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TechDigest: iPhone gets VoIP courtesy of TruPhone
Truphone, notable for providing VoIP phone calls on Nokia-based phones now have a prototype working for Apple's iPhone, allowing you to make WiFi-to-WiFi calls via VoIP.
Consider the cat well and truly among the pigeons.
While we're on the subject of VoIP services -
Well, the headline pretty much says it all. The main way that Moore got access to all those companies was that the companies had used the default router password on the routers - usually "admin" or "Cisco0"
"It's so easy. It's so easy a caveman can do it," Moore told InformationWeek, laughing. "When you've got that many computers at your fingertips, you'd be surprised how many are insecure."…
He explained that he would first scan the network looking mainly for the Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Quintum boxes. If he found them, he would then scan to see what models they were and then he would scan again, this time for vulnerabilities, like default passwords or unpatched bugs in old Cisco IOS boxes. If he didn't find default passwords or easily exploitable bugs, he'd run brute-force or dictionary attacks to try to break the passwords.
While we're on the subject of hackers:
CNN: Sources: Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid.
In one of those things that you think only happens in bad Sandra Bullock movies, researchers successfully hacked into the control system of a replica of an industrial electrical generator, and caused it to spew smoke, shake, and stop.
CNN has honored a request from the Department of Homeland Security not to divulge certain details about the experiment, dubbed "Aurora," and conducted in March at the Department of Energy's Idaho lab
While we're on the subject of law enforcement:
Stuff.co.nz: Police wiki lets you write the law
The Variety headline would be "Fuzz Buzzed over Kiwi Wiki."
Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of the new policing act.
I found this comment humorous on the Slashdot discussion:
This was a science fiction story in which anyone could create a law. The visitor from Earth created a law saying that only qualified people could create new laws, arguing that otherwise someone might create a stupid one. The native said "Someone just did, in fact". The revert happened almost immediately, and the visitor was advised not to start a revert war: the reverter was described as "very good with the ritual sword".
