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On its blog, Symantec, an Internet security company tested this out by Googling some iPad keywords and found that a bunch of the link on the first page were hacker’s infected websites. That being said, make sure you are careful when browsing around online and make sure that you have some sort of Internet security program installed on your computer at all times.

(Via SecurityWatch.EWeeek)

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aug Augmented Reality: The Next Generation of TechnologyWith researchers experimenting and improving augmented reality technology, it seems like all the virtual reality 3D stuff you used to watch in SciFi movies is now finally starting to become a reality. [...]

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A new scheme is hitting Facebook, trying to trick its users into searching for virus-infected websites, and ultimately downloading the virus by choice. It works like this: while you’re surfing Facebook, you get a notification saying that you have been infected by an “unNamed App” and that it is an internal spybot. In reality there is nothing wrong with your account, but the hacker expects that you will immediately go to Google and search for this “unNamed App.”

“A normal user will go to a search engine to find out what this is about… and then he will find that there is a nice BlackHat SEO attack that makes the 1st and 2nd results to lead to a malicious website that forces you to install a rogueware application,” reports PandaLabs research lead Luis Corrons.
The hacker’s website will usually rank somewhere near the top of the search engine results, and when you click to go into the website, it will try to force you to download the virus. This shows just how tricky hackers have become. Facebook already knows about this scam and is actively warning its users of it and to “Be wary of any sites that claim to be able to fix this, as they might contain malicious software.” To avoid falling victim to these types of scams, be sure to be careful what you click on.

(Via SecurityWatch.EWeek)

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The drones’ ability to reach such high altitude has raised concerns from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority, which regulates airspace. The division is hesitant to allow the UAVs to fly in normal airspace because of the risk of colliding with airplanes. However, the “sense and avoid” technology for the drones are only a few years away. [...]

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79 year old Doris Payne was arrested in 2005 after being caught on a security camera stealing a $30K diamond ring from Neiman Marcus at the Stanford Shopping Center. It turned out that Doris was actually lifelong criminal whose exciting exploits had traversed the globe. Her story even made it’s way to Hollywood where it became the subject of a movie starring Halle Berry. The movie, entitled, “Who is Doris Payne?” is scheduled to be released later this year.

Now it seems like they’re going to have reshoot the ending of the film. Just a few months after having completed her prison sentence, Doris is suspected of steeling a $2,300 Burberry trench coat at Saks Fifth Avenue. It might not have been as expensive an item as most of her previous thefts were, but because Doris is still on parole, it doesn’t look good for the aging criminal.

(Via the LA Times and Mercury News)

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must 177x300 The Next Level of Technology in Mobile SurveillanceThe police have long recognized the benefits of an elevated surveillance post, but moving and setting it up is always a hassle that takes quite a bit of time. Now with the invention of the M.U.S.T. (Mobile Utility Surveillance Tower), authorities get both – the ability to get where they are needed quickly, and to get up into an elevated surveillance post in just under two minutes.

The best part is that it is not complicated to operate the M.U.S.T. Technology, and it only requires one person to operate. This is great for crowd control or raids since the vehicle can pull up to the location where it’s needed and without even getting out of the vehicle, the officer can get into the surveillance post, and raise himself to height of over 25 feet.

The post also provides a working platform for a variety of surveillance devices such as digital and/or thermal imaging camera systems, computers, communications or radio equipment, and it can easily hold two people.

The Mobile Utility Surveillance Tower has already been tested and used by multiple law enforcement agencies, which all applaud it for the combination of innovative automotive technology, rapid response and the practicality of a mobile all-terrain surveillance unit.

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hide 176x177 custom How To Hide From Google Google offers users a free, superior online experience and services such as email, search, maps, etc. in exchange for your web browsing privacy. Now thanks to an independent security researcher who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike, you can get all of Google’s freebies without having to sacrifice your privacy. He just launched a Firefox plug-in called Googlesharing, which gives users access to Google’s online services while cloaking their identity from the company’s data collection tools. The way that it works is it sends your Internet requests through another computer that hides your identity and mixes it up with those of other users.

“Each identity looks like a normal user, but everything is mixed up between identities so Google can’t track any individual” says Marlinspike.

Googlesharing hides your online privacy from everyone but one person: Marlinspike himself, and in case you don’t even trust him, he offers the source code to you for free to create your own proxy.

“If you don’t trust us, you can find someone who you do trust,” he says.

But is all this really necessary? Or are these the people that use proxy services like this one just paranoid? Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt tells us that the fears of governments using our web history to try to convict us of crimes might just be true:

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in hidebag 209x209 custom How To Hide From Googlethe first place… The reality is that search engines–including Google–do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities”

Googlesharing is not the only proxy you can use to keep your online identity safe, there are others like Tor, which provides increased security, but slows you down a bit since it redirects all your Internet requests through 3 different servers. Other sites like Ixquick.com or Scroogle.com only offer to keep your searches private, but not any other of Google’s services.  For the most ease of use, and without sacrificing speed, try out Googlesharing.

(Via Forbes)

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passwordlist 150x300 Password Guessing   Still Easy As EverWhen the Internet first became popular, Internet security was not a hot topic that everyone was concerned about. When making passwords, people often turned to easy to remember favorites like  “12345,” “password,” and “iloveyou.”  Surprisingly, even after all [...]

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