Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Oregon State University: Research Create Diodes That Use Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
September 5th, 2013Via: OSU: Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption that the speed of electrons moving through silicon is simply too slow. For the extraordinary speed envisioned in some future electronics applications, these innovative […]
Think Of Tor As A Honeypot
September 4th, 2013This is .mil laughing out loud at Tor heads. “Tor is known to be insecure against an adversary that can observe a user’s traffic entering and exiting the anonymity network.” Gee, I wonder who might be capable of doing something like that: NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches Via: ohmygodel .PDF: Tor […]
NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches
September 4th, 2013“No one updates their routers” ??? I always updated the routers, switches and firewalls that I was responsible for. Ah well, these kids today… Via: Wired: The NSA’s focus on routers highlights an often-overlooked attack vector with huge advantages for the intruder, says Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer at security firm Beyond Trust. Hacking routers […]
With Camera Sales Slowing, Canon Looks to Surveillance Sector for Growth
September 4th, 2013Via: Reuters: Nosy governments and nervous homeowners, among other drivers of the surveillance society, may soon upstage amateur photographers as the focus for big camera makers such as Canon Inc who spot growing opportunities in the security market. Canon, the industry leader, has been hit with a sudden downturn in shipments of its top-end digital […]
Snowden Reportedly Used High-Ranking Official’s Profiles to Troll NSA’s Intranet
September 3rd, 2013Something had to be very wrong on that network. Snowden must have pretty much had top level access to pull this off. Even so, it boggles the mind that something like disabling multi factor authentication didn’t generate some sort of notification at the next level up the pyramid. I’ve been out of the sysadmin game […]
Microsoft to Acquire Nokia Handset Business
September 3rd, 2013I wonder how reckless Microsoft will get as the realization sinks in that Android and iOS are too far ahead to catch. Via: BBC: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 45% […]
U.S. Spy Agencies Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-Operations in 2011
September 1st, 2013Via: Washington Post: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides […]
Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops?
August 31st, 2013Via: Motherboard: Has a fear of robotics ever kept anyone from robbing banks? I’m not talking about the surveillance systems, laser-armed tripwires, noisy alarms, or automated locks on the doors. I’m talking about actual robots—an evolution of the ROOMBA Vacuum cleaner, but with legs, not cute, and definitely not something you want to rob. Now, […]
Arbitrage on Equities in Millisecond Time Frames
August 30th, 2013The “national best bid and offer” prices—Aren’t. Via: Fortune: Here’s how Hendershott’s latency-arbitrage strategy worked: Redline allowed him to use its “direct market access” — cables that run directly from exchange servers to its own. Redline’s server was co-located with that of BATS Exchange so that the “latency” on information and orders coming from BATS […]
New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA Crypto-Cracking
August 30th, 2013Isn’t it comforting to know that the Washington Post essentially gave editorial control over this story to the U.S. Government? Here’s a tip for real whistle blowers: Distribute your material as a torrent. That way, we wouldn’t have to deal with the god damned, enemy collaborator media censoring it. Via: Wired: The latest published leak […]
