Cyber Attacks In The U.S. Jumped By 52 Percent In 2012

Cyber vulnerabilities around the U.S. (Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

DHS: Cyber Attacks Against U.S. Infrastructure Increased by 52 Percent in 2012 -- Daily Tech

There were 198 attacks out-and-out
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported to facilitate the total of cyber attacks launched not in favor of U.S. Infrastructure in 2012 increased by larger than 50 percent, and larger than 7,000 recipe work control systems are vulnerable to attack. According to the DHS inform, the total of cyber attacks in the U.S. Jumped by 52 percent in 2012. There were 198 attacks out-and-out, and a quantity of were winning. 

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My Comment: We are not told who was successful attacked.

The Role Of Soot In Climate Change

The burning of wood is a major source of black carbon the world over. 

Climate Change: Soot's Role Underestimated, Says Study -- BBC 

Black carbon, or stain, is making a much better contribution to comprehensive warming than previously recognised, according to delve into.

Scientists say to facilitate particles from diesel engines and wood burning can be having twice as much warming effect as assessed in precedent estimates.

They say it ranks support single to carbon dioxide as the for the most part central climate-warming agent. The delve into is in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.

Black carbon aerosols own been branded to passionate the air representing many years by absorbing sunlight. They furthermore zoom the melting of ice and snow.

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My Comment: Outlawing and/or limiting fireplaces is not going to make much headway .... especially for those who live in cold climates.

Germany Unveils It's Own Star Wars Laser

The system is currently mounted of a series of large metal containers. However, the firm is developing a smaller, portable version that could easily be transported to the battlefront. 

Germans Unveil 'Star Wars' Laser That Can Shoot A Drone Out Of The Sky From TWO MILES Away And Cut Through A Steel Girder At 700 Yards -- Daily Mail 

* High powered laser is powerful an adequate amount to slice through a steel girder from 1km away

* System is so accurate it can track and extinguish an 82mm globe effect designed to repeat a mortar surrounding

* German solidify hopes to create a portable version to facilitate can be used on the battlefield

One of the for the most part powerful laser weapons still fired has successfully shot drones improbable of the sky from two miles away.

The revolutionary bludgeon uses a high spot powered 50kW laser, and is powerful an adequate amount to slice through a steel girder from 1km away, yet accurate an adequate amount to thump a target the size of a mortar surrounding.
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My Comment: And this is only the first generation .... makes you wonder what is next.

Iran Has Enhanced It's Cyber Capabilities

Photo: General William Shelton, Current Commander, Air Force Space Command. Wikipedia

Iran Strengthened Cyber Capabilities After Stuxnet: U.S. General -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Iran responded to a 2010 cyber attack on its nuclear facilities by beefing up its own cyber capabilities, and will be a "force to be reckoned with" in the upcoming, a senior U.S. Air Force endorsed told reporters on Thursday.

General William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space Command and oversees the Air Force's cyber operations, declined to comment around Iran's capability to disrupt U.S. Government notebook networks, but held Tehran had visibly increased its hard work in to facilitate arena in the same way as the 2010 fight.

While rejection government has taken conscientiousness representing the Stuxnet notebook virus to facilitate destroyed centrifuges next to Iran's Natanz uranium enhancement resource, it was widely reported to own been a U.S.-Israeli project. 
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Update #1: Iran’s Cyber Threat Potential Great, U.S. General Says -- Bloomberg  
Update #2: Iran beefed up cyber capabilities after Stuxnet: US general -- NBC  

My Comment: I guess this explains why U.S. banks are now worried about their own cyber security.

Flickr Celebrates Fifth Birthday With Its Most Viewed Images

Among the eye-catching images in the Flickr Commons collection is this iconic photo of Winston Churchill with President Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference during WWII 

The Pictures We Love Best: Flickr Celebrates Fifth Birthday With Its Most Viewed Images -- Daily Mail 

* Flickr dining room celebrates fifth anniversary of 'public domain' collection

* inscription event by presentation sour its for the most part viewed and commented on pictures

* Images range from famous historic photographs to special pictures

It skin tone everything from iconic images of a quantity of of the for the most part famous information in history to uplifting undisclosed pictures of ordinary fill with and animals simply posing up representing the camera.

Flickr dining room has celebrated its fifth anniversary by presentation sour a collection of its for the most part viewed and commented on photographs, as well as a picture of Winston Churchill next to a summit of Allied leaders at some point in WWII and a photograph of a black dog smoking a pipe in Wales.

The website's collection of 'public domain' photographs was chief launched on January 16, 2008 with 1,500 pictures, and has stretched swiftly since, promptly featuring more than 250,000.

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My Comment: A lot of familiar pics here.