Archive : Technology

Use Google Alerts as an Identity Theft Watchdog [Security]

I had no idea this existed. This is a great tool to monitor some basic information about yourself and what is indeed out there on public sites. I often google myself and family just to see what is popping up on them and to see if there is any weirdness going on with their information, [...]

How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WPA Password with Reaver

This is something that could easily be patched by all these vendors with a firmware update. All they would need to do it implement a way to disable WPS and turn it off by default. I hope a lot of these companies do that, but that still will not mean people update their router’s firmware. [...]

Work Begins on CyanogenMod 9, ETA in January

I’m stoked to get this. Ever since I got my Samsung Galaxy S2 and rooted it, I’ve been running Cyanogenmod 7 and I love it. Here are just a few things that it does that the stock android doesn’t; Custom ring profiles i.e. Home,Work, Airplane Removes all the bloatware increasing battery performance Overclocking and underclocking [...]

Siri Security Protocol Cracked

This is awesome! Hackers will be hackers. This just goes to show, you should make your product as available as possible to as wide a variety of people as possible. If not, and you adopt apple’s stance of a completely closed loop, people will just figure out a way around it.