MIT Scientists Develop New Three Times Faster WiFi Technology

If you use your device to connect to the Internet in a big noisy environment, you would experience a slow communication. This is because, WiFi signals interfere with each other because there isn’t enough bandwidth on the wireless spectrum to handle all the traffic from the devices that are trying to use the spectrum at the same time.

MIT scientists claim to have created a new wireless technology with which Wi-Fi data rates can triple, while also doubling the range of the signal. Dubbed MegaMIMO 2.0, the system will soon be commercialized and could relieve the pressure on our increasingly crowded wireless networks. Multiple-input multiple-output, or MIMO technology helps network devices perform better by using multiple transmitters and receivers operating simultaneously, which then transmit and receive multiple data signal simultaneously. MIT's MegaMIMO 2.0 works by allowing multiple routers to work in harmony, sending data on the same piece of spectrum.

MIT claimed that during the tests MegaMIMO 2.0 was able to increase data transfer speed of four laptops connected to the same Wi-Fi network by morethan 300 percent. The technology is expected to be also applied to mobile networks to solve similar congestion issues.

Verizon Bumps Up Data Plan Offer

Verizon had bumped up its pre paid data, back in february, as a promotional offer for the pre-paid lines. Now the new reports say that, the new offer is becoming permanent.
According to the plan, Folks on the $45, 1GB month-to-month plan will have an additional 2GB of mobile data and the $60 plan jumps from 3GB of data to 6GB. You will be getting  this offer only if you haave opted for the auto-pay option, otherways there will be a slight difference in the plan. Which means, If you have choosen for the manual pay option, you will be getting only 2 gb for $45 and 5 gb for $60.

Botg this options also include unlimited calling to Mexico and Canada at no extra charge.

Medical Devices Are Prone To Internet Hacking

Security researchers say at least 68,000 medical systems - such as MRI scanners and infusion systems - from a "large anonymous group of health, in the United States" are available online for hackers to attack.

Researchers Scott and Mark Erven Collao in piracy Derbyco conference explained that they were able to access many medical devices interfaces using the search engine Shodan, which specifically hunting for Internet-connected devices. The pair explained that through further intelligent research they managed to build a detailed picture of the devices used by the organization of health in particular, including details on where medical devices were in a particular building.

There is no data on the unit while it is available, however: the team reported that they were able to identify "direct attack vectors," which could be used to steal data from patients devices, too.

The team also explained that for six months they ran software that claimed to be an MRI and defibrillator as a honeypot for hackers. During this period, they observed thousands of attempts to connect to devices and 299 attempts to install malicious software on them, suggesting the same thing happens in hospitals worldwide. This could be a problem because, as Collao told The Register, "[Medical Devices] are all running Windows XP or XP Service Pack two ... and probably do not have antivirus because they are critical systems."

It is not, of course, the first time the digital security of medical devices has been questioned. Malware is said to be "rampant" in hospitals, and earlier this year, it emerged that hackers could divert drug infusion pumps. Clearly something must be done - but knowing where to start is perhaps the biggest problem.