21 de dezembro de 2012

WCIT-12 Final Acts Signatories

WCIT-12 Final Acts Signatories

20 de dezembro de 2012

Al Jazeera English: UN criticises Israel over settlement plans. http://goo.gl/mag/cE2huIl

18 de dezembro de 2012

SSD prices continue to plunge

SSD prices continue to plunge:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosmurf/4845222417/
Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte.
After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according to data from IHS iSupply.

17 de dezembro de 2012

25-GPU server makes easy work of password cracking

25-GPU server makes easy work of password cracking:
http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/radeon_city.jpg
Ever wondered how secure the password to your Windows workstation is? Well, as it turns out, it's pretty insecure when put up against a 25-GPU server cluster running a combination of Linux and freely available password-cracking software suites. Said server, powered by 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards, manages to brute force Windows passwords at a rate of 350 billion guesses-per-second, making short work of eight-character passwords.

Security exploit opens Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II to attack

Security exploit opens Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II to attack:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/10/galaxy-note-ii-source-code-10-08-12-01.jpg
The brilliant minds at XDA Developers have done it again; this time, a user by the name of alephzain claims to have discovered a vulnerability in multiple Samsung devices that gives access to all physical memory. The potential is huge: attackers could use malicious apps to wipe data and brick devices or, more likely, quietly access user data.

5 de dezembro de 2012

Get ready for spy bots that fly through open windows

Get ready for spy bots that fly through open windows:
http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/12/04/EASE.jpg
You gotta hand it to the marketers who come up with robot acronyms. Can it get any better than Extreme Access System for Entry (EASE)?
Sounds innocuous enough, right? Until this little critter tries to float into your room to spy on you. It's one of two bots unveiled by CyPhy Works, headed by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner.
EASE and PARC (that's Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance & Communication), a communications relay, are compact flying machines that can fly between 3 feet and 1,000 feet while remaining tethered to their human controllers via microfilaments.