zonky - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Even Easier than Guessing a Birthday (Score 1) 105

by zonky on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @04:41PM (#38218476) Attached to: News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government

This is not correct. It's even simpler- they spoof the callerid to be the mobile's number. Most people have voicemail set to not require PIN from their own phone. Instant access, no pin guessing required.

Comment Re:Qestion (Score 4, Informative) 105

by zonky on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @04:39PM (#38218450) Attached to: News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government

You don't need to guess any digits. You spoof the caller id to be the cell phones number. Most people don't bother with a PIN if they call voicemail from their own phone.

Comment Re:Who... cares? Is this a good thing? (Score 1) 124

by zonky on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:47PM (#37862482) Attached to: HP Keeping Their PC Business

Their Business Desktops are actually pretty decent. The Probook 5310m/5320m line make awesome Linux laptops, SSD, 3G inbuilt.

Comment Re:Out there (Score 2, Insightful) 645

by zonky on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @05:38PM (#37767614) Attached to: Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated

This.

I love my Nexus S, and maintain it via Cyangenmod, but the simple fact is that the majority of handsets are hopelessly out of date, with known security problems, and the networks just don't give a shit.

Comment Re:Fail (Score 1) 452

by zonky on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:50PM (#37534414) Attached to: Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7

Again, how do you know a security hole affecting 3.5.x isn't also present in he 3.0.x codebase?

Comment Re:Fail (Score 1) 452

by zonky on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:41PM (#37533742) Attached to: Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7

What makes you think there are no known security holes? Do you check the source for any similar flaws in upstream versions of Firefox?

Comment Re:oh shit! (Score 0) 192

by zonky on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:52PM (#37304182) Attached to: The Register Hacked

So there credibility is lost. The number of businesses out there who stack everything on a $10 a year relationship is just insane. There are several business grade registrars offering decent services. Look into MelbourneIT DBMS, Markmonitor etc.

Comment Re:HAxorS (Score 5, Informative) 192

by zonky on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:43PM (#37304130) Attached to: The Register Hacked

Looks like a number of sites affected, all of them seem to be using netnames.co.uk as their registrar, looks like DNS Servers all changed.

Comment Re:Sarbanes-Oxley (Score 1) 214

by zonky on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:20PM (#36966856) Attached to: What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means For IT

because users will go out and buy services, not servers, which may or may not have robust technology behind them.

Comment Re:Three years before end of support (Score 1) 425

by zonky on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @12:16AM (#36956014) Attached to: Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50%

All the GDI bugs that were never fixed?

Comment Re:HDD -- SSD (Score 3, Informative) 221

by zonky on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:56PM (#36876392) Attached to: Ubuntu 11.10 Down To 12-Second Boot

I have a HP Probook 5320m with SSD, with Full Disk Encryption (dmcrypt) running 11.04 x64. After entering my FDE keyphrase, i am at login window in around 3-4 seconds.

Comment Re:Hacking (Score 1) 268

by zonky on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:12PM (#36689868) Attached to: Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid

No they didn't. They spoofed caller ID - most people have voicemail setup to not require PIN if the caller ID matches.

Comment Re:Newscorp isn't in the business of news (Score 1) 251

by zonky on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:19PM (#36668148) Attached to: News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail

The News of the World is the largest selling newspaper. It's also the newspaper with the largest readership of ABC1's - the most a fluent demographic.

http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates-Reports/Our-Reports/

Comment Re:Let's Put This In Perspective (Score 1) 251

by zonky on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @06:22PM (#36666458) Attached to: News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail

Voicemails are set without passcode by default generally. All you need to do is spoof the inbound caller id, and call the network's voicemail number.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 3, Informative) 251

by zonky on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @06:20PM (#36666440) Attached to: News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail

Spoofed callerid to the voicemail number, if people don't have a PIN set for voicemail, you can access voicemail without any further barrier.

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