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by Kevin Fogarty

Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld.

Web site security improves from appalling to merely bad

Posted Jul 02, 2012 - 09:35 am

Commercial web sites show impressive gains in security during recent years, but only if you compare the 1,100 serious vulnerabilities the average site suffered during 2007 compared to 79 now. That's a big change, but satisfactory only if you'd be happy with 79 holes in your boat.
Security, patch management, security flaw
Year's coolest computer display is made from a soap bubble

Posted Jun 29, 2012 - 12:46 pm

This year's coolest digital-image display is made from bubbles, not solid materials, whose texture, transparency and other characteristics can be tuned using ultrasound to make a perfect surface for even giant, seemingly unsupported image.
Science, adaptable materials, BRDF
Hacked drones could become missiles over U.S., researchers warn

Posted Jun 28, 2012 - 06:14 pm

The FAA's plan to allow as many as 30,000 observation drones to fly over the U.S. by 2015 could be catastrophic, especially the big planes FedEx plans to use to cut delivery costs. GPS spoofing can confuse drones and give attackers "a missile" to direct as a weapon, not an instrument of rescue or law enforcement, researcher warns.
Security, drone hacking, gps jamming
New tools finally give users a way to enforce their own privacy

Posted Jun 28, 2012 - 12:45 pm

A rush of new products are designed to add "military grade" encryption to email, text messages and corporate data. None are perfect; none are revolutionary. Collectively they represent acceptance, for the first time, that users should have tools to keep their data secure even from their own employers and tech suppliers.
Security, Android privacy, anonymous communication
U.K. trial tests whether jokes on Twitter are jokes, or threats

Posted Jun 27, 2012 - 04:01 pm

@stephenfry: God I hope common sense & natural justice prevail ‪#TwitterJokeTrial @Joannechocolat:</a> "All writers should be following #twitterjoketrial. The future of humour, hyperbole and the use of common sense is being decided right now..."
Internet, airport humor, blow up airport
MI-5 chief warns of "astonishing," industrial-scale state-sponsored cybercrime

Posted Jun 26, 2012 - 04:32 pm

The head of the British MI-5 counter-intelligence agency warned yesterday that state-sponsored efforts at cyberattacks had escalated into industrial-scale events involving thousands of people. Who is leading the charge? Superpowers like his government's closest ally.
Security, counterintelligence, cybercrime
How many gigabytes in a a zettabyte and why you need to know

Posted Jun 26, 2012 - 12:56 pm

Gartner's projection that consumers will own 4.1 zettabytes of content and put a third of it in the public cloud by 2016 raised one very pertinent question: What the heck is a zettabyte? Here's your answer and some tools to convert them into something more reasonable.
Consumerization of IT, cloud storage, consumer storage
Smartphone cameras will crash the cloud, smother the Internet

Posted Jun 26, 2012 - 07:00 am

Gartner predicts the amount of consumer data stored in the cloud will increase 1,080 percent by 2016, potentially smothering the cloud, the Internet and every advance in storage and bandwidth between now and then in a flood of useless, redundant pictures of cats.
BYOD, Capacity planning
MIT app gives humans vision like a vampire

Posted Jun 22, 2012 - 07:30 pm

Software from researchers at MIT selectively enhances color and motion in video images, bringing out details like a baby's pulse that are too faint or small to be seen under normal conditions. Now if only they could get it to sparkle adorably in the sunshine.
Development, contactless video monitoring, enhanced motion detection
Own a piece of Occupy Wall Street

Posted Jun 22, 2012 - 04:11 pm

The owner of Occupied Wall Street Journal, one of the first chroniclers of the Occupy movement from inside the movement , is up for auction on GoDaddy to help finance a new site focusing on getting former Occupiers to vote their conscience against Wall Street's pocket book.
Internet, anonymous, hacktivists

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