Author Archives: elenau

Security Review: Google Latitude

Posted on March 13, 2009 by elenau

Google Latitude is yet another product available by the well established makers of the Gmail internet based mail system. Latitude is a web based service, running in sync with a client side application Google Gears, which allows Google to pinpoint … Continue reading →

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Current Events: $9 million ATM scam

Posted on February 13, 2009 by elenau

  The FBI is investigating an ATM scam that has occurred within a 30 minute period on November 8th. About 130 different ATM machines have been accessed to withdraw a total of about $9 million dollars. The scam hit 49 … 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 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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