Archive for the 'Technology' Category
‘The Last Days of Cash’
May 31st, 2012IEEE: A Special Report on the Future of Money – The Last Days of Cash – How E-Money Technology is Plugging Us into the Digital Economy
Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised; Logs Keystrokes, Phones Home to Server in U.S.
May 31st, 2012Via: Security Week: Simurgh, a privacy tool used in Iran and Syria to bypass Internet censorship and governmental monitoring, is being circulated with a backdoor. The compromised version has been offered on P2P networks and via web searches. Research conducted by CitizenLab.org has shown that malicious version isn’t available form the original software source, only […]
Volvo’s Self-Drive ‘Convoy’ Hits the Spanish Motorway
May 30th, 2012What could possibly go wrong? Avi Rubin – All Your Devices Can Be Hacked: Via: BBC: A convoy of self-driven cars has completed a 200km (125-mile) journey on a Spanish motorway, in the first public test of such vehicles. The cars were wirelessly linked to each other and “mimicked” a lead vehicle, driven by a […]
Japan: Mobile Phone with Geiger Counter
May 30th, 2012I’m surprised that it took so long to appear. Via: Wired: Following Fukushima’s nuclear disaster, Japanese citizens have been especially wary of radiation exposure. SoftBank on Tuesday revealed a new smartphone to answer such concerns. The company’s Pantone 5 107SH is the world’s first phone with a built-in geiger counter, capable of measuring radiation levels […]
Solar Powered Ground Sensors That Can Transmit Information for Decades
May 29th, 2012Via: Wired: America is supposed to wind down its war in Afghanistan by 2014. But U.S. forces may continue to track Afghans for years after the conflict is officially done. Palm-sized sensors, developed for the American military, will remain littered across the Afghan countryside — detecting anyone who moves nearby and reporting their locations back […]
Made in China: Backdoor Found in Chip Used by U.S. Military
May 29th, 2012Via: Information Age: A microchip used by the US military and manufactured in China contains a secret “backdoor” that means it can be shut off or reprogrammed without the user knowing, according to researchers at Cambridge University’s Computing Laboratory. The unnamed chip, which the researchers claim is widely used in military and industrial applications, is […]
Flame Virus
May 29th, 2012Via: Reuters: Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation […]
Texas: Students Will Be Tracked Via Chips in IDs
May 25th, 2012Via: My San Antonio: Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students. District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) […]
FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit
May 24th, 2012My guess is that this headline should read, “Sheepdipped NSA Sources and Methods Now Used for Domestic Law Enforcement.” Via: Cnet: CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. Research Credit: almaverdad2
Arming Police Drones with Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas
May 23rd, 2012Via: CBS: With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft. Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle […]
