Category: Computer Related – Advanced

Researchers from Japanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers have developed what is claimed to be the world’s first elastic electric cable. Inspired by the extensibility of human skin, the Roboden cable has been initially designed as a wiring solution for humanoid robots and wearable electronics. http://www.gizmag.com/roboden-elastic-cables/20741

Interesting excerpt from a book The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications by Michal Zalewski. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/282225,the-evolution-of-a-threat.aspx

Another tool in the web developer’s arsenal. http://www.webpronews.com/thesis-wordpress-theme-creator-talks-golden-ratio-and-typography-2011-12

There are plenty of situations in which it’s convenient for people to be able to receive sensitive data on their smartphones – one example could be a nurse at a clinic, who needs a doctor’s office to email over a patient’s immunization records. The problem is, those confidential records will still be on her phone, when she leaves work with it at the end of the day. A new system developed at Virginia Tech, however, offers a solution to that problem. It allows mobile phones to access certain data only when they’re in a given physical location, and wipes that data from their memories when they leave. http://www.gizmag.com/sensitive-data-wiped-from-phones/20154/

Most businesses put out content without ever seeing a return on time and investment. http://www.site-reference.com/articles/content-doesn%E2%80%99t-convert

AusCERT chief warns of need for new approach. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/281216,australias-ehealth-record-a-security-disaster.aspx

“They are almost always attacks that start with an email … coming from a trusted sender, from someone the recipient knows, and it speaks about normal things – work issues, projects, plans, meetings – stuff that’s actually happening.” The emails also come with an attachment, “almost always a document file” such as a PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. “These attacks are not against PDF – these attacks are against Adobe Reader,” he said. “You open this files in any other reader than Adobe Reader and there is no exploit.” http://www.itnews.com.au/News/279623,fear-of-china-masks-the-work-of-other-web-spies.aspx

This is a write-up of experiments conducted with a Facebook account and the results of those experiments. Fascinating reading for those interested in how the monster works! http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets.html

Google has announced its intention to drop Buzz, the failed social predecessor to Google+. Other products swept out in the latest cleanup round include open source code scouring tool Code Search, social product Jaiku, iGoogle social features and API access to Google search for selected researchers. This year Google has also taken down Google Health, Power Meter, Google Labs and Google Toolbar in Firefox amongst others.
Gee. Would make one wary of throwing any time behind developing for a Google app wouldn’t it?
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/276910,failed-buzz-to-fall-off-google.aspx

I just used this free service to generate a site map for one of my web properties: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/