A Clinton Campaign Aide’s Typo Allowed Hackers To Access John Podesta’s Email Account

A Clinton campaign aide says that a typo in a March 19 email sent to John Podesta is to blame for opening the campaign chairman's Gmail account up to Russian cyber hackers. The IT aide, Charles Delavan, tells The New York Times that his error - typing the word "legitimate" instead of "illegitimate" to describe a hacker's email - continues to haunt him.

US Court of Appeals: States and counties can ban GMO crops despite federal laws

The entire organic community of the United States just won a massive victory that many may not yet even realize. Even though the DARK Act was passed by Obama and some Senate goons to prohibit labeling of GMOs nationwide, the US Court of Appeals just passed a law that enables states and counties to completely ban genetically engineered crops from ever being planted in the first place.

U.S. Senate To Probe Alleged Russian Hacking To Help Trump Win Presidency

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has announced an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee into a CIA assessment that Russia's government used hackers to try to help Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the presidency. Speaking to reporters on December 12, McConnell said "Russians are not our friends" and condemned possible Russian hacking into computers of the Democratic National Committee and other "U.S. political organizations."

Sam Asano’s Let’s Invent: Before you develop your invention, ask yourself: ‘Who needs it?’

PlaneSense Inc. in Portsmouth plans to obtain six new jets that will allow business and leisure fliers to travel faster and land on shorter and unimproved runways, saving them time in reaching their... The majority of requests for consultation on inventions I receive from amateur inventors take an almost identical form: "I have an invention, which ... (more)

Obama Orders – Full Review’ of Rumored Cyber Attacks on 2016 Election

As one of his last acts in office, President Barack Obama has ordered a "full review" of supposed cyber attacks on the 2016 election, despite the fact that there is no proof that any occurred. Obama has ordered the nation's intelligence agencies to conduct this review and report back to him before he leaves office on January 20. "The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress," Obama's homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, said at an event on Friday.

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Russian space cargo ship destroyed

An unmanned Russian cargo ship loaded with more than 2.5 tonnes of food and supplies for the International Space Station has broken apart about six minutes after lift-off, Russia's space agency Roscosmos says. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned on Thursday morning, a NASA TV broadcast showed.

Bullen Ultrasonics Achieves AS9100 Quality Management Certification for the Aerospace Industry

"Our commitment to adhere to AS9100, the strictest of quality standards for the aerospace industry, will further propel the growth of our machining services for ceramic matrix composites." - Tim Beatty, president of Bullen Ultrasonics Bullen Ultrasonics , a globally recognized pioneer and leader in ultrasonic machining, announced today its achievement of certification to the aerospace industry's AS9100 quality management standard.

Updated Intel Bill Mandates FBI Report on Cyber Recruiting

An updated draft of a must-pass intelligence policy bill released Tuesday includes a mandate for the FBI to report on efforts to integrate cyber expertise into its investigations. The report, due to congressional intelligence committees in six months, should include clear benchmarks about efforts to recruit and retain agents with skills in encryption, cryptography and big data analytics, according to the draft Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 released by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

iPhone Call History Saved to iCloud

Apple customers can sync a lot of the data on their devices to iCloud, but some information is being backed up in a way they might not be aware of and can't control: their iPhone call logs. Moscow-based digital forensics firm ElcomSoft reported yesterday that it discovered Apple was automatically uploading iPhone call logs into iCloud for users running iOS 8 and up on their devices.

Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update]

Reader Bruha writes: After examining results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin computer scientists have discovered Clinton averaged 7% worse in counties with e voting machines vs. counties with only paper or optical scan ballots. From a CNN report: The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday .

Clinton campaign urged to challenge election results’

In a new twist in the US Elections, a number of top computer scientists are urging Hillary Clinton's campaign for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request, reports CNN. The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday, according to CNN.

As Trump Era Dawns, China Moves to Fill Global Leadership Vacuum

China is moving after Donald Trump's election win to claim the mantle of the world's champion of free trade and the fight against climate change, prompting a melancholy warning from President Barack Obama that the U.S. risks getting left behind in Asia. Obama met in Peru on Sunday with leaders of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that Trump vowed to kill on the campaign trail along with the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.