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December 31, 2011 11:46:01
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"As mobile marketers have latched onto the convenience and
cool-factor of QR codes, hackers are starting to take advantage of
these square, scannable bar codes as a new way to distribute
malware. Like all mobile attack vectors, it is a new frontier that
security researchers say is not extremely prevalent but which has a
lot of potential to wreak havoc if mobile developers and users stand
by unaware."
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December 31, 2011 11:24:59
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced it is beginning
HIPAA audits to assess covered entities' compliance with the
privacy, security and breach notification rules."
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December 31, 2011 11:24:59
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The first thing a forensics team will do is try to get the
hackers off the company’s network, which entails simultaneously
plugging any security holes, removing any back doors into the
company’s network that the intruders might have installed, and
changing all the company’s passwords."
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December 28, 2011 04:38:19
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"December holiday shoppers were not just interested in
buying the hottest electronics and toys -- they also were purchasing
record numbers of guns, according to the latest FBI figures on
background checks required to buy firearms."
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December 28, 2011 04:38:19
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"The flaw results in too much information about the PIN
being returned to an attacker and makes the PIN quite weak,
affecting the security of millions of WiFi routers and access
points."
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December 28, 2011 04:38:19
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Every part of the supermarket from parking lot to checkout
counter is designed to make you spend more money and buy more food
than you need."
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December 27, 2011 06:07:15
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"If you're long-winded, then maybe you shouldn't type so
much. If you're brusque, then God bless you. Don't change anything.
Despite any evidence to the contrary in these columns, we're
fervently pro-brusque. As far as we're concerned, brusqueness is a
key part of the engine of commerce."
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December 27, 2011 06:00:05
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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HELLO!
"Your credit will recover and you will live to see
another
day no matter how many desperate calls you get from collection
agencies. Start squirreling away some cash, brace for the
worst and
when you get back on your feet, then you can go back to paying
down
your debts."
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December 27, 2011 06:00:05
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"This approach could be a useful addition to the arsenal of
today's spam-fighting techniques, observers argue, in that, unlike
other typical spam fighting approaches, the content of the email
does not have to be scanned."
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December 27, 2011 05:17:06
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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December 25, 2011 11:37:50
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"human clinical trials are supposed to begin in early 2012,
and there's also a video (below) of the World's Bravest Dentist
shooting a plasma beam into his own mouth."
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December 25, 2011 11:37:50
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Next week brings the expected closing of the world's
largest electronics chain's deal to buy Mindshift Technologies
Inc...Mindshift, of Waltham, Mass., was founded in 1999, and
provides IT services to more than 5,400 small and medium-sized
businesses throughout the U.S."
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December 25, 2011 11:37:50
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Dollars are valuable because they're the official medium
of exchange for the $14 trillion US economy; euros and yen are
valuable for similar reasons. Bitcoin boosters have traditionally
suggested that Bitcoin is an alternative to these currencies. But
we'll suggest an alternative explanation: that Bitcoin is not so
much an alternative currency as a "metacurrency" that allows low-
cost and regulation-free transfer of wealth between nations. In
other words, Bitcoin's major competitors aren't national
currencies, but wire-transfer services like Western Union."
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December 25, 2011 11:37:50
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"Prospero is a prototype for a larger, singular robotic
organism that Dourhout is working toward in his spare time (he’s
an entomologist by trade and a roboticist by hobby, which makes
him very good at his hobby). Right now, he’s got a small fleet of
six-legged robots capable of working together to optimize the
planting of a given piece of farmland using swarm technology and
software running game theory. Via infrared, the robots communicate
with each other, marking places that have already been planted and
signaling to each other when one needs help seeding a particular
plot."
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December 25, 2011 11:37:50
Posted By Carl Engelbrecht
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"But MIT researchers who studied the growth of the newly
hatched Twitter from 2006 to 2009 say the site’s growth in the
United States actually relied primarily on media attention and
traditional social networks based on geographic proximity and
socioeconomic similarity. In other words, at least during those
early years, birds of a feather flocked — and tweeted —
together."
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