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Submission + - Avg Web App Scanner Misses 49% Of Vulnerabilities (ckers.org) 1

Submitted by seek3r
seek3r writes: Report: Most Web Application Scanners Missed Nearly Half Of Vulnerabilities

According to a recent test of some of 6 web application security scanning products, the scanners missed an average of 49% of the vulnerabilities known to be on the test sites.

"NTOSpider found over twice as many vulnerabilities as the average competitor having a 94% accuracy rating, with Hailstorm having the second best rating of 62%, but only after extensive training by an expert. Appscan had the second best 'Point and Shoot' rating of 55% and the rest averaged 39%."

Is it any wonder that being PCI compliant is meaningless from a security point of view? You can perform a web app scan, check the box on your PCI audit and still have a security posture that is like swiss cheese on your web app!
Technology

Submission + - The end of the battery? (dailymail.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Poingggg
Poingggg writes: The battery's dead: Scientists invent wafer-thin plastic that can store electricity

The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.

British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionising the way we use phones, drive cars — and even wear clothes.

It means the cases of mobiles and iPods could soon double up as their power source — leading to gadgets as thin as credit cards.
Networking

Submission + - SPAM: US Patent Office to review VoIP patent

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.

The patent, held by a small company called C2 Communications Technologies, is one of 10 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been trying to strike down for several years through its Patent Busting Project. [spam URL stripped] On Friday, the patent office granted the EFF's request for a re-examination, the EFF said. The digital civil-liberties organization argued that another applicant had submitted basically some of the same technology to the patent office before C2 did. Patent No. 6,243,373, [spam URL stripped]"Method and apparatus for implementing a computer network/Internet telephone system," is credited to David L. Turock as inventor and is owned by C2, previously called Acceris Communications Technologies.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Superbowl tech ads, 1976 - present (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Ian Lamont
Ian Lamont writes: Computerworld has put together a collection of interesting, funny, and just plain weird Superbowl television advertisements from tech companies — exluding Internet retailers. Everyone has seen the Macintosh ad that played during the 1984 Superbowl, but there are a bunch of other gems, starting with a long-winded ad for the Xerox 9200 from 1976. The funniest is probably EDS' "herding cats" ad from 2000, but there are some oddities, too, including a bizarre ad for Network Associates depicting a Russian nuclear missile launch, and a very dated ad for Sharp from the mid-1980s. Intel has one ad in the collection from 1997, and it turns out that it is returning with two ads this year that it says feature "geek humor".
Idle

Submission + - Canadian Prime Minister loses to Onion Ring (facebook.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On February 2nd, a group was started entitled "Can this Onion Ring get more fans than Stephen Harper?", and just a few days later, the group has almost triple as many fans as the Canadian Prime Minister. The group has over 86,000 fans at the time of this writing, and Stephen Harper has only 30,000. This is just another example of how much Canadian youth disapproves of the elected leader. My contrast, Barack Obama has over 7 million fans — over 200 the amount of Harper — when the population of the USA is approximately 10 times that of Canada. Canada also has proportionally many more Facebook users, which pushes the disparity even further.
Hardware

Submission + - Debunking the Barracuda to VelociRaptor mod (techarp.com)

Submitted by crazyeyes
crazyeyes writes: That’s a really catchy title, isn’t it? Who wouldn’t want to turn a "slow" 7,200 RPM hard disk drive into a super-fast 10,000 RPM Western Digital VelociRaptor? After all, the 300 GB model of the much-vaunted HDD speed king retails for US$ 199.99, while a 1.5 TB Barracuda 7200.11 only costs US$ 109.99. Imagine getting the performance of the VelociRaptor with the capacity and price of the Seagate Barracuda!

The guys at TechwareLabs came up with an apparently nifty way to "transform" the 1.5 TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drive into a VelociRaptor-killer. But before you go rushing out to grab yourself a 1.5 TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drive, please note that their mod basically involves crippling the Barracuda...

Submission + - Cell Phone OS Comparison (theultimatefive.com)

Submitted by Asaf.Zamir
Asaf.Zamir writes: These days, it's not a question of what's your device and what you can do with it, it's about the OS.
Basically, now with the new Android and Maemo battle, devices don't need to only be capable from the hardware point of view, they should have a great OS as well.
Some cases (ahm, Windows CE) the OS might hold the device back in terms of capabilities and consumers are starting to pick up on that.
The Ultimate Five, a website that has comparison for products, decided to do some comparison about the current cell phone OS's out there.

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