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Cellphone carriers deny using Carrier IQ spyware to snoop on us

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:59pm

The mobile world is ablaze over a discovery by Android developer Trevor Eckhart. He found a piece of software secretly installed on his smartphone called Carrier IQ that watches just about everything. Carriers are now stumbling to avoid a potential privacy catastrophe across every major mobile platform.

Cloud Shredder is the ultimate in data security

Evan Ackerman

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 4:37pm

There are lots of ways of keeping your data secure, from hiding it under your mattress all the way up to sophisticated encryption techniques. But your data is still all there, somewhere in some form, and someone who's determine enough could eventually find or crack it. Unless you have a Cloud Shredder, that is.

This bike lock masquerades as a water bottle

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:40am

Carrying a bike lock around with you while you ride can be a pain. Where do you keep it? But the Küat lock solves that with a rather ingenious solution.

LED umbrella hides you from the prying eyes of Big Brother

Adario Strange

Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 1:13am

Earlier this year the world was introduced to Britain's "hoodies" who looted their cities wearing the head coverings to avoid the country's ubiquitous CCD surveillance cameras. But if they had just contacted a certain professor, they might have simply used a lovely modded parasol to conceal their mischief.

Wi-Fi networks could detect your breathing and pinpoint your location

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 8:57am

Well, this is a little unsettling: it turns out that Wi-Fi signals are slightly affected by people breathing, and with the right tech someone could pinpoint where you are in a room from afar using just Wi-Fi.

This flying drone can hack into Wi-Fi networks from above

Monday, September 12, 2011 - 11:15am

This is a cheap air drone that's got a computer on board, allowing it to search for unprotected Wi-Fi networks and hack into them from above, putting them under someone else's control without ever touching the ground.

Cobra Tag tells your phone where your keys are, and vice versa

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 12:47pm

If you're a chronic misplacer of small items — or, Fek'lhr forbid, larger ones, too — then you've got some options, including keyrings that light up or make noise. Want a more robust option? The Cobra Tag uses Bluetooth, GPS and an app to form a little smartphone-and-key support network.

U.K. police arrest alleged LulzSec spokesperson

Raymond Wong

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:52pm

The LulzSec hackers claim they're a team of six. If the arrest of a 19-year-old suspect who goes by "Topiary" on Twitter is considered a win for the U.K.'s Metropolitan police's e-crime unit, then the hacking group is now down to five members.

Hotmail will no longer allow dumb passwords such as 'password'

Raymond Wong

Friday, July 15, 2011 - 7:31am

Attention Hotmail users who use stupid passwords such as "password," "123456" and "ilovecats," Microsoft will soon be blocking such common and weak codes to prevent your account from getting hacked in a jiffy.

Radar pats you down for weapons and bombs from 100 yards away

Evan Ackerman

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 9:04am

The TSA often has to deal with some fairly angry customers after their routine pre-flight grope-downs, but the military has it way, way worse: some of the people they have to handle may actually explode. A new radar system will keep everyone much safer thanks to its ability to perform virtual pat-downs from 100 yards away.

DVICE

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security stories

Cellphone carriers deny using Carrier IQ spyware to snoop on us

Cloud Shredder is the ultimate in data security

This bike lock masquerades as a water bottle

LED umbrella hides you from the prying eyes of Big Brother

Wi-Fi networks could detect your breathing and pinpoint your location

This flying drone can hack into Wi-Fi networks from above

Cobra Tag tells your phone where your keys are, and vice versa

U.K. police arrest alleged LulzSec spokesperson

Hotmail will no longer allow dumb passwords such as 'password'

Radar pats you down for weapons and bombs from 100 yards away

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