A vulnerability on SIM cards used in some mobile phones could allow malware
infection and surveillance, a security researcher warns.
Karsten Nohl, founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, told The New
York Times that he has identified a flaw in SIM encryption technology that could
allow an attacker to obtain a SIM card's digital key, the 56-digit sequence that
allows modification of the card. The flaw, which may affect as many as 750
million mobile phones, could allow eavesdropping on phone conversations,
fraudulent purchases, or impersonation of the handset's owner, Nohl warned.
"We can remotely install software on a handset that operates completely
independently from your phone," warned Nohl, who said he managed the entire
operation in less than two minutes using a standard PC. "We can spy on you. We
know your encryption keys for calls. We can read your SMSs. More than just
spying, we can steal data from the SIM card, your mobile identity, and charge to
your account."
The vulnerability was found in the Digital Encryption Standard, a
cryptographic method developed by IBM in the 1970s that is used on about 3
billion cell phones every day. While the encryption method has been beefed up in
the past decade, many handsets still use the older standard.
Tests showed that 1,000 cards in Europe and North America exhibited signs
of the flaw. Nohl, who plans to detail the flaw at the Black Hat security
conference in Las Vegas next month, said he has already shared the results of
his two-year study with GSM Association, a trade group representing the cell
phone industry.
GSM Association spokeswoman Claire Cranton told the Times that her
organization had already passed the results on members of its group that still
rely on the older standard.
"We have been able to consider the implications and provide guidance to
those network operators and SIM vendors that may be impacted," Cranton said in a
statement.
Nohl, who has a doctorate in computer engineering from the University of
Virginia, made headlines in 2008 by publicizing weaknesses in wireless smart
card chips used in transit systems around the globe. A year later, he cracked
the algorithm used on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) cell phones,
which is designed to prevent attackers from eavesdropping on calls.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
And it washed more than the Computer business
In the late 1990s, a single technology firm became so unfathomably rich and
powerful?aand so hellbent on dominating not only its personal business but a
enormous and swiftly growing new one?athat the U.S. government dragged the
company into court and threatened to break it up over anti-trust violations.
The case was settled, and also the enterprise, Microsoft, agreed to play nicer. But it turned out that the globe had nothing to worry about. As typically happens in the technologies sector, what has genuinely destroyed Microsoft's choke hold on the worldwide private computing industry over the past 15 years hasn't been a legal threat but a marketplace shift.
Just when it looked like Microsoft's vision on the Computer because the center with the tech planet would result in the creation of the world's first trillion-dollar company, the web came along. And it washed more than the Computer business like a tidal wave swallowing a pond.
With regards to market value, Microsoft's loss of energy has long been visible: The stock continues to be trading at about half the level it hit in the peak with the tech boom 13 years ago. The effects on the actual Computer industry fundamentals have taken longer to create, however they are also now crystal clear. Microsoft's ?°Windows monopoly?± hasn't been so much destroyed as rendered irrelevant. That because, because of the explosion of Internet-based cloud computing and smartphones, tablets, and other mobile gadgets, the after all-powerful platform on the desktop operating method has now been lowered to small greater than a device driver. As long as your gadget can connect to the World-wide-web and run some apps, it does not matter what operating system you use.
3 charts really bring dwelling the challenges that Microsoft along with other PC-powered giants like Intel, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard face in adapting to this new Internet-driven planet. Initially, appear at worldwide device shipments. For the two decades by means of 2005, the individual pc was the only game in town, promoting about 200 million units a year. But then smartphones and tablets came along. And now they dwarf the Pc marketplace.
This shift in personal computing device adoption, meanwhile, has radically diminished the energy on the Windows operating program platform. As lately as 3 years ago, Microsoft's Windows was nonetheless entirely dominant?athe platform ran 70% of private computing devices. Now, thanks to the rise of Google's Android and Apple's iOS, Windows' worldwide share has been cut in half, to about 30 percent. Much more remarkably, Android is now a larger platform than Windows.
Lastly, and most not too long ago, this chart from analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco illustrates that the Computer organization is no longer just receiving dwarfed by the explosion of smartphone and tablet sales ... it has now really begun to shrink. Now that people possess a choice of devices, it turns out that a full-blown personal laptop or computer is generally not by far the most cost-effective, convenient, or simplest technique to do what a user desires to do. In place of getting the center of the private computing world, in other words, the Computer is becoming a specialized office-productivity device.
The news for Microsoft isn't all bad. The firm has been pretty thriving at moving from a "unit-driven" sales model to a licensing model, in which providers pay a charge per user per year instead of shopping for a perpetual license with each new computer. And Microsoft's Office franchise continues to be extraordinarily lucrative and dominant, in aspect for the reason that Google, Apple, as well as other extra Internet-centric firms have created so little investment in their competitive items.
But only 15 years just after the government went immediately after Microsoft for anti-trust violations, the idea that the firm ever had a "monopoly" on anything is difficult to even recognize. And also the outlook for Windows, along with the traditional Computer business generally, seems confident to acquire even worse going forward.
The case was settled, and also the enterprise, Microsoft, agreed to play nicer. But it turned out that the globe had nothing to worry about. As typically happens in the technologies sector, what has genuinely destroyed Microsoft's choke hold on the worldwide private computing industry over the past 15 years hasn't been a legal threat but a marketplace shift.
Just when it looked like Microsoft's vision on the Computer because the center with the tech planet would result in the creation of the world's first trillion-dollar company, the web came along. And it washed more than the Computer business like a tidal wave swallowing a pond.
With regards to market value, Microsoft's loss of energy has long been visible: The stock continues to be trading at about half the level it hit in the peak with the tech boom 13 years ago. The effects on the actual Computer industry fundamentals have taken longer to create, however they are also now crystal clear. Microsoft's ?°Windows monopoly?± hasn't been so much destroyed as rendered irrelevant. That because, because of the explosion of Internet-based cloud computing and smartphones, tablets, and other mobile gadgets, the after all-powerful platform on the desktop operating method has now been lowered to small greater than a device driver. As long as your gadget can connect to the World-wide-web and run some apps, it does not matter what operating system you use.
3 charts really bring dwelling the challenges that Microsoft along with other PC-powered giants like Intel, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard face in adapting to this new Internet-driven planet. Initially, appear at worldwide device shipments. For the two decades by means of 2005, the individual pc was the only game in town, promoting about 200 million units a year. But then smartphones and tablets came along. And now they dwarf the Pc marketplace.
This shift in personal computing device adoption, meanwhile, has radically diminished the energy on the Windows operating program platform. As lately as 3 years ago, Microsoft's Windows was nonetheless entirely dominant?athe platform ran 70% of private computing devices. Now, thanks to the rise of Google's Android and Apple's iOS, Windows' worldwide share has been cut in half, to about 30 percent. Much more remarkably, Android is now a larger platform than Windows.
Lastly, and most not too long ago, this chart from analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco illustrates that the Computer organization is no longer just receiving dwarfed by the explosion of smartphone and tablet sales ... it has now really begun to shrink. Now that people possess a choice of devices, it turns out that a full-blown personal laptop or computer is generally not by far the most cost-effective, convenient, or simplest technique to do what a user desires to do. In place of getting the center of the private computing world, in other words, the Computer is becoming a specialized office-productivity device.
The news for Microsoft isn't all bad. The firm has been pretty thriving at moving from a "unit-driven" sales model to a licensing model, in which providers pay a charge per user per year instead of shopping for a perpetual license with each new computer. And Microsoft's Office franchise continues to be extraordinarily lucrative and dominant, in aspect for the reason that Google, Apple, as well as other extra Internet-centric firms have created so little investment in their competitive items.
But only 15 years just after the government went immediately after Microsoft for anti-trust violations, the idea that the firm ever had a "monopoly" on anything is difficult to even recognize. And also the outlook for Windows, along with the traditional Computer business generally, seems confident to acquire even worse going forward.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
We endeavor to balance security and duty with our spending
“The old windows were falling apart and were a hazard to the community,”
said Hector Cruz, who has co-owned the three-story constructing on 5577 N.
Figueroa St. as well as his mother considering that the past five years.
“They were quite pricey to replace,” Cruz stated, adding that he got a $12,000 estimate for the repairs and replacement of eight of your original windows that he ended up altering. “And that’s not even giving us a cushion of what’s to come,” he said.
In installing significantly less costly windows, Cruz mentioned he took a leaf in the historic windows that had been replaced with fixed-glass ones about a quarter-century ago in the former office of ex-Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg. Also situated inside the Mason Constructing, which has 19,000 square feet of floor space, Goldberg’s one-time office now houses the Excellent Girl Dinette Vietnamese fusion food restaurant.
But for all that, said Cruz, he didn’t understand he had committed a blunder by eliminating the old windows. Exactly per week immediately after he put in the eight new panes on June 26, an inspector from the Los Angeles Department of Constructing and Safety served him a “stop work” order, Cruz stated, adding that by then all of the operate on the windows had already been carried out.
The inspector told Cruz that since the Highland Park Masonic Developing is around the National Registry of Historic Areas, he's expected to get permission from the Los Angeles Historical Preservation Overlay Zone ahead of performing any work that modifications the building’s architectural integrity.
“The final factor I anticipated is for the community to send an inspector rather than coming and telling me what would be the initial measures I must have taken to replace the windows,” Cruz stated, adding: “I’ve had Autry Museum meetings, Neighborhood Council meetings at the building-I’ve supported everyone.”
In line with Cruz, it was Highland Park historian and Highland Park Heritage Trust member Charlie Fisher who allegedly reported him towards the Division of Constructing and Safety. A contact by Patch to Highland Park Heritage Trust requesting an interview with Fisher went unreturned.
Cruz said it is not that he is not concerned about conservation troubles surrounding his creating, which was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1984. “We endeavor to balance security and duty with our spending budget,” he stated.
His response to critics who accuse him of negligence is the fact that “if you’re so concerned in regards to the windows, why don’t you get a grant or funding to replace them?” Cruz mentioned, adding that property owners such as him can “hardly make it by in these hard [economic] times.”
The huge question for Cruz, he mentioned, was “do you preserve the windows simply because they look good or do you change them simply because they’re falling apart and are a safety hazard?”
The challenge with the unapproved windows was taken up this past Tuesday by the Highland Park-Garvanza Historical Preservation Overlay Zone at its bimonthly board meeting in Ramona Hall, Cruz mentioned, adding that he was notified about the meeting but didn’t attend.
The Mason Constructing could have lost its original windows, but there’s still a window of chance to get them back.
“We’ve saved all the tiny pieces of glass,” stated Cruz. “So if something really serious would come about, I’d be most delighted to replace them.”
“They were quite pricey to replace,” Cruz stated, adding that he got a $12,000 estimate for the repairs and replacement of eight of your original windows that he ended up altering. “And that’s not even giving us a cushion of what’s to come,” he said.
In installing significantly less costly windows, Cruz mentioned he took a leaf in the historic windows that had been replaced with fixed-glass ones about a quarter-century ago in the former office of ex-Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg. Also situated inside the Mason Constructing, which has 19,000 square feet of floor space, Goldberg’s one-time office now houses the Excellent Girl Dinette Vietnamese fusion food restaurant.
But for all that, said Cruz, he didn’t understand he had committed a blunder by eliminating the old windows. Exactly per week immediately after he put in the eight new panes on June 26, an inspector from the Los Angeles Department of Constructing and Safety served him a “stop work” order, Cruz stated, adding that by then all of the operate on the windows had already been carried out.
The inspector told Cruz that since the Highland Park Masonic Developing is around the National Registry of Historic Areas, he's expected to get permission from the Los Angeles Historical Preservation Overlay Zone ahead of performing any work that modifications the building’s architectural integrity.
“The final factor I anticipated is for the community to send an inspector rather than coming and telling me what would be the initial measures I must have taken to replace the windows,” Cruz stated, adding: “I’ve had Autry Museum meetings, Neighborhood Council meetings at the building-I’ve supported everyone.”
In line with Cruz, it was Highland Park historian and Highland Park Heritage Trust member Charlie Fisher who allegedly reported him towards the Division of Constructing and Safety. A contact by Patch to Highland Park Heritage Trust requesting an interview with Fisher went unreturned.
Cruz said it is not that he is not concerned about conservation troubles surrounding his creating, which was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1984. “We endeavor to balance security and duty with our spending budget,” he stated.
His response to critics who accuse him of negligence is the fact that “if you’re so concerned in regards to the windows, why don’t you get a grant or funding to replace them?” Cruz mentioned, adding that property owners such as him can “hardly make it by in these hard [economic] times.”
The huge question for Cruz, he mentioned, was “do you preserve the windows simply because they look good or do you change them simply because they’re falling apart and are a safety hazard?”
The challenge with the unapproved windows was taken up this past Tuesday by the Highland Park-Garvanza Historical Preservation Overlay Zone at its bimonthly board meeting in Ramona Hall, Cruz mentioned, adding that he was notified about the meeting but didn’t attend.
The Mason Constructing could have lost its original windows, but there’s still a window of chance to get them back.
“We’ve saved all the tiny pieces of glass,” stated Cruz. “So if something really serious would come about, I’d be most delighted to replace them.”
Friday, July 5, 2013
Computer mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart dies
Douglas Engelbart, whose invention of the mouse transformed the way people
interact with computers, has died.
Engelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI International -- the research institute where he once worked -- said in a statement. He was 88.
"Doug's legacy is immense — anyone in the world who uses a mouse or enjoys the productive benefits of a personal computer is indebted to him," Curtis R. Carlson, SRI's president and CEO, said in a written statement.
Decades ago, Engelbart came up with the idea we now know as a mouse.
His first prototype, which featured a carved out wooden block, wheels and a tiny red button, looks quite different from the sleek plastic designs now seen in homes and offices around the world.
A radar technician during World War II, Engelbart worked at the Stanford Research Institute during the 1960s. It was there that a vision of people sitting in front of a video screen, interacting with a computer, came to him.
"I knew enough engineering and had enough experience as a radar person to know that if a computer can punch cards or print paper, it can draw anything you want on a screen," he told CNN in 1997 after receiving a $500,000 prize for American innovation.
Engelbart invented and patented what he called the "x-y position indicator," receiving a $10,000 check for the invention. He told CNN he couldn't recall who on his team had decided to call it a mouse.
At the time, it wasn't easy to convince fellow scientists to follow his vision, Engelbart said. But he persisted.
Later, he went on to found the Doug Engelbart Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting the collective ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale.
"Sometimes I reflect on how naive somebody has to be in order to get visions -- and plug away at them -- that ultimately proceed, and how many other people with visions that are as naive just fall off the cliff," Engelbart told CNN in 1997.
In addition to the computer mouse, Engelbart's work at SRI from 1957 to 1977 helped develop tech innovations such as display editing, online processing, linking and in-file object addressing, use of multiple windows, hypermedia, and context-sensitive help, the institute said.
"Doug was a giant who made the world a much better place and who deeply touched those of us who knew him," Carlson said. "SRI was very privileged and honored to have him as one of our 'family.' He brought tremendous value to society. We will miss his genius, warmth and charm."
Engelbart is survived by his wife and four children.
Engelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI International -- the research institute where he once worked -- said in a statement. He was 88.
"Doug's legacy is immense — anyone in the world who uses a mouse or enjoys the productive benefits of a personal computer is indebted to him," Curtis R. Carlson, SRI's president and CEO, said in a written statement.
Decades ago, Engelbart came up with the idea we now know as a mouse.
His first prototype, which featured a carved out wooden block, wheels and a tiny red button, looks quite different from the sleek plastic designs now seen in homes and offices around the world.
A radar technician during World War II, Engelbart worked at the Stanford Research Institute during the 1960s. It was there that a vision of people sitting in front of a video screen, interacting with a computer, came to him.
"I knew enough engineering and had enough experience as a radar person to know that if a computer can punch cards or print paper, it can draw anything you want on a screen," he told CNN in 1997 after receiving a $500,000 prize for American innovation.
Engelbart invented and patented what he called the "x-y position indicator," receiving a $10,000 check for the invention. He told CNN he couldn't recall who on his team had decided to call it a mouse.
At the time, it wasn't easy to convince fellow scientists to follow his vision, Engelbart said. But he persisted.
Later, he went on to found the Doug Engelbart Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting the collective ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale.
"Sometimes I reflect on how naive somebody has to be in order to get visions -- and plug away at them -- that ultimately proceed, and how many other people with visions that are as naive just fall off the cliff," Engelbart told CNN in 1997.
In addition to the computer mouse, Engelbart's work at SRI from 1957 to 1977 helped develop tech innovations such as display editing, online processing, linking and in-file object addressing, use of multiple windows, hypermedia, and context-sensitive help, the institute said.
"Doug was a giant who made the world a much better place and who deeply touched those of us who knew him," Carlson said. "SRI was very privileged and honored to have him as one of our 'family.' He brought tremendous value to society. We will miss his genius, warmth and charm."
Engelbart is survived by his wife and four children.
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Appears to me Microsoft won't want you to definitely discover the former selection, however, simply because I had to talk to the business the place to find it. (Right-click within the taskbar in Desktop, opt for attributes, then navigation tab, and select "Go to your desktop as a substitute of Start off once i indicator in.")
You've got many ways to customize the modern interface. It is possible to team icons for very similar apps and give that cluster of applications a name. You are able to press and maintain your finger towards a tile to resize it or unpin it with the Start screen.
Microsoft has also added a Personalize alternative beneath Options for choosing backgrounds and selecting shades ?a you can sample diverse hues by dragging slider controls. You can get to Options by swiping in from your right, summoning what exactly are known as "charms," controls for seeking, sharing and more.
By signing in by using a Microsoft account, what ever settings you determine on your own pc can comply with you throughout other Windows units, such as phones and Xbox consoles. The things you conserve on a Home windows eight.1 Personal computer ?a photos, paperwork and various files ?a could be stored on Microsoft's cloud-based SkyDrive.
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Bing research functions perfectly for travel, way too ?a a standard search on Las Vegas introduced up really visuals, climate, present-day attractions and easy one-way links to produce hotel reservations.
Search isn't limited to the World-wide-web. You could conveniently search throughout Phrase files and various information on the Personal computer or information saved on SkyDrive (Microsoft provides you seven no cost gigabytes of SkyDrive storage).
Two new Bing applications show up in eight.one. The foodie-oriented Bing Food & Drink app is a repository for recipes. Bing Health & Fitness sports an exercise and diet tracker and includes a symptom checker for all those factors that might ail you.
Windows Store. The Home windows Store within eight.one gets a good-looking makeover, too. Microsoft surfaces apps it thinks you may be interested in, dependent on previous purchases or ratings. The joint is approaching 100,000 applications since the launch of Windows eight. Among people Microsoft announced at its recent Construct conference are upcoming Home windows apps from Facebook, Flipboard as well as the NFL.
Windows eight.1 also now pre-loads a Reading List app for saving a story you want to read later that you come throughout about the Website by means of Internet Explorer. It only works in the modern UI for now (not Desktop) and, in my view, requires one click also a lot of to save an article you want to read later.
Closer to its basic availability I'll do a more comprehensive critique of Home windows 8.one. For now I'll say that while it doesn't address every shortcoming of Windows 8, it pushes Microsoft in the proper direction.
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