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Wee-Fi: Share Cell Connections over Wi-Fi; Mile High-Fi Salaciousness; Giga-Fi; and More

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2008-09-11 11:02:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...connections over Wi-Fi: Morose Media ships version 1.20 of WMWifiRouter, a Windows Mobile 5 and 6 application that routes cellular data connections over Wi-Fi, turning your phone into a micro-hotspot. The software can also share a cell connection via Bluetooth or USB. The software costs $30 or 20, and requires Internet (Connection) Sharing...
 
Tags: wi-fi, internet service, faster wi-fi standard, service, internet, internet access, software, software costs, free wi-fi
 
 
 
 
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Feds moving ahead on effort to reduce Internet connections, but with adjusted target

2008-07-10 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Karen Evans, the de facto federal CIO, said that a security initiative to downsize the number of external Internet connections at government agencies is progressing, although the number of links left in the end will be larger than initially planned
 
Tags: external internet connections, facto federal cio, government agencies, security initiative, evans, larger, links
 
 
 
 
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While I Was Out: Compendium of the Last Week's News

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2008-09-02 14:55:47 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...connections with several base stations at once, using a primary access point for traffic until a discontinuity is predicted or encountered. This allows seamless handoffs and continuous voice conversations Speaking of autos and Wi-Fi, concerns raised about Chrysler's in-car Wi-Fi option: Randall Stross wrote nearly two weeks ago in The New...
 
Tags: free wi-fi, wi-fi, in-car wi-fi option, wi-fi handoff, free wi-fi downtown, month wi-fi service, rest-area wi-fi, wi-fi booster, in-flight wi-fi service
 
 
 
 
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Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work

2008-10-10 06:35:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...connections) compared with pattern-based data mining (looking for anomalous activities that could show illegal activities But the authors conclude the type of data mining that government bureaucrats would like to do--perhaps inspired by watching too many episodes of the Fox series 24--can't work. "If it were possible to automatically find the...
 
Tags: data, synthetic population data, terrorists, program, program enters, research scientist, research, protect, microsoft research
 
 
 
 
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Antivirus superhero comes to the rescue

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by Martyn Williams in Network World on Security
 
Japan's cheap and pervasive high-speed Internet connections are finally catching up with the country
 
Tags: internet connections, country, pervasive, cheap, japan
 
 
 
 
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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...connections to higher brain regions -- neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to override the products of the logical, thoughtful cortex, but not vice versa. So although it is sometimes possible to think yourself out of fear ("I know...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare Firewall and Software

2008-01-10 07:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...connections. Sadly this doesn't seem to work very consistently. Here's a sample program that I could sometimes get this to work for, and sometimes not using System using System.Net class FetchMicrosoftHomePage static void Main byte[] data try data = new WebClient().DownloadData(" http://www.microsoft.com Console.WriteLine("Microsoft's home...
 
Tags: firewall, onecare firewall, software, outbound firewall, firewall outputs, windows live onecare, homebrew software, people, highly technical people
 
 
 
 
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Crimeware in the Middle - Zeus

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2008-04-24 04:37:46 by HASH0x8ae4648 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...connections Difficult to d etect finder / analysis, bot sets the victim and creates a file, the system files and arbitrary size Works in limited accounts Windows (work in the guest account is not currently supported Nevid ekvaristiki for antivirus, Bot body is encrypted Some way creates a suspected its presence, if you do not want it. Here is...
 
Tags: zeus, file, remote file, zeus trojan, binary file, file system32 drivers, kit, metaphisher kit, configuration file
 
 
 
 
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Learn how to see whos knocking on your door.

2008-06-01 15:32:17 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...connections are normally open while you are connected to the internet. On the other hand, if you are familiar with the ports/connections that are normally open, there is no need to close programs
 
Tags: close programs, programs, free port analyzers, close, safe online, defeat spyware, unsure, program, check
 
 
 
 
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Directly connect to your corpnet with IPsec and IPv6

2008-06-25 20:55:59 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security