Operation Gadget
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Tour of Hope to Ride Again in 2005
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope website has been updated to reflect the fact that the Tour of Hope will be staged again in 2005. There’s no information available yet regarding dates of the event. I remember when Cecil Ledesma and I crossed the finish line at The Ellipse at the…
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T-Mobile Patches Vulnerabilities in My.T-Mobile.Com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week I reported that the My.T-Mobile.com Website still had some potentially dangerous vulnerabilities. I concluded this because I was able to repeat some of the HTML and JavaScript modifications to the My.T-Mobile.com login screen illustrated in the article Secret Service Hacker, How Did He Do It? that was published on…
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February 21 – 27, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of February 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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T-Mobile Offers Security Tips to Customers, But Doesn’t Remove Automatic Login from Voice Mail
Reading Time: < 1 minuteT-Mobile released a set of security tips for its customers on Saturday. T-Mobile is suggesting that customers change their passwords every 60 days, but has so far decided to let individual customers decide whether a password should be required to access their voice mail. Here’s what T-Mobile says about voice mail…
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Treo 650 Launched in Europe on Orange and TIM Networks
Reading Time: < 1 minutepalmOne announced the early-March availability of the Treo 650 in the UK, France, Switzerland, and Italy today. The carriers that will be supporting it initially are Orange and TIM. One interesting aspect of this announcement is the fact that the Treo 650 is part of Orange’s Signature line of phones. Phones…
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More Snow in Central New Jersey
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe got hit with another snow storm last night, so I’ll be outside for a while this morning clearing the driveway and the sidewalks.
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Phishing Coming to the Public Hotspot Market?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Feature published an article by David Pescovitz that calls for a new authentication protocol to prevent thieves from stealing credit card data or user identities using rogue WiFi access points. According to the article, the network login page used by a rogue access point may appear to be secure, but…
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T-Mobile Voice Mail Compromise Demonstrated for Gizmodo
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGizmodo published an article yesterday that says that a mobile security firm has reverse engineered the exploit used to access the T-Mobile voice mailboxes of several celebrities. A security consultant demonstrated this to Joel Johnson by gaining unauthorized access to Joel’s voice mail while he waited. This article further illustrates the…