Posts by johno

Mattel urged to scrap Wi-Fi mic Barbie after Register investigation

Talking dolls already hacked

Talking dolls like this have already been hacked so why should this one be any different.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31059893

Smartmobe Wi-Fi blabs FAR TOO MUCH about us, warn experts

capturing open wifi.

While the ability to track people by the wifi transmissions of there mobile device and to even be able to profile them by the sites they connect to is really fascinating. The ability to impersonate open wifi hotspots and capture the connection has been available for some time in Jasager devices like the wifi Pineapple. that’s why I always keep my wifi turned off unless I know I can trust the wifi I am connecting too. The pineapple also has the ability to intercept SSL built in.

Botnets claim 7-fold increase in victims

250,000 + cyderweapon = dead Internet ?

This article points out that the "the biggest spam network with an estimated 250,000 zombies"

In another article a few days ago http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/14/internet_crash_cyberweapon/ It says that "Attackers would be required to have a botnet of about 250,000 infected machines"

So if we add these together does this mean that the SPAMMERS have the means but not the know how to take the Internet down??

SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

It's only the LMHash that it work on

Objectif Sécurité was able to crack 14-digit WinXP passwords with special characters in just 5.3 seconds.

Should really say

Objectif Sécurité was able to crack 14-digit LMHash passwords with special characters in just 5.3 seconds.

So its only really cracking two 7 digit passwords in the time and LMHash converts all lower case alpha's to upper case. So thats only 26 alpha nout 52

LMHash is stored by XP for backwards compatability with 95/98 so if you don't need network access to a 95/98 system then you should have LMHash turned off.

Now if it could crack NTLM Hash in that time it would be somthing to worry about.

QinetiQ mail virus patent attracts barbs

not a granted Patent

Think someone should have researched this properly.

If you look at the US Patent application you will see that is started life a year before as a GB patent application. If you look up the GB application on ipo.gov.uk you find that the "Application terminated on 14th August 2007" so it never got to be a granted Patent.