Sneakey software key to unlocking your secrets
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- Sneakey software key to unlocking your secrets
- INKforce(TM) Software Signs Extensive Contract With Prince George …
- Computer Software Innovations, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2008 …
- Katarsis Capital Advisers SA Selects AIR Worldwide’s Modeling …
Sneakey software key to unlocking your secrets
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
But we should be concerned because advances in digital imagingand optics meant any photograph of a key posed a potential securitythreat, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at theUniversity of California, warns. Professor Savage and two of his PhD students have developed asoftware program called Sneakey that can clone a key in “two tothree minutes” after analysing a digital photograph. The algorithm is so sophisticated it easily copes with thelow-resolution mobile phone images routinely posted on socialnetworking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. “The software looks at the key, adjusts the image for anyrotations or distortions, then produces a string of numbers that isappropriate for that key,” Professor Savage said. “Those numbers are fed into a key-cutting machine and it makes aperfect copy. Professor Savage, 39, said his team at the University’s JacobsSchool of Engineering in San Diego found “thousands” of images ofkeys inadvertently posted on the photo-sharing site Flickr.
INKforce(TM) Software Signs Extensive Contract With Prince George …
MarketWatch
net),
an industry leader in software development of government automation
tools, has been selected by the County of Prince George, Virginia to
provide comprehensive countywide software services. INKforce(TM)
will provide code enforcement, building and permitting, planning and
zoning, fire inspections and point of sale software solutions, in
addition to a new interactive voice recognition module that allows
people to order county services directly over the phone. This marks the first INKforce(TM) contract in the
state of Virginia and the first county to buy all of the INKforce(TM)
modules. It is also the first sale of the new INKforce(TM)
Planning and Zoning module. Prince George County is a suburban county in
southeast Virginia. INKforce(TM) offers software solutions for
government agencies that need to increase productivity, efficiency and
collaboration.
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Computer Software Innovations, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2008 …
MarketWatch
The webcast will be archived and accessible
until December 12, 2008 on the Company website. About Computer Software Innovations, Inc. CSI provides software and technology solutions primarily to public
sector markets. CSI has more than doubled its revenue in the past two
years to over $55 million by using organic growth and acquisitions to
fuel an aggressive expansion from its southeast base. More information about CSI (.
Katarsis Capital Advisers SA Selects AIR Worldwide’s Modeling …
MarketWatch
7, 2008
BOSTON, Nov 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) today announced that Katarsis Capital
Advisors SA, the advisory company of Eskatos, a hedge fund that
specializes in investment in Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS), has
licensed CATRADER(R), the industry standard
application for analyzing catastrophe reinsurance and Insurance-Linked
Securities. Katarsis will use CATRADER to advise Eskatos Capital
Management Sarl to manage its portfolio of ILS and develop optimal
hedging strategies. “AIR’s CATRADER is the right choice for
Katarsis because it uses the most scientifically advanced catastrophe
models available,” said Otello Padovani,
Founding Partner and CEO at Katarsis. “AIR’s
solution combines unsurpassed service and timely catastrophe bond
remodeling capabilities to provide the most accurate information
available on current issuances.