorious apocalypse. The Y2K bug, as you might recall, was the supposed inability of most of the mainframe backbones of our tech-oriented society to process the year 2000 as the natural successor to 1999. It’s often cited as an incident of mass hysteria, since nothing happened
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Interestingly, the year 2010 heralds a look in microcosm of what exactly might have happened if Y2K hadn’t been forecast years ahead of time. A New Year’s bug present in Australia’s Bank of Queensland credit and debit card system has caused the year to be incorrectly be reported at 2016. What that means is that millions of debit and credit cards are now worthless, since the validation system thinks they have expired.

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the criminals have taken the next step and begun setting up their own virtual data centers.

Mark Cuban, the eccentric owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, has a post in his blog this week suggesting a way to kill Google by paying the top one thousand most popular sites $1M each to leave the Google Index.

I filmen ”Minority Report” er politiet i stand til å avverge grove forbrytelser før de blir begått. Det paradoksale er at gjerningspersonene – som altså blir avbrutt i sine forsetter – likevel blir dømt. Filmen beskriver et samfunn der du kan bli dømt for et mord du aldri har begått, men som du i stedet ble forhindret i å gjennomføre.Grunnen til at dette er mulig er at politiet har tilgang på avansert teknologi som gjør det mulig – med stor treffsikkerhet – å vite om slike grove forbrytelser i forveien, slik at de kan gripe inn. Spørsmålet er da: Om vi hadde tilgang på slik teknologi ville vi gjort bruk av den i stor skala eller ville vi hatt moralske innvendinger? 

Statens kartverk kunngjorde i dag at de vil frigi kartene sine for allmenn bruk fra årskiftet. Det betyr at du og jeg kan bruke presise kart fra Statens Kartverk til å lage egne tjenester på nett.

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The CEO of Russia's No. 1 anti-virus package has said that the internet's biggest security vulnerability is anonymity, calling for mandatory internet passports that would work much like driver licenses do in the offline world.
The comments by Eugene Kaspersky, who is also the founder of Kaspersky Lab, came during an interview this week with Vivian Yeo of ZDNet Asia. In it, he proposed the formation of an internet police body that would require users everywhere to be uniquely identified.

Majestic-SEO is the worlds largest backlinks and anchor text database. Our proprietary robots have crawled over 127 billion webpages and found over 1026 billion unique links and their anchor text.This information is available in detailed reports, where links and anchor text are shown in order of importance, based on their backlinks. Each website's backlinks can all be downloaded as '.CSV' file.

Our new index exceeds 1 trln URLs thus exceeding Google's milestone!

Majestic-12 is working towards creation of a World Wide Web search engine based on concepts of distributing workload in a similar fashion achieved by successful projects such as SETI@home and distributed.net. You can read more details on the project here.

I believe this is partly Google’s fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. But Wave is not a geek/hacker tool, or a social media tool, it’s a corporate tool that solves work problems (more on that later). On the other hand, they never claimed it would be a Facebook replacement or a Twitter killer. Google calls wave an “online tool for real-time communication and collaboration”. The way Google should have advertised Wave is: “it solves the problems with email”.