Free Blogger Opp – Timjan Design Malachite 5/1

Here comes another Visionary Bri blogger opportunity.

Sign up now for the Timjan Bloomers Giveaway.

Our sponsor, Timjan Design, has offered one lucky winner
a pair of their Malachite Bloomers!

Just check them out!

With super soft organic cotton, these bloomers are comfortable AND head turners.
The peek-a-boo lace-up legs demand attention.
The pair up for grabs is size M/L.

 

Details of the Giveaway:

• Bloggers get a FREE Twitter or Facebook link with Announcement Post or $5 payable on PayPal to brifloorwilson@gmail.com (limit 2 blogs per blogger)
• Additional links available for $3 each payable on PayPal to brifloorwilson@gmail.com
• Giveaway will start on 5/1 on midnight, central time and end on 5/14 at 11:59 pm
• Bloggers agree to report giveaway link within 24 hours of giveaway going live or will be removed from the RC
• Bloggers agree to market the post on the social network or linky of their choice 3 time per week

This giveaway will run from 5/1/13 at midnight to 5/14/13 at 11:59 pm.

Signup is here.

Announcement HTML is here.

Please feel free to email Visionary Bri with any questions.

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Warming It Up Your Way Giveaway Sign Ups

Warming It Up Your Way Giveaway Sign Ups

Jenn's Blah Blah Blog and Pink Ninja Media bring you the Warming It Up Your Way Giveaway! Sign ups are now open, and we're asking all you awesome bloggers who love to promote giveaways to join us for this fabulous giveaway! Hi everyone I'm opening for another month of the Have It Your Way Giveaway! Most of you know how this giveaway works. Every month I have a giveaway where the winner chooses their prize. One lucky person can choose a prize valued up to $500, and bloggers will get one free link in this giveaway. Choose between Twitter and Pinterest. If you want to sign up for this fabulous giveaway you can visit Jenn's Blah Blah Blog's Have It Your Way Giveaway.

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V 18.2 MP 30 x High Zoom GPS Digital Camera - BLACK

Blogger Opportunity

Giveaway from June 17 to  July 12

Come and be part of this awesome giveaway

We are giving away:

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V 18.2 MP 30 x High Zoom GPS Digital Camera - BLACK. Value $479

• 18.2 megapixel resolution
  Sony DSC-HX200V Cyber-Shot black digital camera delivers excellent picture quality
• Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 29-870mm zoom lens
  Offers f/2.8 to f/5.6 aperture and features a 30x optical zoom
• 3.0" TFT LCD display
  Enjoy easy focus selection and photo viewing
• AVC-HD movie file format
  Record movies in 1080p Full HD format on this compact camera
• 33 scene modes
  Provide creative options for taking eye-catching photos with accurate color
• Optical SteadyShot Image Stabilization
  Reduce image blur
• GPS and compass
  Record shot location and direction

We will have a max. of 200 bloggers for sign up, it will be a big giveaway.

The RC is not long because each co-host has there own RC with their links.

Here are the details to sign up:

-Free Link (Twitter or Pinterest)  

The first 50 bloggers to sign up will get a link free with announcement. 

Announcement is required or you have to pay a waiver fee of $5.00

Please get your announcement here.

(Please read the sign up form on the top to know if we still have free space available)

-Link/ or extra links $3.00 each (if the free spots are gone, to be part of this giveaway you will need to pay $3.00 for each link you want on the giveaway)

Announcement is required or you have to pay a waiver fee of $5.00.

Please get your announcement here.

-Co-Host $15.00

The co-host get 2 host page.  

10 links on the RC.

No announcement required.

Please send payment to melisurveys1978@gmail.com as a gift.

Any question please email me at nysavingspecials@gmail.com

Sign up here

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Surface Pro Giveaway Event Sign-Ups

Surface Pro Giveaway Event

Organized by: Mom to Bed by 8

Prize: 65GB Surface Pro {$899}

Event dates: 5/1 - 5/29

SIGN-UP HERE!

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Back to School Blast Event Giveaway Sign-Ups

Back to School Blast Event 

Hosted by: Mom Powered Media

Prize: $1,000 in Gift Cards up for grabs!

Event dates: 7/1 - 8/1

Free Blogger Event: Sign Up HERE

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Tablet Review

The Kindle Fire HD from Amazon.com and the Apple iPad 2 are up next for review.

Aimee-
iPad 2- $399

Product Features
9.7" LED-backlit display with IPS technology
Dual-core A5 chip
Front and back cameras
Up to 10 hours of battery life
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology
16GB flash storage
Over 65,000 apps made for iPad, available from the App Store

  I got my iPad as a birthday gift last July. I didn't get the 3G version because I really didn't think I would need Internet on it outside my house, that's what my iPhone is for. But the good thing is that a lot of places have free wi-fi now. Its like having a computer at your finger tips, without having to carry around a heavy laptop. I'm using my iPad to write this review.
  The ipad is a wonderful tool for many things reading books, games, searching the Internet, watching movies and tv and so much more. It comes with apps already installed to get you started. The iBook app, for reading books. You can download books from the iTune marketplace. In the App Store there are many other apps you can download for reading books, you can even download a kindle app to read kindle books on. There's apps for watching tv from various tv networks, there's Netflix and Hulu. So many apps to enjoy.
  Another great thing is the games. There are a lot of free/paid iPad games to download. I usually just get the free ones, they are very enjoyable. Every time I go see my four year old niece and one year old nephew they always get in my bag and pull the iPad out to play with. It's crazy how fast kids learn technology these days.
The iPad is about twice the size of a kindle which I don't mind. Bigger size is great for video watching but at night it makes holding it a little harder to read at night. This hasn't been a huge issue though. Over all I think the iPad is a great product and I recommend it.

Cody-
Kindle Fire HD- $199

Product Features
7" 1280x800 HD display
Exclusive Dolby audio
Dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi
Featuring Multiple In/Multiple Out (MIMO) technology
16GB on-device storage
High-performance 1.2GHz dual-core processor

  Looks wise it is cool, just the right size, not to big not to small. I got this as a birthday gift from Aimee it was a Kindle or a PSP Vita, I picked the Kindle. Do I regret it, no not at all. I knew that after a few months into owning the PSP I would be tired of it and then pick it up once in a while. On the other hand with the Kindle I can read books, comic books, watch movies, and surf the web. As long as I'm in a WiFi area.
  As far as reading function goes I have always been a hands on kind of guy. I like real books, the way they feel and the way they smell. So when e-readers first started coming out I scoffed at them saying "they will never last." I have said this about a lot of things before (CDs, DVDs, Blu Rays). And every time I'm wrong. My wife, Aimee, ended up getting an iPad for her birthday and after playing with it for a bit I was sold. Tablets are cool, very cool. I wasn't a fan of the size, or the price, but it's very cool and easy to use. So I wanted one. I did some research and decided on a Kindle. When I got mine first thing I did was download a bunch of books I have wanted to read. I also downloaded some I have already read (John dies at the End). I love it. A great thing about tablets is reading in the dark. This is great for when your bed partner is sleeping. It's the perfect size, and I like that I don't have to worry about messing my books up. It's not heavy, it's much lighter then carrying all the actual books around. It has some awesome apps it's almost as useful as my iPhone. Down side is, not 3g capable. Not that I would want to pay for a 3g plan anyway but it's nice to have the option for other people. But In my opinion it doesn't take any points away from the great product. I love it might not be the one for everyone but if you are looking for cheap and easy this is for you.


We have written all of our reviews on our respective tablets. Then we email them to ourselves to post them from the computer. We both love our tablets respectively. And recommend both. Choosing which all depends on what you want and how much you want to spend.

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Security and Trust when Everything has a Computer In It

Security and Trust when Everything has a Computer In It

Recently, Panic Software announced that they had opened up an HDMI display adapter cable for the latest family of Apple iOS devices, which use a proprietary I/O port named Lightning. Inside the HDMI adapter, the engineers at Panic Software found an ARM system on a chip (SoC), that apparently accepts a compressed video signal from the iOS device and decompresses it to HDMI for the display side. 

Many were surprised to see that microprocessors have become so commonplace that even the cable that connects our devices would itself contain its own CPU. Perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised. Intel introduced the Thunderbolt interface in 2011, and it also uses a chip within its cables, also known as active cables.

Your IO cable could be a man-in-the-middle

Purchasers of the iOS HDMI display adapter expected it to perform like any other HDMI display cable, which is as a "dumb" carrier of a signal. But at this point we can no longer make such assumptions – advances in processor miniaturization have enabled every device, even a cable connector, to incorporate its own CPU. As chips have become smaller and more cost & power efficient, more hardware devices have begun to incorporate them in order to implement internal functionality. The user is often unaware that what seems like a commodity dumb device is actually, effectively, a small computer on the inside, running its own code in firmware. Security researchers ought to be thinking about the implications of this.

We can no longer treat a storage device read operation as forensic evidence 

Security researcher Travis Goodspeed presented at Chaos Communications Congress 29C3 late last year, introducing work he had done to demonstrate that a USB-attached mass storage device with custom firmware can be made to detect its environment and host, and even detect and deny attempts to forensically image it. His presentation invalidated the widely-held (but naive) assumption that a block storage device is just a dumb device, and that it would always simply obey the commands from the host. Travis showed that a drive can actually be aware of its environment, aware of the data it is storing, and actively subvert attempts to access its true stored data.

All devices that access an interface of your computer, no matter how small, ought to be treated like computers

Researcher and Dartmouth College professor Sergey Bratus reportedly exclaims "It's not a bus; it's a network!" with regard to the attack surface of computing devices. He and his colleagues published a paper last year which enumerated the ways in which device interconnect buses (e.g., USB) are just as much attack surfaces as the network interface. This is not the first paper to discuss the potential of attacks against USB hosts, drivers, or device firmware, but Sergey's paper does represent a shift that is happening with regard to recognizing the importance of securing these vectors, and the need for tools and devices to properly research them.

New device interconnect exploration tools are needed

Along those lines, at Recon 2012, Travis Goodspeed released a rapid prototyping device to be used to explore USB endpoint security, called the Facedancer. He generously donated a Facedancer to Digital Operatives, and we hope to do something interesting with it and write more soon here about our experience with implementing subversive USB devices. 

Conclusions

It is 2013 and our storage devices have internal processors and firmware; our input devices have internal processors and firmware; our high speed IO cables have internal processors and firmware; our laptop batteries have internal processors and firmware. Nearly all of these have been basically overlooked by the security research community, mostly because of proprietary and undocumented implementations and because the firmware is difficult to access. New tools are needed, and there is a clear opportunity here for exciting new research. This is a problem we hope to work on ourselves. We'll be back to share more here soon.

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