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From Ars Technica: The United Arab Emirates tends to be one of the more moderate nations in the Persian Gulf region, which may have contributed to its rise as a major financial center. The bankers apparently brought their BlackBerrys with them, creating a small but dedicated group of users on the UAE’s local carriers, like [...]

From Dark Reading: An Israeli mobile security firm that a month ago offered $100,000 in gold to anyone who could hack its voice encryption technology has upped the ante to $250,000. Gold Lock posted a sample of an encrypted voice conversation on its Website and is offering the golden reward to any hackers who can [...]

From Ars Technica: In a couple of years, crossing the 1Gbps threshold with a WiFi access point will be routine. That access point will likely have two radios, one for each major spectrum band, and support a host of older flavors for compatibility. Eventually, WiFi will approach the robustness and speed needed to make it [...]

I found a nice guide on cleaning up all those nasty gadgets you have laying around the house and office.  From Gizmodo: Hey, you, your gadgets are disgusting. And wiping them with your greasy shirt sleeve isn’t making things any better. Here’s how to clean your gadgets, the right way.

Found a great article on network broadcasts today on ISC SANS: So Rob, you say, aren’t we done talking about protecting switches and the like at Layer 2 yet?  We talked about Man in the Middle Attacks in October, and Layer 2 remediation against Man in the Middle Attacks in November, that should cover it, [...]

From Wired’s Gadget Lab: You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented. A college course and the iPhone are making that possible for computer-science students at the University of Michigan. Now, at the end of the course, the class ensemble [...]

From Dark Reading’s SophosLabs Insights: The latest iPhone worm is much more malicious than the last one. Rather than the Ikee worm’s trick of changing your wallpaper to a (for some disturbing) image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, the Duh worm hijacks your jailbroken iPhone, turning it into part of a botnet. As if [...]

From Dark Reading: If you’re not in the office these days, chances are that you’ve brought the office with you. Mobile devices, from laptop computers to smart phones, are becoming standard issue in business. But the security of those devices is a lot less certain. According to market analysis firm Gartner, Inc., global smart phone [...]

From Motherboard: We already know that we don’t need air force pilots to drop bombs on terrorist dinners anymore, just gamers manning drones. And eventually, gamers flying virtual drones. And eventually robots flying virtual drones in the form of manga characters. To get there and other places, the Air Force is buying 2,200 PlayStation3s. They’ll [...]

I found this little gem while catching up on my ISC SANS reading this morning. Have you ever thought about your routers.  I mean – *really* thought about them?  They think all day long, processing all of the packets in and out of your company’s WAN or internet connection, and hardly ever complain.  But can [...]