HackingTheUniverse

Timeline of Electromagnetism

Omar Fink — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:06:45 +0000

1269 – Epistola de Magnete – Peregrinus 1600 – de Magnete – Gilbert 1746 – Leyden jar 1800 – the voltaic pile is an early battery – Volta 1812 – electric force equation – Poisson 1820 – current in a wire creates magnetic field – Oersted 1820 – electricity and magnetism are linked – Ampere [...]

Nmap NSE Scripts

Omar Fink — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:24:23 +0000

The nmap scripting engine (written in LUA) allows users to use a list of pre-written scripts that automate nmap functions or modify them or write your own scripts. Chapter 9. Nmap Scripting Engine – [nmap.org] Introduction The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) is one of Nmap’s most powerful and flexible features. It allows users to write [...]

Visual Map of New Asteroids

Omar Fink — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:30:27 +0000

For anyone interested in the asteroid belt or space exploration, this MUST SEE video offers a viewpoint of the last thirty years of our discovery of new asteroids. The text below the video is helpful. Asteroid Discovery From 1980 – 2010 – [youtube.com] View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids [...]

Swarm Intelligence

Omar Fink — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:56:01 +0000

Swarm intelligence is the process used by groups of organisms or systems or agents to self organize into collective behavior that exhibits some level of intelligent activity. Swarms of insects often seem to act as an intelligent whole, even though the actual intelligence level of each bug is observed to be quite low. Most versions [...]

AR Haptic Floor Tiles

Omar Fink — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:29:08 +0000

Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling – [technologyreview.com] Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. Such a tool could perhaps be used for augmented reality applications, tele-presence, training, rehabilitation or even as virtual foot controllers. The modular “haptic” floor tiling [...]

DLL Hijacking

Omar Fink — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:25:07 +0000

DLL hijacking vulnerabilities – [sans.edu] For the last couple of days there have been a lot of discussions about a vulnerability published by a Slovenian security company ACROS. HD Moore (of Metasploit fame) also independently found hundreds of vulnerable applications and, as he said, the cat is now really out of the bag. In order [...]

Commercial Space Lift

Omar Fink — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:41:24 +0000

The future of space exploration comes in three stages: space lift – escaping the gravity well, whether by brute force impulse rocket or space elevator or some other means space habitats – space stations, space hotels, space colonies, living environments space vehicles – vehicles designed to move through space with little or no gravity have [...]

Plugbot for Penetration Testing

Omar Fink — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:58:45 +0000

All About Plugbot – [theplugbot.com] PlugBot is a hardware bot. It’s a covert penetration testing device designed for use during physical penetration tests. PlugBot is a tiny computer that looks like a power adapter; this small size allows it to go physically undetected all the while powerful enough to scan, collect and deliver test results [...]

1781 – Poisson – bio

Omar Fink — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:53:42 +0000

Simeon Denis Poisson was born in 1781 in France and was a mathematician and physicist. He did work with integrals, differential equations and fourier analysis that laid foundations for many mathematicians who came later. Poisson’s “Treatise on Mechanics”, published in 1811, included work not just on mechanics but also key equations describing electricity and magnetism. [...]

Ferromagnetic AND Ferroelectric = Multiferroic

Omar Fink — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:50:51 +0000

Ferromagnetic materials can retain a magnetic charge that is “written” to them using a magnetic field. The magnetic charge can later be “read” from the material allowing us to store data on the material. This is how most hard drives, magnetic tape and many other forms of data storage media work. Ferroelectric materials can retain [...]