According to this week’s New Scientist, there is a new threat to our credit cards from Russia, which the banks and everyone else totally overlooked. Yet it is obvious, even without hindsight. The why is obvious – millions of dollars there for the taking. The how is very neat – a card is used to
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I’m back, refreshed from a week away, my first proper holiday for some years. Yet I left no online message on the blog to tell our customers. The reasoning is obvious, though some would argue there is no harm, it only takes a few moments to work out where we are based – click the
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A site I frequent, Lockpicking101.com, recently had a small competition, wherein one member challenged the rest to find out his first name, for prizes based on the time it took. He doesn’t use his firstname, and goes by his second name at all times, even on legal stuff. So a lot of people started trawlling
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Turns out you can put a lat/long into Google maps. You need to use the following format: http://maps.google.com/?sll=53.616%2C-002.816 sll tells Google it is Lat/long, and then you enter it with xx.xxx,yy.yyy format, same as usual. (%2C is the URL safe version of a comma) When you press go, you will see a map of your
Hacking google maps revisited Read More »
Well, yet again, we see spam coming in on a weekly basis, asking us to “Clcik here, and verify your online bank details” and other humorously low grade spoof attempts. A lot of this is for banks, as well as the usual PayPal and eBay stuff. Today, we got a phonecall, purporting to be from
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With the rather amusing title How Jews celebrate christmas, LadyADA announced to the world her latest creation. It is a simple and cheap automatic radio frequency jammer. For not very much money, this pocket sized device will knock out cellphone calls and GPS within a 10 to 30 metre radius of itself. This has some
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