Today an underground hacker team “web-Hack” from Russia released a whitepaper with results of iPhone firmware research. They reverse- engineered some functions and published this information. Results of a research shocked community. Russian hackers found a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser – all your personal information can be stolen.
At present there is no additional information about this issue. Researches assume that this function either a debug feature or a built-in backdoor module for some governmental structures. Anyways this function can be used by a trojan-developers or activated by the AT&T.
We will monitor all information about this accident and will publish it immediately.
Many companies remain vulnerable to attacks against domain name system servers, despite efforts to secure them, according to a new study. More than half the respondents to a Mazerov Research and Consulting study reported having fallen victim to some form of malware attack. More than one-third had been hit by a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and more than 44 percent had experienced a pharming or cache-poisoning attack.
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WASHINGTON — Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning.
The move by SunRocket, which offered service via Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, was first reported Monday on The New York Times’ Web site.
It was confirmed by Martin Pinchinson, a spokesman for Sherwood Partners LLC of Palo Alto, Calif., who said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the financial consulting company was handling SunRocket’s liquidation.
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Flash Player lets hackers get to work on their very own homebrew titles minus Nintyâs approval.
It seems that your Wii has a weakness as big as the Death Star itself. And hackers are set to exploit it for all their worth.
According to the lads over at CVG, the dodgy code-loving types have apparently found a hole in the hubâs Internet Channel that will let them run home made games without running them past Ninty first.
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Britain and Ireland have agreed to share more intelligence to counter terrorist plots, such as this summer’s car bomb attempts in London.
Prime minister Gordon Brown met his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern on 16 July to discuss, among other things, the threat of terrorism. They agreed to share data taken from biometric visas and said they would urge all 27 EU states to follow suit.
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Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s
digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged holes exploited by two earlier versions of the program and filed a federal lawsuit against its anonymous authors. Microsoft dropped the lawsuit after failing to identify them.
The third version of FairUse4M has a simple drag-and-drop interface. PC users can turn the protected music files they bought online — either a la carte or as part of a subscription service like Napster — and turn them into DRM-free tunes that can be copied and shared at will, or turned into MP3 files that can play on any type of digital music player.
“We knew at the start that no digital rights management technology is going
to be impervious to circumvention,” said Jonathan Usher, a director in Microsoft’s consumer media technology group, in a phone interview.
Usher said Microsoft employs a full-time team to combat such breaches, and that the Windows Media DRM system was designed to be quickly modified to shut down this type of attack.
He did not say how many songs have been stripped of copy protection, or how long it will take for Microsoft to combat the hack again. But the music industry is aware of the nature of Microsoft’s technology, he said, and added that he
does not expect record labels to lose patience with the process.
The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group, declined to comment.
While Usher said Microsoft will remain committed to copy protection, attitudes around the industry are starting to shift.
Apple Inc. has modified its own online store, iTunes, to block similar efforts to break its FairPlay copy protection scheme. But Apple’s chief, Steve Jobs, started calling for an end to digital music-locking earlier this year.
“There are many smart people in the world, some with a lot of time on their hands, who love to discover such secrets and publish a way for everyone to get free (and stolen) music,” Jobs wrote in an online essay in February. “They are
often successful in doing just that, so any company trying to protect content using a DRM must frequently update it with new and harder to discover secrets. It is a cat-and-mouse game.”
Apple’s iTunes store started selling DRM-free music from EMI Group PLC’s catalog in May. The same month, Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. said its much-anticipated digital music store will sell tracks in the unprotected MP3
format.
Josh Bernoff, an industry analyst at Forrester Research, said he expects music DRM to fade out in the next couple of years as record companies begin to realize selling unprotected tracks online won’t hurt sales. After all, Bernoff said, the same tracks are already circulating unprotected, copied from CDs and on file-sharing networks.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said.
The victims include consulting firm Booz Allen, computer services company Unisys Corp, computer maker Hewlett- Packard Co and satellite network provider Hughes Network Systems, a unit of Hughes Communications Inc, said Mel Morris, chief executive of British Internet security provider Prevx Ltd.
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The latest version of Internet Explorer is susceptible to a zero-day vulnerability that can permit a malicious website to spoof the address bar, according to security researchers.
The “less critical” flaw, according to tracking firm Secunia, is caused by an error in the processing of the “document.open()” method, used to open a new window and load documents as specified by a URL.
In the case of this vulnerability, users visiting a malicious website who try to navigate off the site â by manually entering a new URL â are brought to a compromised webpage hosted by the attacker even though the address bar shows them to be at the legitimate site they requested.
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There are two nice bits of iPhone news today, both a result of folks’ deep digging into the phone’s architecture. The first concerns hacking: people working with the #iPhone dev crew I wrote about last week have put up full instructions on how to add customized ring tones to the phone.
Here’s how to do it if you’re using an Intel Mac, and here’s the recipe for a PC.
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More than 20 men have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of carrying out an international phishing scam.
The group – 18 Italian citizens and eight Eastern Europeans â were captured after an investigation by Italian police. Officers from the operation, dubbed âPhish & Chipâ, monitored the men following a widespread phishing campaign that targeted internet users of an Italian postal operator, Poste Italiane.
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