How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Data mining at Target: Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and …

Intercepting LinkedIn Passwords

At the Microsoft TechDays 2012 in Belgium, white hat Paula Januszkiewicz shows how the tool Fiddler can be used to intercept the password of a LinkedIn user. The reason is because the password is not being encrypted by LinkedIn, although https is being used. Not that wow imho, as it’s basically a man in the …

DARPA Legged Squad Support System (LS3)

The LS3 platform is designed with the squad in mind and is therefore significantly quieter, faster and has a much higher carrying capacity (+100lbs) for longer mission durations than DARPA’s earlier mobility technology demonstrator BigDog By DARPA/Boston Dynamics, who also brought us BigDog (also see this spoof), LittleDog and AlphaDog (again, via teusje)