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Secure software design tips

Avoiding the top 10 software security design flaws is a document published as part of the IEEE Computer Society cybersecurity initiative.  IEEE Computer Society Center for Secure Design. The Center intends to shift some of the focus in security from finding bugs to identifying common design flaws in the hope that software architects can learn →

Add print to Firefox context menu

I wanted to have Print functionality on Firefox context menu (the menu that comes visible when I press mouse right button). I do not always want to click the dialogue box all the time when I want to print something. Or move hand to keyboard to use the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut. The easiest solution tip →

Teardown of cheap USB charger

One day I bough a very cheap quite nice looking (if you like Apple style) very cheap (2 USD) USB charger from dx.com. I was curious to see if anything useful could be built this cheaply. The product USB Power Charger Adapter – White (EU Plug / 100~240V) carried SKU 176662 code, but there does →

The Evolution of ATM Skimmers

Taking a Trip to the ATM? Beware of ‘Skimmers’. Skimming is the theft of credit card information used in an otherwise legitimate transaction. Instances of skimming have been reported where the perpetrator has put a device over the card slot of an ATM (automated teller machine), which reads the magnetic strip as the user unknowingly →

Conductive paint pen challenge

Farnell/Newark/Element14 has been running a Conductive Ink Challenge with deadline of 31st August 2014. In it the competition the plan is to draw artistic circuits by hand using nickel or silver-laced “ink”. The aim is to make eye-catching piece of art.  Judging is based on creativity, originality and technical and is final To test conductive →

New camera science and technologies

There has been lately some interesting science new and product articles on special camera technologies: World’s Fastest Camera Takes 4.4 TRILLION Frames Per Second: Researchers in Japan have developed a motion picture camera that can take 4.4 trillion frames per second. The work was published in Nature Photonics. They call their technique “sequentially timed all-optical →