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New Frontiers in Hacking
Just when you though it was safe to have a device implanted in your body to deliver electric shocks to your heart, there’s this:
A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks [Barnaby J. Feder, NY Times]
It turns out that the risk of someone actually hacking a pacemaker is rather small, since the researchers were [...]
Time to dump your cell phone carrier
I haven’t had too much use for FreeConference.com, at least not so far. I only tried it once to get an idea for how it worked, but I never needed to hold a large conference. After all, I’m not on the list (at least not yet). As far as I can tell, it’s a great [...]
Family Security Series
The Family Security Series, by Michael Santarcangelo (aka The Security Catalyst) was launched on Friday. In case you missed it, here was the invitation video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5CUUar19U
To view the first episode of the podcast, go here:
Episode 1: Operating System and Application Updates
I’m interested to see the feedback to this series, because I am one [...]
Congratulations to Martin
Well, I feel a little embarrassed to be so behind the crowd on this one, but I want to congratulate Martin McKeay on his new position as Security Evangelist for StillSecure! I remember his post from 6 months ago when he stated his dream of becoming a security evangelist, and it’s great to hear [...]
DST Update
Unless you missed the memo, you’re probably already aware that due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Daylight Savings Time change will be occurring 3 weeks earlier this year in the US.
Wikipedia article
If you did miss the memo, you’ve got some catching up to do. Virtually every device and every operating system [...]
