How To Catch A Cheating Spouse

Are you worried about that no good ho running around on you while you're away? You're over seas protecting our country while dodging roadside bombs, and you suspect that two timing bee-och is out playing you?

Well you don't have to put up with the wonder part now.

Catch that ho in the act with the USB Key Snoop, which discreetly plugs into any keyboard and can log more than "128,000 keystrokes including e-mail, chat, IM, internet addresses and more". Just type in the password and find out where and who she's been talking too. No software to load, just plug into the USB port and connect the keyboard up to it and it's ready to go.

Oh... By the way ladies. This also works for you too.

[Key Snoop via Crave]

Demo Of iphone Hack

If you're an owner of an iphone, I don't want you to crap your pants. But seeing this video might make you a little worried about information that you keep in your phone. Take a look at how this iphone is hacked.

[Gizmodo]

iPhone Dev Team Strikes Back Over Apple Threats

One thing that I kind of liked about Apple is that they were a hands off kind of company. What I mean by that is if they sold you a song on iTunes and you stripped the DRM off of it, they weren't trying to hunt you down like Bin Laden for doing it. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, as Apple has told users who have unlocked their iphones from AT&T that the next firmware update might render there iphone unusable. Well the guys at iPhone Dev Team issued their own statement:

"Based on download numbers, the iPhone Dev Team believes that, worldwide, several hundred thousand people have unlocked their iPhones. That number continues growing every day. The removal of the lock, a bug, was a major step forward in the iPhone development. It made the iPhone free and useful to anyone, not only to those in certain countries.

Apple now announces that the next firmware update, expected later this week, will possibly break the handset of all of us free users in the World. It speaks of “damage” done to the firmware and “unauthorized access” to our own property, The removal of those firmware problems, which were built in in favor for AT&T, does not cause “damage” as they want to make us believe.

We will provide you with a tool in the next week which will be able to recover your nck counter and seczones and even enables you to restore your phone to a Factory-like state.

In the meantime we advise you not to update your free iPhone with the upcoming firmware. Wait for the next version to be fixed to work properly with your carrier and not break your phone."

“iPhone Dev Team” issues statement [TUAW]

Patriots Caught Using Video Camera To Steal Signals

It looks like The New England Patriots have a problem on their hands, after using technology to gain an unfair advantage last Sunday. After Sunday's 38-14 ass kicking of the New York Jets, league officials confiscated a video camera and tape from an assistant coach of the Patriots. The tape reportedly had the hand signals from the Jets coaches. This is a no no in the league, and could result in serious penalties for the Patriots.

New England has been accused of stealing signals in the past, but no proof had ever surfaced until now. According to ESPN "NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is considering whether to hit the Pats with "severe sanctions".

It is against NFL rules to tape from the sidelines or from the booth.
I guess there may be another reason why the Patriots have had such a good run the last few years.

[Crave]

Fujitsu's New Palm Security: Identifies Your Veins

As the slow merge of man and machines begins, Fujitsu has brought us one step closer to borgville. Fujitsu’s PalmSecure device reads the veins in your palm to identify you from would be nosy people trying to view your porn. It is reported to be more secure than fingerprint readers, and it will ship with all the software necessary to run this from your PC.

No word on price or a release date but Fujitsu states that it will be soon.

PalmSecure [Fujitsu via Crunchgear]

Sony: The Rootkit Company

Oh.. you Sony fans (I'm kidding) are going to love this one.

Another rootkit fiasco was washed up on Sony's shores once again. This time it's coming from the 'Micro Vault flash drive' that comes with finger print verification. It comes in the form of a driver that is installed to hide the finger print verification "sensitive files" in Windows file system stack.

The problem is that it will hide its self in ANY directory the software is run from, so malware could easily move to a convenient directory, or hide within the default program directory itself. And if that's the case, no anti-malware would be able to detect it.

Sony is pointing the finger at the company who created the software, a Taiwanese company called 'FineArt'. But Sony should have known what they're putting their name on, considering some of the other rootkit issues they've had.

Another Sony rootkit worms its way to the surface [Arstechnica via Crunchgear]

Software Based Secuirty For Your Lapie

I like this idea of a software based security system for your laptop. The software will sound off an Alarm if anyone tries to power down your laptop, disconnect the power, or remove the USB mouse without entering in the password. While it won't prevent someone from snatching you laptop, it will at lease give you a change to run the guy down who has it.

If you're the kind of person who likes to leave their laptop while you're getting another mocha-latte ucho grandee, then this might for you.

Hit the jump for more. [lifehacker via Gizmodo]

iphone Security Update

For all the iphone owners who were ready to chuck it out the window when the security holes were exposed, you can rest easy now.

Apple released an update version 1.0.1 via iTunes to not only fix some of the known bugs, but also to plug the holes that could allow someone to get all kinds of goodies off your iphone. This will also prevent Hackers from having their way with Safari Web browser on your phone.

If you have an iphone, I would sync it like yesterday!!

Read more after the jump.

About the security content of iPhone v1.0.1 Update [Apple via Crunchgear]

Microsoft Busts Piracy Ring In China

Microsoft is feeling very good about themselves today after having a chance to play CSI. The FBI and the Chinese authorities made one of the biggest busts in software history, after a $500 million dollar piracy ring was broken up.

Windows Genuine Advantage informed users that the 'OEM software' they were trying to activate was a pirated version of Vista, and worked with the users to track down the said pirates.

Hit the jump to read the article. [WindowsVistaBlog via Crunchgear]

iphone Security Breached: Complete Control Over Data and Calls

You knew that once a popular device came out, everyone will try to punch holes in it. According to the New York Times, the 'Independent Security Evaluators' has found a hole in the iphone that once exposed, allows complete control.

Principal security expert and ex-NSA agent Dr. Charles A. Miller stated "Once you did manage to find a hole, you were in complete control."

Apparently just loading a simple Web page without any other user intervention is enough to gain complete control.

John Schwartz from the NYT states "the site injected a bit of code into the iPhone that then took over the phone. The phone promptly followed instructions to transmit a set of files to the attacking computer that included recent text messages -- including one that had been sent to the reporter's cellphone moments before -- as well as telephone contacts and e-mail addresses."

From there they can use your iPhone to make calls, without any user intervention.

Scary.

Hit the jump for the rest of the article, and see below for the video. [New York Times via Gizmodo]

One Ring To Secure Them All

This is one ring that will actually help you.

The security ring by designer Yang Hai was created with the forgetful in mind. After you connect the base to your computer, you put the ring on and when you reach a certain distance, it will lock down all of your applications. So if you go for a pee, no one will rifle through your porn that you set up at work.

Very cool.

Hit the jump for the product page. [Yanko Design via Gizmodo]

How tough is the iPhone?

David Ciccone [Mobility Today] has been pestering poor AT&T employees who have been “fully briefed” on the Apple cellphone, and all twelve told him that the iPhone was “extremely fragile” and that they’ve been told to heavily push the warranty package since the handset can break by from a 3ft drop.

Now of course this could be partly some semi-devious ploy to make extra money on the warranty because let’s face it, the carriers make a big chunk from insurance, but at the same time it’s a believable idea.

I think if you're thinking about picking up an iphone, that this might be worth the read.

Check it at the jump. [Mobility Today]

Safari 3 Beta leaves systems vulnerable to remote attack

It looks like while you can download the beta of Apple’s Safari 3 browser for Windows, you probably shouldn’t.

Security experts have been busily testing the software - hailed as twice as fast as IE7 and found a number of instabilities and, more worryingly, exploit vulnerabilities that could see websites run multiple commands on unsuspecting users’ systems. In less than two hours an exploit was coded that could trigger software on a remote system and run commands.

“In view of the fact that Apple is using the security of the Mac browser as an advertising point, it is particularly shocking just how simple the bug is. Larholm opens the following form using an IFrame:

myprotocol://someserver.com/some”[space]argument

The quote mark followed by a space slips an additional parameter into the protocol handler’s program call. With a few finishing touches a web page can use this to run its own commands on a visitor’s system” - heise Security

I’ve no doubt that Apple wil continuously upgrade and tweak Safari in the run-up to a full release, but right now it’s hard to recommend to anyone.

Check the whole article after the jump. [heise Security]