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How long til the iPhone App store hacker challenge?

How long til the iPhone App store hacker challenge?Going to be tricky pull offsince you'll have to give Apple your name, address, phone number etc. to get your app published.Resources to HelpPerhaps some kind of site like http://www.iphonesdk.mobi or http://www.iphoneappstore.info could be set up to allow developers to easily share...

Tags: iPhone App Store, hacker challenge, iPhone App, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Blue Pill hacker challenge update: It's a no-go

Blue Pill hacker challenge update: It's a no-goOr...They miss, they pay. If they detect it, she pays. Remember, "100 percent undetectable" are her words._rWhy not make it interesting...$384,000 if her rootkit is really undetectable after six months work. $0 if they detect it.$200 an HOUR, not...

Tags: Processors, Rutkowska, pill, hacker challenge

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Additional Resources

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!I forwarded this to the Dutch mediaLet's see whether they'll understand the severity of the issue.http://www.linkslife.co.ukthat is a joke passportRE: Elvis, your e-passport is ready!Years ago a movie called "The Net" with Sandra Bullock hit the scene, and everyone freaked. Yes it was a little over...

Tags: Dutch Passport, e-passport, ELVIS, passport, RFID

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Guinea pigs wanted for early Chrome-for-Mac testing

I may be itching for a Mac version of Google's Chrome browser - but not enough to download a developer's version that's subject to "incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software." In a post on Google's Chromium blog, the company cautioned against downloading the early developer channel versions...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Blogging, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Web Browsers, Internet, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Ouch! Hacker-free e-mail gets hacked

Did you hear the one about the hacker-free e-mail service that was so confident about its enhanced security measure that it offered up $10,000 to anyone who could hack into it? It got hacked. Here's the part that's really crazy, though. There was initially...

Tags: Hacker, E-mail, Hacking, Security, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Study: password resetting 'security questions' easily guessed

How secret are in fact the 'secret questions' used for resetting forgotten passwords? Not so secret after all, according to a just published study entitled "It's no secret: Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions" according to which 17% of the study's participants were not only able...

Tags: Password, Security Question, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-19

NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout

NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, NCIS, TV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul

Discussion threads 2009-05-09

The Open Cloud Initiative: Whats Up With That?

The Open Cloud Initiative: Whats Up With That?One man's Open is another man's ClosedPaul,As your article implies a) we?ve been here before and b) this is bound to fail.?Open? initiatives are always launched by a consortium of second tier vendors who want to challenge the first tier vendors? grip on...

Tags: Mainframes, Government, Servers, WHATS UP

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

I really don't want to use Windows anymore

I really don't want to use Windows anymoreThis is just not true ...[i]I'm well aware that if Linux or Mac had greater marketshare, then they would be far more vulnerable to malware attacks.[/i]It would never reach the level of Windows since both Linux and OSX don't have to contend with...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Desktops, Linux, Spyware, adware & malware, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, ClamWin, Microsoft Windows, virus, malware

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

The School Implements New Network Infrastructure and Improves Communication and Collaboration

The American School of Milan ASM launched a program to review its IT infrastructure in response to user requests for improved connectivity and data availability. Ever-increasing student numbers, and constant demand from teachers for better technological facilities, required a complete re-think of the network. Dell, who already supplied the ASM...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Collaboration, Network Infrastructure, Network, Antivirus, E-mail, Portals, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Internet

Case studies 2008-10-15

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released

 Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...

Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-18

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Apple wants Psystar to snatch back Mac clones from customers ... and other thoughts

Apple wants Psystar to snatch back Mac clones from customers ... and other thoughtsWho else has a dog in the hunt?If the court says that part of Apple's EULA is unenforceable, when it's a part that's so essential to Apple's business model, then who else has questionable terms in their...

Tags: Milton Bradley, EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Pystar

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB

Just because a business is small, doesn't mean it's immune to security threats. Security challenges facing Small and Medium Businesses in North America are on the rise. For businesses of all sizes, viruses, hacker intrusions, spyware and spam can lead to lost or stolen data, computer downtime, decreased productivity, compliance...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Business, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Security

White papers 2008-07-16

Open Discussion: Software firewalls

Open Discussion: Software firewallsRE: Open Discussion: Software firewallsI use both Windows Firewall in Vista and the built in hardware firewall in my router. I just don't see the need for a resource hungry, third party solution any more when the built in firewall in Windows does an admirable job.Fire ...

Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, software, firewall, Network Address Translation, NAT Router, Microsoft Windows Firewall

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Privacy flaw exposes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace photos

The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social networking sites across the Web, has just suffered its first major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, prompting Yahoo and MySpace to disable the...

Tags: Paris, Hilton Hotels Corp., Photograph, MySpace, Flaw, Privacy Flaw, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-04

McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"

In my most recent discussion on McAfee, I posted a talkback to Russ McRee stating, tongue in cheek mind you, that it'd be interesting to see an XSS or SQL Injection on McAfee's site, see if they are indeed "McAfee Secure". Well, I guess you get what you ask for......

Tags: McAfee Inc., XSS, Hacker, Tool, Productivity, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-13

SportsNetwork CEO: Site back up; A look at the recovery plan

Sports Network, victim of a Chinese hacker drive-by, is back online as it recovers and revamps security following a Sunday attack. In an interview, Sports Network CEO Mickey Charles detailed some preliminary parts of its recovery plan and a few more details of the attack, which began...

Tags: SportsNetwork, Sports Network, Hacking, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-22

MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN

The MacBook Air fell in two minutes at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN. According to Infoworld, Charlie Miller won the $10,000 prize. Under the contest rules, organizers offered Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes. On day 1 no one won because they...

Tags: Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Charlie Miller, Zero Day Initiative, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-27