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 | Now there's a challenge for [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] hardware fans who don't necessarily love the "upgraded" iPhone OS: Install Linux on it. It might be possible but the hard part is getting past the A4 processor. Is there a Linux kernel tweaked for it? Why would you want to run Linux on … |
| | so some day i want to hand code a security program(anti-virus probably). but i dont know where to start on theory and actual code. Where should i start and what language is most common? Where did you start if you have been in the same bind i have? thanks to … |
| | [attach=right]14252[/attach]So after [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story265727.html"]all the hype[/URL] you've got an iPad, I guess you'll be wanting to break it then? Jailbreak it, that is, so as to set it free from Apple imposed restrictions and allow you to install non-approved software. Jailbreaking is popular amongst iPhone users, and has been since soon … |
 | Hello there everyone, I need your immediate help. My relative's laptop just got infected by a rootkit in my opinion. He told me he was on a website and then the page just changed by itself and it took him to another page. Now here are the symptoms that I …  |
 | A news [URL="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=135404&provider=top"]article [/URL]was making the Facebook rounds today, warning about a site called [URL="http://www.spokeo.com/"]Spokeo.com [/URL]that aggregates publicly available information. "It can list your address, a picture of your home, how much it cost, how long you have lived there, your approximate age and income, your relationship status and more," …  |
 | The annual [URL="http://cansecwest.com/"]CanSecWest PWN2OWN[/URL] hacking contest has [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story270028.html"]done it again[/URL] and provided us news types with the perfect headline writing opportunity as the Apple iPhone falls to the hackers in just 20 seconds. The hackers in question, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann, picked up the prize of $15,000 and an … |
 | [ATTACH=right]14127[/ATTACH] [I]We can be Heroes For ever and ever What d'you say ~David Bowie, Heroes [/I] Yesterday afternoon I read with some surprise that [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032401543.html"]domain registrar Go Daddy was following Google out of China[/URL]. It seems they had had quite enough of the Chinese government's restrictions, and like Google, decided … |
| | As the saying goes, a man (and presumably a woman) is known by the company he keeps. In fact, last [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story224479.html"]fall [/URL]some MIT students did a study where they demonstrated that they could tell someone's sexual orientation by the sexual orientation of their friends on Facebook and other social networking … |
| | With the annual Pwn2Own hacking event due to kick off tomorrow, Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 3.6 has an unpatched critical vulnerability. The fact that Pwn2Own competitors will not be able to exploit this vulnerability to claim the Firefox hacking prize will be of no interest to the millions of … |
| | It's not exactly news that the relationship between Google and China has soured over the last month or two and it looks as though [URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/147096/2010/03/china_google.html?lsrc=rss_main"]Google may quit China soon[/URL] leaving the vastly lucrative Chinese market to Microsoft and others. What's not clear is what the implications will be for the … |
 | Today the cyber security experts at [URL="http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20100322_01"]Norton announced the top 10 riskiest U.S. cities for cybercrime[/URL]. The next time you pay a bill or update your status on Facebook you might want to look over your shoulder [virtually]. It seems Seattle, Boston, San Francisco and Washington D.C. are the riskiest … |
 | There's a disturbing story kicking around the UK wires at the moment - young people are hacking into other people's computers purely for fun. Here's the [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8574259.stm"]BBC's take on it[/URL]. I saw the PR person who organised the survey only last week and can confirm she's not a time waster, … |
| | A new survey has revealed that while 78 percent of them agree that it is wrong, a quarter of the kids asked admitted that hacking really is child's play. The survey of more than 1000 children discovered that the boy hacker stereotype no longer holds true, with 47 percent of … |
| | Hi I spent the morning hacking together the basic components of my own MVC framework, which currently only parses a url, loads the class and calls the right method... Because I obviously dont want someone to be able to access the 'add/remove' methods associated with future classes, i need to … |
| | If it were not bad enough that the Iowa Division of Homeland Security official website was hacked, defaced and forced to close down temporarily it appears that another Iowa state government resource was also compromised a few weeks before. At the end of January the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission …  |
| | Google has today launched a new Beta version of the [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/03/22/google-chrome-stands-alone-at-pwn2own/"]Chrome browser[/URL], adding brand new privacy controls into the mix. You have to admit it's great timing, what with Microsoft this week making the 'browser ballot' screen available in European version of Windows giving users the option to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story253418.html"]switch from …  |
| | I've seen a collection of articles about computer security breaches originating from China and would like to give a report from the ITYS Foundation. ITYS, for the unaware, is "I Told You So." I've discussed the use of Linux on the desktop for years, touting its security, stability, thousands of … |
| | Call the National Guard. On second thoughts, call someone else. After all, it is the National Guard which has somehow managed to lose an archival data disk containing five years worth of staff records covering some 15,000 personnel. The US National Guard is now recommending that any current and former … |
| | Hallo there i wan to make my ldap connect with the client pc's over ssl (like this one) [URL="http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS.html#4.0"]http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS.html#4.0[/URL] or this one [URL="http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#cert-self"]http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#cert-self[/URL] i have already made a self signed key and all the steps i found through the internet... but when i try to do one of the last … |
| | According to figures revealed with the publication of the [URL="http://www.ibm.com/security/xforce"]IBM X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report[/URL], not only do web application vulnerabilities remain the largest category of security disclosure for the last year but, worryingly when you consider that the number of such vulnerabilities found by organisations has not decreased … |
| | It may only have impacted a "small number of users" for a "short period of time" as a Facebook spokesperson put it, but by pushing out buggy code the social networking giant created a potentially huge privacy problem for those whose accounts it did touch upon. Considering that Facebook has … |
| | Those of us who can remember when Internet access meant slow dial-up modems connecting via pay per minute service providers will also be all too familiar with the concept of the porn dialler. For the youngsters out there, these took advantage of the fact that most punters had no idea … |
| | Chip and PIN credit card attack leaves banks on shaky ground according to one analyst, although oddly enough the banks appear to disagree. Researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have revealed how the Chip and PIN credit card security system is flawed and left vulnerable to fraud. Steven … |
| | Wow. That's quite a statistic, but there it is in front of me jumping off the pages of the latest [URL="http://bit.ly/b2rUFg"]global State of Enterprise Security study[/URL] from Symantec. The two lines shining so brightly and grabbing my attention read "75 percent of organizations experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 … |
| | Hi guys, as per title above, im at my wits end after a week of thoughts.... i want to download a file from a SSL web to my local(C:\) e.g [url]https://www.abc.com/File/myfile.txt[/url] Scenario: from the web browser(Internet Explorer), i required to login to the site in order to download the file. … |
| | Responses (from another site) on my recent, "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story261566.html"]Security Alert: They Should Have Used Linux[/URL]" led me to explore the conclusion that hacking is really only for those seeking the low-hanging security fruit as their prey. These folks, who tout themselves as "Linux Experts" intrigued me so much with their comments … |
| | Twitter users are being warned not to click the links in a Direct Message which has been circulating in large numbers since late Saturday. The message simply says either "LOL, is this you?" or "LOL, this is funny" or "ha ha, u look funny on here" and has a link … |
| | Botnets are bad for business, and that's the bottom line. The news that a botnet called Kneber has infected 75,000 computers including government and business machines has been spreading online. But while many, if not most, of these reports are claiming that Kneber is a new botnet the truth is … |
| | [URL="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=57438&o"]Someone sued Google[/URL] the other day for violating her privacy with the original implementation of Google Buzz. You see, when you first opened Google Buzz last week, Google looked at the people you most frequently email or chat with and used that list of people to seed your followers list. … |
| | I know this isn't really funny but someone has set up a website called [URL="http://pleaserobme.com"]pleaserobme[/URL]. And I'm delighted. Why am I delighted? Because it's there to tell people what I've been telling people for ages, including through my [URL="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1906465703?tag=crimebookshopcom&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1906465703&adid=0FFR50HXSMFQ1B7244X3&"]social media book[/URL]. Specifically, could everyone STOP ANNOUNCING THEIR HOLIDAYS THROUGH SOCIAL …  |
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