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Mobile screen-spy software recreates passwords

"When one types text messages, emails and login credentials on one's virtual iPhone or Android keyboard, larger bubbles containing each character pop up for a second while the individual keys are being pressed.

But handy as the feature undoubtedly is for those users who have trouble deciphering the smaller characters on the keyboard, it can also be misused for spying on the users' activity.

When typing in confidential information on the phone, the more paranoid among us usually surreptitiously check if someone is behind or near us and can read what we write. But, according to a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that might not be enough to thwart resolute spies.

To prove their point, they have developed a program called iSpy, which can identify the text a user has typed in by analyzing video footage of the screen while he was doing it. And what's worse, the program can even extract that information from the footage of the screen as it is reflected in a window or one's sunglasses.

To do this, the spy doesn't have to have telescopic lenses or high-end equipment - smartphone cameras are more than enough.

"We then use a number of computer vision techniques to process the recorded video, identifying, for each frame, potential keys that were pressed," explain the researchers. "This visual detection, coupled with a language model, enables us to achieve surprisingly accurate sentence retrieval results, even under challenging real-world scenarios."

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"WorldGate’s Ojo Vision digital videophone is an option worth considering for those who don’t want to sit in front of a computer or use a smartphone to make video calls.

Set up was snap-simple: It took less than five minutes from unboxing to dialing. You can use a number assigned to you by WorldGate or port your existing number to the phone.

You see video via the phone’s bright 7-inch LCD screen. In test phone calls, audio and video quality were very good"

Continue reading the story The New York Times story by RIK FAIRLIE

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"SecureMac has discovered a new trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), the latest version of OS X. The trojan horse, trojan.osx.boonana.a, is spreading through social networking sites, including Facebook, disguised as a video. The trojan is currently appearing as a link in messages on social networking sites with the subject "Is this you in this video?"

When a user clicks the infected link, the trojan initially runs as a Java applet, which downloads other files to the computer, including an installer, which launches automatically. When run, the installer modifies system files to bypass the need for passwords, allowing outside access to all files on the system. Additionally, the trojan sets itself to run invisibly in the background at startup, and periodically checks in with command and control servers to report information on the infected system. While running, the trojan horse hijacks user accounts to spread itself further via spam messages. Users have reported the trojan is spreading through e-mail as well as social media sites."

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"Under certain conditions, iPad may not automatically rejoin a known Wi-Fi network after restart or waking from sleep," said Apple in a statement. "This can occur with some third-party Wi-Fi routers that are dual-band capable when using the same network name for each network, or using different security settings for each network." Apple has published a Knowledge Base article suggesting some other solutions to the wireless problem.

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Apple's fifth take: Ars reviews the iPod nano with video

Once again, we have taken a look at the new iPod nano to see if its new features are cool enough to keep it at the top of Apple's bestseller list. And, since video is one of the nano's major new features, we compared its video quality to other pocket video cameras.

Another year, another iPod nano. As expected, Apple introduced the next generation of its flash-based music player during the September 2009 iPod event, once again building on its current feature set in an attempt to appeal to more buyers.

The new nano (fifth generation, for those keeping count) is very similar to the fourth-generation version. What differentiates the 5G nano, however, are a few major feature additions plus a handful of refinements intended to keep the nano on everyone's stocking stuffer list.

Quick look at what's new

If it weren’t already plainly obvious, the major new feature of the fifth nano is the addition of a video camera. That alone could have probably justified the new device, but Apple went a few steps further, leveraging existing (but latent) capabilities already on the nano to add several other features. These include a full-featured FM tuner application, a pedometer, a Nike+ receiver, VoiceOver support, and a voice notes application.

Read the full story at Ars Technica By Jacqui Cheng, Clint Ecker

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So your viewing a Flash video and it's using all your CPU or crashing your web browser. Youtube has a new demo posted that demonstrates the potential of rendering 3D graphics in the browser, using O3D, an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. The app shown in the video is coded in javascript and html and runs in a web browser. Learn more about O3D at http://code.google.com/apis/o3d