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Thursday, July 17th, 2008The name of the robot is the landshark, an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), designed to detect and disarm bombs.
When Army Pfc. John Hart was killed in a 2003 ambush, his grief-stricken father, Brian Hart, decided to channel his heartache and anger into finding a way to help U.S. troops, who lacked proper armor and other [...]
Is Your Phone a Stalker? 3G and GPS Raise Privacy Concerns
Monday, July 14th, 2008For years, there have been mobile devices available that can help us map out paths while trailblazing in the mountains or even determine our location if we get lost. This technology used, known as GPS (Global Positioning System), is quite a magnificent technology, which uses a network of satellites to give an extremely accurate [...]
The end of a long Hiatus
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Hello all! I’m back after a much needed hiatus. With finishing up some projects at my old job, graduating college, moving and finding a new place to live and starting my new job, I am back and better than ever. Since my career has somewhat switched gears, topics I will be discussing will be slightly [...]
MySpace mp3’s left wide open
Monday, August 27th, 2007I am not sure how many people know about this, but Dave Shanley has a very demonstrative and straight forward article explaining the ease of downloading protected music via Myspace. I do not encourage this at all, but I do believe that it should be known.
This is very minimal for MySpace, considering the [...]
Identity Theft and Internet Fraud Expanding to Job Search Sites
Monday, August 27th, 2007Internet fraudsters have found yet another way to take your personal information and use it against you. This attack targets people that post their resumes on Job searching sites such as Career Builder and Monster Jobs. Security company Symantec, reported a new trojan named infostealer.montres, which was trying to access the job posting [...]
Default Passwords for Almost any Router
Friday, July 13th, 2007I’ve been bouncing around the net and stumbled upon this gem. A single web page that has passwords for hundreds of different router models ranging from 3COM to Apple to Linksys to Cisco.
This will come in handy say, you need to reset your router and reconfigure it. Beware! though. This can be just [...]