July 2009 not only brought the hopes of fun summer activities, but it also brought the new vicious Trojan virus called Clampi. Clampi is a newly sophisticated virus designed to attack online banking systems. It favors small to medium-sized businesses with computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Currently, Clampi is tracking over 4500 banks, credit card companies, e-mails, retail sites, utilities, online casinos, wire transfer services, share brokerages, government sites and mortgage lenders. read more
Really? Oh dear. This makes me laugh. Found it in my local news website. It’s National Protect Your Identity week – and knowing how to do that may be more important than ever before. Identity theft is a crime that is on the rise and recent statistics show Georgia is seventh in the nation in rates of citizens falling victim. Crime statistics show about 10-million Americans fell victim to identity theft in 2008. Skye Taylor with Consumer Credit Counseling Service Of Savannah says, “A lot of people think that identity theft is becoming more prevalent because of electronic information, but most of the identity theft that actually occurs is pretty low-tech.” In fact she says – the area in which...
via hackaday We’ve seen some ways to bypass biometric security measures but here’s a new offering that we think will be hard to fool. The Safelock system is used in conjunction with a password to identify a specific user. This software records your typing style including the time between keystrokes, the time keys are held, and key pressure data. This information is then normalized and compared to the information stored about the user when the password was originally set. If you don’t fall within specifications that match the stored data, you won’t get in even with the right password. The icing on the cake is that Safelock will look for malicious users. If you enter the wrong password, it will begin to record...
An estimated $27 million worth of art, including works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt, were stolen from a Pebble Beach home on Friday. The artwork was taken from the home that the owners of the collection, A. Benjamin Amadio and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh, were renting while they looked at property in the area. Amadio said the pieces of art hadn’t been hung since they were just renting the home. He also said that several other pieces of art that were part of the collection weren’t stolen. Amadio and Kennaugh are offering two separate rewards — a $1 million reward for the return of the stolen artwork, and a $5 million reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the heist. The...
The crux of the matter is that at some point, for some reason, you might need to know exactly what is behind door #2 without actually opening it. And now it would seem that a lifetime of repressed sexual feelings, and total abstinence from drugs and alcohol may have yielded the solution, compliments of the University of Utah who used a 34 node 802.15.4 wireless network to perform a little remote sensing on a building… They even wrote a white paper on it: http://planaheist.com/slurl/cvdsk8 And got some media attention: http://planaheist.com/slurl/9dnxec
