Month: August 2010

just how strong are your passwords?

When choosing a password, a couple of characters can make a big difference, and you can see just how big a difference by using the…

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the end of antibiotics?

According to an article in this morning’s Guardian, the age of antibiotics may be “coming to a close.”   Researchers have found a gene which is…

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from blackhat – check fraud on an industrial scale

A security researcher speaking at the recent Black Hat conference in Las Vegas described a new, sophisticated and automated approach to check fraud which allowed…

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from defcon – cellular interception on the cheap, long range RFID, and Android rootkit

Although I did not make it to Las Vegas for Defcon, I have been keeping an eye out for interesting information coming out of the…

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