You Can Buy Illegal Access to U.S. Military Websites for $500 [Hackers]
Want full control of a military website? A hacker is selling it for just $499 through an online store. You can take over cecom.army.mil, among a number of other sensitive websites. Here’s the full list, found by Krebs on Security. More »
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Wikileaks Readies Biggest-Ever Leak of Military Intelligence [Revelations]
Secret-sharing website Wikileaks is preparing the “‘biggest leak of military intelligence’ that has ever occurred”—three times larger than the cache leaked by the site in July. What’s in it? More terrible revelations about “abusive treatment of detainees,” apparently. More »
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Military Nerds Put Our Nation at Risk By Befriending Hot Girls on Facebook [Nerds]
Nerds never change. If they get a friend request from a hot girl on a social-networking site, they’ll always accept. Even if they happen to be military or intelligence personnel. One security expert proved this with an experiment. More »
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Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and shoot U.S. troops in Afghanistan.