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Dept: 2233F

Position: Advanced Specialist 1 – Forensics (FOR) (TS6NP)

Title: Audio-Video Examiner

Specific Responsibilities:

Candidate will work within a fast-paced dynamic audio-video exploitation laboratory environment serving customers in the military, law enforcement, and intelligence community.

The position will be responsible for the forensic examination of audio and video, including the exploitation and enhancement of audio, video, and still images. The position will be responsible for providing results in finished products or detailed analytical reports. The position will require attendance at meetings and collaboration with internal and external resources to remain knowledgeable on rapidly evolving digital media technology.  The position will collaborate with software engineers to research, evaluate, test, and validate new audio and video forensic products.

Adobe yesterday patched 29 vulnerabilities in Reader, its PDF viewer, and 13 more in Flash, the popular Web media browser plug-in, as part of an even larger quarterly security update.

It was the first time that Adobe patched Reader X, the upgrade it issued last November that includes a "sandbox" anti-exploit technology in the Windows version.

Nearly all the Reader bugs were rated "critical," meaning that they could be exploited by attackers to plant malware on an unpatched system, although for several, Adobe wasn't certain that remote code execution was possible. Two of the 29 could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, a common tactic by identity thieves who target browsers.

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The Minneapolis Police Department Crime Lab is seeking to hire a Forensic Video Analyst. Applications will be accepted from Monday, October 22, 2012 through Friday, November 9, 2012. Complete details can be found online at www.minneapolismn.gov. A direct link to the city's job listings is provided below for your convenience.

Minneapolis Career Opportunities

Sweet niblits!  Use your Verizon Pre Plus as a Wi-Fi mobile hotspot...for free!    

Check out : "Verizon Mobile Hotspot on webOS devices now free, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus fall to $49.99 and $29.99" - Verizon Mobile Hotspot on webOS devices now free, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus fall to $49.99 and $29.99

The Law Enforcement & Emergency Services Video Association International, Inc. (LEVA) has launched an entirely new website for members and visitors! I'm proud to have been given the opportunity to work with LEVA on providing new capabilities and services for LEVA members, and hope everyone enjoys the new site.

Visit www.leva.org today!

"Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline." - https://blender.org

This is a project I've known about for some time, but hadn't looked at in quite awhile.  Wow.  VFX & compositing geeks are going to love Blender 2.92.

Let's make it another great week my friends, be safe out there! 😎

My search for a high-definition camcorder came to an end recently with the purchase of a JVC Everio GZ-HD5.

Among the presentations scheduled for LEVA's International Video Evidence Symposium & Training Conference are two that will focus on video and imaging in Iraqi combat operations.

Contrast ratio is the most important aspect of a TV's performance. More than any other single metric, a set's contrast ratio will be the most noticeable difference between two TVs.
That is, if you could juxtapose them. Which you can't. Or if you could compare their claimed specs. Which you can't.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20066138-1/contrast-ratio-or-how-every-tv-manufacturer-lies-to-you/

You've seen it in countless movies and television shows: A forensic video analyst magnifies and clarifies grainy surveillance footage of a person's face or a license plate to get the key piece of evidence to catch the killer. While some of the details are exaggerated in Hollywood scripts, such tools do exist and they are frequently used to identify and prosecute offenders.

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Come on, you knew this was coming.  Looks pretty cool, I must say...

Next-Level Autonomously Flying Indoor Security Camera | Ring Always Home Cam 

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You know what they say – the old has gone, and the new has come. Mozilla has just announced that they will be retiring their Firefox 4 browser – strange, isn’t it, considering Firefox 4 shipped a mere three months ago. Well, at least Firefox 5 is now the de facto browser from Mozilla. Tuesday’s Firefox 5 release also saw Mozilla spell out the list of vulnerabilities it patched in that edition alongside 2010′s Firefox 3.6, although there was no mention of any bugs fixed in Firefox 4.

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From the PhotoShopSupport.com blog:

Here's a free video tutorial from lynda.com — Setting Up Shop - Preferences, Color Settings, And Shortcuts — from the series Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals. Deke McClelland examines the essential capabilities of the application, from correcting color to retouching portraits. He also covers navigation, resolution, cropping, selecting, printing, and making web graphics. This course goes beyond basic tips and tricks and provides the in-depth information and real-world context needed by serious students who want to master the software.

View the full post & get the link to the video:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/10/cs5-03/video-tutorial-setting-preferences.html