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Carbon Motors’ designs on a purpose-built police car survive the recession
Posted by hipstomp “It’s got a cop motor…cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks, it was a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.” It’s been many years since Elwood Blues launched hi...
California cops testing out head-mounted cameras
Posted by hipstomp The Taser AXON is a “tactical networkable computer” that consists of a camera/microphone unit, a control unit and a small belt-mounted computer. Cops in California’s San Jose, beleaguered by charges of police brut...
Privacy Groups Call on FTC to Investigate Facebook
Shane McGlaun (Blog) Privacy changes open Facebook user profiles to many more people Privacy is one of the top concerns for millions of Americans who go online each day. A very large percentage of the millions of Americans who go online end up using ...
‘Fighting’ IED Attacks With SCARE Technology
An Army Stryker armored vehicle framed by concertina wire departs Forward Operating Base Wolverine in the Zabul province of Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2009. (Credit: Photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez / Courtesy of U.S. Army) University of Maryland ...
Harnessing the Cloud for Hacking
Cloud password cracker is a sign of things to come. By Robert Lemos Want to check if the password to your wireless network (or your neighbor’s) passes muster? For $34, you can do just that by using a password-cracking service that’s prima...
Website invading your privacy? Bookmark it (and alert the FTC)
As part of a new privacy campaign from the Center for Democracy and Technology, a new browser bookmarklet will let you flag privacy problems with a click, then have the reports forwarded to the Federal Trade Commission. By Nate Anderson See a website...
‘Fingerprinting’ RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rath...
New tool seeks to block rootkits by protecting their targets
Rootkits often replace functions provided by an operating system’s kernel in order to infect a machine and obscure their presence. A paper describes a way of blocking rootkits by gathering all these functions in one place in memory, then lockin...
Unfinished Windows 7 feature turns laptops into Wi-Fi hotspots
Free app lets iPhones, other devices connect to Internet via software-based router By Gregg Keizer A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other Wi-Fi-ena...
Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Feds’ Smart Grid Race Leaves Cybersecurity in the Dust
By Kim Zetter Amid the government-funded rush to upgrade America’s aging electric system to a smart grid comes a strange confluence of press releases this week by the White House and the University of Illinois. Tuesday morning, President Obama, spe...
Eavesdropping on Smartphone Secrets
Researchers say that smartphones are vulnerable to an attack used to steal information from smartcards. By Erica Naone As phones become increasingly like pocket computers many people have called for closer scrutiny of their security. When explaining...
0.2 Second Test For Explosive Liquids
Since a failed terrorist attack in 2006, plane passengers have not been able to carry bottles of liquid through security at airports, leaving some parched at the airport and others having expensive toiletries confiscated, but work by a group of physi...
Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
By Noah Shachtman America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash ...
SC World Congress: Forensic tips in court
Computer forensics experts called to testify before a judge and jury must relay the facts of the case but equally important, must convey them in a way a jury can understand. On the witness stand, a computer forensic expert must also establish himself...
