Category: Software News
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Behind the iPhone meltdown
One of the good things about long airport layovers are the chances you finally get to catch up on your reading. Which is what it finally took to crack open my last issue of Wired magazine. I must say I was quite amused to find an article outlining the love/hate relationship between AT&T and Apple.…
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Keeping my Droid “G”
Freshly back from a new round of security based conferences I will take a moment to point out one of the more interesting topics for me this time around. The discussion on Cell Phone Spying (not that I made it inside the actual talk with the ungodly line). More specifically how by using a frequency…
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RSA Discusses The Challenge of Securing RFID
RSA researcher Ari Juels sat down with SearchSecurity.com to discuss various topics. One of which was the constrained capabilities of RFID (like wireless bar codes), and how it affects the security posture needed to secure these devices. But, in fact, it’s possible to shoehorn in capabilities for which these tags were not explicitly designed. For…
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Tracking The Carbon Footprint Near You
Since it is Earth Day it is a good day to review a new website which helps show how green your neighborhood is (or is not). This new website UrbanEcoMap.com will have the ability to show the carbon levels in a given zip code. Currently the city of San Francisco is the only city supporting…
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The Death of the Guard?
Suffering the same fate as many other technology projects during our economic slowdown it appears the CommerceGuard project has had it operations suspended by GE. The CommerceGuard project was responsible for development of the CommerceGuard Container Security Device System (CSD) whose purpose was to track and secure shipment containers. The system was developed to meet…
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LSYiPDT: Download Torrents to your home server from anywhere!
Really this needs no introduction more than this video can provide! One of the first products of the Android Bounty program hosted by Androidandme this not only blows the iPhone’s torrent (download to local storage) program out of the water but just shows the power of open source! And to think the bounty the developer…
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Pen Testing with RUBY
It was in 2006 that the language known as RUBY was fully accepted as a standard language. The self described “open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity” is one of the more powerful languages in use today. The folks over at Matasano Security (not affiliated with “matz” Y.Matsumoto the creator of…
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LSYiPDT: Biometric Security Software
While the concept is pretty clear the development team is having some issue with resources ($$). You can read more about the concept first shown in the Android Dev Challenge at Androidandme.com. You can also show your support for the dev team by voting for them to help get some funding here. I am pretty…
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Conflicted by Conflicker
As posted in the “Waiting for the Worms” article below the conflicker worm was MIA on April 1st along with all the Gloom N Doom forecasted by the IT security industry. There is an interesting article posted by SearchSecurity.com that talks about not only possible reasons for the fizzle of the worm but also the…
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Waiting for the Worms
As anyone who have heard any news media source lately may already know. Today is April Fool’s Day, and also “worm” day. For those that are unfamiliar the worms first started back in 1988 and was released by accident (so the story goes) by a researcher named Robert Morris. Today this has evolved quite a…
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