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SentrySafe USB Fire-Safe makes your data water and fire-proof!

To provide physical safety for your data, we will get them burned on CDs or DVDs and then store them in a safe. And the safe for storing these precious data must be able to stand the test of any disaster caused by water or fire. The SentrySafe USB Fire-Safe is one great safe box that ensures everything stored in it is fire and water proof. The safe can protect up to 120 CDs and DVDs for two hours in intense heat (up to 1850 degrees) and eight inches of water for 24 hours.

Besides, this safe comes with a USB connector. You’d be wondering what the USB connector is for? It’s for you to hook up to your computer’s USB port for transferring data onto a 2.5″ hard drive that sits in the safe. Smart! While you have no time to burn your data onto CDs or DVDs, you can hook this safe to your computer for a quick transfer of data onto its hard drive. So, you’ll have a copy of your data in the safe which is water and fire-proof.

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Wireless keyboard encryption easily broken

Are you one kind who hates tangling wires and you want everything to be wireless? You’d have recently equipped yourself with a wireless keyboard that would probably add little neatness to your work desk. But be extra careful, when you’re shopping online using this wireless keyboard to punch in your credit card information on an online store or typing any confidential information using it, as the information transmitted wirelessly over its receiver based could be easily eavesdropped. It’s simply because of the encryption used by the wireless keyboard to safe guard data transmission to its receiver is easily breakable. And the researchers at Dreamlab Technologies AG and Remote-exploit.org have proved that!

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USB hard drive enclosure features touch screen and pin security for data protection!

We’ll always need better security for our data. Flash drive or portable hard drive comes with conventional pin security is definitely something that we love.

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Auto Detective Pen counter attacks on spy cams!

These days, hidden cameras are everywhere. If you’re worried about your privacy, you’d need to have a gadget to counter attack all those nasty spy cams. Here comes an Auto Detective Pen, which is so portable and handy that you can bring along anywhere you go. It’s capable of detecting wireless or RF signals of 900/1200/1300 and 2400 /2600/3000MHz. This pen is can detect the RF signals within a radius of 10 meters. The closer you get to the source of suspicious signal, the stronger its light flashes. You can make use of it to tell if the money is fake too. It’s a must-have for frequent travellers.

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It’s so easy to turn iPhone into a SpyPhone!

An Unix expert, Rik Farrow found that iPhone comes with a ROM older than 1.1.2 is easily hackable by using the H D Moore’s Metasploit, a popular platform for testing security systems. Farrow was able to take complete control of an iPhone and demonstrate the ability to eavesdrop on conversations, intercept voice mail and e-mail, and upload nefarious software programs. Through his test, there wasn’t a need to have physical access to the iPhone, as long as the iPhone is connected to a WiFi network, which is quite common to most users, as AT&T’s EDGE is kinda slow for surfing the Internet. But Moore also claims that the exploit is possible over EDGE network. 6-min video to show you after the jump!

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Researchers: Graphical passwords for handheld devices, easier to remember and more secure

Human seems to have poor memory for text passwords or personal identification numbers. Some researchers have found a better way for us, human to better remember our passwords, i.e. to use the passwords in graphical mode instead of text mode. A more straightforward explanation is it will alllow you to draw a graphical image to unlock your cellphone or any handheld device instead of having to punch in text password or pin numbers to unlock it.

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Goldens.com hides your IP address, so you won’t get caught of surfing porns!

When you’re surfing the Internet at home or in the office, your ISP or your office IT department will have the full trace of what websites that you’ve been surfing. As every single PC is associated with an IP address that is the identity of your PC, so you can’t run away from being fully logged by the local ISP or your office IT department for the websites that you’ve accessed. If you want a little privacy without getting traced by your local ISP or your office IT department, Goldens.com has a solution that may help, but it costs a little every month.

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Credit card comes with its own authentication system!

Credit card is no doubt the kind of plastic card that has been getting tons of frauds. So, we’ll definitely need better security on it and the next generation of credit card will be having a much more tightened security control i.e you’ll need to punch in password before you could make use of it to pay your bills or your meal etc.

This new password-protected idea on credit card has been introduced to us by two companies. They are Innovative Card Technologies and eMue Technologies. These two companies have jointly developed a credit card that looks like your standard banking credit or debit card at first glance, except it’s got a tiny display and a 10 digit keypad. This newly introduced credit card with extra security system is known as Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device.

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Its’ so easy: Russians use nVidia GeForce 8800 to crack Vista’s password!

Don’t you know that the nVidia graphic card that sits on the mobo of your computer could be used to crack the password logins of Windows Vista operating system? For geeks who have been involved in GPGPU programming, you should have already known that this technique is super powerful, which has been used for processes that need massively parallel processing power such as physics simulation, financial analysis etc.

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Yoggie Pico Personal keeps your laptop safe and sound

Here comes a USB-key-sized gadget, Yoggie Pico Personal is one cool gadget that keeps security threats away from your computer. It is loaded with a dozen of software that keeps your data safe and sound. The 12 security applications loaded on it including an Anti Virus, Anti Spam, Anti Phishing, Anti Spyware, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Firewall, Web Filtering, and Parental Content Control software.

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