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Submission + - Security guru calls Windows 8 picture password "Fi (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by alphadogg on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:48PM

alphadogg writes: The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token. "It's cute," says Kenneth Weiss, who now runs a three-factor authentication business called Universal Secure Registry. "I don't think it's serious security." The major downside of the picture password is that drawing a finger across a photo on a touch screen is easy to video record from a distance — making it relatively easy to compromise, he says.

Submission + - Windows 8 may prompt malware attacks on hardware (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

tdog17

on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:50PM

tdog17 writes: "Security features in Windows 8 will discourage operating-system attacks and drive hackers to develop malware that compromises hardware directly, according to McAfee's security predictions for 2012."

Submission + - NASA create cannon harpoon to collect comet sample (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @10:26AM

An anonymous reader writes: NASA's solution to collecting subsurface samples from a comet is not to even attempt to have a craft come into contact with it. Instead, they intend to develop a surgically precise harpoon system that can be fired into the comet rock multiple times without undue risk for the spacecraft tasked with transporting those samples back to Earth.

Submission + - Best & worst celebrity technology moments of 2 (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @09:38AM

alphadogg writes: You might think Charlie Sheen is the most dangerous celebrity around, but no, McAfee says it’s actually a supermodel turned TV show star (based on the amount of malware that pops up when you search her name). But plenty of other celebrities also proved to be dangerous when technology was put at their disposal. Others, meanwhile, integrated technology with their creative sides to deliver new products and funny bits. Here’s a look back at the Best & Worst from 2011

Submission + - Dropbox was data thief heaven, researchers saysay (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @03:41PM

tdog17 writes: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities.

Dropbox could also be used as a place to store documents clandestinely and retrieve them from any Dropbox account controlled by an attacker.

Submission + - A hack that could make your water undrinkable (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @03:19PM

tdog17 writes: A demo at Black Hat next week will remotely hack a car alarm, unlock the doors and start the vehicle, but that's just a parlor trick to call attention to a bigger problem that has the Department of Homeland Security on alert. The same techniques could take down critical infrastructure like power grids and water supplies.

Submission + - Black Hat Pwnie winner will be a criminal (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @02:58PM

tdog17 writes: Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up this year to accept the annual Pwnie Award for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees face possible criminal charges.

Submission + - Coming: Supercopputing as a service (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Thursday July 14, 2011 @05:54PM

tdog17 writes: Researchers at Rutgers have developed a platform to deliver supercomputing as a service, adding and dropping resources on the fly as needed. They say such a service will be available commercially as soon as this fall.

Submission + - Expect trouble from LulzSec hack grads (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:23PM

tdog17 writes: The hacker school set up by LulzSec will graduate its first class soon, and that will mean a discernible uptick in cyber crime activity, according to a security expert who ran afoul of the group.

Submission + - Perpetual attacks on Northrup Grumman (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @11:11AM

tdog17 writes: For years, about a dozen separate legions of organized hackers have been constantly trying to break into aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman to steal sensitive information

Submission + - Pentagon sharing cyber secrets (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Friday June 17, 2011 @10:30AM

tdog17 writes: Defense contractors sit on so many military secrets that the Department of Defense just started sharing its cyber-threat info with them in an effort to prevent leaks.

Submission + - Sony hackings could happen to any big business (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Friday May 27, 2011 @10:02AM

tdog17 writes: People may joke about Sony's porous security, but something similar could happen to virtually any big corporation. Be smart and learn.

Submission + - Cheap SSL proxy for the masses (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @07:26PM

tdog17 writes: Off-the-shelf graphics cards can speed up SSL proxies at a low price, which may encourage more SSL protection of Web sites. Take that, Firesheep!

Submission + - FAA: Lasers pointed at aircraft doubled in 2010 (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @01:00PM

coondoggie writes: Perhaps it is the advent of cheaper lasers that anyone can afford or maybe just an increase in morons, but the FAA today said that in 2010, nationwide reports of laser beams being pointed at airplanes almost doubled from 2009 to more than 2,800, making it the highest number of laser events since the FAA began keeping track in 2005.

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