Yearly Archives: 2009

USB power in airports

Posted on February 9, 2009 by dhalperi

I noticed that the Denver airport has upgraded its power stands to include USB ports that presumably give power to recharge devices like cell phones, iPhones, and iPods. What I wonder is how I know that’s all that’s going on. … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Kaspersky Hacked

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Ryan McElroy

Kaspersky, an Antivirus vendor and Internet Security Lab, recently fell victim to an internet hacker using an SQL-injection attack. The attack compromised data in all databases accessible to the web server. According to the hacker, “Alter one of the parameters … Continue reading →

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Security Review: MMO Gaming

Posted on February 7, 2009 by dravir

  Most people in our society today are familiar with the concept of MMO gaming.  World of Warcraft, for example, is something most everyone has heard of.  Most MMO games operate under a fairly strict client/server paradigm.  A company that … Continue reading →

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Security Review: The Bike and its Lock

Posted on February 6, 2009 by oterod

EDIT: It appears that I goofed with the “more” tag when I first posted this, so I’ve included the rest of the article below. Since the days of waking up at 5am to watch the Tour de France live with … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Smashing abstract—more on Lab 2

Posted on February 6, 2009 by stemcel

While experimenting with Lab 2 I began discovering real vulnerabilities and decided to make a security review out of it. I spent a couple days experimenting and taking notes only to find that I’d been beaten to the punch yesterday. I nearly despaired at several days’ work gone for naught, but after carefully reading both of the posts I believe that I still have something to contribute. My discussion will focus a bit more on the security of abstract and provide other additional details. Continue reading →

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Security review: Powered Exoskeletons

Posted on February 6, 2009 by sal

Exoskeletons look impressive in movies. They look impressive in real life also. Electronics reads brain signals sent to muscles and cause actuators to move, thus ‘amplifying’ human strength. Exoskeletons are close to get mass-produced and available to people around the … Continue reading →

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Security Review: New Technology Could Display Dreams on Screen

Posted on February 6, 2009 by elenau

For years there have been research going on in neurobiological field with attempts to decode images from the brain activity. In 1999, University of California, Berkley, has been able to reconstruct the video images from cat’s observed brain activity. However, … Continue reading →

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Current Event: California IDs to have biometrics? The DMV hopes so!

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Orion

It seems that in addition to the recently released biometric IDs in the UK, the California Department of Motor Vehicles seems to have recently tried to set up biometric IDs as well. In an otherwise innocuous vendor contract, the DMV … Continue reading →

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Security Review: My Linksys Router

Posted on February 6, 2009 by justine

This morning, my power for some reason switched off, crashing something in my router and killing my laptop battery. For the rest of the day, wireless was down at my house and my roommate and I were physically plugging in … Continue reading →

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Current Events: Cyber hackers turn to “virtual assets”

Posted on February 6, 2009 by elenau

According to the ESET’s 2008 Global Thread Report, there has been a spike in the goals and targets of cyber hackers. Rather than attempting to break into a bank account or deface a website they would go for something more subtle, … Continue reading →

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