CrunchGear Week in Review: Animal Shots Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: ?Rotary Mechanical? Cell Phone Concept Isn?t Practical, But It Looks Great Lomo?s New La Sardina Camera Is Cheap And Sardine-Can-Like Panda Itazura Bank: Super-Cute Piggy Bank (Video) Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer SugarSync Adds Mobile Device Management To Send Files To Devices From [...]

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/20/week-in-review-animal-shots/

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DIY Pen Is More Fun to Make Than Use

Fraser Ross’ DIY Pen is a flatpack biro kit. A laser-cut sheet of plywood contains pop-out wooden donuts of various sizes, and these are slotted to fix onto two spars which form the twin scaffold spines of the pen. Once you have assembled this torpedo-shaped skeleton, you pop out the nib and clicky-button from the frame [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/diy-pen-is-more-fun-to-make-than-use/

Antonio Fellberg Emma Knebel Jason Randow Benjamin Schötz

Security firm RSA attacked using Excel-Flash one-two sucker punch

RSA attacked using Flash vulnerability
It has emerged that the underlying cause of RSA's SecurID gaffe was the recently-reported zero-day vulnerability found in Adobe's Flash Player.

The exploit, which used specially-crafted Flash embedding in Excel spreadsheets, was first reported on March 15 and has since been fixed. RSA was hacked sometime in the first half of March when an employee was successfully spear phished and opened an infected spreadsheet. As soon as the spreadsheet was opened, an advanced persistent threat (APT) -- a backdoor Trojan -- called Poison Ivy was installed. From there, the attackers basically had free reign of RSA's internal network, which led to the eventual dissemination of data pertaining to RSA's two-factor authenticators.

The attack is reminiscent of the APTs used in the China vs. Google attacks from last year -- and indeed, Uri Rivner, the head of new technologies at RSA is quick to point out that that other big companies are being attacked, too: "The number of enterprises hit by APTs grows by the month; and the range of APT targets includes just about every industry. Unofficial tallies number dozens of mega corporations attacked [...] These companies deploy any imaginable combination of state-of-the-art perimeter and end-point security controls, and use all imaginable combinations of security operations and security controls. Yet still the determined attackers find their way in."

What we'd like to know, though, is whether the attack on RSA was caused by Adobe's lackadaisical approach to patching Flash -- or was it the other way around? Was it the RSA attack that first brought the zero-day vulnerability to Adobe's attention?

Security firm RSA attacked using Excel-Flash one-two sucker punch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/06/security-firm-rsa-attacked-using-excel-flash-one-two-sucker-punc/

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Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay

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If you play Scrabble (or a scrabble-like game) from time to time, you may want to check out Scrabble Helper. This simple website is a godsend when you're at a loss for words. Simply enter whatever letters you have, and the word you'd like to connect with. Scrabble helper comes up with a whole bunch of suggestions sorted by score.

The site lets you select one of five dictionaries - Scrabble International/US, Lexulous International/US, and Words With Friends. Some people might say this constitutes cheating -- I think if the other side knows you're doing it, it's definitely not cheating. And it doesn't take the challenge out of the game, because implementing Scrabble Helper's suggestions and deciding which words you'd like to connect with still takes a fair bit of thought.

Very handy, though perhaps not one for the Scrabble puritans in the crowd.

Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/14/scrabble-helper-helps-you-improve-your-words-with-friends-gamepl/

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Superfunctional 2: The Walking Dread [iPod nano giveaway]

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe in iTunes Superfunctional 2: The Walking Dread sees Geoff and Rene answer your questions about standing desks, then dive into the benefits of walking. Your body feeds on motion and you?ve got to fill it up, so grab your iPhone or iPod, load up some music, hit Nike Plus, [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/Nj9VVcodh1k/

Moritz Beller Gabriela Prell Sylvia Lösche Steven Walnsch

Superfunctional 2: The Walking Dread [iPod nano giveaway]

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe in iTunes Superfunctional 2: The Walking Dread sees Geoff and Rene answer your questions about standing desks, then dive into the benefits of walking. Your body feeds on motion and you?ve got to fill it up, so grab your iPhone or iPod, load up some music, hit Nike Plus, [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/Nj9VVcodh1k/

Finja Kerkhoff Sascha Dörr Kristin Gehrmann Annette Lechner

Engadget Podcast 248 - 07.15.2011

Don't panic! That's not a herd of horses about to parade through your living room, but it is the noise that only 10 Engadget Podcasters can make as they run through your WiFi and into your speakers for this, the first-ever Engadget Partycast! We'll play Twister all over some new Sony tablets, pin the tail on the red envelope, and we might even fire up the hottest new music-streaming service on the HiFi to get you moving. The party is happening right now down below underneath that play button. We're almost at capacity, but we'll let you in if you hurry the dang heck up!

Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guests: Richard Lawler, Dana Wollman, Darren Murph
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Young Folks


00:02:52 - Sony S1 and S2 hands-on
00:03:40 - Sony's S2 tablet coming to AT&T, price and availability remain a mystery
00:09:53 - Sony's VAIO Z finally arrives in the US, goes up for pre-order starting at $2,000
00:15:23 - Netflix officially separates DVD, streaming pricing; $15.98 and up for both
00:33:50 - Netflix streaming comes to the Nintendo 3DS tomorrow
00:38:26 - The Engadget Interview: HP's Stephen DeWitt
00:49:58 - Spotify launching in the US tomorrow
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Engadget Podcast 248 - 07.15.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/15/engadget-podcast-248-07-15-2011/

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