Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Vista keygen hoax exposed
Doubts have arisen about the effectiveness of a Windows key generator package that allegedly offered a means to circumvent Microsoft's anti-piracy protection.
Activation codes for Vista were said to have been obtained by brute force using key generator software that randomly tries a variety of 25-digit codes until it finds one that works.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2007 at 10:03:00 AM CET
Second Life's In-World Terrorism and The Struggle for Digital Rights
The latest issue to grab my attention is the phenomenon of in-world terrorism and the rise of self-professed freedom fighters. These folks aren't your run-of-the-mill hackers or griefers looking to cause mischief. Rather, these are 'activists' who are working subversively within Second Life (SL) to achieve political ends. Their goal is to extend digital rights for SL users beyond the standard customer-company relationship. Subsequently, by dealing with current in-world problems they are, perhaps unintentionally, looking ahead to the day when Second Life and other virtual worlds play a much more meaningful role in our lives.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 5, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM CET
Browse the Web with Only Your Eyes
A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware--a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights--Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 5, 2007 at 10:14:00 AM CET
Hardware-based rootkit detection proven unreliable
Joanna Rutkowska's latest bit of rootkit-related research shatters the myth that hardware-based (PCI cards or FireWire bus) RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to do forensics. At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 3, 2007 at 11:55:00 AM CET
Vista activation cracked by brute force
IT LOOKS LIKE Microsoft's unhackable OS activation malware has been hacked.
There is an active thread at the Keznews forums (account needed), and a summary on its main page about the crack.
It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any Vista installs because of the anti-user licensing so I have not tested it personally.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 2, 2007 at 4:06:00 PM CET
Digitale Rechte sind ein globales Thema
Seit kurzem unterhält die Internet-Bürgerrechtsbewegung Electronic Frontier Foundation [EFF] eine Niederlassung in Brüssel. ORF.at hat EFF-Europa-Koordinator Erik Joseffson nach den Plänen der Organisation in Europa befragt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 1, 2007 at 5:15:00 PM CET
Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.
The virus has two variants Troj/Pirlames-A and Troj/Pirlames-B, masquerades as a screensaver and attacks files with these popular extensions - EXE, BAT, CMD, INI, ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, CLASS, JAVA, DBX, EML, MBX, TBB, WAB, HLP, TXT, MP3, XLS, LOG, BMP - overwriting them with images of comic book character Ayu Tsukimiya.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 1, 2007 at 3:11:00 PM CET
New OS wanted. Willing to pay $1000-$3000
So I'm posting for a rather large project. I need someone to program me a new OS (Operasting System) that looks different than Ms Windows XP etc. but has the same style. It does not need to run on a mac but all the other PCs. It's supposed to have a stylish look with clear edges etc. And ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A REDESIGNED WINDOWS as I'm going to sell that operating system later on. It's going to be called BlueOrb.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 1, 2007 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Dow Jones 500-point drop due to failed computer backup?
A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle.
Dow Jones & Co., the media company that manages the well-known index of 30 blue chip stocks, said it discovered shortly before 2 p.m. that its computers weren't properly handling the day's huge volume in trades at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 28, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CET
How to Build an inexpensive Vista PC
So with so many people out there saying that you need a very high end PC to run Windows Vista with Aero enabled (and so many misconceptions around Vista, I want to prove that you can build at around $500.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 27, 2007 at 2:18:00 PM CET
German cops and spooks prep own spyware
Analysis Germany's police and secret services are pushing for a legal basis for "online house searches" – carried out without the knowledge of suspects, using spyware similar to a Trojan.
The German public learned of the practice in November last year, when a magistrate of the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal High Court) ruled that there is no legal basis for such measures as part of police inquiries.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 27, 2007 at 8:22:00 AM CET
Sony announces cheaper Blu-ray player
Sony Corp. said Monday it is bringing out a cheaper player for Blu-ray discs early this summer, a crucial step in its battle to make the high-definition format the replacement for DVDs.
The BDP-S300 will cost $599, yet will have the same capabilities as the $999 BDP-S1 Sony is currently selling, said Randy Waynick, senior vice president of the home products division of Sony Electronics.
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