A new report from silicon.com reveals a sharp rise in laptop theft in the UK. Data from the 28 UK police forces, who answered a Freedom of Information Act enquiry by silicon.com, shows an average year-on-year increase in the number of laptops stolen of six per cent. The serious problems created by data loss and […]
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John Underkoffler, the founder and chief scientist of Oblong Industries, is developing an operating system based on human-hand gesturing that could soon replace the mouse. Underkoffler gave a talk called ‘Cinema, Science and Innovation’ at the Museum of Science in Boston, in which he said “the mouse has had a good run but its time
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Times Online has reported attacks on Wi-Fi hotspots in Coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks. The “evil twin†attacks involve a hacker setting up a rogue WiFi network and monitoring traffic in order to intercept private data. This sort of attack is difficult to trace and can be set up with little more than a laptop
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