The same book that boasts the world records for most glasses balanced on a chin, the tallest snowman and longest continuous clapping session, now includes Cisco Systems Inc.’s new machine that directs Internet traffic.
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EPOC.Cabir is a proof-of-concept worm that replicates on Nokia Series 60 phones.
It repeatedly sends itself to the first Bluetooth-enabled device that it can find, regardless of the type of device (i.e. even a Bluetooth-enabled printer will be attacked if it is within range).
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A new version of Firefox has been released. Firefox 0.9 was announced yesterday on Mozilla.org.
Firefox is available for Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X. It can be downloaded from the Firefox download page.
Continue reading ‘Firefox 0.9 released’
Network Associates, makers of McAfee VirusScan, has been granted a broad US patent for technology covering “compound filters, paragraph hashing, and Bayes rules” for filtering unwanted e-mail messages.
This patent also appears to affect Spam Bayes, SpamAssassin and Brightmail among a few others.
In 1984 William Gibson used the term “cyberspace” in his novel Neuromancer and Cisco had two employees. Twenty years on, Cisco employs 34,466 people and turns over almost $19bn.
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This is old news, but interesting to say the least…
“A Japanese cryptographer has demonstrated how fingerprint recognition devices can be fooled using a combination of low cunning, cheap kitchen supplies and a digital camera.
First Tsutomu Matsumoto used gelatine (as found in Gummi Bears and other sweets) and a plastic mould to create a fake finger, which he found fooled fingerprint detectors four times out of five.
Continue reading ‘Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors’
