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January 28, 2013 11:33:45
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Eighteen brands of security camera digital video
recorders (DVRs) are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a
hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy,
delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the
machines as jumping-off points to access other computers behind
a company’s firewall, according to tests by two security
researchers. And one of the researchers, security firm Rapid7′s
chief security officer H.D. Moore, has discovered that 58,000 of
the hackable video boxes, all of which use firmware provided by
the Guangdong, China-based firm Ray Sharp, are accessible via
the Internet."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b4qz2xe
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January 28, 2013 08:11:03
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"As a mist showers down onto a man from a spigot on the
ceiling, some might think it’s a shower, but it’s not. It’s
SmartWater.
You could call it a crime fighting spray. Under a special light,
you’ll see why. It leaves a harmless chemical staining the skin
and clothes, explains SmartWater Founder Philip Cleary.
It’s the latest crime-fighting tool being introduced in Fort
Lauderdale. It’s already used in Europe and can be used in
several ways."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bkwb74m
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January 28, 2013 07:52:07
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its
cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its
size more than fivefold to bolster the nation’s ability to
defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer
operations against foreign adversaries, according to U.S.
officials."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bgbh6b3
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January 28, 2013 07:52:07
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Facebook announced Graph Search in mid-January, but it
has not officially launched. According to company materials and
some independent reports, however, the program cracks open
Facebook’s warehouse of personal information to allow searching
and data-mining on a large portion of Facebook’s one billion
users. Users who set their profiles to "public" are about to be
exposed to their largest audience ever."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ascgb9l
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January 28, 2013 07:52:07
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"We have included below the full text of the email
Facebook sent to potential claimants to help those who received
the email determine if it's legitimate and also for those who
may have deleted it, thinking it was part of a scam. If you
received this Facebook email, do you plan to file a claim hoping
to get your $10? Or, will you just opt to do nothing?"
http://preview.tinyurl.com/adsrx9k
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January 27, 2013 05:29:48
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The inquiry, which was started by Attorney General Eric
H. Holder Jr. last June, is examining leaks about a computer
virus developed jointly by the United States and Israel that
damaged nuclear centrifuges at Iran’s primary uranium enrichment
plant. The U.S. code name for the operation was Olympic Games,
but the wider world knew the mysterious computer worm as
Stuxnet."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/a3384a5
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January 27, 2013 05:29:48
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"To get started, select either hardware or software from
the product types below, and then review specific features,
including sample images where available."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/agucmb6
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January 26, 2013 05:59:22
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk.
Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that
pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls. Algorithms
that can tell identical twins apart. Eyebrows and earlobes that
give you away. A new generation of technologies is emerging that
can identify you by your physiology. And unlike the old crop of
biometric systems, you don't need to be right up close to the
scanner in order to be identified. If they work as advertised,
they may be able to identify you without you ever knowing you've
been spotted."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bxcr3wm
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January 22, 2013 05:26:27
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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January 19, 2013 08:57:32
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Athens, Ga.-based Zaxby's Franchising Inc. on Friday
announced that malware capable of extracting names, credit and
debit card numbers of customers were found on systems at nearly
roughly 100 of its 560 locations."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ah9fwma
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January 19, 2013 08:57:32
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Oracle addressed 86 flaws across 10 product groups in
its quarterly Critical Patch Update. Some of the high-risk
vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow attackers to take
over an underlying Windows server."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ahzedrg
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January 19, 2013 08:57:32
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"For years the cable industry insisted that they imposed
usage caps because network congestion made them necessary.
You'll recall that Time Warner Cable insisted that if they
weren't allowed to impose caps and overages the Internet would
face 'brown outs.' Cable operators also paid countless think
tanks, consultants and fauxcademics to spin scary yarns about a
looming network congestion 'exaflood,' only averted if cable
operators were allowed to raise rates, impose caps, eliminate
regulation or (insert pretty much anything here)."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b39pgqp
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January 19, 2013 06:22:29
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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" It begins when you pop on your headlight, sending a
tunnel of light into the darkening forest... But mountain biking
at night doesn't officially begin until you drop downhill,
swooping between trees and around curves on trails that appear
little more than wormholes into the abyss."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/aejqkk6
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January 16, 2013 07:59:34
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The people behind one of the most sophisticated cyber-
espionage attacks ever carried out began dismantling its
infrastructure hours after it was made public."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ah4uryq
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January 15, 2013 09:03:32
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"We take a look at some of the Start menu alternatives
for Windows 8."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bf7ceea
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