Digital Wallet, a portable gadget allows safer and quicker money transfer

Here comes the Digital Wallet, a conceptual portable gadget that will allow you to bring along anywhere you go, so you can transfer money in a quicker and safer manner. The Digital Wallet carries money itself, is unlike credit card or other plastic cards which do not contain money, will sometimes face connection problems during the transactions.

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Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 camera ships with malware-infected XD cards

Perhaps it isn’t a good idea for digital cameras to ship with memory cards loaded with some default software. As Malware can easily slip into the memory cards, which will then infect the computers of the users when they’re transferring the contents from cameras to their computers.

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iPad AT&T security breach – vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking

A security breach of the iPad on AT&T network has caused the information of iPad owners exposed, including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. The iPad on AT&T could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. The breach lies in the AT&T network, which might have caused about 114,000 user accounts compromised and with some of their confidential information (e.g email) exposed in the US.

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LaCie Rugged safe external drive with built-in biometric fingerprint scanner

LaCie has shown us a number of rugged external hard drives and they’ve added a new rugged drive to its line, which provides both protections from physical damage and unintended access of data on the drive.

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iPad targeted by iTunes virus

iPad, as one of the hottest gadgets, has got a virus ready for it. BidDefender has reported a virus that disguises itself as an iTunes update which lures the users into clicking it. It comes in the form of malicious link in emails which tell users it’s an iTunes update that will give your iPad with newer features, best performance and security.

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Internet cafes or public WiFi in London may be watching you

This isn’t good news if you live in London, and if you’re a frequent user of the Internet cafes or public WiFi, your online activities will be watched by the administrators of the cafes or the public WiFi services.

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Patriot’s encrypted Bolt USB flash drive

There have been a number of cases of loss of confidential information caused by the loss of USB flash drive. And the data on the USB drive were usually unencrypted or weakly encrypted.

In order to prevent confidential data loss caused by loss of USB drives, business users should be more aware to choose USB flash drives that offer strong encryption for your data.

Patriot has announced their new USB flash drive, called Bolt, which lets you store your data on it with strong encryption. The Bolt USB flash drive needs you to authenticate before you can access the data on it. The data is protected using 256-bit AES encryption and a 512/2048-bit RSA engine is used to authenticate the user.

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D-Link 3G doorbell lets you monitor your front door over a 3G phone

It’s definitely handy for home owners to be able to monitor the front door using a mobile phone. The D-Link DWM-351 3G door phone is the first of its kind doorbell that serves as an outdoor intercom and lets you use your 3G phone or PC to keep an eye on what’s going on at the front door.

The little D-Link doorbell allows you to insert a SIM card, and it has a 0.1 megapixel camera, speaker and mic. Home owners can use their mobile phone to see the visitor as a snapshot or over a one-way 3G video. And you can even speak on your phone to talk to the visitor who presses the doorbell over a two-way voicecall.

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Break Victorinox encrypted storage device and win £100K

There is a huge sum of £100K (about $150K USD) waiting for you to grab, if you managed to break or hack the Victorinox’s newly created Secure Pro biometric encrypted storage device.

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Palm-sized flashlight with hidden nightvision camcorder for recording in darkness

Here comes a little palm-sized flashlight which has a built-in night-vision camcorder that makes it suitable for recording video in darkness. The little flashlight is a best companion tool for security guards or bouncers. With the built-in nightvision camcorder, you can easily capture any evidence by recording video with sounds in the dark.

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