123 CCTV Security Cameras

Posted in Hardware Security by Dragan Pleskonjic @ Feb 24, 2008

If you want to monitor some area, office, room, you should visit this web site. Company 123 CCTV offers security camera surveillance equipment and various accessories (switchers & multiplexers, CCTV monitors, pan, tilt & zoom equipment, wireless trans. & receivers, camera cabling & wire, power supplies, and converters etc).

They also sell digital video recording - DVR Systems which includes DVR PC software and separate unit as possible solutions.

123 CCTV offers wireless cigarette cameras. These cameras are placed into cigarette box like package and offer you the ability to monitor just about any area. Simply plop the cigarette pack down onto any flat surface and point it in the direction you desire to view. Once done, the cigarette packs built-in 1.2GHz transmitter will automatically send the hidden video signals to the nearby receiving unit (included) which is able to be plugged into virtually any TV or monitor. It is able to transmit signals up to 1000 ft. line of sight or 500 ft. through walls and obstructions. As for the built-in hidden camera, it uses a 1 lux color 1/4″ CMOS, offering 380 lines of resolution with a 3.7mm (wide angle) pinhole lens that automatically adjusts to light changes.  Operating off of a regular 9 Volt battery this is truly an awesome covert camera.

1.2GHz Wireless Cigarette Cam

There is also entire set of small hidden cameras for various applications and these cameras can be placed into, for example: wall clock, motion detector, smoke detector, computer speakers, clock radio, air cleaner, exterior motion light, toys etc.

Company says that their clients range from the Pentagon, to the home owner. Here is company’s partial list of clients.

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WordPress - Urgent Security Release

Posted in Security by Dragan Pleskonjic @ Feb 5, 2008

New release of WordPress 2.3.3 is one more urgent security release. This release followed release 2.3.2 which was also an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. New release 2.3.3 fixes vulnerability which appears if you have registration enabled. Flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

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Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool

Posted in Tools and Utilities by Dragan Pleskonjic @ Feb 2, 2008

Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool assists Network administrators with troubleshooting network related failures, focusing primarily on IPsec. It is applicable on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This tool download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows. Also, check interesting Network Access Protection (NAP) Case Study. It’s a quick and interesting to read, use IPsec-based enforcement.

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Poll Results - The Most Secure Operating Systems Family

Posted in Operating Systems and Application Security, Polls, Security by Dragan Pleskonjic @ Feb 1, 2008

Poll “The Most Secure Operating Systems Family is?” has been closed on January 31st, 2008, after it was opened for voting more then 3 months, as planned. You had chance to vote for one of today’s popular (or less popular) operating systems.

Results of poll are here:

  • Linux (24.44%, 110 Votes)
  • BSD UNIX (23.11%, 104 Votes)
  • Solaris (19.33%, 87 Votes)
  • Mac OS X (17.11%, 77 Votes)
  • MS Windows (16.00%, 72 Votes)

Total Voters: 450

In graphic presentation it looks like:

Poll results - the most secure OS

It is obvious that Linux funs were very eager to vote for their favorite. It is also obvious that majority of voters in this poll share belief that Unix-like operating systems are far more secure that Windows. Microsoft has pretty low reputation among people that took opportunity to vote in this poll.

Do not miss opportunity to vote in poll about primary motives for hacking.

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