This raincoat is also body-armor, bullet-proof and stab-proof. As noted, if you’re wearing this to avoid iPod muggers, you might have to contend with jacket muggers who want to rip off your $2,000 coat.
The armour protects against 9mm Full Metal Jacket Round Nose (FMJRN) projectiles, with a weight of 8gm (124gr) at 430 m/s. [...]
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A hacker managed to sneak into the Wordpress server and modify the code in the 2.1.1 release, introducing an exploit that would allow for remote PHP execution. Although the 2.1.1 package does not seem to have been compromised when it was initially released, WP encourages all users to upgrade to 2.1.2 to patch the security [...]
A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.
Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which is at the bottom of [...]
The excellent Security Now podcast just aired an interview with Peter Guttman, the security researcher who wrote the celebrated “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” (this is the paper whose “executive executive summary” read simply, “The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history”).Guttman has really dug [...]
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FBI raids creator of fake boarding pass generator - Homeland Stupidity
Exposing flaws in airport security by talking about them will get you watched closely by government agents. Hi, guys.
Creating a compelling demonstration of just how stupid the federal government is, though, will get you a less-than-friendly visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, followed by [...]
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Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he’d seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan—a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer.
The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication [...]
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Official Google Blog Hacked
So it turns out the official Google Blog got hacked this weekend, and someone was able to publish a fake post on it. This is especially ironic because the latest post on Google’s blog before that was titled “Our security stance,” with Google saying “We keep the bad guys out of our [...]
Techcrunch » Google Presents Code Search
Google have today launched Code Search, a search engine and index of source code that is collected from publicly available sources. Google claims that the new code search engine will be able to find almost any code that it’s crawler can find, but in a few specific searches I did [...]
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Stealth Clock Camera Connects Over Powerlines
The $329.99 LukWerks Spy Camera has got to be the SNEAKIEST SPY GADGET YET It’s built into a standard-looking alarm clock, and has a motion-detector. Here’s the unique part: It connects to your PC over your home powerline through the alarm clock’s plug. I’m sure there are legitimate, ethical uses [...]
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Freedom to Tinker » “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
Like other computer scientists who have studied Diebold voting machines, we were surprised at the apparent carelessness of Diebold’s security design. It can be hard to convey this to nonexperts, because the examples are technical. To security practitioners, the use of a fixed, unchangeable encryption [...]
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