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Daily Archives: February 6, 2009
Security Review: The Bike and its Lock
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
Posted in Announcements, Ethics, Physical Security, Security Reviews
Tagged bike, cycling, locks
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Security Review: Smashing abstract—more on Lab 2
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
Security review: Powered Exoskeletons
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
Posted in Miscellaneous, Security Reviews
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Security Review: New Technology Could Display Dreams on Screen
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!
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
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”
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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Current Event – Facebook the target of scammers
As Facebook becomes more ingrained in people’s public lives, so does the opportunity for people to take advantage of the virtual identities of others. Recently, a Seattle man, Bryan Rutberg, had his Facebook account used to extort money from his … Continue reading
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Security Review: Online Advertisers
Online advertisement is the lifeblood of the internet. Without it, sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Google, etc. would go out of business. Approximately a year ago, Google alone reached over 1.1 billion unique users in a month(see 1)–and they had … Continue reading
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Current Event: Spike in Online Game hacking
According to an article on Gamasutra online game hacking spiked in 2008. It was noted that it usually wasn’t the games themselves being directly attacked, rather attackers would use social engineering or other techniques to install malware, such as keyloggers, … Continue reading
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