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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.
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
Microsoft launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
Mar 1st
Designed for the educational field the product allows users to control multiple terminals and Thin Client in a Windows environment and governed by a single computer that acts as host.
Microsoft just announced the launch of Windows Multipoint Server 2010, the new system capable of supporting multiple users from a centralized server. Its aim is to penetrate more heavily in the education area also offers academic licenses cheaper than traditional.
The main idea of Windows Multipoint Server 2010 is to reduce the computer equipment in schools, since it only requires the deployment of thin clients, which would connect the main host.
In fact, these low cost terminals and reduced energy consumption simply could connect to the server via the video card or the USB interface. Meanwhile, students may maintain separate accounts while working in a Windows environment.
On the PC side that would serve as the server, administrators, teachers or any other person responsible can upload content to a public folder of documents, which appear as thin client’s book stores. However, as the company says, Windows Multipoint Server 2010 could be deployed in other environments beyond education, as is the case for small workgroups.
Microsoft is pushing companies to rebel against Google
Feb 27th
A case that has the air of revenge for the Redmond Company that has repeatedly been accused in recent years of abuse of dominance.
Google moreover suggested that Microsoft had prepared the plot that was because it became over time a competitor in many segments (online search and Web services, advertising, browser…). In a contribution posted on the blog “Microsoft on the Issues” (“Microsoft responds to questions”), David Heiner, Deputy General Counsel of the software company, returns to the complaint. The man scratches Google recalling that the latter is the subject of special attention in many countries vis its position in web search, online advertising and to a lesser extent, digitization of literary works. “Many services including search and online advertising are increasingly controlled by a single company, Google”, David Heiner concerned that pushes companies to move to mobilize and make a complaint against Google.
He said complaints against the search engine would have stopped growing in recent months with the rise of the latter.
Need traffic to increase the quality
It is also on the register of innovation that Microsoft wants to train the legislature. “Bing needs a volume of queries that are very important to increase the relevance of research findings concerning the words that are [...] is why Microsoft and Yahoo have pooled their search volume” explains David Heiner. Before concluding: “That’s why we’re concerned about Google’s business practices that tend to lock publishers and advertisers, making it more difficult for Microsoft to gain search volume. If a company cannot be punished for being successful with users, Microsoft’s position reflects the concerns of the latter: losing significant market share in a number of areas. While trying to return the situation to his advantage by taking the defence business.