Keystroke logger of the worst kind: a microphone by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — Just when you thought anti-spyware technology was making it safe to compute again, researchers at the University of California have come up with a new form of spyware using some old technology: a microphone. According to a story on ScientificAmerican.com, with 88 […]
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CNET News is reporting that the Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to require that airline cabin crews be equipped with a way to discreetly notify pilots of suspicious activities or security breeches in the cabin – and wireless devices may be the answer to the new government requirement. Read more at Wireless Devices Could […]
Here is an opinion piece on Google’s plans to scan millions of books and make their texts searchable on the internet: Google’s Digital Library Tests Law by the Associated Press on CNN.com. […]
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Here is a an interesting development in “deep” or “invisible” web technology. The article details how a start-up company called Glenbrook Networks is trying to bring together deep web resources into one search engine that would search numerous, separate databases at once. You can read more about this at The Mining of the Invisible Web […]
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The “deep web” is the part of the internet that is not typically indexed by the major search engines. It includes searchable public record databases; company databases; non standard file formats ( like image files, audio files, adobe acrobat files etc. ). The deep web contains a lot of useful information for skip tracers and […]