Jailbroken iPhone's attacked !
Monday, November 23, 2009 Posted by Techz Innovation
'Jailbroken' or ' Jailbreaking'- iPhone or iTouch which are modified to use applications not approved by Apple are under attack by two new worms . The first worm also know as ikee or Rickrolling worm which was created by an australian student changes the wallpaper of the jailbroken iPhone to a picture of '80s pop star Rick Astley. He told a local media that he experimenting with a malicious code which went wrong, infecting lot of jailbroken iPhone users on the Optus network, australia.
The second worm targeted customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct. Surfers visiting the the ING direct site with the infected devices are redirected to a phishing site. The "Duh" or Ikee-B worm, like the Rickrolling worm exploits an SSH backdoor on jailbroken handsets in order to spread. Unlike the former this spreads across a wider range of ip. The worm changes the infected iPhones root password from "alpine" to "ohshit".
Now the phishing sites have been brought down by the officials. Experts advises the jaibroken phones to change their passwords from 'alpine'. Though Jailbreaking gives a lot of advantages there are some security holes in it.
Think twice before jailbreaking an iphone or i touch.
~c
The second worm targeted customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct. Surfers visiting the the ING direct site with the infected devices are redirected to a phishing site. The "Duh" or Ikee-B worm, like the Rickrolling worm exploits an SSH backdoor on jailbroken handsets in order to spread. Unlike the former this spreads across a wider range of ip. The worm changes the infected iPhones root password from "alpine" to "ohshit".
Now the phishing sites have been brought down by the officials. Experts advises the jaibroken phones to change their passwords from 'alpine'. Though Jailbreaking gives a lot of advantages there are some security holes in it.
Think twice before jailbreaking an iphone or i touch.
~c
Is SSL Truly Safe?
Friday, November 20, 2009 Posted by Techz Innovation
Shocking news reveals that the Secure Socket Layer often called as SSL is vulnerable to various attacks on the web. Security experts have demonstrated the vulnerability with various examples which can cause devastating consequences. The first phase for a hacker is to succeed in a man in the middle attack which is quite a difficult task.
The SSL authentication gap bug is the mode of exploit for an attacker to gain access to a network. The demonstration revealed how the Authentication flaw still remains a challenge. First the attacker sends a data that causes the SSL server to reply with a redirect message which in turn is sent to the Web Browser to another page. The attacker then takes the help of the redirect message to move the victim to unsecured connection where all the modification to the web pages can be written by the hacker before they are sent to the victim.
The SSL authentication gap bug is the mode of exploit for an attacker to gain access to a network. The demonstration revealed how the Authentication flaw still remains a challenge. First the attacker sends a data that causes the SSL server to reply with a redirect message which in turn is sent to the Web Browser to another page. The attacker then takes the help of the redirect message to move the victim to unsecured connection where all the modification to the web pages can be written by the hacker before they are sent to the victim.
Even the demonstration of twitter hacks poses a great threat to many organizations in safeguarding their data. This has surely raised the question of the reliability of the Secure Socket Lays protocol. Let us know with your updates on this topic if p
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ossible.Google Chrome OS - Windows Killer ?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Posted by Techz Innovation
Everyone must have used the Google's Chrome browser which is an efficient light weight browser. Google went one step further as it always does, announced that it will be launching an OS . Ever since the announcement made by Google, there has been buzz all around.
Google Chrome OS is an open source project which will be a light weight when compared to the other OS available at present. Google states that initially it will be targeting the notebooks market. Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Toshiba are the partners who will be marketing their notebooks with this light weight OS. These notebooks hit the market later half of 2010 if everything goes as planned. Google chrome will be running on top of a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. Google says that the OS will be effective , secured and simple. The applications for the Chrome OS can be created using any known web technologies. The application not only works on this particular OS but can be used in other OS like Mac, Windows and Linux thereby the developer has the user base on all platforms. This is a cool thing as some applications running in one OS won't work in some other OS.
Now, the question is will it kick windows of the market?
Think Steve Ballmer will have an answer ! :P
~c
Sixth Sense Technology
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Posted by Techz Innovation
One could not really think beyond this. Yes, the latest sixth sense technology introduced by Pranav Mistry of MIT is an awesome masterpiece for the future. If you think the touch screen as the future please reconsider it as the Sixth sense overrides others in all features. Using sixth sense is very easy by having a projector coupled with a mobile phone. One can launch its interface on any objects and start operating it just like that.
Even taking photos is very sophisticated which is done by using our bare hands fitted with some sensors. Although many electronic companies wanted to get copyrights its inventor has decided to publish this technology in an open source format which will help the future generation to discover many applications based on this platform. Now the dream has come true where people can carry their computer on their neck. This sixth sense technology also has normal browsing facilities, file manipulations and so on.
Even taking photos is very sophisticated which is done by using our bare hands fitted with some sensors. Although many electronic companies wanted to get copyrights its inventor has decided to publish this technology in an open source format which will help the future generation to discover many applications based on this platform. Now the dream has come true where people can carry their computer on their neck. This sixth sense technology also has normal browsing facilities, file manipulations and so on.
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