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Despite New Policy, Pentagon Still Wary of the Tubes (208 diggs) The Pentagon last week issued a new open door policy on social media last week. So how did an Air Force network administrator find out about the change? Not through their chain of command, but by reading about it on Danger Room.

11 More U.S. Airports Get Body Scanners (384 diggs) Despite concerns of privacy and their effectiveness, 11 more airports are to get 150 full-body imaging machines beginning Monday at Boston’s Logan International Airport, and one at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. In all, 30 U.S. airports will employ the scanning devices...

Is chasing cybercrooks worth it? (200 diggs) Why it's not worth our time to go after these internet criminals.

Dr. Drew's Cyber-Spies Bust Alleged Stalker (238 diggs) Dr. Drew Pinsky hired a team of cyber security experts to monitor an alleged stalker -- and they're the ones who blew the whistle on the guy's whereabouts.

Spanish police smash huge botnet (290 diggs) The Spanish police arrest three criminals responsible for one of the world's biggest networks of infected computers.

U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan (421 diggs) The Obama administration declassified part of the government’s cybersecurity plan, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the government’s role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassified portion of the plan includes information on the deployment of Einstein 2 and Einstein 3...

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet (751 diggs) The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese hackers or greedy anti-net neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, former director of national intelligence. McConnell is the nice-seeming guy who is willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy for his own ends, And now he says we need to re-engineer the 'net.

Wiseguy Ticketmaster.com Scam Netted Hackers $25M (357 diggs) Four partners in Wiseguy Tickets and Seats were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of reaping $25 million reselling premium tickets to concerts and sporting events by hacking into online vendor Ticketmaster.com. The four men resold 1.5 million tickets for events featuring Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and Hannah Montana.

Can Adobe Stop the Hate? (318 diggs) At this week's RSA security conference, Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe Systems, will spend a lot of time with Adobe customers, explaining what the company is doing to improve security. He sat down with CSOonline.com a couple days before the start of RSA to offer a preview of what he'll discuss.

New materials could lead to super crypto chips (246 diggs) Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as well as contribute to the discovery of materials that expand the capacity of electronic storage devices by 1,000 to 1 million times

School Administrator Boasts to PBS About His Laptop Spying (793 diggs) This is pretty amazing footage -- especially (as Scott notes) the absence of any questions about student privacy from the interviewer.

EFF Win: Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists (395 diggs) The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government's security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. This and other intelligence activity disclosures appear in 800 pages of heavily redacted documents released to the EFF...

Cellphones, Privacy, and Data Leaks (Infographic) (358 diggs) How worried should you be about your cell phone service becoming a privacy issue? While data leaks were primarily a computer concern in the past, several large national cell phone service providers have experienced data breaches that exposed customers’ private information.

Are Hollywood Hackers Bogus or Bright? (335 diggs) After studying 50 films, a researcher says that most movies portray hackers pretty accurately.

FTC: Identity Theft No. 1 Consumer Complaint (309 diggs) Are you really you? It's hard to say. That's because identity theft was the top consumer complaint for 2009, the Federal Trade Commission reported.

BUSTED! Google Hackers Linked To Chinese Government (1,546 diggs) US analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical programming code used in the alleged state-sponsored hacking attacks on Google and other western companies, making it far harder for the Chinese government to deny involvement...

‘Sophisticated’ Hack Hit Intel (409 diggs) Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted.The giant chip maker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but said there was no evidence to tie its hack to the attack...

How rootkits are threatening smartphone security (292 diggs) Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security threat can now attack new generations of smart mobile devices. Coming up with a defense is next on the agenda

U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack (509 diggs) U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as something he was “working on”...

Please Rob Me (1983) (496 diggs) Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me? The more things change ...

Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers (524 diggs) If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, you may be in for an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris -- the Chuck Norris botnet, that is. Discovered by Czech researchers, the botnet has been spreading by taking advantage of poorly configured routers and DSL modems.

Twitter Phishing Attack Spreading via Direct Message WARNING (369 diggs) A Twitter phishing attack is spreading rapidly today, attempting to obtain Twitter logins via Direct Messages. If you receive a message reading “lol, is this you”, and linking to a site called “bzpharma”, do not click the link.

TX Plane Crash Exposes Gap in U.S. Air Security (351 diggs) After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. Yet little has been done to guard against attacks with smaller planes

College IT Analyst Charged w/ Blackmail over music Downloads (293 diggs) He caught a student downloading copyrighted music at the University of Georgia. But instead of ratting the kid, Dorin Dehelean wanted a bribe to make it go away.

U.S. Intel Wants Super-Sensitive Human Lie-Detectors (251 diggs) The U.S. intelligence community wants to master the art of BS-detection. But instead of improving on pre-existing methods, like polygraph tests or voice stress analysis, they want to amplify our own, intuitive, “pre-conscious human assessment of trustworthiness.”