This was an exciting/anxious year in the Internet security community, with big tech firms like Sony and RSA getting hacked, putting consumer data and corporate networks at risk, and with reports of attacks on utilities.
Scary things that go bump in the night are actually happening to computer systems that matter and it’s only going to get worse. Here’s what I think will happen in 2012.
Security Prediction 2012
Malicious Android apps will increase
As a target for malicious software, Android is the Microsoft of the mobile platform. Android has more than 50 percent of the smartphone market, eclipsing all others, so it’s the most attractive platform for scammers to target. While iPhone apps get vetted by Apple, Google’s open apps store model, which lacks code signing and a review process, makes it easy to distribute malware in apps.
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How to control objects with thoughts alone
You don’t have to be a Jedi to make things move with your mind.
- The inner workings of the brain can now be read using low cost hardware
Granted, we may not be able to lift a spaceship out of a swamp like Yoda does in The Empire Strikes Back, but it is possible to steer a model car, drive a wheelchair and control a robotic exoskeleton with just your thoughts.
“The first thing is to clear your mind…to think of nothing,” says Ed Jellard; a young man with the quirky title of senior inventor.
We are standing in a testing room at IBM’s Emerging Technologies lab in Winchester, England.
On my head is a strange headset that looks like a black plastic squid. Its 14 tendrils, each capped with a moistened electrode, are supposed to detect specific brain signals.
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Kabel Bawah Laut
Mungkin belum banyak yang mengetahui bahwa di dasar lautan Indonesia terbentang koneksi dengan kapasitas 40 Gbps. Koneksi itu tersedia di kabel laut sepanjang 354 kilometer milik PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) yang baru di-upgrade oleh Nokia Siemens Network.
Kapasitas bandwidth kabel laut itu, disebutkan dalam keterangan pers dari NSN, adalah sebesar 40 gigabit per detik (40 Gbps) per kanal. Jalur ini tersedia sebagai bagian dari kabel bawah laut Jasuka (Jawa-Sumatera-Kalimantan) antara Dumai dan Dangas.
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Saturday, 24 December 2011
“Metal Gear” series creator Hideo Kojima is renowned for his Hollywood-style video games, but critics say they leave little room for players to roam.
Maybe he’s listening, because Kojima plans to go in a new direction with his next big project.
“The kind of game I’m making is some game that has a very wide entrance, a very open entrance,” Kojima said through a translator in a phone interview with CNN last week. “Rather than making something very cinematic, [I plan to] make something very free.”
"Metal Gear" creator Hideo Kojima posted this picture to Twitter of a game project in development.
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Saturday, 24 December 2011
Mobile phone on airplane
Electronics in flight? Absolutely.
It may no longer be necessary to turn off your electronic gadgets while flying, a new study suggests. in fact, electronic gizmos, from smartphones to iPads, are an increasingly crucial part of how modern pilots fly the friendly skies.
Ernesto Martinez has been a pilot for 7 years; he told Fox40.com that thanks to maps, airplane and airport information, approach planes, and sectionals, no tool has made flying easier than his iPad.
“All that information is pre-loaded into the iPad so there is no communicating through Wi-Fi or the cellphone network — so it’s really not sending any cellphone signal,” he said.
Martinez isn’t alone: Both American and United Airlines pilots use iPads in the cockpit, Fox40.com reported, which raises questions as to why passengers can’t use them.
And passengers — including “Words With Friends” fan Alec Baldwin — have recognized that fact. And they’ve been using electronics in droves.
A new investigation by USA Today found that a large percentage of people don’t follow the rules and leave their electronic devices on during take off, flight and landing. FOX40 found people even willing to admit to it.
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Saturday, 24 December 2011
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of US researchers.
Tests showed small microcapsules filled with liquid metal healed fractures in a gold circuit restoring conductivity
The group has created a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid metal which restores conductivity.
The process takes less than an eye blink to bring the circuit back to use.
The researchers said that their work could eventually lead to longer-lasting gadgets as well as solving one of the big problems of interplanetary travel.
The work was carried out by a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is published in the journal Advanced Materials.
The process works by exploiting the stress that causes the initial damage in the chips to break open tiny reservoirs of a healing material that fills in the resulting gaps, restoring electrical flow.
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Saturday, 24 December 2011
Padahal bendera ini digunakan untuk menyambut Wakil Presiden China, Xi Jinping, di Hanoi.
VIVAnews – Lawatan Wakil Presiden China, Xi Jinping, ke Hanoi, Vietnam, pada Rabu lalu diwarnai sedikit insiden. Sebabnya, anak-anak kecil yang menyambut kedatangan Xi di istana kepresidenan mengibarkan bendera China yang jumlah bintangnya salah.
Bendera China seharusnya memiliki lima bintang berwarna kuning, dengan rincian satu bintang besar dikelilingi empat bintang kecil. Namun seperti dilansir kantor berita BBC Kamis, 22 Desember 2011, anak-anak Vietnam di istana mengibarkan bendera China dengan bintang berlebih, yaitu enam bintang.
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The security advisory that comes with the release of the latest version of the popular web browser, Firefox 9, reveals that a number of four critical, a high and a moderate impact security vulnerabilities were fixed.
A critical one refers to the fact that the application crashes when a video is scaled to extreme sizes. Other flaws were caused by miscellaneous memory safety hazards, a potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library, and a nsSVGValue out-of-bounds access.
All these security holes could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code and install software without the user ever noticing. Read more…
Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly announced a few hours ago, December 21st, that another maintenance version of the stable Linux kernel 3.1 is available for download and all users should upgrade to it.
Linux kernel 3.1.6 incorporates various DRM drivers, ALSA sound drivers, lots of ARM and USB improvements, as well as EXT4 and CIFS fixes.
“I’m announcing the release of the 3.1.6 kernel. All users of the 3.1 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.1.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.1.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary” – said Greg KH in the email.
Just in time for Christmas, Linux kernel 3.1.6 is a must-grab upgrade for all users of the Linux 3.1 kernel stable series!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-kernel-3-1-6-Is-Available-for-Download-242401.shtml
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Taiwan – Belajar dari sengketa hak patennya dengan Apple, HTC kini melakukan pengujian lebih ketat terhadap smartphone baru yang akan dirilisnya.
CEO HTC Peter Chou mengemukakan hal ini kepada media di kantor pusat HTC di Taiwan. Namun dia menolak menjelaskan lebih lanjut mengenai detail smartphone terbaru HTC tersebut.
Ditemani Senior Vice President Mobile Google Andy Rubin yang kebetulan sedang menghadiri pertemuan di kantor HTC, Chou mengatakan perusahaannya akan bekerja sama dengan Google untuk melindungi diri dari ‘serangan’ yang mencegah inovasi. Read more…
Thursday, 22 December 2011
