When I first saw the press release for the iZON Remote Room Monitor I was quite stoked to give it a shot. Once one became available, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. “A remote camera that I can stream to my iPhone” was a winner right out of the gate. Over the past few weeks I’ve been using the iZON on WiFi and 3G to get a good testing on how the app functions. I heard there was a rumor to the iOS app, and I wanted to make sure that I used it...
Apple has long been seen as a consumer first, enterprise last company. But since the iPhone’s debut in 2007, people and the corporate world have been sucked into the land of iOS. Up until the last 1-2 years, RIM was the defacto standard for your typical corporate workplace, though has changed recently, with iOS and Android taking up bigger roles. But even with their increased corporate presence, the questions regarding how secure the consumer-focused platforms really...
For those of you that thought type that SMS or e-mail on your smartphone was hidden from the masses, you are wrong. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed screen spy software that can tell what you are typing from up to 200 feet away. Jan-Michael Frahm and Fabian Monrose are the geniuses behind this little gem. They wondered if modern computer vision technologies threatened mobile phone privacy, so they created a program to steal text...
As the saying goes, there’s a mobile application for nearly anything lately, from those for music like Shazam to social check-in sites like Foursquare. Mobile apps also include innovative platforms that help homeowners monitor their property when they’re away. One such product is ADT Pulse, an iPhone app that is part of the ADT home security line of merchandise. Given Pulse’s capabilities, it would seem the chance to become an overlord just became a little...
Cryptography researches Andrey Bogdanov (K.U.Leuven — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dmitry Khovratovich, (Microsoft Research) and Christian Rechberger (ENS Paris) managed to find a weakness in AES encryption that now makes the security protocol 4x easier/faster to crack. The crack has already been seen and confirmed by AES creators Dr Joan Daemen and Professor Dr Vincent Rijmen. Seeing as how AES-128 specifically is one of the more widely used, secure systems the...
