At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes. Special Agent Geoff Bickers ran the Powerpoint presentation and explained the attack, while the other agents (who did not want to be named or photographed) did the dirty work of sniffing wireless traffic and breaking the WEP keys. This article will be a general overview of the procedures used by the FBI team.." - (Post found on Slashdot.Org) Article Link
- Apr 05,
Microsoft has recalled the power cords for 14.1 million of the nearly 20 million Xbox game systems ever made. But despite the number of products involved and the damage reported, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the problem does not rise to the level of a "substantial product hazard." The CPSC is not involved. Read the full article here.
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Mar 14,The other day one of my staff sent me a link about a new use for RDIF tags. For those of you who don't know about RDIF tags they are little electronic devices embedded in cloth that can be electronically read from a short distance. Here's a short description of how they can be used taken from pcjournal.com. Midwest Technology Journal RDIF Tags--If You Haven't Heard of Them You Soon Will J. Bradley Young Imagine the grocery store of the future. You fill your cart with groceries and proceed to the payment desk. Without the necessity of placing all of your items on some freakish conveyor belt, you simply proceed to the payment desk where a clerk hands you a debit
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