May 22, 2013

security - News


“Genuin software checker” for Windows Phone 7;complicates custom ROMs

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The first big roadblock to Windows Phone 7 modding has been found. According to Conflipper, a former Windows Mobile hacker, Windows Phone 7 devices ship with a “Genuine Software” checker which gives you the screen below if you try to access Xbox Live, Marketplace, Windows Live, or Zune from a device running an OS version [...]

Google launches interactive e-book;It’s time to learn about “Web”

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Today the world is moving from eBooks to interactive ebooks. But there are several users who aren’t fully aware of the technical terms and functions of the browsers and Web, in an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamentals of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains [...]

Stux net Worm is a US Cyber Weapon Against Iran’s Nuclear Project

Frank Rieger, a computer-security researcher based in Berlin said ” A computer worm that has infected industrial computers around the world may be part of a campaign targeting nuclear installations in Iran” . Security experts first learned of the new strain of software in June, but only disclosed its ability to infect major industrial systems [...]

Stuxnet Cyber Worm Targets Iran’s ‘Bushehr’ Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr Iran Nuclear power plant

The Stuxnet Cyber Worm or malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it’s a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Far more advanced than mainstream malware often used for identity theft, Stuxnet is reportedly able to [...]

Goldman Sachs to Pay $27 Million Fine to Financial Services Authority of UK

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Group agreed to pay a fine of nearly $27 Million to the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority and concede that the company made a mistake in regulatory disclosures about trader Fabrice Tourre, according to people familiar with the situation. The fine (one of the biggest ever imposed in Britain) was related to Goldman’s [...]

iTunes Hacked Through Paypal

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Apple iTunes users Hacked Through Paypal : Reports of numerous iTunes accounts being hacked and their users billed for hundreds of downloads via a ‘security hole’ have surfaced with blame being heaped on Apple, yet some commentators have challenged the idea, attributing the misfortune to phishing scams. Apple and PayPal refused to discuss the details [...]

Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG 14-inch Laptop Review

Acer Aspire TimelineX Notebook

The Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG is a 14-inch laptop that packs in an Intel Core i5-430M  processor and dedicated ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics, making it a powerful 14-inch laptop – at least on paper. It also claims to offer eight hours of battery life. The Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T-3697 is a thin laptop with [...]

Can RIM Survive the War Against Blackberry ?

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We already know that the Blackberry manufacturer company RIM is under growing pressure from various governments, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and India, to allow greater access to its proprietary security technology. Government officials claim it’s to allow them to monitor terrorists and other criminal activity, but critics say such access could just [...]

Even India Keeping an Eye on RIM BlackBerry Security Issues After Middle East Countries – India Gave Aug.31 Deadline to RIM

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Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday. A DoT official, who declined to be named, told reporters that the meeting ended “inconclusively,” but refused to provide details. The ultimatum came [...]

Apple Trying to Beat JailbreakMe to Break iPhone 4 Jailbreak in Next Update

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I’m totally not surprised that Apple has managed to fix that PDF security flaw, which is believed to have been used by the iPhone Dev Team to jailbreak the iPhone 4, and all the other iOS 4 devices with JailbreakMe 2.0. Cupertino has probably been working around the clock to address the PDF security hole [...]

Black Hat Conference 2010 – A Researcher Demonstrated the Risk of our ATMs

Black Hat Conference atm hacking

Security researcher Barnaby Jack on Wednesday showed how easy it can be to trigger a waterfall of cash from a standard bank ATM using readily-available software applications. Here on the first day of the Black Hat conference, Barnaby Jack of IOActive demonstrated attacks that would allow a criminal to compromise ATMs, allowing hypothetical thieves to [...]