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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is warning employees that their personal details might have been compromised after a laptop was stolen from a staffer’s locked car. The stolen device contains records of personally identifiable information for numerous employees, contractors and “others.” The laptop is password protected, but because there’s no disk encryption system set in place, the chances for the information stored on it to be misused are fairly high. “The Administrator is extremely concerned about this incident and has directed that all IT security issues be given the highest priority. NASA is taking immediate steps to prevent future occurrences of PII data loss,” reads the notice sent by Richard J. Keegan Jr., associate deputy administrator, to employees. More at softpedia by @EduardKovacs  

Un aisberg urias s-a desprins din banchiza Groelandei. Potrivit NASA, care a surprins imaginea din satelit, ghetarul are o suprafata de 250 de kilomentri patrati, de doua ori mai mult decat Manhattan-ul. Desprinderea ghetarului este un efect al incalzirii globale, potrivit specialistilor. In mai 2010 din aceeasi zona a banchizei s-a desprins un aisberg de doua ori mai mare. Fragmente din acel ghetar plutesc si acum in deriva in largul Canadei. Icebergul depaseste in dimensiuni suprafata municipiului Bucuresti care masoara 228 de kilometri patrati. Totusi, cercetatorii sunt ingrijorati de faptul ca nu mai putem vorbi de un proces natural. "Avem date din ultimii 150 de ani si schimbari ca acum n-am mai vazut niciodata. E dramatic" spune profesorul Andreas Muenchow de la Universitatea din Delaware. "E una dintre dovezile ca Groenlanda se schimba foarte rapid". Un iceberg desprins dintr-un ghetar nu e ceva neobisnuit, dar modul in care acest lucru s-...

Two of the 10 organizations listed in a recent hack attack have confirmed the alleged security breaches. Furthermore, the “new” hacker group The Unknowns behind the attack says many of the systems have now been patched, which was supposedly their goal. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed they were recently hacked. The hacking group The Unknowns says most of the 10 companies it attacked have patched their systems. Earlier this week, The Unknowns claimed to have hacked 10 organizations around the world, gaining administrator access for all and leaking data for some . In addition to revealing how to access the computer systems of the organizations in question, The Unknowns also posted screenshots showing they gained accessed to each and every one. The group even put together 250MB worth of military documents from their hacks and uploaded the collection to MediaFire. Some of the leaked documents were sever...

A hacker collective called “The Unknowns” has published a Pastebin document that allegedly proves they managed to gain unauthorized access to a number of high profile websites. The list of targets includes the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, Thai Royal Navy, a subdomain owned by car manufacturer Renault, Harvard University, French Ministry of Defense, Jordanian Yellow Pages, European Space Agency (ESA), US Military’s Joint Pathology Center, NASA’s Glenn Research Center and the US Air Force. The Pastebin post was made public on May 1, but some of the hacks seem to date as far back as March 2012. “Victims, we have released some of your documents and data, we probably harmed you a bit but that's not really our goal because if it was then all of your websites would be completely defaced but we know that within a week or two, the vulnerabilities we found will be patched and that's what we're actually looking for,” the hackers wrote. “We're ready to give yo...

NASA subdomain Air Traffic Conflict Resolutions was hacked by Black_J3StEr and s3rver.exe. http://pastebin.com/nNesVgMC Target : http://airtrafficconflictresolutions.arc.nasa.gov   Login's :   aces:7F3BDD458660D5F210A2C84A077F57BC35C30E7C root:93D39C4BA64748FD2879D8318E3DD677CFAE8D5B aces:463714894F190561266EDBC877054AA87CE844F0 download:EEF5658178E95F518EB0A192ED4B96E615B27EA2 mosaic:3755C52D6FED783387AD3AC23FD98F8F9B8B0747 root:3755C52D6FED783387AD3AC23FD98F8F9B8B0747 ups:3755C52D6FED783387AD3AC23FD98F8F9B8B0747   database management system users [89]: [*] 'mosaic'@'mandalay.arc.nasa.gov' [*] 'root'@'localhost' [*] 'root'@'mandalay.arc.nasa.gov' [*] 'ups'@'mandalay.arc.nasa.gov'     [*] aac_comment_list [*] aac_database_master_list [*] ctas_ZAB_TFAS [*] ctas_ZDV_TFAS [*] ctas_ZFW_DFW [*] ctas_ZID_SDF [*] ctas_ZKC_TFAS [*] informat...

Un hacker de 20 de ani din Timişoara este anchetat de DIICOT pentru că a spart serverele NASA, Pentagonului şi Guvernului SUA. Google l-a premiat! Procurorii DIICOT îl cercetează penal pe un tânăr de 20 de ani din Timişoara, pentru că acesta a lansat atacuri informatice şi a accesat fără drept servere ale Armatei SUA, ale NASA, Guvernului SUA şi ale Pentagonului. Hackerul, pe nume Răzvan Manole Cernăcianu, este student la facultatea de Informatică din Timişoara, el fiind identificat de autorităţile judiciare americane, împreună cu cele române, ca hackerul TinKode, au precizat surse judiciare pentru Mediafax. Tânărul a copiat şi a transferat pe propriul calculator mai multe fişiere cu date confidenţiale ale Armatei SUA, apoi le-a postat pe blogul personal şi pe un site de internet. Timişoreanul a conceput o aplicaţie informatică prin care serverele instituţiilor americane puteau fi accesate, pe care a şi vândut-o altora prin intermediul paginii personale de internet. Totodată...