admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Skein algorithm family works from 256-bit to 1,024-bit in strength, 512-bit representing the primary proposal. “Skein-256 is our low-memory variant,” the Skein document states, while “Skein-1024 is our ultra-conservative variant.” The block cipher at the core of Skein is called Threefish.
About 40 submissions in total are anticipated as […]
admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A “Star Wars” inspired hover chair, a 125 mph electric motorbike and hi-fi speakers that cost as much as a small house are among the attractions at Britain’s biggest gadget show in London this weekend.Organizers of Stuff Live hope thousands of visitors will forget their financial worries for a few hours and dream instead about […]
admin @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In letters to the heads of nine major U.S. banks getting propped up with billions of taxpayer dollars, Waxman said he “question[s] the appropriateness of depleting the capital that taxpayers just injected into the banks through the payment of billions of dollars in bonuses, especially after one of the financial industry’s worst years on record.”
Those […]
admin @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A 15-year-old high school student in New York State has been charged with three felonies after he allegedly accessed personnel records on his school’s poorly configured computer network and then notified his principal of the security weakness.
The unnamed student of Shenendehowa Central School was charged Thursday with computer trespass, unlawful possession of a personal identification […]
admin @ October 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape.
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray […]
admin @ October 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public Monday.One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like “a flying […]
admin @ October 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“The basic idea is still unbelievably cool, in theory, and nearly useless in real life,” he said.
“Even quantum cryptography does not ’solve’ all of cryptography. The keys are exchanged with photons, but a conventional mathematical algorithm takes over for the actual encryption.”
Schneier explained that the weakest point of any network is not in the transmission […]
admin @ October 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This game will run on any Windows 9x/XP/NT computer.Full Version:
The full version includes 40 minutes of video clips, showing me in my webcam playing chess.
Tiny Version:
Same as the full version, but without the webcam video clips.”
Hotbabe Chess
admin @ October 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“The World Bank Group’s computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers […]
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The worst financial crisis since the 1930s was stark reality for millions on Wednesday as retirement savings evaporated, jobs disappeared, stock market values slipped again and a dramatic cut in interest rates by central banks from Europe to Asia did little to stem three weeks of near panic.
What the International Monetary Fund termed a major […]
admin @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just a quick post to mention a silly (or is it?) experiment that Google has released to the public: Mail Goggles. This feature is designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot of yourself.
Google launches Mail […]
admin @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage, burning up in the atmosphere somewhere above northern Sudan in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It may, however, produce a brilliant ’shooting star’.
The space rock, […]
admin @ October 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated ‘comparison’ attack, a German security researcher has discovered.
In a new paper, Bernd Roellgen of Munich-based encryption outfit PMC Ciphers, explains how it is possible to compare an encrypted backup image file made with almost any commercial encryption program or algorithm to an original […]
