Hacking

Remember the news stories a few months ago about the flaw in DNS that was discovered by Dan Kaminsky? This article from MIT’s Technology Review magazine explains the discovery and the decisions taken to patch and explain the vulnerability in an article that is a good overview of what happened.

Dan Kaminsky, uncharacteristically, was not [...]

I’m not sure if this is for real - but you will be able to find his email address if you’re smart enough…

nbsp;iphonesimfree.com has announced that they have broken the iPhone’s lock to AT&T’s cellular service. They cite these benefits:
* Chose the provider you want, use any SIM card from any network provider in any country
* No more outrageous roaming charges. When traveling simply pick the local provider of your choice and [...]

By now it should be clear that Diebold’s AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines have lousy security. Our study last fall showed that malicious software running on the machines can invisibly alter votes, and that this software can be installed in under a minute by inserting a new memory card into the side of the machine. The [...]

Way to go Alex! You’re a Canadian - publish the code and let Microsoft be damned!
…the code I’ve written does not work out of the box on a Vista RTM system. Although it can be effective when combined with a reboot, this doesn’t provide any advantage of any of the myriad other ways that [...]

Thanks to Brian Livingston and Fred Langa of Windows Secrets for this one.
“How to extend the Vista activation deadline“
Microsoft provides a command-line program in Vista known as the Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR) or slmgr.vbs.This is a Visual Basic script that resides in c:\windows\system32. You can read the contents of this script file with any text [...]