Hospital USB stick found in car park
An IT crowd
contractor unplugged a crucial diagnostic
computer from a hospital network so he could use
the plug for something else, according to an inspector general
report.
Apparently it took the Veterans Affairs Department hospital in
Philadelphia more than a year to work out that the computer was
not connected. The computer ran an
application called the VariSeed treatment planning
system, which oncologists use to focus radiation treatment on
cancer hotspots.
VA clinicians performed 17 procedures to insert radioactive
seeds that treat prostate cancer. Without the network
connection, X-rays showing the location of radioactive seeds
could not be transferred to the VariSeed computer, making it
difficult for doctors to determine the patients' response to
treatment.
ClamCase concept turns an iPad into a laptop
While analysts try
to decide whether the Apple iPad is eating into netbook sales,
there’s on sure way to make their job a bit tougher — turn an
iPad into a netbook. We’ve seen plenty of hackers take perfectly
good netbooks over the years and turn them into tablets by
adding a touch screen display and ripping out the keyboard. Now
a company called ClamCase is promising to bring out a kit this
Fall that will let you turn an iPad into a laptop by inserting
it into a slick looking case and connecting to the integrated
keyboard via Bluetooth.
This isn’t the first attempt we’ve seen to turn an iPad into a
notebook with the help of a docking station/case. The folks at
LapDock are working on something quite similar. The difference
is that LapDock has a working, but ugly prototype, while
ClamCase has a sexy-as-hell, but completely imaginary concept
video… which you can watch after the break.
Face book flaw enables users to spy
Face book was forced to
take its chat system offline after users found a way to spy on
friends' personal information.
The security flaw meant users could view other people's live chats
and pending friend requests - processes which are normally meant to
be private.
It was flagged up by a technology blogger who said he achieved the
feat with "a few mouse clicks".
A spokeswoman for the social networking site said that engineers
acted "promptly" to fix the bug on Wednesday afternoon. She said
users would have been performing a specific action with their
privacy setting to be exposed and that hackers could only see
pending friend requests - they could not accept them.
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