Daily Archives: 22. November 2013


22.11.2013 - 20:17 [ Science Magazin ]

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

These 28 events, which include the highest energy neutrinos ever observed, have flavors, directions, and energies inconsistent with those expected from the atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. These properties are, however, consistent with generic predictions for an additional component of extraterrestrial origin.

22.11.2013 - 19:37 [ Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung CERN ]

Probe of the Solar Magnetic Field Using the “Cosmic-Ray Shadow” of the Sun

The Sun with an optical diameter of about 0.5 ◦ viewed from Earth blocks cosmic rays coming from the direction of the Sun and casts a shadow in the cosmic-ray intensity, which is possibly influenced by the solar magnetic field. The Tibet air shower (AS) experiment has been successfully observing the Sun’s shadow at TeV energies and has confirmed, for the first time, the effect of the solar magnetic field on the shadow.

22.11.2013 - 18:00 [ International Business Times ]

The Man In The Middle Is Spying On You: How The NSA And Hackers Hijack Your Internet

While partnerships with companies like Verizon have been documented, the NSA and the UK’s equivalent GCHQ are even using MITM attacks against huge companies like Google, “the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and SWIFT, a financial cooperative that connects thousands of banks and is supposed to help ‘securely’ facilitate banking transactions made between more than 200 countries,” according to Renesys.

22.11.2013 - 17:25 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

Greeks get more and more frustrated and aggressive

Things are worse in winter when days are shorter, temperatures colder and skies cloudier. Frustration in all shades of grey, anger in all shades of red. Our nerves are blank and we cannot express our anger directly those those who brought us in this situation. So we hurt each other: with words, with fists, with kicks, with resentment. Sometimes, some Greeks also hurt themselves. When bitterness, frustration and anger are roaring in a desperate sense of own defeat with no way out. It is mostly in two-three sentences news that this man killed himself due to debts or this woman attempted suicide due to unemployment. That’s also violence against the own self.

22.11.2013 - 17:10 [ The Telegraph ]

Democracy under threat from government surveillance, says web founder

Launching his second annual Web Index today, Sir Tim Berners Lee will say that “a growing tide of surveillance and censorship now threatens the future of democracy. Bold steps are needed now to protect our fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and association online“ … However even the most developed web countries face threats from increasing state surveillance, Sir Tim claims.

22.11.2013 - 17:06 [ BBC ]

Prisons privatisation cancelled amid Serco probe

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said the prison service would remain in charge at Hatfield, Lindholme and Moorland, all in South Yorkshire.

Serco was named as the leading bidder in July but the company has been accused of over-charging the government for electronically tagging criminals.

22.11.2013 - 16:59 [ Ars Technica ]

Repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic, researchers warn

Huge chunks of Internet traffic belonging to financial institutions, government agencies, and network service providers have repeatedly been diverted to distant locations under unexplained circumstances that are stoking suspicions the traffic may be surreptitiously monitored or modified before being passed along to its final destination.