10.9.5 update stalled at 'Completing Installati... | Apple Support Communities

10.9.5 update stalled at 'Completing Installati... | Apple Support Communities: "10.9.5 update stalled at 'Completing Installation' in iMac with current software. How to resume or restart?"



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Power Your Wireless Sensors For 40 Years | Power content from Electronic Design

Short-range wireless sensors are experiencing rapid growth in wide range of applications: RFID to GPS tracking, traditional automatic meter reading (AMR) plus advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), mesh networks, system control and data acquisition (SCADA), data loggers, measurement while drilling, oceanography, environmental systems, emergency/safety systems, military/aerospace systems, and more.

http://m.electronicdesign.com/power/power-your-wireless-sensors-40-years

Energy Harvesting And Wireless Sensor Networks Drive Industrial Applications | Power content from Electronic Design

The industrial sector is keen on using electronics for greater capabilities and higher efficiencies and productivity. Smaller and smarter sensors, ultra-low-power IC devices, energy harvesting performance advances, and better wireless sensor network protocols are spurring this trend.

http://m.electronicdesign.com/power/energy-harvesting-and-wireless-sensor-networks-drive-industrial-applications

Software Defined Radio: A Hacker’s Dream

Software Defined Radio: A Hacker’s Dream: "Like much firmware, many radio devices were not built with security in mind. This makes them vulnerable to attackers on cellular communication systems, Bluetooth™ keyboards, RFID/NFC devices (contactless communications), WiFi, Radio Data Systems (RDS) and other devices."



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Great Scott Gadgets - HackRF One

Great Scott Gadgets - HackRF One: "HackRF One is test equipment for RF systems. It has not been tested for compliance with regulations governing transmission of radio signals. You are responsible for using your HackRF One legally."



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NooElec - HackRF One Software Defined Radio: Bundle

NooElec - HackRF One Software Defined Radio: Bundle: "HackRF One from Great Scott Gadgets is a 20MSPS, USB 2.0 Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 10MHz to 6 GHz."



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How to Make a $19 Police Radio Scanner

How to Make a $19 Police Radio Scanner: "At this point we can launch the Digital Speech Decoder executable and check the Enable box under Trunking in SDRSharp."



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How to Make a $19 Police Radio Scanner

How to Make a $19 Police Radio Scanner: " I will be using a Newsky TV28T v2 with a RTL2832U & R820T tuner."



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Apple Store Favorite IZON Cameras Riddled With Security Holes | The Security Ledger

... administrative credentials for Amazon's S3 cloud service hard coded into the IZON mobile application, which suggests that Stem is using the same credentials for every customer account. 

https://securityledger.com/2013/10/apple-store-favorite-izon-cameras-riddled-with-security-holes/#.VChH0ifn8tA

DEFCON 22: Hack All the Things

 "Secure" baby monitoring device according to their marketing. There is a hard coded username and password for uploading firmware.

http://hackaday.com/2014/08/09/defcon-22-hack-all-the-things/

U.S. flight woes linger after Chicago air traffic center fire

Incendiary insider threat.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0HL1J120140927?irpc=932


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Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks | Mouser

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks | Mouser: Network security is also of grave concern in industrial control systems. The anonymity of a wireless network is not enough to keep it safe from hackers, and this is a growing concern.

Tinba Trojan targets major US banks

Tinba has been modified over the years, in an attempt to bypass new security protections set up by banks, and its source code has beenleaked on underground forums a few months ago.

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2868

Radio frequency & Microwave Meters

http://www.lessemf.com/rf.html#481

3 axis for $199

http://www.amazon.com/3-Axis-RF-Field-Strength-Meter/dp/B008UR36UQ

October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ: "The U.S. is the last major market to still use the old-fashioned swipe-and-sign system, and it’s a big reason why almost half the world’s credit card fraud happens in America, despite the country being home to about a quarter of all credit card transactions."



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FBI — Two Men Plead Guilty in International Stolen Car and Identity Theft Internet Scam

FBI — Two Men Plead Guilty in International Stolen Car and Identity Theft Internet Scam: "admitted purchasing stolen credit cards and corresponding counterfeit driver’s licenses in bulk from a Singapore-based “carder” website. "



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An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community

An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community: "To get into the Deep Web these days, you first have to download the Tor add-on for Firefox"



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JOTS v32n1 - Technology-enabled Crime, Policing and Security

JOTS v32n1 - Technology-enabled Crime, Policing and Security: Crime, policing and security are enabled by and co-evolve with technologies that make them possible.

NIST taking input for mobile security guidelines | PCWorld

By September 18?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2597660/nist-taking-input-for-mobile-security-guidelines.html

Web stats

Here they are:

http://www.internetlivestats.com

Bureaucracy consumes one-quarter of US hospitals’ budgets, twice as much as in other nations: Health Affairs study | Physicians for a National Health Program

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2014/september/bureaucracy-consumes-one-quarter-of-us-hospitals%E2%80%99-budgets-twice-as-much-as-in-ot

FloCon 2015 (Portland, Oregon, January 12-15, 2015)

FloCon 2015 (Portland, Oregon, January 12-15, 2015):



"FloCon is an open network security conference that takes place in Portland, Oregon on January 12-15, 2015 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower."



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British 'ISIS Gang' Hackers Tracked by FBI

Explore http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/15/ISISGang-Hackers-Tracked-by-FBI

Keeping Oracle Java updated continues to be high security ROI - Microsoft Security Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Keeping Oracle Java updated continues to be high security ROI - Microsoft Security Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Exploit kits used by cybercriminals to attack software have been around since at least 2006 in various forms."



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The World's Largest Conference Dedicated To Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery!

Fall World 2014 - September 7 - 10, 2014 Hilton San Diego Bayfront - The World's Largest Conference Dedicated To Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery! | Fall World 2014 | Events

Why hackers may be stealing your credit card numbers for years | Network World

But a simple configuration error allowed him to gain remote access.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2600921/why-hackers-may-be-stealing-your-credit-card-numbers-for-years.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2014-09-02#tk.rss_security


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Genetics in Medicine - HFE-associated hereditary hemochromatosis

Genetics in Medicine - HFE-associated hereditary hemochromatosis: In populations of northern European descent, the p.C282Y mutation in the HFE gene is highly prevalent, and HFE-associated hereditary hemochromatosis is the most common type of inherited iron overload disorder.

New! Supply Chain Risk Management Standard

...a practitioner's guide to SCRM and associated processes for the management of risks within the organization and its end-to-end supply chain.

https://www.asisonline.org/About-ASIS/Who-We-Are/Whats-New/Pages/New-Supply-Chain-Risk-Management-Standard.aspx

More Workers Are Claiming ‘Wage Theft’ - NYTimes.com

More Workers Are Claiming ‘Wage Theft’ - NYTimes.com: "His agency has uncovered nearly $1 billion in illegally unpaid wages since 2010. He noted that the victimized workers were disproportionately immigrants."



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Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects | MIT Technology Review

Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects | MIT Technology Review: "The question Sabatini and Sarracino set out to answer is whether the use of online networks reduces subjective well-being and if so, how."



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