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Thursday, January 2, 2014

Glitter Nail Polish An Excellent Solution To Prevent Physical Tampering And Security Breach!

Physical tampering of hardware is a common issue among users who are concerned with security of their devices. People who travel across will have faced similar issues and most of the time the tampering go undetected. But the security experts have come up with an ingenious solution, although it may sound low tech!

The solution suggested at Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. Usually travelers rely on tamper proof seals or tamper resistant gums on screws to prevent the misuse. But as per experts the seals can be opened in minutes and replaced by any person with minimal training. This solution thus is disregarded. The glitter nail polish comes in to act during this procedure, the presentation suggested that if we paint the screws and ports using glitter nail polish, it creates a unique pattern which is quite effective in tamper detection!

How does it work?

The procedure will be to paint your screws, ports and similar vulnerable areas with glitter nail polish and take a picture of the painted area and then take a picture of the locations post your travel. Usually human eye will be easily deceived by the patterns but to detect changes there is a software which can compare the two photographs and detect as tiny change as a glitter missing or a screw position changed or similar.

The technology used to compare the photographs is a small version of what the astronomers use to detect the changes in sky, known as blink comparison.

“This makes it non-skippable by users,” said Michaud, CEO of Rift Recon. “If the user doesn’t do the check, it doesn’t work.”

The pair said they will within a few months release an inexpensive tool that will support this two-step verification system. Such machine-assisted verification was necessary to help travelers overcome their own mistakes, they argued.

“Users are lazy,” Michaud said. “It’s really unlikely that we’re going to build a system based on users making the correct security decisions all the time.” - from Wired.com

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

LG All Set To Reveal 8.3Inch Tab In Germany

LG on Sunday revealed more details about the 8.3-inch tablet it plans to show off at this week's IFA trade show in Berlin.

The LG G Pad 8.3 tablet is the first 8-inch tablet to offer a Full HD display, the company said. It sports a 1,920-by-1,200 display with 273 pixels per inch. There's a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing device for video chat.

The G Pad runs a 1.7GHz, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. There's 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a 4,600mAh battery.

LG said the G Pad builds on the recent release of the G2 smartphone. "Complementing our G Series smartphones, the introduction of the LG G Pad 8.3 further strengthens LG's premium lineup consisting of our most cutting-edge devices," Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Mobile, said in a statement. "Our G Pad is just another example of LG delivering devices with the unique selling points consumers around the world will appreciate."
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To that end, the QPair app will allow for calls and messages received on a smartphone to show up on the LG Pad, from which users can also reply. The feature will work with non-LG smartphones, though a Jelly Bean-based gadget is recommended, LG said.

Similarly, the QMemo app will also sync notes between devices. For multi-tasking, QSlide will allow for up to three apps to run at once; slide unneeded apps off to the side with a three-finger swipe. The KnockON feature turns the device on and off when the user taps the display twice.

LG touted a slim and sleek form factor that's comfortable to hold in one hand, despite its 8.3-inch frame. "The LG G Pad 8.3 squeezes in a powerful 4600mAh battery for long-lasting usage time but is still as light as a newspaper at just 338g," the company said.

LG said the G Pad will come in black or white and roll out in North America, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in the fourth quarter. Pricing was not discussed.

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Facebook Face Recognition, Does this answer all privacy concerns?

A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday.

"It is astonishing to find the facial recognition again in the new proposed privacy policy that Facebook published yesterday. We therefore have directly tried to contact officials from Facebook to find out if there is really a change in their data protection policy or if it is just a mistake of translation," Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar said in an email on Friday.

The Hamburg data protection commissioner, already at odds with Facebook over its use of face recognition technology, reopened its proceedings against the company in August last year, telling the company to either obtain explicit consent for face recognition from users, delete the data, or face a lawsuit, Caspar said at the time.

Facebook turned off facial recognition for all European users in September last year, and said it would delete all face recognition templates for existing users in Europe.

The German commissioner stopped its proceedings against Facebook in February, when it confirmed that the company had deleted the facial recognition data gathered on German users without their consent.

Original Story @ PC World