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- RFID passports take off
- RFID passports take off[b]Get a bunch of tags...[/b]Instead of worrying about having 1 identifiable tag on your person, carry 50 or more. I can see that there will be an market for decoy RFID cards or pens that contain 50 or more RFIDs. Carry it your shirt pocket,...
- Tags: RFID, RFID Passport, passport
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Mahaffey who is the Director of Development for Flexilis Inc. Kevin and his team of researchers presented a video at Black Hat 2006 illustrating improperly shielded RFID Radio Frequency Identifier passports that can potentially be used to trigger a bomb.It turns out...
- Tags: RFID, passport
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- RFID passports with improper shielding triggers bomb in simulation
- At Black Hat 2006, Flexilis inc. demonstrated that improper shielding in the proposed American RFID passports might be used by terrorists to set off bombs that may target citizens of particular nations. To demonstrate this, Flexilis produced a video showing what happens to an improperly shielded...
- Tags: RFID Passport, RFID, Flexilis
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
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- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free rideHow do you do this?Hey Nate, You guys post awesome information for people aspiring to be Security Testers. Could you help me learn this trade? How and what do I have to do?Umm...It's quite a lot to cover. Do you...
- Tags: RFID, London Underground, Nate, security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks Dennis Howlett: Oracle's Q4 results analysis RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL Bill Gates: Hits and misses [Video] More...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Mary Jo Foley, Bill Gates, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, 3G, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic
- Lack of RFID standards leads to media panicActive vs. Passive RFID DevicesIn addition to the comments above, it was not clear from the article I read whether the researchers were testing only active RFID or both active and passive RFID. The author of the article I read also implied...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana, RFID, RFID Standards, media
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic
- There is no standard that will tell hospitals what frequencies the tags are using. Thus they can't tell when the frequencies being used by the tags might interfere with other gear. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Hospital, Media, Medical Device, Standards, RFID, Healthcare, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Time to blow up the software industrySoftware is designed for Libraries and Charter or Municiple School systems.Big competition in the Linux vs Windowes Enterprise software her; Unix and Novell for Agencies and Police Departments. The Court House use Proliant-Linux I heard.BBD - old wine in new bottleBBD is just old...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, E-mail providers, ROI/TCO, cloud computing, SaaS Model, SaaS IS, enterprise software, software, Google Gmail, BBd
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Maxtor Black Armor
- We're not surprised to see the Maxtor Black Armor emerge in a time when so much confidential data is transported by external hard drives. The 10GB Black Armor drive ($150) is a portable storage device with built-in Advanced Encryption Standard hardware-based encryption to prevent digital theft. Unfortunately, this added security...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), traveler mode, Black Armor, Maxtor Corp., password
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, sensor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- The most comprehensive police database: Facebook
- Over the last few decades, police intelligence gets better through technological means. Before they used pen and paper, and the only way to cross reference files was by means of filing. Nowadays with specific databases for different crimes - the PND, ViSOR, the UK DNA database, ANCHORY, FBI Guardian, and...
- Tags: Facebook, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Del Monte Foods: Following the chain of demand
- Del Monte Foods: Following the chain of demandDemand? Hardly.This is an important topic, handled superficially. RFID is not a solution, as your questioner implies, merely a dumb technology with potential to contribute to better in-store visibility, IF proper store-level compliance practices are adopted. Mr. Brown to his credit sidesteps that...
- Tags: Del Monte Foods
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Bluetooth Passport Standard for XP (exe)
- Bluetooth Passport is designed to implement proximity login and steps away lock for Windows. Using a Bluetooth device, such as a cell phone or a PDA, you can logon to Windows without inputting user name and password manually. For Bluetooth Passport is based short-range wireless technique, it different from some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Bluetooth Application Lab, Bluetooth Passport, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- Bluetooth Passport Standard for Vista (exe)
- Bluetooth Passport is designed to implement proximity login and steps away lock for Windows. Using a Bluetooth device, such as a cell phone or a PDA, you can login Windows without inputting user name and password manually. For Bluetooth Passport is based short-range wireless technique, it different from some other...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Bluetooth Application Lab, Bluetooth Passport, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- VeriChip going away?
- Just as it was launching its consumer campaign VeriChip seems to be going away. The company launched its ad campaign under the name HealthLink in April, but just three weeks later sold its Canadian unit, Xmark, to Stanley Works for $45 million and put itself on the...
- Tags: VeriChip, Chip, RFID, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?
- According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...
- Tags: DNS, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Security Token, Microsoft Corp., Domain Names, Digital Security, Security, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated
- Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...
- Tags: Phone, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Malware, Cell Phone, Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
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