I’m a huge fan of Google. I forward all email into gmail, I use picasa for all my photo albums, I search with google, I’ve been investigating their Android mobile phone platform, I frequent their code repository, and the list goes on. I find this latest Google endeavor a bit troubling. Google began piloting their [...]

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Yet another horrific hack (depending on your view) has been demonstrated at the Black Hat conference in DC. Apparently two guys named David Hulton and Steve Muller are able to crack cell phone encryption used on (GSM) cellular signals (AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile use). For around $900 in equipment and a little bit of time [...]

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The darkest corners of the Internet are booming with help wanted ads looking for hackers who are fluent in foreign languages, such as Mandarin, Russian, and Chinese. If written poorly, scams like email phishing and grammatically incorrect web pages make it difficult to trick people in other countries into revealing their financial information. So what’s [...]

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Yet another company is caving into Hollywood.  Adobe has decided to place DRM on top of their latest version of Flash for video. This is a bold move considering Microsoft is trying to push Silverlight.  Tick off enough developers and they just might jump ship into a Silverlight dinghy. It’s not that Silverlight doesn’t use [...]

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It’s not surprising that some frightening new security exploits came out of the Black Hat conference in Washington DC this week. One exploit in particular caught my eye because it relates to something I carry around in my wallet, my American Express credit card. A guy named Adam Laurie who is considered an expert in [...]

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