You may treat the following as a law of computing: There is no such thing as a device which cannot be exploited. Nothing. If you networked a Beowulf cluster of pocket calculators, hooked together a Token ring of Speak-n-Spells, or chained a herd of remote-control cars together, somebody, somewhere, would find a security exploit [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
Yipe! The panic is spreading all over the web, both within and without the land of Oz. This is happening because the Australian government is considering wide-scale Internet filtering, with no way to opt-out, for all web users. And it has nearly everyone concerned in an uproar. Just a few clips about what we’re talking [...]
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is [...]
Despite the best anti-virus software, despite having firewalls and IT professionals to guard your workplace, and despite all the updates to browser software, the number one path of infection for malware continues to be the web browser. People who use the Internet at work especially need to be aware, because they are ricking their [...]
Whether at home or at the office, a hive of wireless mobile devices will need some focal point to serve as a link to the Internet at large. What you have there, then, is a network, and as is the case with any large system of computers, it’s the frequent focus of attacks. Network security [...]
In the world of technology, biometric identification has been slowly creeping from the world fo science fiction to fact. On the most far-fetched front, we have iris scanners, predicted by movies such as “Minority Report”. On the less fantastic front, voice recognition systems have become a more common technology, though still rare because we’re still [...]
If the title of this article is something that’s on your mind, you’re not alone. As a mobile device user, you repeatedly have the subject of encryption coming up in discussions of security on everything from laptops to smartphones. But what is it, how does it work, and why does it make our brains fuzzy? [...]
