F-Secure is reporting that Diginotar, a CA trusted in common OSes and browsers, was repeatedly breached, and the defacements have lived on their website unnoticed for years.

If you keep digging deeper, you'll find that although these web defacements are still live right now, they are not new. Much worse: they were done years ago.

Certificate Authorities are a critical keystone in the security of the Internet. For a CA to have been repeatedly breached over the course of years and not notice is totally unacceptable. This demands immediate consideration from the organizations that approve certificate authorities. Higher standards and stronger auditing are necessary.

Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

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NASA - Hurricane Season 2011: Hurricane Irene (Atlantic Ocean)

Knowing this information could be very important if you ever suspect that you've woken up in the distant future and people are lying to you about it.

You can also tell what month it is by looking at the big dipper if you are in the northern hemisphere.

This only works if you're on planet earth.

What Will the Constellations Look Like in 50,000 Years? : Discovery News

The phrase they use to characterize the incident is "off nominal," which is what I'll start saying instead of "fail" from here on in.

Logicak must be proud.

Russian space agency says unmanned supply ship bound for ISS fails to reach orbit – Boing Boing

A group of NASA engineers -- acting on their own initiative to find funding in other research and development projects, and in partnership with an aerospace startup, together with their own sweat equity -- have designed and built a breakthrough piece of technology: the first new lunar landing craft from the space agency in 40 years.

Meet Project Morpheus. Final destination: the moon.

EXCLUSIVE: Will Morpheus Be The First Vehicle On The Moon Since Apollo? | FoxNews.com

A Robonaut (R2B) successfully launched up to the International Space Station on February 24th. R2 is the first humanoid robot in space. R2, now unpacked, will be initially operated inside the Destiny laboratory for operational testing, but over time, both its territory and its applications could expand. There are no plans to return R2 to Earth.

This thing is the reason we don't need to send humans into space.

Robonaut: Home

The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the documentary for six seconds—between 11:04 and 11:10 minutes—showing custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university. As of Aug. 22 at 1:30pm EDT, in addition to Youtube, the whole documentary is available on the CCTV website.

Slip-Up in Chinese Military TV Show Reveals More Than Intended | China News | Epoch Times

“I will pay for positive feedback on TripAdvisor.” A Craigslist post proposed this: “If you have an active Yelp account and would like to make very easy money please respond.”

Ferreting Out Fake Reviews Online - NYTimes.com

“There is a good chance of a rally because of the cash position of U.S. companies, their tendency to buy shares when they have high cash ratios and the importance of company share buying on the stock market. A 10 percent rally would be an opportunity to sel

QOTD: Andrew Smithers Says “Sell The Next 10% Rally” | The Big Picture