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Submission + - It's Official, the iPhone has been Hacked (iPwned) (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @09:49AM

SkiifGeek writes: "It took them less than two weeks, but the researchers who recently gained a bootloader shell on the iPhone have now completely unlocked the iPhone, managing to escape the chroot jail that was halting forward progress. Despite the promise of their earlier bootloader work, it was a dead end when it was realised that code could not be arbitrarily loaded without signing by Apple's 1024-bit private RSA key."

Submission + - Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Sunday July 08, 2007 @01:26AM

SkiifGeek writes: "A showdown between Rising Tech, a Chinese Antivirus vendor, and Kaspersky Lab in a Chinese court could have implications for software vendors that misidentify system files and files from their competitors as being malicious.

The argument started in May, after a Kaspersky update inadvertently flagged some of the Rising files as malicious, preventing the Rising antivirus product from updating, and grew from there. Rising threatened to sue Kaspersky, citing more than 20 instances where Kaspersky classified non-malicious files as malicious in a six month period, but it appears that Kaspersky got to sue first.

This isn't the first time that an antivirus update has caused problems for system users, with several of the most recently reported cases involving problems for Chinese Windows users (Just a month ago, a Symantec update caused problems)."

Submission + - iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:45PM

SkiifGeek writes: "A team of researchers (#iphone @ irc.osx86.hu) dedicated to finding means to fully control and interact with the new Apple iPhone claim to have successfully gained an interactive shell on the device. In order to achieve this feat physical access to the phone is required, as it relies on some minor electronics to be created and connected to the phone's serial port.

It is believed that general control over the iPhone will be available to the enterprising researchers within a week (after all, it has only just been a week since the iPhone was released), with the promise of enough control to allow for self-propagating code not very far away."

Submission + - 22 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting

Submitted by nexuspal on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:41PM

nexuspal writes: 22 confirmed dead at Virginia Tech. Shooter killed some at residence hall then two hours later killed others in classrooms. Worst school shooting in US history. CNN Link

Journal Journal: A Phishing Evolution

Journal by SkiifGeek on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @11:28AM

While many of us encounter traditional spamming and phishing on a daily basis in our inboxes, and the growing annoyance of comment spam / messaging spam on blogs, forums and other interactive sites, not many of us will have experienced the high quality identity fraud that is being used to develop and implement phishing / scams on professional networking sites. The Register has recently run an article on one such scam, wh

Submission + - IBM Cell Broadband Engine Software Development Kit

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13, 2007 @01:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: The recently released version 2.0 contains additional libraries and improved compiler tools. This complete Cell BE development environment, includes Linux kernel for Cell BE blades, Linux support libraries, tool chains, system simulator, source code for libraries and samples, and a new, fully-integrated installation.

Submission + - RIP Illuminatus! author Robert Anton Wilson

Submitted by

Fnord

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @10:04AM

Fnord writes: "On January 12, NPR's All Things Considered mentioned and Wonkette notes the demise of Illuminatus! author Robert A. Wilson on January 10, 2007. Very sad, but support from his fans made his last months comfortable."

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