Robot 'guard dog' sniffs out Wi-Fi holes
News Johanson suggested that his robot could be a cheap network guard dog. A strange two-wheeled creature was skimming through the halls of the Alexis Park Hotel on Sunday -- a robot that sniffs out network vulnerabilities.
[August 5, 2003, 10:00]
The Animal Collection
Downloads Bobby spent the next fourteen years keeping a constant watch and guard over the grave until his own death in 1872. Now you can enjoy some of the most famous animal stories of all time on your handheld with "The Animal Collection" featuring Anna...
[February 11, 2004, 6:00]
Optimising and securing your network review
Reviews One of our favourites is Kerberos, which was developed at MIT and named for Greek mythology's three-headed guard dog at the gates of Hades. You guard your network's 'back door' by setting the WEP encryption on the AP and the clients.
[February 6, 2003, 14:55]
Toy robots do your bidding
News For example, a child can program a "guard robot" for the door to his or her room that can detect motion and take a picture of the "intruder" for the child to look at later. Kids can also program voice commands into a remote control and then order a...
[February 15, 2000, 9:18]
PC: Hey, your mobile's being stolen!
News Bluetooth, the short-range personal area networking technology, may have found a new application as a guard dog for notebooks and smartphones. Researchers at the University of Leeds say they have figured out a way of measuring the distance between...
[July 7, 2004, 12:40]
McAfee Internet Security 4.0 review
Reviews Three main components make up MIS 4.0: VirusScan 6.0, McAfee Firewall 3.0 and a clutch of privacy tools brought over from the discontinued Guard Dog program. Installing MIS 4.0 is simple, and we had it guarding the digital gate 15 minutes after...
[January 16, 2002, 23:00]
Wi-Fi Week: Mobility at the cost of security
News Robot 'guard dog' sniffs out Wi-Fi holes The mass media has had a lot of fun with wireless security: war driving, virus insertion and bandwidth stealing have all had their day in the sun. Public hot spots are more vulnerable to attack than private...
[January 28, 2004, 11:25]
Charities a soft target for hackers
News Many charities and voluntary sector organisations are struggling to guard against security breaches and virus attacks because of a lack of IT security budget and expertise. Further down the scale it's probably still true of some smaller operations...
[May 11, 2006, 10:10]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Having the home secretary in charge of authorisation is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. In December, the Home Office said it would launch a consultation, following revelations that local councils had used interception data to check for...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
Compaq ambitions heighten with the Himalaya
News ZLE also can be used to page a security guard to approach the customer. Compaq managed single-digit revenue growth in 2000 from 1999 -- "the first time they've increased in a dog's year," according to Terry Shannon, author of the Shannon Knows...
[May 10, 2001, 14:00]
Nuggets: Intel joins highway to digital pleasure
News Intel has launched a cheap and cheerful digital camera that can also manage a bit of video action. Didn't you read this the other week? Well, almost. Capable of taking 128 pictures at 640x480 pixels and recording two minutes of video action, the...
[August 16, 2000, 10:14]
