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Submission + - Wi-Fi hacking, with a handheld PDA

Submitted by

JimMcc

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @07:28PM

JimMcc writes: "The Zero Day Blog over at ZD Net has an article describing a PDA sized hand-held device made by Immunity, Inc. which provides automated penetration testing of Wi-Fi networks. It will also, it instructed to do so, automatically launch known exploits. It is designed for use by a novice.

The idea is to give pen testers a tool to launch exploits wirelessly in the most covert fashion. At startup, Silica offers the user the option to scan for available open Wi-Fi networks. Once a network is found, the device connects (much like a laptop at Starbucks) and asks the user if it should simply scan for vulnerable/open ports or launch actual exploits from CANVAS.
They say that they try to thoroughly vet purchasers to determine if they are legitimate, but admit that the device will certainly fall into the wrongs hands."

One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released 253

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @06:41PM from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.

juwiley writes "The One Laptop Per Child project has released information about its advanced security platform called Bitfrost. Could children with a $100 laptop end up with a better security infrastructure than executives using $5000 laptops powered by Vista? 'What's deeply troubling — almost unbelievable — about [Unix style permissions] is that they've remained virtually the only real control mechanism that a user has over her personal documents today...In 1971, this might have been acceptable...We have set out to create a system that is both drastically more secure and provides drastically more usable security than any mainstream system currently on the market.'"

Submission + - Blizzard: No Console Plans for World of Warcraft

Submitted by

njkid1

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @06:26PM

njkid1 writes: "Discussing the ever-so-successful World of Warcraft with GamesIndustry.biz, Itzik Ben Bassat, Blizzard Entertainment's vice president of business development and international, once again confirmed the company has no plans to bring said title to any current console. "We are not going to develop WoW for consoles. WoW was designed for PC and I think it will stay that way," he explicitly stated. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1518 6&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000007"

New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? 487

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @05:58PM from the he-wants-us-to-think-for-ourselves dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention Reuters is reporting that New York State Senator Carl Kruger is looking to institute a $100 fine for using electronic gadgets while crossing the street. Citing three pedestrian deaths in his Brooklyn district as the main driving reason he believe Government has an obligation to protect its citizens. "Tech-consuming New Yorkers trudge to work on sidewalks and subways like an army of drones, appearing to talk to themselves on wireless devices or swaying to seemingly silent tunes. 'I'm not trying to intrude on that,' Kruger said. 'But what's happening is when they're tuning into their iPod or Blackberry or cell phone or video game, they're walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles. It's becoming a nationwide problem.'"

Submission + - Refuting the misinformation about Matt Bandy

Submitted by

Rachel Alexander

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @05:34PM

Rachel Alexander writes: "Defense In Child Porn Case Distorts the Truth

There was a long discussion here a couple of weeks ago about child pornography and the prosecution of Matthew Bandy by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. In response to the misinformation that has been spread by the media, the Bandy family and their crisis management firm, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has released a lengthy report, including numerous exhibits regarding the technical aspects of the case. This case was not about adult pornography, nor was it about a computer virus surreptitiously downloading child pornography to your computer — as the media, family and defense counsel have portrayed it. The prosecution of then 16-year old Matt Bandy was about an investigation that yielded overwhelming evidence of the defendant viewing, downloading, uploading and sharing pornographic images of children being sexually abused, and burning them to a CD. Fox News posted a rebuttal from our office here, and the full report can be found here."

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