We’re not entirely convinced by the idea of naming your autonomous webcam “The Mole”; after all, when it comes to eyesight moles aren’t especially known for their 20/20 vision. Still, we’ll overlook that since Astak’s Mole is pretty nifty: a motion-activated IP webcam, with WiFi and wired ethernet connections, that can automatically upload footage to YouTube together with sending out email and Twitter messages.
It’s hard to find a single screengrab to illustrate this great video of craftsman Brian Grabski’s work-in-progress furniture: that’s because it hides a fiendishly clever mechanism by which you can open a secret drawer. The hand-crafted chest-of-drawers demands you pull open each of the visible drawers, before a hidden control springs out and allows you to trigger the secret compartment built into what looks like a normal molding.
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The results for Microsoft’s pressure-sensitive keyboard competition are in, and there are some interesting uses for the prototype ‘board. The peripheral can track not only which keys are pressed but the force with which they’re hit, and it’s that which “Most Useful” first prize winner SafeLock takes advantage of; the password app not only matches up an eight-character code, but measures flight time, hold time, maximized pressure and a curve fit to measure pressure over time for each keypress.
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With the average user entering dozens of passwords every day, to log into their computer, their email and their social networks, it’s all to easy to forget that many files are even more valuable than our Facebook login. Drive encryption is becoming more relevant to people all the time, and there’s a good argument for doing it properly if you’re going to do it at all. CRU-DataPort’s 10 Secure caddy and accompanying SecureDock are one such system, taking a standard SATA hard-drive and locking it up with military-grade encryption and a removable AES 128 key. Peace of mind or hardware-hurdle? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
Keeping an eye on your home or business 24 hour a day can be a challenging prospect for surveillance cameras. Some cameras offer great daytime picture quality while others offer inferior daytime performance in exchange for improved nighttime and low light sensitivity.
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It seems pretty clear-cut that Microsoft are going to get plenty of stick for their latest software vulnerability - and their fix for it - after the company's Security Response Center admitted that SMBv2 (Server Message Block version 2) could leave a system vulnerable to remote takeover. Microsoft's fix for Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7? Turn it off.
We’ve seen cellularly-enabled CCTV cameras before – capable of shooting images across the mobile networks and directly to your cellphone – but never have they been so droid-like in their design. BrickHouse Security’s motion-activated Global Watchman is a ruggedized 1.3-megapixel camera with onboard battery and IR flash for discretely illuminating nighttime scenes.
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If you’ve ever watched a taxi drive off into the distance with your cellphone on the back seat, left your phone under a napkin at a restaurant or just found you’re halfway to work and your BlackBerry is still sat charging in the kitchen, then nio believe they have the solution. The UK firm are offering a Bluetooth keychain and some proprietary software that you install on your cellphone; that creates a roughly 25m link between the two, which if exceeded causes both keychain and phone to flash and sound an alarm.
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Does Snow Leopard include an anti-virus app along with all its other OS X improvements? That’s the question The Mac Security Blog are asking, having received tip-offs that disc images infected with a trojan were flagged up as dangerous by Safari.
If you’re in constant fear that your data will be compromised for one reason or another, you’ll be pleased to hear Apricorn has just outed their Aegis Padlock Secure Hard Drive.
This portable storage system actually has a keypad with which you can enter a PIN number you set. This way, no one else can access your information without that specific PIN you designate.
Other features include a USB 2.0 cable, AES-128 or 256 bit encryption, ten user IDs and a single administrator to assign permissions, and an omnidirectional shock mounting system, allowing the device to stand up to unexpected bumps. You can get the Aegis Padlock Secure Hard Drive now in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB capacities in either 128-bit or 256-bit versions. Pricing is $100, $110 and $140 for the 128-bit models and $120, $130 and $160 for the 256-bit ones.
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