The Air Force will soon give service members working on networks a new tool to help detect cyberattacks, service officials said.

The “cyber sidearm” is intended to be a simple way for service members to quickly alert others to potential security breaches, said Lt. Gen. Robert Elder, commander of the 8th Air Force.

Two Chinese military planners predicted the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in the US two years before the terror strike. Their forecast was part of an analysis of the weaknesses of the American military system and they also identified Osama bin Laden as one of the likely perpetrators of a possible attack.
The officials, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, who were in service at that time, made the forecast in the book Unrestricted Warfare written in 1999, which has now been published in India, several years after being translated into English for the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and other US national security departments.
The officials, who were then senior colonels, said, "Actually, with the next century having still not yet arrived, the American military has already encountered trouble from insufficient frequency bandwidth brought on by the above-mentioned types of enemies.

Two Hungarian researchers have come up with a cunning way to create the most frustrating computer game imaginable.

Laszlo Laufer and Bottyan Nemeth at the Budapest Univesrity of Technology and Economics have discovered that a gamer's button presses can be predicted 2 seconds before they make them, through measurements of skin conductance.

This trick might ultimately have some important applications, like speeding-up a person's reaction time. But it could also conceivably be used to make computer games that predict a player's actions and adapt in order to frustrate them.

A French man whose skull was mostly occupied by a "huge fluid-filled chamber" was able to operate perfectly well as a civil servant - despite having "little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue", Reuters reports.
The 44-year-old's condition was revealed when he went to hospital suffering from mild weakness in his left leg. A probe of his medical history revealed he'd had a shunt inserted into his skull as an infant to relieve hydrocephalus, which was removed when he was 14.
Doctors were "amazed" when computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans showed "massive enlargement" of his lateral ventricles, "usually tiny chambers that hold the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain".
Dr Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille explained in a letter to The Lancet: "He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant." Tests revealed the chap's IQ as 75, below average but evidently no impediment to leading a normal life

A virus that infects Windows XP and, possibly, Vista is said to spread itself concluded IM applications, comparable AIM and Windows Alive Messenger, and… BitTorrent. Security research loyal Sophos says the writhe uses “a social engineering scheme” to father people to unknowingly infect their computers with it. The worm, W32/Impard-A, is a highly sophisticated program with multi-lingual support that can in effect outspread itself, blue-pencil and send other, competition malware present on the computer back to its creator, and utilise BitTorrent in achieving its goal. Comparable most such malware, W32/Impard-A is controlled terminated IRC. Richard Cohen, a security technical with Sophos, aforementioned: It’s controlled by a distant user all over IRC, and is capable of sending itself via Aim and MSN, storing itself as a file called IMG009.jpg-www.imagehosting.com inside a zip file called C:RECYCLERmyphoto.zipper, and then sending this zip with a message that promises pictures, written in the same language as the infected computer. This sort of social engineering tries to maximize the chance that recipients will believe it to be lawful and open the attachment, though this is blastoff in the foot somewhat by the fact that many of the the phrases have been thinned off short. I have personally seen the messages generated by this writhe, when a Yahoo! Messenger-using friend of mine asked me to sojourn some apart URL to look at her photos. She uploads entirely her photographs to Facebook, so I became suspicious right away. It turns out, this worm is so versatile, it can highjack good about every popular IM client and enjoyment the sign-language in account to outspread to its contacts. What’s selfsame interesting, though, is how the worm utilises BitTorrent. Formerly working on the host computer, the worm searches for the BitTorrent mainline client workable (bittorrent.exe). If it finds the file away, it opens up a torrent and, after downloading a re-create of itself to a specific location on your hard disk, starts seeding it. This is the first reported instance of malware making use of BitTorrent to achieve its creators’ ends. If you think astir it, it makes hone sense. Why should the malware author godforsaken bandwidth downloading his wrestle to thousands of Windows computers around the globe, when he can pass water his U. S. Army of zombified ones redistribute it for him, loose of cost?

"Hacker Safe" banner from scanalert.com that suppose to signal that site is safe for browsing is fake. Proof: try to open championjuicer.com (make sure you are running decent antivirus). Site is hacked in many ways, it is trying to install exploit from the main page and also it contain some uploaded doorways. And besides of all this it is showing "Hacker Safe" banner claiming that site was tested today! Fake! Buyers: don't trust to "Hacker Safe". Sellers: don't waste your money on it.

Why should you pay 3 to 4 bucks for a one ringtone? This is a tutorial about how to make one for free. For this tutorial you need audacity, lame, and razorlame (lame gui). You can get audacity and lame here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows And razorlame here: http://rapidshare.com/files/24544393/razorlame115a.zip First open the mp3 you want (I'm using green days' basket case ^_^) Select end of the song, and delete it (shown below) (I left only 15sec but it could be more if you like)

One of the most popular designs for an industrial robot is the robotic arm. Just like your arm, a robotic arm requires arm segments, joints, a way to move those joints, and a sense of touch. A typical robotic arm is made up of several metal segments, joined by joints. The computer controls the robotic arm by rotating individual step motors connected to each joint. Sometimes larger arms use hydraulics or pneumatics for joint control. Unlike ordinary motors, step motors move in exact increments. This allows the computer to move the robotic arm very precisely, repeating exactly the same movement over and over again.

A former World War II fort in the North Sea off England, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale.

This instructional tutorial shows how easy it is to sniff people's passwords in plain-text form on a wired network. Common applications for this would be on a university, school or otherwise large network. This tutorial is for educational purposes only and should only be used to demonstrate the security weaknesses of common networking systems.

Table of web hosts with PHP/MySQL support.

Electronic article surveillance is a technical method for preventing stealing from retail stores and libraries. Special tags are atteched to books or merchandise. These tags are deactivated or removed removed by the salesclerk when the item is purchased or checked out. At the store's exits, a detection system rings an alarm or otherwise alerts the personel when it senses active tags. For high-value items that are to be handled by the patrons, wired alarm clips may also be used.

The previously unknown US manufacturer American Dynamics has flown at least two versions of its developmental BattleHog close air support vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV).

A basic version of the BattleHog tactical air vehicle made a 3min debut sortie on 19 January last year, or some 18 months ahead of the now-public version, the BattleHog 100X.

1. Dorgem 2.1
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_185_19921.html
Dorgem is a webcam capture application for Windows 9x and up. Any Video for Windows compatible webcam (or other digital camera) is supported.
It has unlimited storage events that can put the captured image on an FTP site as well as a local disk, all with their own time interval. It can put a unlimited texts and bitmaps on the captured image before the image is stored.
Dorgem supports an unlimited number of simultaneous cameras. It has a built-in webserver for still images and can be used as security camera because of its motion detection.

2. LogiSphere v1.6.1
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_4_47_19833.html
Web Server to deliver content to the web
Web Cam server for any windows capture device
Tilt/Pan/Zoom for Creative Live! Motion and Logitech Sphere
Zoom with more than 800 windows video device
TV tuner support - change channels form anyhwere
Video recording - record real time videos or detected motion
Configurable caption text with optional time and date display
Control a Logitech Orbit / Sphere USB camera remotely. With LogiSphere you can tilt/pan the camera with any web browser.
FTP Upload: detected motion or current snapshot in intervals * Local Save: store detected motion or snapshots on your computer

3. VisionGS PE 1.2
http://www.download.com/VisionGS-PE/3000-2348_4-5564879.html?tag=lst-0-1
VisionGS PE is an extensive Webcam package that offers support and tools for real-time streaming video and motion detection, as well as a camera cycler and an integrated Web server. This program also contains many prebuilt HTML pages so you can embed your Webcam quickly and simply into your Web page.

4. Senriska
http://sourceforge.net/projects/senriska
Software for camera surveillance with motion detection; works with any USB or IP camera. On motion detection, the program starts recording and a message is send via email and/or SMS.

5. SurveillizCam Lite 1.16
http://www.download.com/SurveillizCam-Lite/3000-2348_4-10578045.html?tag=lst-0-7
SurveillizCam Lite is a light version of SurveillizCam and is a real free digital video surveillance software. It turns your PC and capture devices, such as USB webcam or video capture card, into a video surveillance system. It monitor your home and office by stably detecting motion and logging surveillance video into AVI. Surveillizcam allows you to mask unstable areas in a channel for motion detection, which makes the detection more stable and reliable. Whenever there is abnormal motion in your place of monitoring, you will be notified via sound alarm or live video, and you can also configure the system to automatically record the motion video into AVI. All logged video can be played back with Windows Media Player or SurveillizCam's video management and playback system.