Tech Ambient
Archive for March, 2010
Pwn2Own: iPhone via Safari hacked in 20 seconds, SMS data stolen
Mar 28th
When Hacker Contest Pwn2Own could be cracked the iPhone. About a malicious website, it was possible to win two hackers through a security hole in Safari browser to access the full text database and then transfer them to any server.
The whole operation took no longer than 20 seconds, as zdnet.com reported. The hacker duo Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann use a malicious website, enabling them to access the SMS database of the affected iPhone. Even SMS, which had previously been removed, the two were not safe from hackers. The campaign has lasted much longer but on the whole. From the discovery of the vulnerability in the Safari browser to access the SMS data, according to Weinmann passed around two weeks.
Using the same method would be possible to access the SMS, including the stealing of the email data, the phone book or iTunes, images and tracks have been possible. The hacker piloted the iPhone to a malicious web site that led to the fact that the data is uploaded to an SMS database controlled by the hackers server. For their discovery Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann was at 15,000 U.S. dollars prize money and reward the previously successfully hacked iPhone.
Pwn2Own is an international competition in which security experts and hackers are trying with appropriate security holes in operating systems and browsers access to laptops, PCs and smartphones gain. Total prize money is up to 100,000 U.S. dollars to win. For the first time an iPhone could now be broken. The victim was doing a 3GS iPhone with firmware version 3.1.3. In addition to the iPhone Safari, the desktop could also be cracked version on the Mac, and Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 successfully within a few minutes.
credit card that gives us the balance available
Mar 22nd
The latest invention in the world of finance is a credit card that gives us the balance available in the plastic itself. We also can show the amount spent or the credit limit that remains on the card. This type of card is based on the real and immediate acquisition of the financial position of the account you have linked to the card.
A priori, it might seem a good invention, but I think in this case, we are falling into an economic problem that transcends beyond what is reasonable and psychologically, I mean the savings compulsive psychosis, dosgrandes Let the negative aspects.
The first, the novelty of running a card like this, we can therefore always a non-scheduled use for monitoring of different parameters or financial control issues bordering on manic-obsessive. Such actions occur in more or less falls into our hands when something new we do not know very well how it works or we have a great curiosity to check all functions.
The second, free credit report. Be aware of our expenses and revenues develop our budgets and see that we do not spend more than they should. From there to have a card that tells you every time you open your wallet you’ve spent a lot or little to illuminate the edges are announcing that in the red is an abyss and me particularly, I’d be sick.
In short, to save you have to be psyched for it and manage our finances, but with restraint and without fanfare. A financial obsession can get many cost savings and probably some kind of more serious illness. Another day I will tell you about a real case.
iCall make VoIP calls through the 3G Network
Mar 18th
For all of you known the eternal debate about the unacceptability of Apple to make VoIP calls through 3G network from the iPhone. Many (including myself included) thought this would never come to light after Google’s rebuke as theVoice, but nothing is further from the truth.
With iCall can make calls to any number anywhere in the world via the 3G network. To get an idea, a five-minute call from Spain to Singapore has left me by 8 cents (about five U.S. cents), far less than it costs me a call within the same territory through Telefónica.
There are several settings of the program, one of which will pay you a monthly fee allowing us to call anynumber. But the most interesting is the charge per call, which will require an initial payment of 10 dollars (just over 7 euros) you spend on card, allowing us to use it for subsequent calls.
The program will save this amount in a counter that is updated with every call minus the spending we’ve done. We synchronize the program with Facebook to add his contact list and can also access the iPhone’s agenda since. We must be clear that to make the call, it is necessary to determine the country where is that phone number, so in the case of Spain will have to add the “0034″ ahead of the number. Thanks to Albert Sant by pointing to this program.