Mac Defender kills Apples Security!

The well known scareware mac defender that has been around the last few days, was to be killed by Mac OSX Security Update 2011-003 but the scareware developer team killed the security suite within 8 hours! Apples Security suite isn't able to track MAC Defender anymore and the app looks legit again.

A new race has began between Mac OSX Developers and the on the come scareware team. Windows users now can look at apple mac osx with an smile ;) the malware future has begun and there are more to come!

Fujitsu Siemens's Erase Disk launched!

The Company Fujitsu Siemens Augsburg has invented an new Addon to all their mobile computer series. An tool called "erase disk" is implemented in bios and uefi.

With this tool its possible to erase your whole disk with 5 different algorythms that will wipe anyhting out of them.
First i thought, umm nothing special, but to do a normal disk erasment you need a proper running OS or an boot disk with the lagorithms on it to delete a disk.
With Fujitsus new tool "erase disk" its possible to erase any disk though in that case if no OS or no proper installed OS is running on the Notebook/Computer

The 4 used algorythms are:

• Zero Pattern (1 pass) 
• German BSI/VSITR (7 passes)
• DoD 5220.22-M ECE (7 passes) 
• Guttmann (35 passes)

This will depending on disk space take 1 to 10 minutes per Gigabyte for erasment.

With this tool its possible to wipe IDE, SATA including Raid systems but no solid state drives.

Fujitsu has invented an real economy product here, i can remember when a disk of mine was broken i always borke it a lot more to get it wasted unrecoverable and the moved to trash that nobody can find it =P

Cheers folks!

Apple Iphone 4 hardware hacked!

Finally the Iphone 4 hardware got hacked and is now open for everyone.
Apple used an 256-Bit key to encrypt any data stored on the phone, GPS-Data, Usernames and passwords, phonebook entries, messages, etc... and all other related user data that is stored on the phone.

This new revealed hack now allows us to do a Backup of an apple iphone 4 and also decrypt this backup to get the data out of this solid box.

As they claim Russian company ElcomSoft has done this hack first and created an easy to use software for everyone. ElcomSoft

An sheet here shows what is possible with the light and the full edition of this software:

ElcomSoft offer this iOS 4 forensic toolkit to security and law enforcement agencies, but anyone can purchase the software to extract the encrypted data on a device.

MeeGo 1.2 Release

The new replacement on mobile phones like the Nokia N900, N8 and N9, MEEGO will establish in future instead of Maemo.

Also this newly improved peace of software will be available on most Netbooks / laptops for use.
To take a look at the Design click the next picture:

Simple to handle OS for netbooks

The MeeGo 1.2 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing.

Some highlights of the MeeGo Core stack include:

• MeeGo Reference Kernels supporting a variety of Intel Atom and ARMv7 platforms.
• QML Application Framework and extended Qt-Mobility APIs, including additional location, system, connectivity, and sensor/haptic capabilities for rapid, rich, application development.
• Enhanced Telephony and Connectivity capabilities, including:
• GSM, GPRS, and HSPA+ network support
• SIM Application Toolkit
• Expanded Bluetooth profiles
• Expanded VPN and wireless authentication methods
• USB, WiFi, and BT-PAN data tethering capability
• Enhance multimedia support, including RTSP streaming with progressive download

This release also includes the following:

• Netbook UX 1.2 complete set of core applications for netbooks.
• In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) UX 1.2 includes a sample IVI Homescreen and speech recognition enabled Application Launcher built with QML, as well as a collection of commonly used applications.
• Tablet Developer Preview
• MeeGo SDK 1.2 for MeeGo Core OS and supported UXs.

Sony got hacked again!

Two weeks after the big Playstation Network hack Sony s Greek music homepage got hacked!

Username, maill addys and real names got stolen from all customers that were registred on their site, this could be another big leak in sony s never ending hack story!
Another funny point here, someone has realeased the hole data that got stolen from sony s music page on pastebin.org

All data has been posted, but the hacker deleted the phone number and also the users passwords before posting, seems to be great statement to scare them but not kill them right now!

In fact its not possible to run a website 100% secure so it cant be hacked, but what sony does here is horrible, their security got broken in such simple ways that everyone can just wonder around why havent i tried to =P

Everyone that is registred on sonymusic.gr should change his password right now, dont know what the hacker is planning with the data that got leaked so long...

Sony playstation network hacked again!

Not so much time has passed and the PSN (Sony Playstation Network) got hacked again, only 48 hours after the playstation etwork got relaunched and was up again a new security hole was found and missused.

Maybe the same hackers are involved as on playstation networks first take down.
The new security hole is described as follows:

You can use the forget your password button on the PSN to retrieve a new password, the clue is to get a new passwort you only have to enter 2 criterias, your Name and your date of birth. So long if the crew that hacked it before is after this security hole again they already got all datas from every user of the PSN so they know their name and also their date of birth.

In most parts of the world sony has now taken down the feature to change your users password to get rid of this failure, but it seems they handle this real filthy :) i think if sony gets another hit in its face it has to capitulate!

Though the hackers have not been captured at all, also the FBI is after them - it seems they handle this quite smart :)

OtherOS++ Boot linux on PS3

 Rebug Team has brought 2 new realeases for the Sony s playstation 3:
Boot OtherOS++ & OtherOS Prep Tool
These are essential for installing an new OS on your playstation 3 

Note: Below are excerpt from rebug.me
Requirements:

• 16MB NOR PS3 (Model CECHH or Higher)
• 3.55 OtherOS++ enabled firmware installed

(If you want to use REBUG 3.55.1 grab PS3MFW Builder 0.2 Portable
from here with the tasks pre-selected to add OtherOS++ support)
Features:

• One Step Prep if installing OtherOS to USB Hard Disk
• Two Step Prep if installing OtherOS to PS3 Hard Disk
• Resize vflash to 6 different sizes
• (Original, 11GB, 22,GB, 43GB, 65GB and 83GB)
• Create or Delete vflash region 5, 6 and 7 separately
• Create or Delete ALL vflash regions at once
• dtbImage.ps3.bin included in pkg (no need to have it ready on USB)
• Install different dtbImage.ps3.bin from USB
• Checks that vflash region 7 create matches vflash size
• Detects and displays current vflash size on start up
• Auto matches new size to current size on start up

IMPORTANT NOTE: THE BLACK SCREEN IS NORMAL
In most cases when the PS3 auto reboots you will get a black screen telling you to plug in your controller and press the PS button. THIS IS NORMAL. Press the PS button and on the next screen press the PS button again. The PS3 will continue to reboot.


*****************
IF INSTALLING LINUX TO USB HARD DRIVE:
STEP 1: COMPLETE VFLASH AND PETITBOOT INSTALLATION
(PS3 Hard Drive WILL NOT be Formatted)
Run OtherOS Prep Tool
Press START+SELECT.. You’re done!!
(PS3 will beep when it starts and again when it finishes)
(System will auto reboot)
Run Boot OtherOS++ to launch Petitboot

 We are done folks, happy booting, and btw.:

If any body know the series breaking bad would know this already - i wanted to share ;) have fun

UPC Austria must block Kino.to

The Internet Service Provider UPC Austria, one of the fastest ISP's in Austria is forced to shut down DNS entries for kino.to so nobody from Austria whos ISP is UPC will be able to "find" stream movies anymore that were linked from Kino.to.

So long if you want ot watch Kino.to movies in the future, you should just look up wikipedia and check out what an Domain Name Service does and what it is - after you checked that just google the following:

After that your are on the safe side!

for everyone else who dont want to use this alternative, try to check out g-stream . in 

KEEP IT GOING FOLKS, have a nice day :)

Prey!

Hello guys, back after the long off-time of Blogger.com.

Today i read about an interesting open source software that could be interesting for everyone.
An interesting scenario took its place in New York/Canada

The SEO-Expert Sean Power was currently in Canada as somebody in Soho turned on his notebook what got stolen a few days ago.
So Sean is a user of the Powerfull Open-Source tool Prey.

Any mobile phone with open-source software running on could get in use of prey.


By the way, Sean got his notebook back, he ordered someone on twitter to get to the place his notebook was last spottet by prey. The police officers of New York dont mentioned to help him, cause he has not reported early enough that it got stolen.

Twitter could be real usefull in the future though as we see in this case  ;)

Main features of pray:

 

If you want to take a further look or maybe try it - get it here: prey project

Cheers and keep your hardware safe :)

Nokia announces new QT 5 Framework

Nokia have announced their plans for the year 2012 in desktop developing, they are planning to release the new Qt5 Framework for Linux their objectives for the next Release QT 5 are:

• Make better use of the GPU, allowing you to create smooth (and accelerated) graphics performance even with limited resources;
• Making your creation of advanced applications and UIs easier and faster (with QML and Javascript);
• Make apps connected to the web be as powerful as possible, i.e. to embed and power up web content and services into any Qt app; and
• Reduce the complexity and amount of code required to maintain and implement a port.

Nokia QT 5 Components for Desktop show off:

 

Youtube sucks so here is a screenshot of the Widgets and applets that will be possible, not so impressive as the video imho.

 

And thats how it looks on a MAC

If you are interested further continue reading: ROAD TO QT 5 by nokia labs

CHEERS

Diff and Patch a file in Linux

Yesterday i ran into an Problem, i needed to Burn an DVD+R DL and the file i needed to burn was at 300Mbytes and an DVD+R DL got a capacity of 8,4 Gbytes. So i used the standard GROWISOFS command to start a normal Burn i selected the file and i told me the following weird message:

growisofs: :( more than 50% of space will be *wasted*!
                      go use single layer disc for this!

My mind was, what the hack ?! Linux is Open Source but i never thought it is  ecofriendly, so tried a few commands but no way, it wont let me burn a DVD when about 50% of space will be wasted ...


 A search later i found an PATCH to apply to get rid of this problem. As follows this is the patch file needed to apply on the original growisofs_mmc.cpp before compiling the whole program.

T

--- growisofs_mmc.cpp.orig      Mon Dec 28 02:58:51 2009
+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp   Mon Dec 28 03:00:12 2009
@@ -1622,11 +1622,6 @@ static void plus_r_dl_split (Scsi_Command &cmd,off64_t
     blocks = size/2048;
     blocks += 15, blocks &= ~15;

-    if (blocks <= split)
-       fprintf (stderr,":-( more than 50%% of space will be *wasted*!\n"
-                       "    use single layer media for this recording\n"),
-       exit (FATAL_START(EMEDIUMTYPE));
-
     blocks /= 16;
     blocks += 1;
     blocks /= 2;
@@ -2059,10 +2054,6 @@ pwrite64_t poor_mans_setup (void *fd,off64_t leadout)
                layer_size |= dvd_10[4+14]<<8,
                layer_size |= dvd_10[4+15];

-               if (data_size <= layer_size)
-                   fprintf (stderr,":-( more than 50%% of space will be *wasted*!\n"
-                                   "    use single layer media for this recording\n"),
-                   exit(FATAL_START(EMEDIUMTYPE));
            }
            if (is_dao && leadout)
                minus_r_reserve_track(cmd,leadout);

So to apply this simple patch file to our  growisofs_mmc.cpp we need to use the Program "patch" or "diff"

first i will guide you trough this patch file.

First Part:

--- growisofs_mmc.cpp.orig      Mon Dec 28 02:58:51 2009
+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp   Mon Dec 28 03:00:12 2009 
@@ -1622,11 +1622,6 @@ static void plus_r_dl_split (Scsi_Command &cmd,off64_t 

is the Description and some Info for the file itself, called lines of context...

Part Two:

the lines with an - in front of them are going to be deleted, the others are going to be changed.


So long we apply this patch with ->

patch growisofs_mmc.cpp < patch.txt

And voila this sould be the mesasge you'll get:

Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- growisofs_mmc.cpp Sun Feb 26 19:35:43 2006
|+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp Sun Feb 26 19:35:14 2006
--------------------------
Patching file patchtest using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2.
done 

The Google Patch :)

 No im able to waste Disks on my linux machine :D