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A move by legislators in the US state of Maine to require brain-cancer warnings on mobile phones is expected to trigger a worldwide response, the Australian industry has said.

A Democrat state representative, Andrea Boland, wants new mobile phones to carry health warnings like those on cigarettes and is pushing ahead with the legislation despite a lack of scientific consensus.

Read more here:
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/push-for-cigarettelike-warnings-on-mobiles-20100104-lnvo.html

A presentation and paper on Reverse engineering JTAG at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress is now available to download here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/3670.en.html

Other Hacking and reverse engineering papers and talks from the conference can be found here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/index.en.html

The hacking track is here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/index.en.html

Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

More on the story here:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/i_team_8/Sexting_20091112

This report concerns the theoretical and practical issues with automatically populating mobile devices with reference test data for use as reference materials in validation of forensic tools.

It describes an application and data set developed to populate identity modules and highlights subtleties involved in the process. Intriguing results attained by recent versions of commonly-used forensic tools when used to recover the populated data are also discussed. The results indicate that reference materials can be used to identify a variety of inaccuracies that exist in present-day forensic tools.

The Paper can be downloaded in PDF format from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7617/nistir-7617.pdf

More on the paper here:
http://www.testandmeasurement.com/article.mvc/NIST-Develops-Experimental-Validation-Tool-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO

The tool itself can be downloaded from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html

The tool is called SIMfill, and it’s a java application that populates Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) with reference data and can be used to assess the data recovery capabilities of forensic SIM tools. The package includes an initial set of reference data for use with SIMfill, the source and compiled code, a readme file, a user’s guide, and a video demonstration. It can be downloaded free from:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html

For more information please visit:
http://www.marcotempest.com/

Created by Chris O’Shea for the BBC. The billboard is called “Hand from Above”. It is an augmented reality billboard that pokes, lifts, and squeezes bystanders.

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

For the official website, go here:
http://www.chrisoshea.org/projects/hand-from-above/

More on Augmented reality here:
http://thomaskcarpenter.com/
http://augmented-reality.alltop.com/

CNN Coverage:

Georgia Institute of Technology Video:

More information and Paper:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/augearth/

The report features attack data from TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems protecting 6,000 organizations, vulnerability data from 9,000,000 systems compiled by Qualys, and additional analysis and tutorial by the Internet Storm Center and key SANS faculty members. Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them. The full report is found in the link below:

http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/