Comment Re:microsoft bob chat (Score 2, Funny) 223
Guess they didn't catch them all yet.
Submission + - Apple relaxes iOS development tool restrictions 1
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this year Apple caused major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers, meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Apple has just significantly relaxed that policy and allowed for the use of development tools, as long as "the resulting apps do not download any code".
Submission + - Hibernation file a new potential threat. 3
An anonymous reader writes: Matthieu Suiche writes:
For Windows 2000, Microsoft provides a feature called Hibernation also know as suspend to disk that aims to save the system state into an undocumented file called hiberfil.sys. This file contains all the physical memory saved by the Operating System and aims to be restored by the user the next time the computer is powered on. Live forensics analysis is used to use physical memory dump to recover information on the targeted machine. One of the main problems is to obtain a readable physical memory dump, hibernation is an efficient way to save and load physical memory. Hibernation analysis has notable advantages. System activity is totally frozen, therefore coherent data is acquired and no software tool is able to block the analysis. The system is left perfectly functional after analysis, with no side effects.
The hibernation file opens two valuable doors: The first one is (live?) forensics analysis for defensive computing. Hibernation is an efficient and easy way to get a physical memory dump. But the main issue about it was: How to read the hiberfil.sys? That's how the idea of SandMan born. The second one is a new concept we will be introduced and called "offensics" which is a portmanteau from "offensive" and "forensics". If we can read hiberfil.sys, can we rewrite it? The answer is: Yes, with SandMan you can.
SandMan is an open-source framework which makes readable and writable the undocumented windows hibernation file. The author said that 32bits hibernation file "from Windows XP to Windows 2008 Server" are supported yet. Then, it's now possible to retrieve keys/hash used by cryptographic softwares present in memory if they are present during the hibernation process. Furthermore, internal structures mapped in memory which contains information like "application privilege rights" can be modified too though the hibernation file.
Submission + - Ubuntu vs Fedora vs OpenSuSE vs Mandriva (lugradio.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Its been a good few weeks for distro releases with Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mandriva all releasing new versions but which ones best? The Lugradio team talk to Adam Williamson from Mandriva then don asbestos suits and put all four through a series of real world tests. Find out which came out best and which just suck here
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Journal Journal: Pacific Ocean dying of plastic 2
Submitted this to Slashdot a few minutes ago. It's scary as hell.
Submission + - New 125 Miles per Gallon Toyota Prius
Iddo Genuth writes: "The Pennsylvania based Lithium Technology Corporation recently demonstrated a new type of "plug-in" Toyota Prius hybrid car. The new model is based on advanced lithium iron phosphate battery which allows the hybrid car to travel up to a distance of 125 miles per gallon of fuel — making it possibly the most efficient mass-produced car in the world."
Submission + - Dying of plastic overdose in the Pacific?
Noryungi writes: "This amazing, and scary, article talks about the discovery of a zone of the Pacific Ocean — twice the size of Texas — that is dying because of the plastic brought there by the current. Since this particular area is also a high pressure zone, plastic stays trapped and slowly poison all forms of life. The pictures are scary as heck."
Submission + - Ask.com does serious revamp of search engine.
nmk writes: "Ask.com has done a complete overhaul of their search engine interface. The new results page is devided into three colums. The left column allows you to narrow or expand your search by providing relevant criteria. The center colum provides traditional search results, while the right columg gives context specific media results (pictures, videos, blogs, news, time, weather). The results column also allows you to see a thumbnail of each page and also save your favorite search results. There are a number of other advanced featuers that become evident when the new engine is used. This seems to be a far more advanced interface than what is provided by Google. Do you think it will be enough to convince a substantial number of people to evaluate Ask as an alternative to Google."
