What Is IrDA?

This is an acronym for Infrared Data Association. The group has been in existence since 1993, helping to set communications standards in a very specific field – infrared technology for communication over small distances. But even in this seemingly limited field there is a lot of activity for organizations like IrDA. Infrared devices have improved considerably through the years. One of the original uses was with TV remote control units that sent...

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What Is CDMA?

If you want to understand digital communication, wireless technology and multiplexing you need to get a handle on CDMA or Code Division Multiple Access. The major difference between traditional communication systems and CDMA is that CDMA employs spread-spectrum multiplexing (various frequencies) to send audio signals. Interference is significantly reduced with this technology. Requiring a specific code to transmit and receive further enhances signal...

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British teen arrested over CIA, US Senate hacking

LONDON — British police working with the FBI arrested a 19-year-old man over attacks by a hacker group on businesses and government agencies including the CIA, US Senate and Sony, Scotland Yard said Tuesday. The man, named in reports as Ryan Cleary, was detained on Monday at a house in the suburban town of Wickford in Essex, southeast England, in connection with a month-long global rampage by the Lulz Security group. He was being questioned Tuesday at a central London police station. "Yes, the arrest is in connection with the Lulz Security attacks. We believe this to be a significant arrest," a police source confirmed to AFP on condition of...

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Teenager arrested on suspicion of hacking

U.S. Government Website Hacked A teenager has been arrested in the UK in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI probe into the hacking of websites. The man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, was arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him. Scotland Yard said the raid followed a series of distributed denial of service attacks. It comes days after hackers from a group called Lulz Security (LulzSec) attacked a number of websites both in...

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How does Wikileaks get information?

WikiLeaks has been firing up popular imagination by suggesting that the impending leaks will have serious consequences on the world. Its strategy is to get and post on the Internet secret documents flying out of the wraps of governments and businesses. In getting hold of damaging details about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the organization has been apparently assisted by a rogue U.S. Army Private, who downloaded secret cables in their thousands...

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U.S. Government Website Hacked

WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Their motto is "laughing at your security since 2011." But, the federal government is not laughing. www.Senate.Gov was hacked Sunday, by Lulz Security. This is the same team of hackers who are responsible for security breaches at Sony, Nintendo, even the FBI. "This may be a game for them but they are not going to have people looking after them," said cyber security expert and former FBI agent Scott Aken. The company tweeted...

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Easily Monitor and Web Server Analysis using The Webalizer

Features of the Webalizer: * Is written in C to be extremely fast and highly portable. On my 1.6Ghz laptop, it can process close to 70,000 records per second, which means a log file with roughly 2 million hits can be analyzed in about 30 seconds. * Handles standard Common logfile format (CLF) server logs, several variations of the NCSA Combined logfile format, wu-ftpd/proftpd xferlog (FTP) format logs, Squid proxy server native format,...

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