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Posted on 09.10.07 by templeton @ 12:50 am
Network Attached Storage (NAS) has finally started dribbling into the consumer space, and we couldn’t be happier. It seems as if a combination of all those years of nagging about backing up and the onset of streaming media has woken up the general public to the marvels of network accessible storage.
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Posted on 07.22.07 by templeton @ 2:45 pm
A research group from the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech has recently released a study demonstrating high-speed wireless data transfers at a staggering 15Gbps at a one meter range.
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Posted on 07.30.06 by templeton @ 3:37 am
The federal government wants to be able to know everything you do, but they don’t want anyone to know about their actions. They are willing to argue both sides of a case to prevent citizens and states from finding out what AT&T has been doing in those secret rooms. Filed under: Networks and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 07.27.06 by templeton @ 8:10 pm
Changes: This release addresses some of the known scanning and build issues. An iwspy signal strength threshold feature now allows a monitored device to raise an iwspy userspace event when the threshold is crossed. The sample rate algorithm now provides statistics via the /proc file system. The next release most probably will take more than just another month. There are reported problems with scanning and associating, and the next release will address these issues. Filed under: Computers and Networks Comments: 2 Comments
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Posted on 06.16.06 by templeton @ 9:09 am
Ninety percent of the country has blazingly fast, 3-megabits-per-second broadband at home, and similarly high-speed wireless connections on the road. Filed under: Computers and Networks Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 11.15.05 by templeton @ 1:42 pm
As United Nations (UN) officials meet tomorrow in Tunisia to plot strategies for a new worldwide Internet governance structure, an “Issue Brief” from the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) warns that such schemes could choke political freedoms and soak taxpayers. Filed under: Networks Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 08.09.05 by templeton @ 11:58 pm
A major identity theft ring has been discovered that affects up to 50 banks, according to Sunbelt Software, the security company that says it uncovered the operation. The operation, which is being investigated by the FBI, is gathering personal data from “thousands of machines” using keystroke-logging software, Sunbelt said Monday. The data collected includes credit card details, Social Security numbers, usernames, passwords, instant-messaging chat sessions and search terms. Some of that data is then saved in a file hosted on a U.S.-based server that has an offshore-registered domain, according to Sunbelt. In the two days that Sunbelt has been monitoring the file, the company has seen confidential financial details of customers of up to 50 international banks, said Eric Sites, vice president of research and development at the Clearwater, Fla.-based security software maker. “For almost every bank that is listed (in the file), it’s possible to get into the person’s account,” Sites said. Along with passwords for online banking sites, information on credit cards also has been gathered. Sites said that Sunbelt had found one customer’s credit card number, expiration date and security code, in addition to name and address. That information would allow anyone to use the credit card, he said. [ Read more…]Filed under: Computers and Networks and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 08.03.05 by templeton @ 3:00 pm
There has been lots of interesting and useful information coming out of this years security conferences (Defcon, BlackHat, What the Hack) ,but just about the only thing getting press is the Cisco IOS Vuln and Mike Lynn story. Here are some other articles of interest: Hacking hotel Infrared systems, Lock picking, WiFi World Record (125 miles), KegBot, VoIP Encryption, Car Whisperer (Previously Posted), and the annual Wall of Sheep. There is a large list of sites with pictures from defcon 13 at defconpics.org Filed under: Computers and Cool and Good Idea and Networks and Programming and Security and VOIP Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 07.21.05 by templeton @ 1:13 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A University of Southern California database containing about 270,000 records of past applicants including their names and Social Security numbers was hacked last month, officials said on Tuesday. The breach of the university’s online application database exposed “dozens” of records to unauthorized individuals, said Katharine Harrington, USC dean of admissions and financial aid. She could not be more specific about the number of people whose personal data may have been viewed by the hacker or hackers or what their motivation was for the computer break-in. There was not a sufficiently precise tracking capability,” Harrington said, but added that the hackers had not been able to access multiple records at once. Records were also only able to be viewed at random, she said. “We are quite confident that there was no massive downloading of data,” Harrington said. [ Read more…]Filed under: Networks and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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