Hacking Bluetooth With USB
I read an interesting report from Dark Reading today regarding hacking Bluetooth and how USB can play a roll. (Not that hacking for the dark force is anything cool) You don’t hear much about Bluetooth hacks because the tools needed (sniffers) start at about 10Grand. A couple of security engineers where able to use a Cambridge [...]
Mets Getting Production From Everyone - Forbes
 Metro Toronto | Mets Getting Production From Everyone Forbes - By STEVEN WINE 04.19.07, 11:47 PM ET. Even the backup catcher is swinging a big bat this week for the New York Mets. Ramon Castro homered and drove in three runs Thursday to help fuel the Mets' latest offensive outburst, and they drubbed the Florida ... Hernandez, Mets dominate Marlins Mets storm into first with Marlin mauling |
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Linspire, Microsoft in Linux-Related Deal
DesktopLinux: "Additionally, Microsoft will offer protection to Linspire customers against possible violations of Microsoft patents by Linux, Linspire said..."
Lawmakers: Can DHS protect its networks?
(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) CIO was on the hot seat Wednesday on Capitol Hill after an independent audit found that a database that screens U.S. visitors lacked security controls.
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee called on DHS CIO Scott Charbo to explain why he should keep his job after persistent cybersecurity problems at the agency.
"What happened to leadership?" Representative Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman and a Mississippi Democrat, said during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science, and Technology. "What happened to accountability?"
Lawmakers also said they were concerned that the agency reported 844 cybersecurity incidents in 2005 and 2006.
"Although we still have a ways to go, we've made measurable improvements in the management of information security at the department," Charbo said. "Certainly, we need to increase our vigilance to ensure that such incidents do not happen again."
Many of the 844 incidents were minor, and the agency has taken major steps to fix past cybersecurity issues, Charbo said. Many of the reported cybersecurity incidents related to problems like lost laptops that did not result in data breaches, he added.
The subcommittee did not have a breakdown of the incidents Wednesday.
Asked about reports of bots installed on DHS computers that could send information out to hackers, Charbo said he had "no evidence" that the bots caused a breach.
Thompson's comments came as the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report saying DHS continues to have "significant weaknesses in computer security controls that threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of key ... systems."
GAO investigators found no security controls on the US-VISIT database, the system that screens people who want to visit the U.S. for potential terrorists and criminals. Lawmakers are concerned whether terrorists could get into the database "and change or alter their names to allow them access to this country, and we wouldn't even know that they're doing it," said Representative Bob Etheridge, a North Carolina Democrat.
A contractor provides IT security for US-VISIT, but DHS has its own security controls in place to protect the database, Charbo said. He didn't disclose specific security measures.
The GAO doesn't have evidence that the US-VISIT database was breached, said Keith Rhodes, chief technologist and director of the GAO's Center for Technology and Engineering. "I did not see controls in place that would prevent it," Rhodes said. "I did not see defensive perimeters, and I did not see detection systems in place whether it had or had not [been breached]."
GAO started a cybersecurity review of DHS a year ago but curtailed its efforts because it kept finding "more and more" problems, Rhodes said. "If we had continued to this day, I would argue we'd still be finding things," he said. "The problems were pervasive. The problems were systemic."
Charbo outlined recent measures DHS has taken to improve cybersecurity there. The agency is collapsing multiple legacy WANs into a single WAN, and it is standardizing all e-mail and directory services onto a single platform, he said. The agency had 13 separate e-mail systems when it was formed out of 22 U.S. agencies in 2002, he said.
DHS also is combining multiple data centers into a shared center, he said.
Thompson asked how DHS officials can preach cybersecurity practices to other agencies and private companies while continuing to have its own problems. Among the incidents DHS reported were employees sending out classified documents on unclassified networks and contractors attaching unauthorized laptops to the DHS network, he said.
"How can the Department of Homeland Security be a real advocate of sound cybersecurity practices without following some of its own advice?" he said. "What the department is doing on its own network speaks so loud that the message isn't getting across to anyone else."
Maddog Mad About Linux Thin Clients
LinuxDevices: "Well-known Linux luminary Jon 'maddog' Hall is CTO and 'ambassador' of a startup selling Linux-based thin clients and network appliances..."
Report: Nvidia to Broaden Its Integrated Chipsets
Tomorrow is to be the day when the company will go after Intel on its own turf.
Who Else Wants Adult Education Posted By : Ras Reed
Why must you enroll for adult education? This question is not easily answered by most adults out there. The reason is because many of them think it is too late to go back to formal education classes.Some of them also think that they are old enough to be thinking of getting a bigger salary. In short, many of them think they are no longer relevant in today's world. They only think about the present and look forward to when they will call it quit. This is quite unfortunate as there is still hope for you or a loved one that fits into this description. The hope is registering for an adult education course or program.
Oracle makes its move to acquire BEA
Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than now-public suitor Oracle. On Friday Oracle announced a bid of $17 per share in cash for BEA, a 25 percent premium over BEA’s closing stock price on Thursday, according to Reuters. Speculation has swirled for years that [...]
Family Wants Ephedra Case Remanded For Approval Hearing
NEW YORK - The family of an ephedra multidistrict litigation plaintiff filed a motion to remand on Aug. 24, stating that they wish to attend the approval hearing for settlement of the case but are unable to travel because of their caretaker responsibilities of the plaintiff (Susan Griffin, et al. v. Richardson Labs, Inc., et al., No. 04-cv-04256; In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 MD 1598, S.D. N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com
Dell XPS M1530 (Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz, 160GB HDD, 2GB RAM)
Dell's turn toward a "design-first" philosophy continues to pay off with the XPS M1530, easily the best-looking 15-inch laptop in recent memory.
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New Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Search?
Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, The Wall Street Journal said. Microsoft has already held talks with Time Warner and News Corp. among others, the paper quoted people familiar with the talks as saying.
Tropical Storm BERTHA Graphics
This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), hurricane watch (pink), tropical storm warning (blue) and tropical storm watch (purple). The orange circle indicates the current position of the center of the tropical cyclone. The black line and dots show the National Hurricane Center (NHC) ... (Read on Source)
Northern Lights
A collection of ground-based All-Sky Imagers (ASI) captures the aurora brightening caused by a substorm. This network is an important part of the THEMIS mission and is considered the sixth satellite. (Read on Source)
SearchCamp Launches with PodCamp Philly in Philadelphia!
I'm really excited and pleased to announce that here in Philadelphia we are launching a brand new online marketing conference called SearchCamp ! After attending PodCamp Philly last year, Whitney Hoffman and Bill Rowland really inspired me. I thought, why can't we do this for Online Marketing? They thought it was a great idea too, so this year ... (Read on Source)
Virtual Ubuntu: traps for young players
... provide its graphical system. This means that no matter how many times you’ve fired Ubuntu up from a live CD or how much experience you have installing it onto ...
Got Crawl Issues? Live Search Can Help
Microsoft launched its first major update to Live Search Webmaster Tools since November, adding crawl issue feedback, backlink data, improved filtering, and the ability to export data in CSV format to Excel for offline analysis. Update: Five minutes after publishing, the Live Search Webmaster Team let us know they were delayed a little, and that the update should go live at 5:00 EDT.
Great Blogs Complement SEO Efforts - Summary of Lee Odden Talk at SES
Most businesses don't realize the value of blogs when it comes to SEO. But - they want to. "SEO and blogs equal success" Lee Odden told the packed audience at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose Wednesday. "Blogs with great content, that are optimized and promoted, create overwhelming competitive advantages." By way of case studies, (Read on Source)
Ask.com Introduces TV Listings to Search Results!
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. Via the Ask's Official Blog, Ask.com has announced that it will now be adding television program listings to its search engine result pages or SERPS. (Read on Source)
ASUS Eee PC 901
Last year ASUS had christened the Eee PC as a cost-effective but well built sub-notebook that ended up being extremely popular with more people than just computer enthusiasts. The original Eee PC 700 series had shipped with Intel Celeron hardware, a solid-state drive, and a Xandros-based Linux distribution. These units have been selling extremely well but back in June ASUS had unveiled the Eee 901 as well as the Eee 1000 series. These newer models now use Intel Diamondville-based Atom CPUs, which we have been quite fond of for their technological advances. In this article we are providing our first look at the Eee PC 901 along with a few bits of information and sharing some of our plans for the Eee Linux testing in the near future.
Philips Aims Compact Home Theater at Smaller Spaces
For people who want a compact home theater Philips has launched the CimemaOne, at the IFA electronics show on Thursday.
The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals
LWN: "The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly. So I pulled out my favorite operating systems textbook and read and re-read it obsessively over the course of the next year. It worked well enough that my company tried very hard to convince me not to quit when I got bored with my "dream job" and left to work at Sun."
BANS Affiliate Sites - eBay and Google Drop the Hammer
Is Google dropping the hammer on BANS sites??? For some BANS (Build a Niche Store) owners, it?s been a pretty tough last few months. Back in August eBay expired hundreds of affiliates, many reportedly had BANS sites. Now according to many affiliates “Google has been either penalizing or out right de-indexing BANS sites from the SERPS.&# ... (Read on Source)
New Graphene-based Material Clarifies Graphite Oxide Chemistry
A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars has been created by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sceptical Chymist Reactions Interviews
Neil Withers just posted my interview on Nature's Sceptical Chymist blog. It was a fun one to do because the questions are atypical of what I normally get asked. It came at a good time because he asked both Cameron and myself about the last time we did some labwork. About a month ago we worked together in his lab in Southampton. Also a great ... (Read on Source)
Binders - Tips for Choosing the Right 3-Ring Binder for Your Organization
Three ring binders provide an effective and simple solution for organizing your documents. They are the perfect choice for housing your training materials, product specifications, and bulky reports. This is why many organizations choose clear view binders. Also known as a clear overlay binder, they include clear pockets on the front and back covers, as well as the spine. This allows you to create custom covers and spines quickly and easily. This article outlines a few things to keep in mind when shopping for three-ring-binders for your documents. While clear overlay ring-binders are most often found in white, you can also purchase them in black. Sometimes you can find navy, but any other color would need to be special ordered and manufactured especially for you. This could be costly, so if color choice is important, you can either print colorful covers and spines to insert into black or white binders, or you can think about using a different binding method with a larger selection of available colors (such as color coil binding). Three-ring binders come in three varieties: round-ring, D-ring, and ez-load D-ring. Round ring binders tend to have the rings joined to the spine. D-ring and ez load D-ring options are constructed with the rings affixed to the back cover. They work well for more sizeable documents, while round ring options are better suited to smaller ones. Most binder rings are manufactured in half inch increments. The smallest ring diameter available is ½", and the largest is 4". Binders with diameters over 3" come only with D-rings. Please remember that ring diameter does not indicate the width of the binder on your shelf. You will need to measure the actual spine of to know how much space you will need. Most clear view binders hold standard 8.5" x 11" sheets. That doesn't mean that is the only size available. You can find options for legal sized documents or 11" x 17" publications if you persevere. You may have to special order them, but they are available if you plan ahead. Clear overlay binders can vary in quality due to differences in components, such as the grade of vinyl used for the spine and covers. A common problem that users experience is the transference of toner from cover and spine inserts onto the inside of the vinyl pocket. If you buy a higher quality product, you will not see this toner transfer problem on the covers and spines. Thus, buying a higher quality product can often save you money since you will be able to reuse it for multiple documents or reports. If you are looking for a high quality binder you should also look for heavier chipboard and deeper interior pockets. You might also look for products that include sheet lifters. Higher quality ring-binders stand up to being used over and over, so be sure to look for these features. The information included in this article should serve as a great basis for helping you find the best clear overlay or clear-view-binder for yourself or for your school or business. Lower-quality choices are okay for single-time use, but for a product that will stand up to reuse without transferring toner onto the vinyl overlay, look for quality instead of bargain basement pricing.
Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for MyBinding.com.He has written over 500 articles on binding machines,binding covers,binders,laminators,binding supplies,laminating supplies,paper handling equipments,index tabs, and shredders.
You need a Break!
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #422. The time between Christmas and New Year’s Day is an ideal opportunity to take a break and close the office down for a few days; this gives both you and your staff some time to relax and enjoy the fruits of all the hard effort you’ve put [...] (Read on Source)
Kirsten Doyle: Facebook phone debuts
... players from the US, which have a 14% duty rate. The closure of a Web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to ...
Case Dismissed For Lack Of Substitute Plaintiff
NEW YORK - The ephedra multidistrict litigation judge on Oct. 17 granted an unopposed motion by Metabolife to dismiss a case because 90 days have passed since a suggestion of death was filed and no plaintiff has been substituted (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR]; Robert Hutchinson v. Metabolife International, Inc., et al., No. 1:06-cv-04478-JSR, S.D. N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com
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