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- Johnny Cache speaks out at ToorCon 8
- Johnny Cache speaks out at ToorCon 8Thanks GeorgeNow who am I going to believe? Spin doctors and suits or Johnny Cache? Hmm, well Johnny doesn't look that professional without a suit and tie and in fact he looks a bit radical - an angry young man in fact.HmmTwo...
- Tags: Blogging, Apple Inc., Johnny Cache, SecureWorks Inc., blog, flaw
- Discussion threads 2006-10-02
- Johnny Cache speaks out at ToorCon 8
- David Maynor was blocked at the last minute to appear at Toorcon 8 in San Diego and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch was stuck with no speaking partner or presentation. A lot of stories have been quoting this talk and some bloggers have been characterizing it negative in various ways even...
- Tags: Johnny Cache, ToorCon 8
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
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- Apple's iPod range
- Apple's iPod rangeApple's iPod rangeAt what point is thin too thin? The ipod touch was already fairly thin but comfortable, the thinner model at what point does it break? Sometimes I wear mine on my hip and other times on my arm. Now if its on my...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Engineering, Archos 605, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., battery, Apple iPod range
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft
- Veteran Windows architect resigns from MicrosoftI wonder if Vista has anything to do...with the shake up.Anyone involved with Vista probably has trouble holding their head up. Except Ballmer of course and he simply doesn't know any better.Naw, not really."Short’s leaving is still big news for anyone with Windows interests."Not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Veteran Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Free Wi-Fi Driver vulnerability auditing tool released!
- In this last year, we've had a rash of critical wireless driver vulnerabilities affecting major vendors from Apple, Intel, Broadcom, to D-Link Atheros. Driver vulnerabilities even extended in to the Video driver space with the NVIDIA flaw. Then there are the weaponized penetration tools like Metasploit 3 that can demonstrate...
- Tags: Apple, Desktop, Hardware, Infrastructure, Intel, Microsoft, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, News, Security
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- German researchers put final nail in WEP
- German researchers put final nail in WEPWPA was widely available back thenWPA was widely available back then and there are newer versions of the DS still being sold. The need to PATCH it.Nintendo made the move on the Wii, don't be so quick to judge GeorgeThe Wii supports WEP,...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, WIRELESS, SECURITY, identity theft, WEP, WPA
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
- Last summer, when I wrote "Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers," it set off a long chain of heated debates and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault, but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself meant...
- Tags: Blogging, Wi-Fi, Web, SecureWorks Inc., David Maynor, David Chartier, Jim Dalrymple, Apple Computer Inc., video
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Maynor demos MacBook Wi-Fi hijack, admits mistakes
- Looking to put to rest one of the most bizarre vulnerability disclosure disputes in recent memory, hacker David Maynor offered an apology for mistakes made, provided a live demo of the controversial MacBook Wi-Fi takeover and promised to release e-mail exchanges, crash/panic logs and exploit code to clear his tarnished...
- Tags: Wi-Fi security, Pen testing, Metasploit, Responsible disclosure, Exploit code, Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Apple, Vulnerability research, Patch Watch
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Critical Broadcom Windows driver exploit released!
- The MoKB Month of Kernel Bug project has released a Metasploit 3.0 kernel-level driver exploit for Broadcom based Wireless LAN devices for Windows 2000 and XP. The flaw was discovered by researcher "Johnny Cache" and had been privately disclosed to Broadcom so that they could prepare...
- Tags: Security, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, News
- Blog posts 2006-11-11
- Surge of killer device drivers leave no OS safe
- News came yesterday that Linux users who used NVIDIAs drivers were in danger of being remotely exploited because a zero-day exploit code was released last week. Just the mere act of visiting a malicious website could trigger a buffer overflow that can lead to arbitrary...
- Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Wi-Fi, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, flaw, Linux, device driver, wireless
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- More drama with Apple's AirPort security
- Apple released updates to their wireless networking drivers last week and they appear to have created more questions than they answered with it. AirPort Update 2006-001 (version 1.0) was released to "improves AirPort reliability on Macintosh computers" and is only for Apple's AirPort Extreme cards. An...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Ellch
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- MacBooks and death threats
- The soap opera of the MacBook that was hacked wirelessly takes another turn.Back in early August hackers Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and David Maynor demonstrated how they exploited a defect in a wireless device driver to compromise a MacBook notebook computer. I blogged about the exploit and later updated my...
- Tags: Maynor, Apple MacBook
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers
- There has been a vicious orchestrated assault on researcher David Maynor and the company SecureWorks claiming that the Maynor and SecureWorks falsified their research presented at Black Hat 2006. In a video demonstration, Maynor completely took over an Apple MacBook using a vulnerability in a third party wireless driver....
- Tags: Maynor
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
- Video interview on hacked MacBook
- Having attended the Black Hat and DEFCON conference last week, I had the opportunity to interview David Maynor and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch about the research work they did on driver hacking. These two researchers had just given their presentation showing how they hacked in to an Apple...
- Tags: video
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- MacBook hack video draws ire of Mac fans
- Here at the Blackhat hacker convention, I had a chance to talk with David Maynor and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch who hacked the Apple MacBook to get behind the story. The video that was posted here on CNET videos . Our own blogger Jason O'Grady dismissed the claims...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- MacBook wireless hack dismissed (Updated 2x)
- Earlier today see below I posted a story about about two hackers from the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas and how they supposedly demonstrated how to exploit a vulnerability in Apple's wireless device driver to remotely access and control a MacBook over a network. The story...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, wireless, wireless device
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- Breaking into a MacBook
- Flawed Wi-Fi drivers can expose PCsIn this video from Black Hat, two security researchers show that they can break into a laptop, an Apple Computer MacBook in this case, by exploiting a vulnerability in Wi-Fi drivers. Video courtesy of David Maynor and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch.
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Notebooks, Apple MacBook
- Videos 2006-08-03
- Breaking into a laptop via Wi-Fi
- Breaking into a laptop via Wi-FiSo even with----WPA2 with 16-character super-strong letter/number-combo "words-tha're-no'-in-dictionary" password?Or, even if you go into Network Connections from Control Panel, right-click a network connection and choose properties, go to Wireless Network page, click Advanced in the bottom of the page, and select Infrastructure Networks Only.Am I...
- Tags: Notebooks, SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Apple MacBook, Maynor, laptop computer, Apple HAD, wireless, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
- Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the uglyOld ComputersYou have my sympathy. Do you want or need P1 166/200 computers? I have 5 I'll send you on my nickel. I might even be able to send you Win95 disks for some of them. Might be more useful...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
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