Topic: COMPUTER - on September 9, 2007 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
This USB key will self-destruct in...
Military-grade USB drives are nothing new on Crave, which has even seen models designed to withstand nuclear explosions. But this particular version would be as useful in the next Cold War as it would be in the battlefield.
Not only is the "IronKey" secured in a rugged metal case sealed with "epoxy-based potting compound," according to PCLaunches, but the battle-ready drive has an additional feature worthy of opening scenes from the old Mission Impossible TV series--an encryption chip that self-destructs after 10 wrong passwords are tried.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 9, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
Unbrick or downgrade any PSP
The PSP hackers over at noobz.eu have released a killer tool for fixing any bricked PSP, restoring it to v1.5 firmware. When the PSP boots, the hardware checks for the serial number on the battery eeprom. If it's 0xFFFFFF, it loads firmware from the memory stick instead of from internal flash. You use a working PSP along with the Noobz team's tool to create one of these special batteries. With it, operation can be restored on devices that were previously unbootable due to corrupted firmware. It's also a nice way to completely downgrade your PSP.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 9, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
Forensic computer promises to make quick work of digital crime
A European consortium has come up with a high-speed digital forensic computer dedicated to the task of quickly offloading and analyzing all computer records from email or picture files to database contents and file transfers.The TreCorder is a rugged forensic PC able to copy or clone up to three hard disks simultaneously, at a speed of up to 2 Gb/min. The same transfer would take 30 to 60 minutes using alternative equipment said Martin Hermann, general director of MH-services, the company that lead product development in conjunction with EUREKA.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 9, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
The Economics of Malware
50 million computers are after your passwords, your money, and your processor time (single PDF link). No wonder William Gibson's new novel is set in the present: the world is fully caught up with any future we could make up. The business of spamming, carding and phishing supports and runs off a peculiar distributed platform: a market-allocated collection of ad-hoc peer-to-peer content delivery networks running on hijacked browsing appliances' stolen processor cycles.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 6, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Cover-up allegation over Chinese hackers
Ministers were accused yesterday of trying to cover up the extent of Chinese cyber-attacks on Whitehall and urged to adopt a more robust approach to Beijing about the incidents.
The Guardian yesterday reported that Chinese hackers, some believed to be from the People's Liberation Army, have been attacking the computer networks of British government departments. The attackers targeted the network at the Foreign Office and other departments.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 6, 2007 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Hacker Marks 25th Anniversary of First Computer Virus
What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.
Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX) Netscape and wrote countless other computer programs, he is still remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 6, 2007 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
THUNDERBIRD TOOLBOX - 110+ Thunderbird Themes and Extensions
You’re already a Firefox God, so perhaps now is a good time to get acquainted with Mozilla’s equally slick mail client: Thunderbird.
In July, Mozilla said it might spin off Thunderbird as a community project and focus instead on Firefox, but for now the excellent email software remains in the Mozilla family. Here we’ve assembled 110+ resources for both new users and Thunderbird regulars.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2007 at 1:44:00 PM CEST
Cyber crime tool kits go on sale
Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech crime.
On sale, say security experts, are everything from individual viruses to comprehensive kits that let budding cyber thieves craft their own attacks.
The top hacking tools are being offered for prices ranging up to £500.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 31, 2007 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer
"This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, that cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 31, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Pirates on ATM
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Innenministerium bestreitet Schäden durch Hackerangriffe
Auf zahlreichen Computern im Kanzleramt und in Bundesministerien haben Sicherheitsexperten Spionageprogramme entdeckt, die nach SPIEGEL-Informationen aus China stammen. Ein Regierungssprecher stritt Schäden ab, bestätigte aber große Probleme mit Trojanern.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Student cracks Government's $84m porn filter
A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes.
Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, a year 10 student at a southeast Melbourne private school, showed the Herald Sun how to deactivate the filter in a handful of clicks.
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