Low Orbit Server Stations

File sharing has been seeing a lot of legal action taken against in in the past few months. Kim Dotcom of Megaupload was arrested and many other bit torrent websites suffer federal investigation daily. The Pirate Bay is the most widely known file sharing website and is often times one of the biggest targets on the Federal radar. Legal precedents are evolving in order to combat the file sharing age, but a majority of the sites still remain. The site operators are constantly evolving themselves in order to keep their website and technological ideals standing strong. Just yesterday TPB posted on their blog about a new concept called LOSS, Low Orbit Server Stations. The underlying plan for these server drones is to host their content in the sky and not on land. This they believe will force the Feds to have to take down the plane which would be an act of war. This is an interesting and daring concept but will the tech to pull 100Mbps wirelessly from over 50 km away, its not too far fetched. So perhaps in the next few months we will be browsing sites that are quite literally hosted in “the cloud.”

http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/pirate-bay-plans-low-orbit-server.html

NSA opening center in HAWAii !!

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE

Everyone is talking about the NSA Spy Lab in Utah.

http://rt.com/news/utah-data-center-spy-789/

but.... the I want to work in in Hawaii!

NSA/CSS Unveils New Hawaii Center which is designed to boost intelligence integration and collaboration.

PRESS RELEASE: 6 January 2012

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2012/a4_hawaii_final.shtml

Sabu, Traitor or Hero

Sabu has been recognized as one of the leading members and contributors to both LulzsSec and Anonymous. He's an icon to many hackers for the numerous justified hacks he performed for a variety of popularly favored motives. However, it has been released today that Sabu had been caught by the Feds months ago and was now aiding them in the take down of the remaining LulzSec leaders. 5 were charged in the LulzSec conspiracy indictment ranging anywhere from Chicago to London. This was definitley a major win for the Feds, but how will Sabu's image change? He was a leading icon for both major hacker groups and now a traitor in the eyes of many of his online followers. He seemed to be fighting to save his own behind from long jail time, but in turn sacrificed many talented minds that help keep the world's enemy's in check. His twitter has yet to provide any comment on the topic.
The article is below for your personal reading and judgment.

http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/anonymous-sabu-was-working-for-fbi-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Daily+Cyber+News+Updates%29

UAT warmly welcomes Ward Cunningham

UAT warmly welcomes Ward Cunningham – Inventor of the Wiki

I am most excited for the events tomorrow as Mr. Cunningham visit UAT. I need some CyberSec students to make sure he gets to see our cave.

Mr. Cunningham will be in the theater at UAT from 2:30pm to 4:30pm on Wednesday March 7th .
Come out to see him talk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

Evil Gooey Mirco Brownie

Evil Gooey Mirco Brownie

In a 12 oz coffee mug whisk together:

2 T Vegetable oil

2 T Water or coffee

1/4 tsp. Vanilla extract

Add and whisk:

dash salt

2T Unsweetened cocoa powder or hot chocolate mix

2 - 4T Granulated sugar

4T Flour

Microwave for 45 - 70 seconds makes a molten evil gooey brownie. Center should be molten.

Enjoy with a spoon and a scoop of ice cream. Warning: Brownie will be HOT!

Crowd Sourced Pentesting

Google is hosting its Pwn2Own competition again and offering 1 million dollars in total prizes for those that can remotely commandeer a full patched Chrome browser running on Windows 7. Finding a "Full Chrome Exploit," obtaining user account persistence using only bugs in the browser itself will net the $60k prize. Using webkits, flash, or a driver-based exploit can only earn the lesser amounts.

Without major flaws the Chrome developers have a harder time finding where the browser needs to be improved. It is a pretty cool concept and opportunity. Not only are they open to anyone taking a stab at their browser, they'll reward you hansomly as well. Not to mention it would be a great bullet point on a resume ;)

source:
http://thehackernews.com/2012/02/60000-for-exploiting-google-chrome.html

CDFAE

The DoD CyberCrime Center is creating a institutional certification much like the CAE/IA. The

National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence Program

is affectionately known as CDFAE (C D Fay). UAT is exploring this as a forensic credential. Check out the mission and the website at:

Develop a partnership between academia and the government to establish standards and best practices for digital forensics practitioners, educators, and researchers to advance the discipline of Digital Forensics and increase the number of qualified professionals to meet the needs of law enforcement, counterintelligence, national defense and legal communities.

http://www.dc3.mil/cdfae/