(TELEGRAPH) – Burglars are increasingly using Twitter and Facebook to find out if potential victims have left their homes empty. via Telegraph.

(FOX NEWS) — /snip/ “Our world is becoming instrumented,” IBM’s chairman and CEO, Samuel J. Palmisano said at an industry conference last week. “Today, there are nearly a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten-millionth of a cent. There are 30 billion radio RFID tags produced globally.” Having one in every person could [...]

(ARS TECHNICA) — When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device’s ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content–but several research projects suffered collateral damage. via ars techinica

(GIZMODO) — Confirmed: a bad McAfee update for Windows XP has shut down thousands, possibly millions, of computers around the world. That's big trouble. UPDATED: Twitter has been buzzing with the news this afternoon that McAfee updates were shutting down XP PCs, and we've heard that California sent out an email to state workers a [...]

PID COMMENT: Huh? How is Israel’s ‘wi-fi standard’ any different from that used by the rest of the world? Ok, color us confused. (FINANCIAL TIMES) — Israel has officially banned any iPads being imported from the US from entering the country, threatening to confiscate the newly launched tablet from passengers at airports. A spokesman for [...]

(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) — The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. via Lawyer: Laptops [...]

(FOX NEWS) — The six-million dollar man was pure fantasy in the 70s — but largely realistic technology today. And the future of this tech is even wilder: Implantable brain electrodes may be just around the corner. Futurists and science-fiction writers have long speculated about merging human and machine, especially human brains and computers. These [...]

(Homeland Security News Wire) — Since her appointment as DARPA chief last June, Regina Dugan has kept a low profile, at least compared to long-serving predecessor Tony Tether. Now, a year later, Dugan is finally talking. In a statement to the House Armed Service Committee’s panel on terrorism, unconventional threats and capabilities, Dugan outlined her [...]

(DIGITS BLOG) — The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks. It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program [...]

(Google Blog) – As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses–including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors–have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities. [...]

(Yahoo! Games) – “We received information that this guy was a regular player of an online game, which was referred to as ‘some warlock and witches’ game,” he told The Perspective. “None of that information was sound enough to pursue on its own, but putting everything we had together gave me enough evidence to send [...]

(BBCNEWS — Twitter has been hit by an embarrassing security breach. A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried out by getting at the servers that tell web browsers where to find particular sites. [...]

(NPR) – The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. via NPR.

(BBC NEWS) Nov 17, 2009 — /SNIP/ “There are at least five countries known to be arming themselves for this kind of conflict,” said Greg Day, primary analyst for security at McAfee Europe. The UK, Germany, France, China and North Korea are known to be developing their own capabilities. The US is known to have [...]