Archive for ‘December, 2011’

[. UPDATE 12/30] US-CERT warns wireless router insecure by WPS

[. UPDATE 12/30] US-CERT warns wireless router insecure by WPS

default in many wireless routers enabled Wi-Fi Protected Set-up (WPS) has a security vulnerability. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned earlier that it facilitates brute force attacks dramatically. This vulnerability could potentially affect millions of consumers since almost all are now Wi-Fi router with WPS protocol in the sale. The Federal Office for Information [...]

Kaspersky identifies programming platform behind Stuxnet and Duque

Kaspersky identifies programming platform behind Stuxnet and Duque

Kaspersky reports that it has completed an analysis of computer viruses and Duque Stuxnet. As suspected from the start, both from the same team. Kaspersky but could also identify the used programming environment, the “Tilded” means. The security researchers found seven drivers that they deem in any other platform used. .. “This platform could be [...]

Report: HP wanted $ 1.2 billion for WebOS

Report: HP wanted $ 1.2 billion for WebOS

HP wanted to sell its mobile operating system WebOS for $ 1.2 billion. The reports of the online service now to Venture Beat, citing a source familiar with the sale negotiations. This is the same amount, the HP 2010 had paid for the takeover of the ailing manufacturer Palm. Apparently the company was not willing [...]

[UPDATE, 30.12.] IOS 5.0.1: Jailbreak developers update programs

[UPDATE, 30.12.] IOS 5.0.1: Jailbreak developers update programs

iPhone and Chronic Dev Team have updated versions of the tools presented yesterday for an Untethered Jailbreak. To measure an error in the program code is responsible for causing the problems with the built-in IOS Startup Service “launchctl”. The new version of redsn0w, and the program offered in the Cydia Store Corona iOS 5.0.1 Untether [...]

Apple files for patent on authentication by face recognition

Apple files for patent on authentication by face recognition

Apple has with the U.S. Patent Office an application made on a technique to standby mode of a mobile device to identify people using the front camera. If the owner of the equipment including, it turns on automatically upon request. Apple calls its system “low-threshold facial recognition”. It is not as computationally expensive as the [...]

Facebook App for Windows Messenger released

Facebook App for Windows Messenger released

Facebook for Windows Messenger (screenshot: ZDNet) Facebook has provided its Messenger application for Windows officially available for download. So the social network reacted to the fact that they had already been leaked. The program has the version number 2.0.4373.0 and is dated 22 December 2011. A version of this is npFbDesktopPlugin.dll belonging to the application [...]

Tool to exploit the new WPS gap published

Tool to exploit the new WPS gap published

Tactical Network Solutions has released a tool on Google Code called Reaver, which exploits discovered by Stefan Viehboeck gap and shows Wi-Fi passwords of Access Points and wireless NAT routers in plain text, even if WPA or WPA2 encryption used. Technical details of the vulnerability of the ZDNet article called “WPA2 cracked: How does the [...]

Facebook App for Windows Messenger released

Facebook App for Windows Messenger released

Facebook for Windows Messenger (screenshot: ZDNet) Facebook has provided its Messenger application for Windows officially available for download. So the social network reacted to the fact that they had already been leaked. The program has the version number 2.0.4373.0 and is dated 22 December 2011. A version of this is npFbDesktopPlugin.dll belonging to the application [...]

Christmas shopping: Amazon sells a week over a million Kindles

Christmas shopping: Amazon sells a week over a million Kindles

In December, Amazon bought more than one million customers a week for a total of over four million units of the Kindle-growing range. The online merchant, as always, betrayed no exact figures for individual products. However, he also introduced the new Kindle Tablet of Fire as his best-selling product, followed by the e-reader Kindle and [...]

[UPDATE, 30.12.] IOS 5.0.1: Jailbreak developers update programs

[UPDATE, 30.12.] IOS 5.0.1: Jailbreak developers update programs

iPhone and Chronic Dev Team have updated versions of the tools presented yesterday for an Untethered Jailbreak. To measure an error in the program code is responsible for causing the problems with the built-in IOS Startup Service “launchctl”. The new version of redsn0w, and the program offered in the Cydia Store Corona iOS 5.0.1 Untether [...]

Apple files for patent on authentication by face recognition

Apple files for patent on authentication by face recognition

Apple has with the U.S. Patent Office an application made on a technique to standby mode of a mobile device to identify people using the front camera. If the owner of the equipment including, it turns on automatically upon request. Apple calls its system “low-threshold facial recognition”. It is not as computationally expensive as the [...]

Tool to exploit the new WPS gap published

Tool to exploit the new WPS gap published

Tactical Network Solutions has released a tool on Google Code called Reaver, which exploits discovered by Stefan Viehboeck gap and shows Wi-Fi passwords of Access Points and wireless NAT routers in plain text, even if WPA or WPA2 encryption used. Technical details of the vulnerability of the ZDNet article called “WPA2 cracked: How does the [...]

Kaspersky identifies programming platform behind Stuxnet and Duque

Kaspersky identifies programming platform behind Stuxnet and Duque

Kaspersky reports that it has completed an analysis of computer viruses and Duque Stuxnet. As suspected from the start, both from the same team. Kaspersky but could also identify the used programming environment, the “Tilded” means. The security researchers found seven drivers that they deem in any other platform used. .. “This platform could be [...]

Preparation for possible Yahoo acquisition: Alibaba hires lobbyists

Preparation for possible Yahoo acquisition: Alibaba hires lobbyists

The Chinese Alibaba Group has secured the support of a lobbying group in the United States. This is considered a step toward a takeover of Yahoo. Recorded as an input of this week, a contract was signed with the Duberstein Group in Washington. It is headed by Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. [...]

Microsoft plugs critical. NET-hole out of turn

Microsoft plugs critical. NET-hole out of turn

Shortly before the new year, Microsoft has released a rare unscheduled security update. MS11-100 is also the 100th and also the last security update that comes out of Redmond this year. Its publication made weeks before the regular monthly “Patch Tuesday”. Microsoft found itself in a rapid reaction induced between the holidays, because already several [...]