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Submission + - Harsh wireless conditions? Send in the drone hot spot (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:20PM

coondoggie writes: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has moved along a project it says would use hot-spot enabled drones to bring bring wireless communications to even the most distant and harsh environment. The project known as Fixed Wireless at a Distance is designed specifically to overcome the challenge inherent with cell communication in remote areas and this week the agency awarded L-3 $16.4 million to support the next iteration of the system.

Comment Re:Everyone should post as Anonymous (Score 1) 304

by planetzuda on Saturday September 22, 2012 @01:04AM (#41418925) Attached to: Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name

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Submission + - QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks 1

Submitted by

planetzuda

on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:51AM

planetzuda writes: "Invisible nano QR codes have been proposed as a way to stop forgery of U.S currency by students of Michigan University. Unfortunately QR codes are easy to forge and can send you to a site that infects your system. Banks would most likely need to scan currency that have QR codes to ensure the authenticity of the bill. If the QR code was forged it could infect the bank with a virus."

Submission + - New State-Sponsered Malware "Gauss" making the rounds (wired.com)

Submitted by

EliSowash

on Thursday August 09, 2012 @02:10PM

EliSowash writes: "A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to Kaspersky researchers. Gauss is a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation. Besides stealing various kinds of data from infected Windows machines, it also includes an unknown, encrypted payload which is activated on certain specific system configurations. Just like Duqu was based on the “Tilded” platform on which Stuxnet was developed, Gauss is based on the “Flame” platform."

Submission + - Serious Web Vulnerabilities Dropped in 2011 (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Saturday June 30, 2012 @02:32PM

wiredmikey writes: It's refreshing to see a security report from a security vendor that isn't all doom-and-gloom and loaded with FUD. Web Application Security gurus, WhiteHat Security, released a report this week showing that the number of major vulnerabilities has fallen dramatically. Based on the raw data gathered from scans of over 7,000 sites, there were only 79 substantial vulnerabilities discovered on average in 2011. To compare, there were 230 vulnerabilities on average discovered in 2010, 480 in 2009, 795 in 2008, and 1,111 in 2007.

As for the types of flaws discovered, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) remained the number one problem, followed by Information Leakage, Content Spoofing, Insufficient Authorization, and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) flaws. SQL Injection, an often mentioned attack vector online – was eighth on the top ten.

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