Several members of a hacker group responsible for exposing a hole on an AT&T Web site for iPad customers have been questioned by a federal grand jury about the incident, the group confirmed to...

August 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »

McAfee recently published its McAfee Threat Report: Second Quarter 2010 revealing a variety of interesting and relevant details about the current state of the malware threat. The McAfee report contains cause for concern and...

August 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »

A malicious application has been detected that forces Android OS based smartphones to send premium rate SMS messages to a set of preprogrammed numbers. Anti-virus vendor, Kaspersky Lab detected the Trojan-SMS, named Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a,...

August 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

As promised, we are releasing a BackTrack 4 R1 information security and penetration testing development build to the public for hardware testing. This is an unofficial build which is meant to help the BackTrack Dev team...

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is vulnerable to a new zero-day vulnerability that exposes users to blue-screen crashes or code execution attacks. The flaw, could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial-of-service...

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Beware a new cell phone text message phishing scam that directs recipients to call a phone number purportedly belonging to JPMorgan Chase. The text message, from 818-864-3253@chase.com, was sent out starting Saturday, and...

August 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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No iPhone 4? FaceTime Alternatives for the Rest of Us »

There’s no doubt that Apple’s new iPhone 4-only FaceTime feature is great, and the company is letting everyone know about it with an avalanche of new television commercials. But whether you’re stuck on an older iPhone or you don’t have any iPhone 4-toting friends to video chat with, there are thankfully some free App Store...

July 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Attention Kmart shoppers: $149 Android tablet on aisle 5 »

It appears that Google hasn’t licensed Android to Augun and as such the Android Market will not work on this product. A Kmart circular came out last week with an uber-geeky product that perked up a few ears in the gadget community.  Augen’s 7-inch Gen-78 Android tablet which runs Android 2.1 –take that Sony (SNE)...

August 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Attention Kmart shoppers: $149 Android tablet on aisle 5

Can screen smudges give away your password? »

In movies and on TV sneaky spy types have been able to gain access to password protected files and areas by using the smudges on a keypad to figure out a password. That is all fiction from film though right? A group of researchers claim that those smudges on your smartphone screen could in fact give...

August 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Can screen smudges give away your password?

BackTrack 4 R1 Dev Public Release »

As promised, we are releasing a BackTrack 4 R1 information security and penetration testing development build to the public for hardware testing. This is an unofficial build which is meant to help the BackTrack Dev team to assess any hardware incompatibilities with the new kernel we have put in place. This is NOT an official release, however we...

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BackTrack 4 R1 Dev Public Release

BackTrack 4 R1 Dev Public Release »

As promised, we are releasing a BackTrack 4 R1 information security and penetration testing development build to the public for hardware testing. This is an unofficial build which is meant to help the...

August 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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