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Hackers clone their victim their life

Cybercrime is getting bigger, stronger and faster as we talk. Diana Solomon is one of the victims of cybercrime. The hackers got acces to her e-mail account. And claimed that she needed money.

What Happend?

Diane Solomon was on her way from her Santa Clarita home to a run/walk at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum earlier this month when her smartphone alerted her to an e-mail received on her work account - sent from her own personal e-mail address.

According to the e-mail, titled "MY PLIGHT!!!" Solomon was currently stranded in Europe after being robbed at gunpoint. She didn't have any money, her cell phone wasn't working, and she needed 1,500 pounds to be wired to the U.K. to get back to the States.

Within minutes, she began receiving concerned texts and e-mails from some of the 400 contacts in her Yahoo! e-mail account.

"I'm talking to you on Facebook right now," one neighbor wrote in a text.

Solomon didn't have a Facebook account. Whoever had hacked into her e-mail had used pictures in the account to make a Facebook page for her and was pleading for her friends to send money.

Solomon's ordeal typifies a scam that has been growing in frequency over the last several years as the overall rate of Internet crime has jumped dramatically.

Hacking the government

A government is the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises its authority, controls and administers public policy, and directs and controls the actions of its members or subjects

The fundamental purpose of government is to maintain social order and protect property. “Security of person and property, and equal justice between individuals, are the first needs of society, and the primary ends of government: if these things can be left to any responsibility below the highest, there is nothing, except war and treaties, which requires a general government at all.”

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, the 'Mother of all Parliaments'

The Nato must be better prepared for Internet attacks'

NATO should be better prepared for attacks on the Internet and on oil and gasroutes. A working group with the former U.S. Secretary Madeleine Albright and former chief executive Jeroen van der Veer, Shell has advised Monday.

The next major attack on the alliance may well have come through an optical fiber''said the report of the Working Group.

NATO must also do more against the growing threat of missile away from the Middle East, find the group.

Important milestone

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the working group set up in August. He welcomed the report Monday in Brussels and called it an important milestone.

The 28 countries will discuss the report in the coming months. The aim is that the Government in October has a new strategic concept for the alliance setting.

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How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century

Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT’s Media Lab, observed that the information age is fast replacing atoms with bits; movies on film with packets on the Internet; print media with digital media; and wires with digital radio waves.

Negroponte does not apply the bits-for-atoms principle to warfare, but Bruce Berkowitz, in The New Face of War, does. According to Berkowitz, a senior analyst at RAND and a former intelligence officer, future wars will not be won by having more atoms (troops, weapons, territory) than an opponent, but by having more bits . . . of information.

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