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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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WiFi got flu – viral router attack could hit entire city!

The wider the coverage of wireless network or WiFi, the more vulnerable it is subject to attack. And the attack could be wide spread over a city. Yeah, it’s no joke, the statement here doesn’t come out from the mouths of those paranoids. It’s from a paper written by a team of researchers at Indiana University.

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Hackers use fake video of Bhutto assassination to attack

According to ComputerWorld, hackers make use of the breaking news of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to lure users into downloading some malicious code.

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Super PocketTrack Covert GPS Tracker: best tool for suspicious wives!

As shown here is the Super PocketTrack Covert GPS Tracker, which is an nice and easy gadget for you to spy on the journey of someone – lets say, your spouse or your kids. The suspicious wives would use this little USB stick to keep track of where the husbands have been. Just leave this USB stick inside his bag or car, the device will record all the locations where he has been. When he is back home, then you’ll need to get it out of his bag or car and plug it to your computer and you can simply plot out his entire journey using the software loaded on the stick.

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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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