Maylong M-250 7" $100
- 7 "
- Resistive
- Stylus
- Android 2.2
Android Tablets . Net
Nice site on Android Tablets
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tech Review: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Tech Review: Friday, August 5, 2011
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do?template_type=storefronts&landing=rts_tablet&category=rts_tablet&jumpid=em_r329_hhos_5944&aoid=105495&email=null
HP Touch Pad with Web OS $450
WOOT has it for $380
- 16 GB Storage
- 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core AP!8060 processor
- 9.7" backlit
- 1.3MP front-facing camera
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- Wireless charging
- WebOS
- Woot price for $380
HP Mini 110 $280 (Upgrade $320)
- Intel Atom N455 (upgrade to dual core ATOM N570)
- Graphic Media Accelerator 3150
- 1 GB Mem (upgrade to 2 GB)
- 10.1 "
- 250 GB drive
- 2.52 lbs
- Ethernet
- Webcam
- Integrated Wireless
- Bluetooth optional
- Win7 Starter 32-bit
- 1024x600
PH Pavilion dv6t Series $600 ($1,528)
- (Win 7 Pro-64 bit)
- (Recovery DVD)
- (Dual Core Intel i5-2410M (2.3 Gz)
- (2GB Radeon 6770M GDDR5)
- (16GB Memory)
Flaw in advanced threats points to Chinese networks
- IP address of command and control servers in China
- Believed used in breach of RSA Security in March
- Advance Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Quietly infect systems
- remain undetected
- high-profile breaches
Android app test demonstrates dangers for mobile devices
- 10,000 apps evaluated
- not necessarily malicious (?)
- leaky and noisy (?)
- 30% access unique equipment or subscriber identity number
- Report to server something in clear (can be read by anyone)
- definitely a privacy and security problems - Neil Daswani
- tries to get root access on device
- Short Message Service activity
- limited to a single message sent to the number of the phone installed on
3 of 10 Android users now face malware attach
- trojan steal account passwords and SSN by recording phone coversations
- doubling the risk of 6 months ago - (Lookout)
- 80 to 400 number of apps in 6 months - (Lookout)
- 0.5 to 1 million user affected
- 48% malware
- repackaging
- malicious code added to legitimate app
- upgrade attach
- pub clean app, wait offer infected update
- 52% sypware
- Users transmitting sensitive data without proper encryption
Window kernel a fertile field for vulnerabilities
- Win32K.sys from 1997 remains a fundamental component of Win architecture
- no proper authentication for changes in memory after for user-mode call backs
- 40 patches
- count much higher
- Tarjei Mandt - Norman ASA
- fundamental problem buried in an old element of he Win kernal
Skype now does video
- 3.6 stars
- Skype is not known for good software
- who else has similar apps?
- Google?
Life On Mars
- Melting salt water turns red
Stuxnet-style could attack prisons
- prisons use PLC
- doors
- gates
- video
- alarms
- intercoms
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Tech Review: Thursday, August 4, 2011
Web Operating System (WOS)
A term for describing internet scale distributed computing.
Liz Cornwell
The above artical is from 2009, but it is better than a poke in the eye.
Top 5 WOSs.
- nothing to do with pornography
- opposed by over 30 civil liberties and consumer advocacy organizations
- forces ISPs to retain
- customer names,
- address,
- phone numbers,
- credit card numbers,
- bank account numbers and
- dynamic IP address for
- 1.5 years
- ISP snooping bill
- fails to note that this would be an effective tool against child porno, which is a favorite habit of most pedophiles.
Android Trojan records conversations, can send them to bad guys
- Android Trojan
- records conversations
- Where was the application?
- In the Android Market?
- In the wild?
- Why on earth would someone want to record a bunch of conversations?
- Doesn't make sense.
- Is this something malicious,
- a developer mistake, or
- marketing gone awry?
- Author says "Best defense ... is to pay attention to the permissions..."
- Fails to realize that a lot of legitimate applications ask for a lot of privileges.
- I personally would recommend
- loading from the Google Android Market
- using the Lookout Mobile Security
Forrester: U.S. debt ceiling showdown will affect IT spending
- 2011 IT forecast growth drops from 7.4 to 5.5
- 2012 IT forecast growth drops from 10.4 to ?
CNET 100 Android apps: Winners, in pictures
- Google Maps
- Dolphin Browser HD
- Lookout Mobile Security
- SoundHound
- Read It Later
- Google Voice
How do I see the 100?
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
- Iran
- 800 to ?
- 1000 and 2000 in a few months
- most complex malware ever written
- first real cyberweapon
- zero-day exploit
- looks like US/Israel
Ematic 2GB MP3 Video Player with 1.5" Screen
- $25
- 2 GB
- FM tuner/recorder
- 1.5 " display
- voice recorder
- Plays
- MP4
- AVI
- MP3
- JPEG
- E-book
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Tech Review: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Which cities have the fastest broadband?
18 cities in the US ranked in the top 100 of the world.
Riverside - 7.8 megabits/sec
Rhode Island - 894 kilobits/sec
Idaho - 318 kilobits/sec (slowest)
Japan - 13.2 megabits/sec
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet: First impressions
- Android Honeycomb 3.1 (3.2 is current)
- 10" screen
- Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor
- two cameras
- doesn't wake on press of physical home button
- 1.65 lbs
Where did all the Mac malware go?
- Mac Defender group doing attack
- cause the first release of Mac OS with patch target at virus
- Mainly stopped by Google shutting down the "poisoned searches"
The top five Linux desktop vendors
- Eight Vitrues looks like the best for mid range are lower Linux boxes.
- http://www.eightvirtues.com/support.html
China's young designers create products that merge tradition and innovation
- American born Aric Chen is running at state sponsored magazine to highlight Chinese architecture, graphics, and products.
Skype + Facebook = critical security vulnerability
- Really a security hole in the newest release of MS Skype.
- From DOD
- Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)
- Any intel-base Mac or PC
- Accredited for LPS-Remote Access
- Mark Clute has played with it
Encryption Wizard
- Encryption Wizard
- Run on anything that runs Java v1.5
- DOD
- Mark Clute recommended it
ARCHOS 70 7" Touchscreen Tablet PC: $229
- Capacitive multi touch
- Android 2.2
- Webcam
- Jessica Pater works with
- GT, Gov, Industry effort to ensure universal k-12 tech access.
- compromise a legit web site
- Usually Wordpress
- Introduces PHS scripts in sites' source code
- Scripts monitor Google trend queries
- Create artificial web pages containing content
- Detects Google crawlers and deliver content
- Pics end up in image search database
- Exploit happens when user clicks thumbnail
- Google use iFrame
- PHP script checks if user came from Google results page
- redirect to another compromised site.
- Android app for Netflex.
- Installed it and it works great.
- Could not find when I searched in Market
- There is one for Blockbuster but it is in-compatable with my phone
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