HackingTheUniverse

Patch and Vulnerability Management

Omar Fink — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:15:24 +0000

NIST 800-40 “Creating a Patch and Vulnerability Management Program” describes the functions and processes that a patch and vulnerability management program should cover in order to maintain effective security. Importance of patch management As operating systems, applications and utility tools continue to manifest exploitable flaws, rapid application of security patches becomes critical to security. Attackers can [...]

1826 - Riemann - bio

Omar Fink — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:41:02 +0000

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born in 1826 in Breselenz, Germany. He worked on analytic geometry, algebraic geometry, and both non-euclidean and n-dimensional geometries. Some of this work laid important foundations for Einstein’s theory of relativity. He composed the famous “Riemann Hypothesis” which deals with predicting prime numbers. He was a student under Gauss. PRECURSOR: -0575 Pythagoras -0300 [...]

Antarctic Asteroid Crater

Omar Fink — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:39 +0000

It is possible that one of the largest asteroid impacts in the history of the Earth has been located in Antarctica. A land mass concentration detected by satellite mapping of the gravitational field suggests a crater that is around 500 km in diameter (300 miles) and was probably created about 250 million years ago. [...]

Microrings

Omar Fink — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:51:45 +0000

Miniature electronic resonaters known as microrings may significantly alter the way we exchange information of all types. These devices are very small, are low cost, require little power, operate at high frequencies and can handle high speed operations. This technology overcomes most signal interference problems and may enable replacing wire and cable connections [...]

1786 - Arago - bio

Omar Fink — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:59:42 +0000

Francoise Arago was born in 1786 in France and was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Some of his work complemented similar work by Faraday and Fresnel. His confirmation of a bright spot of light at the center of a circular shadow helped confirm Fresnel’s wave theory of light and is now known as [...]

Red Storm

Omar Fink — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:31:06 +0000

Red Storm is a massively parallel processing supercomputer developed by Sandia Labs and Cray for the Department of Energy to do advanced simulation and modeling in nuclear weapons research. It is now being rededicated to national security problems including cyber defense, vulnerability assessments, situational awareness and more. NNSA Dedicates National Security Computing Center at Sandia [...]

TF Skin

Omar Fink — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:06:25 +0000

Tactile Feedback (TF) skin is more commonly known as “touchy-feely” skin. As nanotechnology based artificial skins became more sophisticated and thinner, two way tactile communications has become a basic feature. When nano responsive skins were first being developed, most of the early functions involved basic hygiene; specifically the breathing and moisture control [...]

1868 - Sommerfeld - bio

Omar Fink — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:38:04 +0000

Arnold Sommerfeld was born in 1868 in Germany and was a physicist and mathematician. He has become known for cultivating a large group of students who made significant contributions to science, including Pauli, Heisenberg, Debye, Bethe, Pauling and Rabi, all of whom won nobel prizes. There were many more who made significant contributions [...]

Graphene Nanomesh

Omar Fink — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:44:43 +0000

Graphene is a flat sheet of carbon atoms packed into a honeycomb like structure that is only one atom thick. Hexagonal Boron Nitride is a synthetically created ceramic that has a microstructure similar to graphite. A single layer of this substance is called a “nanomesh” which looks like an assembly of hexagonal pores. [...]

Texas Alpha Robots

Omar Fink — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:27:56 +0000

Willow Garage produces open source software and hardware for personal robotic applications. In the course of their development efforts they found the need for telepresence collaboration and naturally looked to their robot resources. The result is their “Texas Robot” project. Think of a multimedia station, including display, camera, speaker, microphone and a [...]