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PATROL BASE 7171, Helmand province, Afghanistan in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

PATROL BASE 7171, Helmand province, Afghanistan – Infantry Marines deployed to Afghanistan endure trials that Americans unfamiliar with military life cannot begin to fathom. Inclement weather, insatiable hunger, perpetual fatigue and direct combat with enemy forces are challenges frequently confronting the infantryman because he regularly operates in austere, hostile conditions. The infantry Marine in Afghanistan, commonly 18 years old and fresh out of high school, is often significantl

Reply to Lawmakers quiz Apple, Google about location tracking. in Mobile Tech JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Jafo" comment="1"]IDG News Service - Minnesota Senator Al Franken and the attorney general of Illinois have separately pressed Apple and Google to provide more information about the location data they collect about their end users.The requests from Franken and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan follow recent reports that Google and Apple have been collecting data about the location of Android and iPhone users without their permission.While both companies ask permission before

Three indicted for PC exports to Iran. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Three individuals have been recently indicted on charges of illegally exporting millions of dollars worth of computer-related equipment from the United States to Iran via the United Arab Emirates, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Electronic Engineering Times reported April 2

Sony unsure if PlayStation Network user data was stolen. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Sony has yet to determine if customers’ personal information and credit card details have been stolen as part of an external intrusion into its system that has left its PlayStation network inaccessible for 5 days. "Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network i

DHS chief: What we learned from Stuxnet. in Internet JoeUser Forums

If there is a lesson to be learned from 2010’s Stuxnet worm, it is the private sector must be able to respond quickly to cyber-emergencies, the head of DHS said April 25. <span style="font-fa

Lawmakers quiz Apple, Google about location tracking. in Mobile Tech JoeUser Forums

A U.S. Senator from Minnesota and the attorney general of Illinois have separately pressed Apple and Google to provide more information about the location data they collect about their end users. The requests from the politicians follow recent reports Google and Apple have been collecting data about the location of Android and iPhone users without their permission. While both

Today throughout Afghanistan in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases Afghan and coalition forces detained several suspected insurgents yesterday in the Sayyidabad district of Afghanistan’s Wardak province, officials said. Troops were searching for a Taliban leader responsible for planting roadside bombs to target security forces traveling al

Three Mile Island fuel modules at DOE facility cracking!!! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility storing melted fuel from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant has not done enough to address crumbling concrete modules encasing the radioactive material, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a letter made public April 15. The 30 dry shielded canisters at the DOE facility

Wind power company sees no evidence of reported hack. in Internet JoeUser Forums

One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the company that runs the turbines said it has seen no evidence of a computer intrusion. The hacker, who calls himself Bigr R, made the claims April 16, posting screenshots of the facility‘s management interface, screenshots of an FTP server and project management system, as wel

Reply to Feds take ‘Coreflood Botnet’: ‘Zombie’ army may have infected 2 Million computers, stolen hundreds of millions of dollars. in Internet JoeUser Forums

[quote who="DaveRI" comment="3"]DrJBHLreply 1If you get an email from your ISP concerning this, do as it describes,Problem is that I'd figure it was a fake and delete it without reading it.[/quote] Thats exactly what I was thinking also! One will have to know about this exploit to know to maybe expect an e-mail. It will be hard to convince those that are security minded to even read the e-mail. But since most people are not that careful, it will probably work for the majority. ;P

Malware writers making code tougher to decode, harder to find. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Decoding the methods in malicious code is becoming more difficult, according to reverse-engineering experts. Attacks no longer scramble simple function names, but encrypt entire blocks of code. Attackers use obfuscation to make it harder to analyze malicious software and stymie security tools

Malware installs rogue apps on compromised Facebook accounts. in Internet JoeUser Forums

A new piece of malware being distributed by Sality uses stolen Facebook credentials to surreptitiously install rogue apps under the corresponding profiles. Sality is the world‘s top file infecting malware and dates back to 2003. The threat has evolved over the years and was fitted with

European Space Agency Web site hacked. in Internet JoeUser Forums

The Web site of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been hacked into and a list of FTP accounts, as well as email addresses and passwords for administrators and editors have been leaked. The www(dot)esa(dot)int Web server was compromised by a well-known Romanian grey hat hacker who uses the o

Just to bring you all up to date.. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Well as many of you old timers here know, and some may not but will now, I run a YouTube Channel called "3rdID8487" and I post videos from the DoD, DVIDS, CENTCOM, NATO and the Pentagon and make a few of my own from materials I get from them. I of course got written permission from all of those first (That was interesting and a story in itself!). Well it started out small and I thought that even if one or two people a day looked at the videos I would be happy. Wow how could I have known what

Feds take ‘Coreflood Botnet’: ‘Zombie’ army may have infected 2 Million computers, stolen hundreds of millions of dollars. in Internet JoeUser Forums

The FBI and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) said April 13 they have disabled a "botnet" of more than 2 million computers infected with malicious code that Eastern European cyber criminals may have used to drain millions of dollars from bank accounts around the world. U.S. authorities contin

ZeuS bot herder taunts security researchers through fake digital certificate. in Internet JoeUser Forums

A recently identified ZeuS trojan sample is digitally signed with a fake certificate whose purpose is to make the piece of malware harder to detect. According to security experts from Avira who discovered the sample, the digital certificate is signed by an entity called "DetectMe :)" and date

Hackers gain root access to WordPress servers. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Hackers have compromised several servers that support WordPress and may have obtained source code, according to the founding developer of Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform. He wrote on the WordPress blog that Automattic has been reviewing log records to determine ho

Hope you don't live in Texas!! in Internet JoeUser Forums

Texas exposes addresses, SSNs of 3.5 million residents. The state of Texas revealed April 11 that personal information for 3.5 million citizens has been exposed to the public, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and more. Accor

Facebook fixes bug affecting Hotmail users. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Facebook has fixed a bug in the site’s password reset feature that could have been exploited to expose passwords of a small number of users who also use Hotmail. "We can access password of any facebook user who uses hotmail email address as their facebook account," a Turkish security researcher wrote in an e-mail to CNET the weekend of Apri

Yahoo! allows users to monitor account login activity. in Internet JoeUser Forums

Yahoo! has introduced a new feature that allows users to review their account’s log-in history for strange activity and signs of possible compromise. E-mail accounts are valuable for cyber criminals and can be compromised in a variety of ways, including via keyloggers or phishing. Since storage space is no longer a major issue, a lot of people fail to delete old e-ma

Yesterday was not a good day for IT Infrastructure in Internet JoeUser Forums

Solo Iranian hacker takes credit for Comodo certificate attack. A solo Iranian hacker March 26 claimed responsibility for stealing multiple SSL certificates belonging to several Web sites, including Google, Microsoft, Skype, and Yahoo. Early reaction from security experts was mixed, with some believing the hacker’s claim, while others were dubious. During the week of March

Spoofed reported attack pages lead to ransomware. in Internet JoeUser Forums

This is interesting, having your own computer held hostage, remotely. A recent malicious campaign spotted by GFI researchers uses a variation of spoofed reported attack pages, which spurs users to install an "update" for Internet Explorer. The offered update is fake and the downloaded code actually locks the user out of his/her PC and plasters a warning across the the screen telling him/her that 19 "unlicensed software, movies and music" files have

Taiwanese semiconductor firms face supply shortages in Japan. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Taiwan’s major semiconductor manufacturers, a crucial link in the global tech supply chain, scrambled March 14 to gauge how their access to raw materials from Japanese suppliers will be affected by the powerful earthquake in Japan. United Microelectronics, ProMOS Technologies, and other companies said they were unsure how long inventories of wafer stock such as silicon would last and how disruptions in transportation o

Two Contractors Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter for Death of Afghan National in Kabul, Afghanistan in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

March 12th, 2011 - WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Norfolk, Va., today convicted Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va., of involuntary manslaughter while working as contractors for the U.S. Department of Defense in Afghanistan. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Divi

Reply to A historic day and Afghanistan Army history! in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="1"]Will a single Army unit may not seem It does seem to be much when you understand (as you do) the significance of the milestone! May it be the first of many![/quote] Thanks Dr. Guy, I fixed it...