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“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.”
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“During certain missions, I would not even take my smartphones. On or off, I did not want to take the chance. Probably made no difference, but it’s better safe than to get our people hurt. It is important that troops make sure that journalists and Interpreters do not take smartphones during certain sorts of missions. Also, if you get blown up, that smartphone might go sailing through the air and be found by the enemy. If they crack into it, they might have a treasure chest. The last unit that I had the honor to cover was 4-4 Cav. They were good about reminding about the smartphones but some other units don’t pay attention.”
— Michael Yon on “Pocket Spies”
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Equitrac is an ID + information shadow layer on top of a typical office printer set up. By making you identify yourself to the printer (via RFID) it not only helps to ensure you collect what you print but the system can track when, what, and how much you print.
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“The wheeled robot, formally called the Mobilny System Monitoringu Wizyjnego (Mobile Visual Monitoring System, or MSMW), is described as a “patrol robot”, and is one part of the JUSTUS security firm’s services.”
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Troy Hunt investigated the Park Assist powered car search feature in the Westfield mobile app and found that due to an apparent misconfiguration all the information that was being stored about all the cars in its car park (from 2,550 sensors) was available via a public API.
You can read more on his blog.
(via Dan W)
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“In just a few years, every door lock, card reader, video camera, vehicle, power meter, and light switch will have an IP address - at least in the business world. Therefore, from a security standpoint, it will become increasingly important - within the enterprise and within our homes (since many of us are now mobile or remote workers, too) - to segment and firewall different classes of devices in a network.”
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According to CNET, “U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.”
Via HuffingtonPost.
