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Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability - Vista Device Driver Security Example
We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]
Continue reading...Software Algorithm to Recreate Keys from Photo Only
Friday, November 7, 2008
John Hering sent in a link to a story about UC Sand Diego computer programmers that have developed an image-recognition software algorithm that can reproduce a physical key only from a picture of the key. Maybe not the most surprising thing in the face of recently announced 2D-to-3D image generation technology, but leads to an interesting [...]
Continue reading...WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I guess it was only a matter of time utnil someone found a quick way to break WPA Wi-Fi Encryption. Erik Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key used by WPA in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes. So far [...]
Continue reading...Vodafone Study Confirms 25% of Security Breaches are due to Mobile Devices
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Interesting tid-bit from Vodafone UK this morning, looks like after a long-winded study they found that: 25% of companies experience a security breach due to mobile device (notebook, cell phone) use in unapproved ways. 50% of employees have no idea their companies have mobile device use-policies in place. Sounds to me like the companies are the issue here [...]
Continue reading...Fast-Pass Air Travel System ‘Clear’ Data Stolen, Not So Fast Anymore
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
“Clear” is a fast-pass-esque air-travel system run by a 3rd party company that allows passengers to pay $100/year to pre-register all their humanly personal information in exchange for what amounts to a “fast pass through security” card seen on the left. The only down-side is what happens when all that insane amount of personal information is [...]
Continue reading...Apple Hands Out Account Login Because Someone Asked
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
They say that the chain is only as strong as the weakest link… unfortunately for you, if that weakest link is a retarded Customer Service Rep at Apple and he’s reading an email that says: am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted]@yahoo.com And decides “Heck, I should probably email this [...]
Continue reading...US Govt. Thinks Citizens Are a Constant Threat
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Washington Times is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressed “great interest” in a “safety bracelet” that all air-travelers would be forced to wear if implemented. This information was from a promotional video (Link Dead, they have removed the movie after all the attention it got) over at the Lamperd Less Lethal website. The [...]
Continue reading...Securely Formatting / Erasing an iPhone
Thursday, May 22, 2008
With the news getting around that pre-owned iPhones are actually shipping with previous-owner personal information on them, cops recovering data off of iPhones and word that AT&T is ramping up their pre-owned iPhone plan, learning how to correctly wipe your iPhone so all traces of personal information are gone is important. Luckily Securosis put together a [...]
Continue reading...Insane CCTV Network in London Doesn’t Help
Friday, May 9, 2008
Well that’s a shocker… it looks like the incredible network of closed-circuit television security cameras in London (and slowly being built out here in the US in most major cities) is actually not doing a damn thing to curb petty theft which was the entire platform building the stupid thing stood on in the first [...]
Continue reading...AT&T/Cingular EDGE Network Down in Midwest
Friday, February 1, 2008
What is going on with the internets today… reports of AT&T/Cingular’s “server” that handles their entire EDGE network being down for the Midwest today, and could be fixed as late as Feb 5th. I declare more shenanigans… Chinese hackers! (or zombies)
Continue reading...New RFID Passports: Staging for the NAU
Thursday, January 3, 2008
We have blogged in the past about the desire of the international bankers to create the North American Union (Canada, United States, Mexico) along with a common currency: The Amero. Now you can watch for yourself as the first steps towards creating this reality are set into place, regardless of the outcry against it. First Step: Create [...]
Continue reading...New Credit Card Cross-Sell-Like Scams Used by Vendors
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
12 Angry Men did an awesome write-up on a new type of “scam” used by shady marketing companies to automatically opt-you-in to very small month reoccurring charges that you are most likely to not notice on your credit card using some trickery of how credit card data is handled in a typical HTTP session. Here [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
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