Archive for the 'News' Category
Court Finds Contractor Guilty of Identity Fraud (Part 1)
A defense contractor has been charged and found guilty of selling a thumb drive containing names and Social Security information of around 17,000 military personnel for $500.00. The good news, the guy who bought the information was part of a special FBI task force that was entasked of finding such activities. What does that have [...]
Read More..>>Diet and Exercise App to Use Cloud-based Mobile Service
A plethora of applications have been developed to cater to the numerous needs and wants of customers all over the world. The Internet, of course, plays a central role to the development and implementation of these applications. While some of the apps can be pretty mundane, there are lots of interesting and unique ones out [...]
Read More..>>This disk, this disk…… Home Office? (Part 2)
The technicians were surprised at first and they treated the event trivially only to realize that the disk was real due to heavily encrypted data stored within it. The repair shop technician reports the incident to the police who dispatches an anti-terrorism team to the site to receive the errant laptop. This strikes another blow [...]
Read More..>>Found a disk, what disk?…… A HomeOffice.gov.UK disk? (Part 1)
Apparently, governments are not as tight in their control of information as they should be in another blow to the It Security of the UK government. An online shopper who recently bought a laptop from eBay had it repaired with technicians discovering a disk that was labeled to be confidential and guess what, it comes [...]
Read More..>>Intel Releases new Microprocessor chip
The release of Intel of a low-power microprocessor which is aimed at the mobile internet enabled workforce with their internet capable gadgets is set to revolutionize the market. The actual chip can fit in the same area as a dime giving the idea of small a new meaning. Using the latest and smallest technology in [...]
Read More..>>Iran – Blocking the Internet (Part 2)
This has many Western nations worried of the implications of having a country that has been tied and accused of having links to many terror organizations that span the globe having the capability and technology to deploy nuclear weapons. The country says it is purely for power generation yet their testing of an intercontinental ballistic [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits you and me? (Part 3)
With common transactional data, 128 bit encryption is standard for it is estimated that it would take a couple of years for a computer that is fast enough to crack it. Take it a notch up, and you get a time frame goes up to a couple of decades or so till technology can get [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 2)
That all happens in a couple of minutes without you ever knowing that there was some very fascinating stuff happening in the background. For credit cards and other major bank transactions, they are now using PCI-DSS; an encryption standard that encrypts the transaction information as it travels thought the network. Anyone who taps into the [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 1)
As you surf the web as part of your job or for more trivial pursuits you send information through the internet at breakneck speeds that a web page that is based on a server in California takes only milliseconds to open. You go to the grocery and pick up the monthly goods using your credit [...]
Read More..>>New OS, Love it? Nope!
People used to jump onto new stuff like bees to honey but in today’s recession wrecked world, that may not be the case. With Microsoft announcing the release of their new and hopefully improved operating system, people weren’t actually jumping up and down with joy, but with trepidation that they’d have to shell out a [...]
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