[00:00.000 --> 00:05.660]  Good morning, this is Space Rogue for the Hacker News Network, HNNCast, for the week ending May 29, 2009.
[00:06.180 --> 00:08.500]  Our top story this week, at least two U.S.
[00:08.600 --> 00:12.360]  Army servers have been breached by a group based in Turkey known online as Mosted.
[00:12.600 --> 00:19.520]  It is unclear if the group was able to access any sensitive information on the servers, but they were able to redirect webpages posted on the machines.
[00:19.880 --> 00:25.160]  The breaches occurred in January of this year and September of last year, but were only recently disclosed by Information Week.
[00:25.580 --> 00:28.560]  The sites seem to have been compromised by SQL injection techniques.
[00:28.560 --> 00:32.640]  The breaches are currently being investigated by the Army's Judge Advocate General's Office.
[00:34.960 --> 00:40.260]  At approximately 11 a.m. this Friday morning, President Obama should announce a Senior White House Cybersecurity Advisor, or Cyber Czar.
[00:40.540 --> 00:46.260]  In addition to naming the new position, Obama will release a report detailing weaknesses in the government's cyber defenses.
[00:46.720 --> 00:54.260]  It is still unclear where the cybersecurity chief will reside in the hierarchy of presidential advisors, or even if the position will report directly to the President.
[00:54.260 --> 00:59.120]  Some experts have suggested that the position should be entirely scrapped as being unneeded.
[01:01.440 --> 01:10.000]  High-ranking officers of the Royal Air Force of England may have to worry about being blackmailed after three hard drives containing extremely sensitive data went missing last September.
[01:10.000 --> 01:23.400]  The data was gathered as part of the routine vetting process of higher-ranking officers and includes details of criminal convictions and investigations, precise details of debt, medical conditions, drug abuse, use of prostitutes, and extramarital affairs,
[01:23.540 --> 01:25.000]  including the names of third parties.
[01:25.780 --> 01:34.380]  Officials at the RAF are concerned that if the information lands on the wrong hands, it could be used by foreign intelligence services, investigative journalists, and blackmailers.
[01:34.720 --> 01:40.480]  While the loss of the drives was publicized shortly after it occurred, the sensitive nature of the files was not revealed until recently.
[01:40.860 --> 01:42.940]  Of course, none of the information was encrypted.
[01:43.380 --> 01:44.300]  Way to go, guys!
[01:46.040 --> 01:48.480]  The Pentagon may be looking for high school hackers.
[01:48.800 --> 01:55.620]  It is expected that the White House Interim Cybersecurity Chief, Melissa Hathaway, will announce later this month a military-funded cyber challenge.
[01:55.920 --> 02:02.720]  This cyber challenge will be a national competition for high school and college students to test skills in attacking and defending digital targets.
[02:03.060 --> 02:13.520]  The challenge will be run by organizations such as the Air Force, who will host a network defense challenge, a DOD event for tracing digital intrusions, and the Science Institute may be holding a network attack competition.
[02:14.140 --> 02:20.360]  The goal, of course, is to identify top performers so that they can be heavily recruited by DOD, NSA, CIA, etc.
[02:20.920 --> 02:24.220]  Of course, the People's Liberation of Army has been doing this sort of thing for years.
[02:24.600 --> 02:25.980]  We'll ask to see if we're catching up.
[02:26.980 --> 02:35.540]  Hat X White claims he has found a zero-day vulnerability that could reveal access to all logins, passwords, and email addresses of Facebook French users.
[02:36.740 --> 02:38.200]  Well, it's Facebook, we expect.
[02:38.740 --> 02:43.920]  The U.S. military is currently working on physical touch screen devices to launch electronic attacks against enemy networks.
[02:44.540 --> 02:52.640]  Aviation Week has dubbed it a hack-by-numbers device that uses touch screen sliders to determine the type and severity of attacks that can be used by untrained soldiers in the field.
[02:53.620 --> 02:56.860]  All I can say is this gives a whole new meaning to the term script kiddie.
[02:57.200 --> 03:00.140]  And I can't wait for these things to show up in military surplus.
[03:01.320 --> 03:06.640]  This weekend, be sure to check out the Maker Faire, where hardware hackers from around the globe will be showing off their latest hacks.
[03:06.640 --> 03:10.740]  The Maker Faire takes place this weekend at the San Mateo County Expo Center.
[03:11.660 --> 03:17.900]  For more information about this week's stories and more, be sure to visit www.hackernews.com.
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