Google Glass development charges ahead

Google co-founder Sergey Brin models the Google Glass project during Google I/O in June 2012.

(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)

It's been six months since Google unveiled its Google Glass project, and it appears the tech giant is still hard at work ironing out the kinks to get the product ready for consumption.

In an interview with IEEE Spectrum published today, the head of the Google Glass project, Babak Parviz, said his team is continuing to try out new ideas and that both the software and hardware development is coming along.

"We constantly try out new ideas of how this platform can be used," Parviz told IEEE Spectrum. "We're also trying to make the platform more robust. This includes making the hardware more robust and the software more robust, so we can ship it to developers early this year."

Google first debuted the titanium-framed glasses headset during its Google I/O conference in June. At the time, the wearable platform had video and audio capability, along with a built-in compass and accelerometer, and it was controlled by head movements.

In his interview, Parviz added some insight on what the company has been working on since that July debut. Right now, he said, the device has a touch pad for changing settings and Google is experimenting with voice commands. Parviz's team is also working on adding in a phone call feature to the glasses, as well as amping up the battery life to last an entire day.

Currently, Parviz said Google doesn't have any plans to display advertising on the device. Also, it's unclear if the glasses will have incorporated apps or some other type of functionality.

"This is a complicated thing. This is not a laptop or a smartphone. It's an entirely new platform. So how people interact with it and what people do with it is totally new territory," Parviz said. "But we hope that when we ship this to developers, other people will also figure out what this very powerful platform is able to do."

Glass most likely won't be available to consumers until 2014, but Google has said that a select group of developers will have the chance to purchase the $1,500 "Explorer" edition of the device in early 2013.

Investors bet big on BlackBerry 10 smartphones

TORONTO: Shares of Research In Motion rallied as investors positioned ahead of the launch of its new make-or-break BlackBerry 10 smartphones at the end of the month.

Morningstar analyst Brian Colello did not see any one news story driving the stock, which climbed steadily through much of the day. The new phones are to be formally unveiled on January 30.

"The stock has been extremely volatile, based on BlackBerry 10 rumors and the potential for success in the market," said Colello.

Several blog posts published on Friday showed purportedly leaked photos of what could be the new phones, and a number of tech sites confirmed that Sprint Nextel Corp would carry BlackBerry 10.

"Sprint plans to bring BlackBerry 10 to our customers later this year. We will share more details soon," said Mark Elliot, a spokesman for the U.S. carrier, said in an email.

Earlier this week, executives at Verizon Communications , AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA all confirmed they would carry the smartphones, and said they are looking forward to the new devices.

Throughout the autumn of 2012, RIM's stock rose as investors grew more optimistic about the prospects for BlackBerry 10. Colello said the market went from pricing in no chance of success, to betting on at least some chance of success for the new products.

But the rally broke off after RIM reported earnings in December, revealing that it would roll out a new fee structure for its services segment which some fear could put pressure on the high-margin business.

RIM's Nasdaq-listed shares were up 11.8 per cent at $13.33. Shares jumped 11.0 per cent to C$13.09 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, more than twice the low of C$6.10 that they touched in September

Anonymous DDoS Petition: Group Calls On White House To Recognize Direct Denial Of Service As Protest

Members of Anonymous set up a petition on the White House official website Jan. 7 that asks the government to recognize DDoS as a valid form of protest.
DDoS, or direct denial of service, is the practice by which a website's servers are flooded with requests until they become overloaded, taking the website offline. The petition compares it to "repeatedly hitting the refresh button on a webpage."
TechDirt described DDoS as a "modern equivalent to the sit-in," a civil disobedience tactic popularized by student activists in the 1960s. Clog the hallway of a government office with enough people, and it effectively ceases to function; direct enough traffic to a website, and the same thing happens.
However, media and government have described DDoS as a form of hacking, or even cyberterrorism. Recently, members of Anonymous used DDoS to bring down websites in Israel as part of "OpIsrael," a response to the conflict in Gaza that erupted last November.
While DDoS played a big role in the campaign, government and military websites were also defaced, and databases leaked or reportedly destroyed.
The petition also seeks that anyone jailed for DDoS be released and have their record expunged of the offense. The document had more than 2,700 signatures as of Jan. 12. It requires 25,000 signatures by Feb. 6 in order to warrant a response from the White House.
In December, Anonymous helped publicize a petition on the White House website to have the Westboro Baptist Church legally recognized as a hate group.

Web activist Aaron Swartz, charged with hacking MIT, dies at 26

Web entrepreneur and political activist Aaron Swartz, who made headlines in 2011 when he was charged with hacking into MIT’s network and stealing millions of documents, took his life in New York City Friday, his uncle and lawyer told MIT’s The Tech.
“MIT is saddened to learn of the death of Aaron Swartz. This loss of a gifted young person, 26 years old, is a tragedy,” said the college in a statement, which encouraged anyone affected by Swartz’s death to reach out to the campus mental health services.
Swartz was a giant in the hacking community and today eulogies for the young man flooded social media.
“Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep,” read a tweet from the account of Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web.
Swartz was an activist for free and open information on the Internet.
At age 14, he helped develop RSS, a system that quickly distributes updated Web pages to other websites or people. According to his online biography, he was the cofounder of online news site Reddit and the founder of nonprofit political action group Demand Progress.
In July 2011, Swartz was charged in US District Court in Boston with hacking into the archive system JSTOR on MIT’s network in 2010 and stealing more than 4 million articles, some of which were only available for purchase. At the time, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. According to The Tech, Swartz pleaded not guilty to the charges on Sept. 24, 2012.

Webcam Hacking using Google

There are thousands of unprotected webcams available online, Since many Webcams use known protocols to transmit live video streams over the web, it’s often very easy to search for publicly accessible webcams
1.First of all open your Internet browser and visit Google.com
2.Search on Google for the following Keyword “inurl:/view.index.shtml“

3. Next Choose a webcam and Enjoy
Google Dorks
Here is the list of Few Google Dorks used for this purpose:

inurl:/view.shtml
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)
inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
inurl:view/index.shtml
inurl:view/view.shtml
liveapplet
intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
intitle:liveapplet
allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206M”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206W”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 210″
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”
intitle:start inurl:cgistart
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
intext:”MOBOTIX M1″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX M10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX D10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
intitle:”netcam live image”
intitle:”i-Catcher Console – Web Monitor”