Monthly Archives: May 2015
Russia's Greatest Weapon May Be Its Hackers – Newsweek
The Unsettling Rise of Crypto-Ransomware – BuzzFeed
Defending Against Hacker Attacks – Information Security Media Group
Defenders of the Web: The People Behind 7 Influential Security Companies – Business Insider
NSA phone surveillance ruled illegal by US appeals court
The mass collection of American phone records and metadata by the National Security Agency (NSA) has been ruled illegal by a US appeals court.
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Capstone 3.0.3
Capstone is a multi-architecture, multi-platform disassembly framework. It has a simple and lightweight architecture-neutral API, thread-safe by design, provides details on disassembled instruction, and more.
WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials
Zscaler has discovered a number of WordPress sites that have been backdoored and sending credentials to a hacker-controlled website.
Pimcore CMS 3.0.5 XSS / SQL Injection / Command Execution
Pimcore CMS version 3.0.5 suffers from command execution, cross site scripting, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Three reasons to be excited about: Augmented Reality
Whether for personal entertainment or in the workplace, augmented reality has some exciting applications for all of us.
Entertainment
One of the most exciting applications for augmented reality is in the entertainment industry. As highlighted by the incredibly popular game Ingress, the ability to capture the world around us and add fantastical features will take entertainment to the next level.
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Ingress
Videogames and movies that emerge the world around you will give each of us an incredibly personal and interactive entertainment experience.
In fact, the allure of augmented reality in the gaming industry is so big that, by 2020, it is predicted to be worth around $120 billion. That total is three times that of virtual reality, underlining its wide range of applications.
Business and industry
It’s not all fun and games though. Augmented reality has a lot to offer businesses and industry too. Any industry where skilled workers such as engineers or manufacturers need to access information in real time can benefit greatly from augmented reality.
Among it’s wide number of applications, augmented reality could be used to help train staff, improve effectiveness of industrial maintenance checks and make your products easier to find and purchase.
Education
Augmented reality is already in use as an educational tool around the world and is a great way to make information exciting and engaging for students.
Whether studying the human body with digital 3D figures that leap out of screens to bringing old fashioned text books to life, augmented reality could possibly be the next big step in teaching tools.
Aurasma, an augmented reality app available on tablets has been working with schools for a few years already.
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Aurasma in school
