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Security Review: Cell Phone Projectors
Authors: Heather Underwood & Guy Bordelon As mobile phones continue to become one of the most popular, universal, and comprehensive computing devices, researchers and mobile phone companies are enthralled with adding more features. As described in a recent article by … Continue reading
Current Event: YoBusted.com, busted?
According to a recent article from Business Week, a photo-sharing site, YoBusted.com, has crossed the line between maintaining personal privacy and extortion. This site allows users to post incriminating pictures of friends without proof that his or her permission to … Continue reading
Security Review: Pandemic Prevention
According to a New Scientist Article, a company called Biorics wants to control the spread of pandemic disease by dispersing “cough-detecting” microphones throughout airport lounges. The proposed technology would detect coughing passengers and distinguish a common-cold-like cough from one that … Continue reading
Taking the Tweet out of Twitter
According to a recent New York Times article, the popular “micro-blogging” site, Twitter, has been the victim of a series of recent hacking and phishing attacks. The article explains that 33 member accounts, most of them belonging to big-names like … Continue reading