Links for 28 September 2008:

Links for 28 September 2008:

• Estonian Ministry of Defence – Estonian Cyber Security Strategy – http://www.mod.gov.ee/static/sisu/files/Estonian_Cyber_Security_Strategy.pdf
• DARPA Mathematical Challenges – Federal Business Opportunities – DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of DARPA Mathematical Challenges, with the goal of dramatically revolutionizing mathematics and thereby strengthening the scientific and technological capabilities of DoD.
• File2HD.com – Download any file from any site
• Cell ‘rebooting’ technique sidesteps risks : Nature News – Unlike other scientists who had previously made such ‘induced pluripotent stem cells’, or iPS cells, Hochedlinger’s team did not use a virus that integrates itself into a cell’s genome to ‘reboot’ the cells.
• Hackers Resurrect Notorious Attack Tool Kit – CSO Online – Security and Risk – Neosploit, the notorious hacker exploit kit that some thought had been retired months ago, has not only returned from the dead, but is responsible for a dramatic increase in attacks, a security researcher claimed today.
• Somali Pirates Seize Ship With Tanks – NYTimes.com – A Ukrainian ship captured by Somali pirates en route to Somalia is carrying at least 30 tanks, a regional maritime organisation said on Friday.
• NICK VEASEY | X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHER | X-RAY PHOTOS / PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM / ABSTRACT / ART – Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art.
• How-To: Web server on a business card – This mini web server is slightly smaller than a business card. There are a lot of tiny one-board servers out there, but this is probably the smallest you can etch and solder at home. Unlike many embedded web servers, files are stored on a PC-readable SD card, not in a difficult-to-write EEPROM. Read on for the web server design, or catch up on PIC 24F basics in the previous article
• Flickr: PCA 01’s Photostream – 1960s service man snap shots from middle east
• Mary-Kate Olsen Videos | The Olsen Twins In Paris — EXCLUSIVE!!! – A video repository of paparazzi stalking various celebrities. Very mundane, cutting floor genre stuff.
• Library to share 14th-century royal cookbook online – Collection of recipes compiled by King Richard II’s cooks among several works being digitised for viewing on internet
• World’s electrical grids open to attack • The Register – A serious vulnerability has been found in yet another computerized control system that runs some of the world’s most critical infrastructure, this time in a product sold by a vendor known as the ABB Group.
• The Sculpture of Brose Partington – page one – A kinetic sculpture artist
• Video: Solar Sunrise, the Best FBI-Produced Hacker Flick Ever | Threat Level from Wired.com – The 1999 movie accurately details how U.S. officials suspected Iraq in a series of breaches of Defense Department computers around the United States, even as it shows the perpetrators for what they were: a bored Israeli teenager and some California juveniles having fun.
• FORA.tv – The world of ideas and knowledge—all drawn from the live-event speeches, discussions, interviews and debates going on everywhere all the time at the world’s leading conferences, ideas festivals, think tanks and other major centers of thought and discourse.