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- Has your network been penetrated lately?
- Penetration testing is in the news as a leader in the practice was able to prove that he could hack into the FBI's NCIC crime database in less than six hours. The hack required a number of techniques including network vulnerability scanning, Web server vulnerability exploits, and escalation of privileges;...
- Tags: Researcher, Network, Penetration, Rootkits, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Botnets: German researchers fight back
- In a recent post of mine, "Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet," there wasn't much good news. In fact, reports describing the potential for harm and economic loss are downright scary. There maybe a glimmer of hope though. I just finished reading a Techworld article, "Researchers ‘poison' Storm botnet" by...
- Tags: Researcher, Bot, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Internet, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet
- At the recent RSA 2008 gathering Damballa, an Internet security company devoted solely to researching botnet technology, is reporting some "not so good news." In the article, "Kraken BotArmy-Twice as Big as Storm; Evades over 80% of Installed Antivirus Software" pdf Ashley Vandiver of Damballa explains: This new...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Server, Zombie, Computer, Damballa, Kraken BotArmy-Twice, Storm, Productivity, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Australian researcher finds a way to make broadband 100 times faster
- John Papandriopoulos, a research fellow at the University of Melbourne, has developed an algorithm that reduces interference in ADSL connections, essentially making broadband Net speeds 100 times faster. An excerpt from The Age: Most ADSL services are effectively limited to speeds between 1 Mbps to 20...
- Tags: Arun Radhakrishnan, Broadband, Broadband Internet, DSL, Engineering, Mbps, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Researcher, Stanford University, Telecommunications
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Researchers at Arizona State University develop new massive memory technology
- Researchers at the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics CANi have developed new memory technology that could be 1,000 times more efficient than today's USB and flash memory devices. An excerpt from PC World: The problem that CANi has been tackling is the physical limit...
- Tags: Researcher, Flash Memory, Arizona State University, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Evolution in botnet strategy: Mini-swarms
- Security researchers are warning that botnets are using a strategy of splitting into smaller swarms to avoid detection. Security firms F-Secure and Israel-based Finjan believe that the trend appears as an evasive technique as opposed to previous techniques comprising large swarms that can be detected. The TechWorld...
- Tags: Swarm, Technique, Researcher, Countermeasure, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-06
- IBM makes nanotechnology breakthrough
- Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center at San Jose, California, used a process called Magnetic Anisotropy and were able to measure the magnetic orientation of a single atom. A possible result of the breakthrough is that devices the size of the iPod can pack 30,000 full-length films. ...
- Tags: Atom, Researcher, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- Security researcher says Google Gadgets domain may be used for phishing
- The domain hosting Google Gadgets, the nifty programs that can be used to display content from several sites on the Web, can be used by phishers to get around anti-phishing filters, says a security researcher. An excerpt from the piece at PC World | IDG News Service:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Researcher, Domain, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- New zero-day Yahoo Messenger bug found
- Researchers at McAfee have verified and reproduced a zero-day bug first reported by Chinese researchers pertaining to the Webcam functionality on Yahoo Messenger. The bug was reproduced on the most recent version of Messenger as of today, which is V8.1.0.413. Wrote McAfee researcher Wei...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Yahoo IM, Researcher, Webcam, Yahoo! Inc., Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.
- Tags: Unmanned Vehicle, researcher, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Photos: Building a better space suit
- At MIT and the University of North Dakota, researchers are trying out new designs to clothe astronauts heading to Mars.
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researcher, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-07-18
- Images: Photo editing for dummies
- Carnegie Mellon University researchers are applying Google's concepts for sifting through data to the tasks of adding or removing images from digital photos.
- Tags: photograph, Carnegie-Mellon University, digital photograph, researcher, image, Google Inc.
- Image galleries 2007-07-12
- A site to auction off vulnerabilities
- Application vulnerabilities and security flaws will henceforth be marketable, thanks to the Swiss security firm, WabiSabiLabi (its name is a conceptualization of "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete," derived from Buddhism). The new marketing scheme will make it possible for security researchers to auction off information about security exploits to the highest...
- Tags: Researcher, Vulnerability, Auction, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- The advent of wireless power
- A team of researchers from MIT has demonstrated a future in which true wireless power can be a reality when they recently lit a 60-watt light bulb from an unconnected source about seven feet away. Dubbed WiTricity, (Can someone please give the PR folks a call to...
- Tags: Researcher, Public Relations, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Protocol for Location Based Services developed by the University of Illinois
- Science Daily reported on May 21, 2007, that researchers* at the University of Illinois have developed a protocol for Geographic Information Systems GIS that was adopted by the International Standards Organization ISO earlier this year. This protocol forms what one researcher says is the "backbone" for Location Based Services...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, Researcher, ISO, Service, Location Based Services, Iso standards, Process Improvement, GIS, Quality, Business Operations, Software, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Photos: Robots as toys, tools and teachers
- RoboBusiness 2007, a robotics conference held this week in Boston, presents bots for use by the military, children and researchers.
- Tags: Robots, robotics, bot, robot, teacher, Boston, researcher, photograph, conference, tool
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- Photos: A Cool Robot for polar duty
- A boxy robot covered with solar panels could be just the thing for researchers in Antarctica.
- Tags: Robots, Antarctica, robot, photograph, researcher
- Image galleries 2007-03-16
- Black Hat DC 2007
- Security researchers discuss vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi drivers, RFID proximity cards and weaknesses in hardware-based forensics.
- Tags: forensics, Black Hat, RFID, Wi-Fi, vulnerability, researcher, hardware, security
- Image galleries 2007-03-02
- Photos: Meet the robo-pigeon
- Researchers in China embed electrodes in a pigeon's head in order to send it aloft like a remote-controlled model airplane.Credit: He Yi/ChinaFotoPress
- Tags: China, electrode, photograph, researcher
- Image galleries 2007-02-28
- Photos: George Bush and 'ethanol 2.0'
- With ethanol gaining steam as an alternative fuel, the president gives a nod to researchers are looking beyond corn.
- Tags: alternative fuel, George W. Bush, nod, photograph, president, researcher
- Image galleries 2007-01-25
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