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Security Review – BitTorrent
Summary BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer communications protocol that has risen in popularity very rapidly. It is a file-distribution protocol that facilitates transferring large files between peers. In order to download a certain set of files, a user would typically find … Continue reading
More on Electronic Medical Records
As mentioned earlier in the blog in “Security Review: Electronic Medical Records,” Google has started an electronic medical record database called Google Health. Today, IBM and Google announced that they have made software to allow PDAs to upload information to … Continue reading
Over 400,000 Accounts Stolen from phpBB
It was discovered last Saturday that an attacker was able to steal thousands of user accounts, passwords, and e-mails from phpBB.com. phpBB is open source and one of the most popular internet forum packages. The attack utilized a 0-day-exploit in … Continue reading
Wikipedia Editing Could Be Made More Restrictive Due to Vandalism
According to this article, the English version of Wikipedia may be implementing a system called “flagged revisions” to the editing software, which would require that edits would have to be approved (“flagged”) by a “trusted” user (see the Wikipedia page … Continue reading
Personal Networks of the Future: The MAGNET project
With the improvement of wireless technologies and a decrease in their cost, more and more devices come with network connectivity built in. From Wifi to Bluetooth to 3G, more and more devices are becoming wireless capable. A recent article from … Continue reading