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Remote drug delivery devices may be hacked, warn researchers

Washington, February 8 : While scientists are trying to develop electronic implants that dispense medicines automatically or via a wireless medical network, a group of Aussie and American researchers have warned that such devices may have certain security risks.

YanYan Wang and Carey Thaldorf at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and their colleague John Haynes of Charles Darwin University in Darwin, point out that any wireless communications technology may fall under the generic umbrella of hacking, including eavesdropping, jamming, and tampering.

They say that someone with malicious intent might spoof the sensor outputs of a Remote Intelligent Drug Delivery System (RIDDS).

Huge new hard drives: Western Digital clears two terabyte hurdle

Huge new hard drives: Western Digital clears two terabyte hurdleLake Forest, Illinois - Western Digital is the first out of the gate in the race to produce a hard drive offering two terabytes (TB) of storage.

The WD20EADS, a 3.5-inch drive with 32 megabytes (MB) of cache, is part of the WD Caviar Green series and will be available in stores for around 300 dollars, the company reports. Four storage disks with a capacity of 500 gigabytes (GB) each are housed inside the casing.

Lakers deal Radmanovic to Bobcats for Morrison, Shannon Brown

Lakers deal Radmanovic to Bobcats for Morrison, Shannon BrownLos Angeles  - The league-leading Los Angeles Lakers tweaked their roster Saturday, dealing little-used Serbian forward Vladimir Radmanovic to the Charlotte Bobcats for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown, a pair of young, unproven players.

It marks the second straight campaign with an in-season trade for the Lakers (40-9), who last week lost starting center Andrew Bynum for at least two months with a torn knee ligament. En route to the 2008 NBA Finals, they dealt Brian Cook to Orlando for swingman Trevor Ariza.

Senate debates economic stimulus deal

Senate debates economic stimulus dealWashington  - The US Senate spent much of Saturday debating the economic stimulus package on which lawmakers had reached a compromise a day earlier in a bid to pull the United States out of recession.

A bipartisan group of senators put forward a tentative deal late Friday on a 780-billion-dollar recovery plan. The compromise would strip some 150 billion dollars out of an earlier version of the legislation before the Senate.

Biden calls on Europe to put its men where its mouth is

Biden calls on Europe to put its men where its mouth isMunich - The US policy of taking world events into its own hands was officially buried by US Vice President Joe Biden in a major policy speech Saturday before the Munich Security Conference.

Now it remains to be seen whether the United States will follow through on its promises to consult with its allies and talk with its enemies - and how European leaders will cope with a world where they are expected to provide not just counsel, but also the manpower to turn their policy proposals into reality.

On Russia, the West has the will, but not yet the way

On Russia, the West has the will, but not yet the wayMunich  - Where there's a will, there's a way: the saying is as old as the English language, dating back over 1,000 years.

But while European and US leaders on Saturday agreed that the West has the will to work with Russia on some of the world's toughest problems, they are still looking for a way to do it following Russia's "gas war" with Ukraine and its real war with Georgia.

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