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USB memory card unlock

Here comes a USB memory card unlock, which would be useful in the situation that you’ve forgotten the password that you’ve set for your cellphone’s memory card. The USB card unlock lets you hook it up to your computer’s USB port. And then take the memory card off your cellphone or digital camera, insert it into this card unlock, it’ll then unlock the card for you.

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Dekart Private Disk creates highly secure private drives on a shared computer

In many situations that you’d have to work on a shared PC that has a number of users. Such as your home PC might be shared among a number of your family members. Or you work in an office space that resources are pretty limited, or your boss is little stingy so you and a few of your colleagues have to work on a shared computer or laptop. Working on a shared computer is nothing wrong, but you’ll definitely want a little privacy and security for your data. It’d be nice that you could have your own private or protected drives or disks to store your own files on the shared PC.

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Security alert: Malicious JavaScript-loaded website can take over your router!

If you’re in charge of your office Internet router, you’ve gotta be aware of that you router could be easily hackable if it’s simply protected by weak password. Researcher Dan Kaminsky will prepare a demonstration of hacking at the RSA conference how a web-based attack could seize the control of your office Internet router.

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Toshiba IK-HD1 - the world’s smallest high-def spy cam

It’s probably undeniable that this Toshiba’s IK-HD1 HD camera is the world’s smallest that we’ve ever seen so far. As it’s only slightly larger than a sugar cube. Toshiba will show off this super tiny spy cam at the NAB show later this month.

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iPhone PWNED - superb tool eases iPhone hacking, delayed for a week now

The iPhone Dev Team has developed a superb hacking tool called the PWNED tool. The PWNED tool allows you to batch the iPhone’s boot loader making it (and iPod Touch too) freely to be loaded with any firmware image, even the image not signed by Apple.

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Migo Drive Washer - permanently removes data from your hard drive

Whether you intend to donate your computer to the charity or sell it on eBay or send it for repair, it’s better for you to ensure the your data have been permanently removed from the hard drive. As you surely don’t want your data or any very private pictures and video clips to fall into the hands of some strangers. Especially for celebrities, who will definitely need to ensure your hard drive completely cleaned up with the data, before sending your computer as a donation for the charity.

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3G vest improves the efficiency of James Bond!

Wireless CCTV has launched a 3G vest that is to be worn by secret agents to better communicate among themselves while they’re out for their critical mission. The vest uses mobile phone’s 3G network to transmit live video over the Internet, allows the supervisor of the agents to monitor his team and subsequently provide tactical instruction immediately. Of course, the vest allows capturing of suspects or any targeted people that they’re gonna investigate.

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Researchers: GMail is vulnerable to sitejacking despite using SSL for its login page!

CEO of Errata Security, Robert Graham revealed that session ID cookies used in GMail can be easily hijacked and used for other malicious purposes including sending and receiving emails, accessing your private info etc. Although GMail has an secure HTTP or HTTPs option (https://mail.google.com), which user can choose to have their http session encrypted using SSL, but GMail provides an option at the background to fall back to non-HTTPs (or non secure), while the HTTPs fails. In a more technical explanation, GMail makes Ajax HTTP requests via the XMLHttoRequest object. This connection is encrypted by default using SSL, but if SSL fails it will still go through in non-encrypted mode.

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14-year-old boy uses TV remote to hack public tram system!

A 14-year old Polish boy hacked a TV remote control, and turned it into a remote control for controlling the tram system in the city of Lodz. He turned the tram system upside down, and the system was in his hands as if like his personal giant train set. He derailed four trains, triggered chaos and caused twelve people injured in one of the incidents.

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Fujitsu Palmsecure - a vein pattern verification mouse!

Fujitsu has introduced a new security device making use of vein pattern verification instead of fingerprint recognition. Of course, Fujitsu, has couple of good reasons why vein pattern verification is used. According to them, this has quite a few advantages over using fingerprints.

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