A gaping security hole in cable modems distributed to Time Warner/Road Runner customers could potentially be exploited remotely to access private networks and possibly capture and manipulate private data.
That’s the warning issued by David Chen, a blogger and start-up founder who discovered he could trivially access a customer’s of Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Electronics’
October 27, 2009
Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
June 25, 2009
IBCNU APRS iPhone App has updated.
The IBCNU APRS iPhone app has finally been released by the Appstore. After field day weekend I hope to sit down and check out the new gui interface and features and finally put out that review I have been promising.
Right now the new update isn’t connecting to the APRS servers. Got to figure out what’s [...]
May 23, 2009
Practical Amateur Radio Podcast
If you are looking for a decent ham radio podcast to listen to on your iPod/Phone or MP3 player go to MyAmateurRadio.com It’s operated by Jerry, KD0BIK, and he has a very nice amateur radio podcast. Go to iTunes to find past issues. Has good information for folks looking to get into the hobby,
April 12, 2009
Interesting day…
From the standpoint of no power in the room that houses my computer… I’ve flipped all the breakers, etc… It’s either a bad circuit breaker or something in the wiring here…
I had to run several extension cords from my bedroom into this room to get my systems back up and running… Oh well. [...]
April 6, 2009
FCC to begin broadband policy overhaul
C-Net.Com:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10213179-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
April 4, 2009
The new computer…
Hello.
I’m been real busy with work and I just haven’t had time to do any blogging. However, I do want to let everyone know the new computer did come in. I got it on 3.21.09.
So far I am very impressed with the machine. It’s 64-Bit i7 CPU 920/2.67 GHz, 6 GB ram and 640 GB [...]
March 19, 2009
Dell Saga Part II
Got notified yesterday that the shipping date is pushed again. Now I’m being told that I should expect the system between 3/30-4/1/09!
Finally got something out of customer service. I am now told they are having issues getting the i7 Core processor from Intel and the video card.
It’s their money I’m using but they [...]
January 14, 2009
The PXI Bus Hits its Stride
ecnmag.com
by Jon Titus, Senior Technical Editor
As you might guess from its name, the PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation bus, or PXI bus, takes advantage of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) technology developed for personal computers. Just as the original PCI bus lets users add cards to a PC motherboard, the PXI bus lets instrument-system developers connect [...]
