Something a bit different this week as the Naval Academy have brought celestial navigation back to the classroom. Methods of navigation such as GPS are at risk due to cyber attacks and so the Naval Academy are re-visiting celestial navigation as a plan-b for students to use. As the article mentions ‘you can’t hack a sextant’.
In other news you have likely heard by now of the interesting story of the student who temporarily bought Google’s domain but for those who haven’t you really should give this article a look.
Mentioned Above
- Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation
- Student (temporarily) buys Google domain for $12 (SC Magazine)
More News
- Adobe issues advisory for Flash vulnerability targeting government agencies (SC Magazine)
- Chrome 46 Patches Vulnerabilities, Simplifies Page Security Icon
- Cyberwar rules of engagement: Military, law bods mull update (The Register)
- Dridex botnet disrupted in global effort, U.S. charges Moldovan man (SC Magazine)
- Freelancer.com code exposes bids to competitors (The Register)
- Google records your voice searches. Here’s how to listen back to them (ZDNet)
- Kaspersky Patches Flaw in _Network Attack Blocker_ Feature
- LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass for $125 Million in Cash (SecurityWeek)
- Microsoft Patches Critical Flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer
- Yahoo’s updated email app aims to kill the password (Yahoo Security)
- Google’s Inability To Force Software Updates Threatens Android (Forbes)
- Stored XSS bug in popular Akismet plugin puts WordPress sites at risk (SC Magazine)
Weekly Cyber Security News 16/10/2015
