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.
Microsoft released free site with series and TV shows
Mar 12th
In England, Microsoft launched an interesting experiment to compete squarely with the BBC. This is a significant change in the MSN Video Player, changing the format and including more than 1,000 hours of television programming.
Unlike the BBC iPlayer, the service promises to display content the same day they are issued and without paying a penny. The islanders who want to see a series of TV advertising will be only a first noninvasive 30 seconds.
According to the director of Microsoft in the UK, Ashleu Highfield, the system takes more than six months to test everything went well. Like any project of the Redmond company, use Silverlight to play the content, so technology that seeks to promote the company.
The trouble is that, as in many such services, is that content is filtered geographically and can only be seen in the UK. What one can see from anywhere are the movie trailers, some of them in HD.
6 Tips for creating an audio podcast
Mar 8th
Create and publish a podcast is simple. For podcasting, an old computer, it is enough need not be the latest and greatest hardware. Be equipped with microphone and sound card, your computer must, of course. The software to be downloaded for free on the Internet. Anyone can podcast with simple means from the comfort of your home. A podcast is something of a post or a whole show on the radio, which is offered on the Internet. Even with very simple technical means can produce professional-sounding podcasts. Almost every computer has a sound card or onboard sound, which is fully sufficient for voice recording. A simple microphone can be bought for little money, is in many notebooks and webcams have a microphone built in, incidentally. We produced a podcast: More >
Hack: How Google Android 2.1 can be installed on Windows Mobile Phones
Mar 3rd
The mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile is in comparison to competitors such as Android, iPhone OS and webOS as complicated and outdated with the new Windows 7 Phone Series later this year. Although Microsoft will bring an entirely new operating system on their Smartphone’s which scored after their presentation at the Mobile World Congress last week of kud
But who wants to wait as the owner of a Windows Mobile phones and no longer wants to give his old cell phone new skills, interests, perhaps the instructions, such as Android can bring on some Windows Mobile 2.1 Smartphone. The XDA-Developers forum will detail how to do it, but the whole thing is just something for people who know technology.
The four smart phones HTC Tilt (also known as HTC Kaiser), Niki, Vogue and Polaris are eligible for the hack. Still has the whole beta status are the two biggest bugs massive problems with Bluetooth and functioning after installing the new ROM.
Otherwise, the Windows Mobile Smartphone with Android will work pretty well. The chopped Smartphone are thus the first HTC phones with the new 2.1 version of Android
Google also dominates the mobile search market
Mar 2nd
A study of Opera whose browser version Mini has 50 million users in the U.S., more than 9% of the pages that are visited via the mobile comes from Google searches. Although this is a study conducted by users of Opera Mini in the U.S, the results could be very similar in the European continent. Opera has taken into account more than 50 million users who are using a browser for mobile devices as the company says. Thus 9% of all Web pages that are visited via the mobile comes from the results of a search through Google.These are data from January and recorded a total of 23,000 million Web pages visited. Opera Mini was not yet available for the iPhone in this period, so the searches come from devices such as Nokia, RIM BlackBerry, Android, etc. In second place is situated Yahoo!, with 4.3%, while the search engine Microsoft Bing has only been used in 0.03% of the pages visited.
The percentage of spam grows in February
Mar 2nd
Almost 90% of emails are spam, while its size is shrinking, reducing especially those messages with attachments. Symantec has released its Message-Labs Intelligence monthly report which announces diver safety-related data and the amount of spam generated worldwide. As shown in the study during the month of February there has been an increase in spam reaching 89.4% of all email generated. This is 5.5% higher than found during the month of January this year. Symantec attributes this growth to increased activity of Grum and Rustock Bot Nets, especially the former, only the month of February has increased by 51% and generates 26% of total spam traffic.
As for types of messages, the report shows that pharmaceutical copan offers 65% of all spam. Moreover, the tendency of these messages is to reduce its size. This is the case of images, increasingly embedded in emails themselves but linked to external servers. This is because this way the creators have more control over active email accounts and also can generate more spam in less time. In this regard it is essential to configure mail clients to not display images by default. Of the 5 Kbytes per average spam message in October 2009 has gone to 3.3 Kbytes in February 2010. Finally, only 0.56% of these messages contains a file attachment.