I’ve recently been invited (finally) to Google Voice. First off – it’s amazing, but that’s an entire other post. Since getting my account and number (which is 515-966-4848 if you want to reach my web strategy company) – I’ve been looking for an iPhone app for Google Voice.
The features include everything you would want to interface with Google Voice (via VoiceCentral site) …
- View a list of messages and listen to only the ones you want
- Create a new contact using the name and phone number on the message
- Scroll through your inbound, outbound, and missed call history as well as SMS conversations
- Send SMS messages via your Google Voice account by entering the phone number manually or selecting one from your contacts.
- View voicemail transcriptions (when available from Google Voice)
- Place Calls using your Google Voice Account
- Much, Much More
The video quality is crappy – recorded on the iSight over crappy wifi after which it was compressed by UStream and then converted from flash to mov and then processed by iMovie where it was uploaded to Viddler and further compressed and encoded.
But as Gary would say – it’s the content that matters!
With eyes on Iran, Israel has been planning for the inevitable for the last decade – a cyber onslaught on its sworn enemy Iran.
Last year an Israeli spy was executed in Iran for importing “tainted” communications equipment for one of Iran’s secret military projects. This equipment was likely equipped with malware created by Israeli cyberspies to allow them to take control of the hardware should they need to.
Iranian media quoted a security official as saying that Ashtari’s actions “led to the defeat of the project with irreversible damage.” Israel declined all comment on the case. >via Reuters
In 2007 Israel instituted a air based bombing raid on a suspected atomic reactor in Syria. The attack was preceeded by a cyber attack that rendered Syrian’s ground radar and anti-aircraft systems useless.
According to the book “State Of War” by NYTimes reported James Risen – the CIA and the Israeli Mossad had plans to use electromagnetic-pulse devices to fry power lines heading to nuclear power facilities in Iran.
Via a recent Reuters report…
Asked to speculate about how Israel might target Iran, Borg said malware — a commonly used abbreviation for “malicious software” — could be inserted to corrupt, commandeer or crash the controls of sensitive sites like uranium enrichment plants.
Such attacks could be immediate, he said. Or they might be latent, with the malware loitering unseen and awaiting an external trigger, or pre-set to strike automatically when the infected facility reaches a more critical level of activity.
At least 35 government and commercial Web sites in South Korea and the United States came under major attack over the past several days, fueling suspicions of involvement by North Korea or its sympathizers.
Websites attacked include departments of Homeland Defense, Federal Trade Commission, Yahoo! Finance, Whitehouse.gov, and the Washington Post itself. The full list of websites attacked is available here. South Korean government websites were also attacked.
The attacks were of the DDoS nature – “Distributed Denial of Service”. The hackers gained access to a “botnet” – or a ring of 50,000 computers interconnected to implement the attack.
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