Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Satori, Bing's Secret Weapon

 

"Satori is a self-learning system that is running every day and learning more, adding 28,000 DVDs of content every day....Satori's computation engine is supported by more than 50,000 nodes in a Microsoft compute cloud"

Cnet

U of Texas Student Hacks GPS Navigation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctw9ECgJ8L0

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You

"magnetic field detection, Bluetooth Low Energy, sonic pulses, and even transmissions from the in-store lights can tell when you enter a store, where you go, and how you shop"

 

Slashdot

Friday, July 26, 2013

“NASDAQ is owned."

"Five men charged in largest financial hack ever....pilfered data for more than 160 million credit cards, and created hundreds of millions of dollars in losses"  Link

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Firefox, Safari are the best protection vs phishing.

" Over a 12-day test period the average phishing catch rate ranged from 96 percent for Firefox 19 to only 83 percent for Internet Explorer 10."

Link

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Canary, the portable "home security" solution

Keep an "eye" on your house via the app.

http://vimeo.com/70747659

Monday, July 22, 2013

Apple Developer Site Breach

"In the notice posted to the site, Apple explained that some developers personal information like name, e-mail address and mailing address may have been accessed. The note does not mention passwords, or if password hashes were accessed. "  Link