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February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Poorly Tested Update from Malwarebytes Creates PC Havoc
April 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A poorly-tested upgrade from malware protection provider Malwarebytes crashed thousands of personal computers worldwide.
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Government Uses Man in Middle Cell Tower Attack to Spy on You
March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Stingray Cell Tower Simulator
The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has reported that testimony in a current Federal criminal case revealed that the government is doing warrantless searches of personal cell phones with a man-in-the-middle cell tower attack.
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Classic Slide Rules Will Work After EMP Attack
March 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Pickett N-16-ES Slide Rule will work after an EMP attack. Photo (c) The Slide Rule Universe.
Slide rule? After the Chinese (North Korean, Iranian) EMP attack on the United States, most of your personal electronics might stop working…permanently.
It’s time to relearn how to use a slide rule for multiplication, division, trigonometry, engineering calculations.
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Fresnel Lens from Old TV Melts Metal at 2000° F Heat
March 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Fresnel Lens from Junk TV Melts Metal
Chinese Hacker Caught in Live Video
February 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Security firm Mandiant has captured live video showing a chinese army hacker performing multiple attacks to try to gain access to various systems.
In the report at The Next Web, you can see the progress made as the hacker creates a user identity with Google accounts in order to build a persona. Then the hacker engages in spearfishing and with stolen credentials, starts hacking into servers.
The Mandiant video shows how a variety of command line tools and visual GUI tools were employed. The hacker does not succeed in every task, but appears to succeed in most.
Aliyun Search Engine from Alibaba to Fight Google and Android
February 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
China’s Alibaba ecommerce behemoth is launching it Aliyun search engine to fight Google and Chinese search leader Baidu.
Google and Alibaba have been on unpleasant terms in recent months, with Google contending that the Aliyun OS is a forked version of Android.
In an article at The Next Web, the authors point out that Google left the China market in 2010, leaving Baidu to exploit the market.
The new challenge from the Aliyun search engine may or may not be significant, but Alibaba has been involved in a major restructuring in anticipation of the retirement of founder Jack Ma.
Fujitsu Joins SmartPhone Market with Senior Focused Android Device
February 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Techcrunch reports that Fujitsu has entered the smartphone market with a “senior-focused” Android device.
France Telecom will sell the new phone starting in June.
What’s most entertaining is that, in the device image shown in the original article, the “senior device” looks like a mini-tablet running Microsoft Surface with the Metro interface showing.
Fujitsu Phone Resembles Metro Interface
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Dogs Pick Out Other Dogs in a Dog Lineup
February 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Can you imagine Jack Webb walking a german shepherd into a darkened room to look through a two-way mirror, to pick out a chihuahua from a lineup of other suspect dogs?
In which episode of Dragnet did that occur? Was Harry Morgan in that show?
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Resporg Your Toll Free Numbers
February 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Resporg. What is it? It’s a tool you use to get control of the toll free numbers you use for your startup business or marketing campaigns.
“Resporg” is an acronym. It means “Responsible Organization”. Remember how grateful you were when you got your first toll free number for your business that you really didn’t have to know much? Somebody that you called to get you that toll free number just gave you some choices, and you picked a number.
What happened behind the scenes you don’t know. You got your toll free number, pay a monthly service charge, and that’s it. Or is it?
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