If you have an iPhone or iPad and a Mac then you already have the making of a great security camera surveillance system. Enter AirBean; an app for your iPad or iPhone which turns them into a spy camera which can be viewed on your Mac desktop or laptop.

Setup is super easy — install the AirBeam app on your iOS device and the desktop version on your Mac. The desktop app automatically finds the streams and acts as your viewer allowing you to view each feed separately or view multiple streams at the same time. If you have an older iPad without a camera or an older iPod touch then you will only be able to listen to the audio, but it will still work. What if you don’t have a Mac? Don’t fret, you can use any iOS device to view the feed from another iOS device. The only catch is that all the devices must be on the same WiFi network.

This is some pretty sophisticated software. You can set it up as a motion alarm or trigger it off any audio alert. You can even set it up to notify you remotely so you always know what’s going on even when you are away from the house. The applications for this are virtually endless, like a modern day baby monitor (an expensive one albeit, but a cool one at that) or a surveillance device to see who might be snooping around your office when your not around.

You can pick up the iOS app for $3.99 from the app store and the desktop version is free. Definitely worth the money

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Billy Chasen thought that using keys to open his office was so 2000 so he decided to build a door lock/unlock system via text message.

Using a servo motor, a tiny web server, and some piping claps from Home Depot he built a unit that can lock or unlock a door via a text message. The system uses a white list of allowed users so people can’t randomly open his door.

As you can see from the video above, the unit works well. Some clean up and maybe a project box for the unit is in order, but it doesn’t take away from the unit’s functionality. If your not up to using SMS you could always consider the WiFi Door Opener or the Secret Knock Door Lock.

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First is was fail0verflow crippling the PS3 security and now Mathieulh has revealed that he has found the KIRK encryption/decryption keys that are used to sign PSP code.

What does all of this mean? Much like the PS3 keys that were discovered last week during a presentation at the CCC, any piece of software for the PS3′s little brother the PSP can now be signed as if it was actually from Sony. Sony and the PSP homebrew community have been playing a cat and mouse game for years and it now looks that it will all come to and end.

Homebrew for the PSP can now be signed with the proper keys and therefore make it look like legitimate software. No more custom firmware or loaders needed in the near future, a homebrew modders dream come true.

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Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a method of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM calls and text messages by using a few cheap pay-as-you-go cellphones and a variety of open source software.

The ability to listen in on cellphone calls has been available to law enforcement agencies for a while, but even if the average person could they would have to invest in about $50,000 of hardware to do so, until now. The modern day phreaking takes advantage of security flaws in the GSM network and puts the power within the reach of almost any tech-savvy user.

By using custom firmware that they built in a few cheap Motorola cellphones, they created a bunch of cell phone "sniffers" that send real time raw cell network data back to a computer via a USB connection. By sending a target phone an SMS, they were able to determine what random network ID number belonged to the target.

All that was left was to decrypt the raw information they captured. This was easily accomplished with the use of a 2 GB rainbow table.

I’m sure with time, the software and firmware that was used in the demonstration will make it’s way into the average Joe’s hands and we will all be doomed. It’s not really modern day phreaking, back then all of us were just curious. There is no other use for this besides grabbing peoples personal communications.

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With more and more people using Android based phones it’s not a surprise that we are starting to see more and more viruses for these devices. The greater the market share the more appealing an OS is to malware and virus writers.

The newest nasty on the block is called Geininmi. Geininimi latches onto Android applications that use portals outside of Google’s Marketplace. It expands the range of said applications permissions and sends the info it collection to parts unknown. Security firm Lookout speculates that it may be trying to build a botnet and with the insane amount of Android phones out there it’s bound to be one massive botnet.

Pay close attention to the permissions that are requested by any application you install. If an app asks for permission to your contact list and it has nothing to do with your contacts you probably shouldn’t install it. As we all know, 90% of people who get infected don’t use common sense to protect themselves. Don’t become one of these victims.

We’ll keep you posted on additions to this story.

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How about your very own aerial surveillance drone that is launched from it’s own mailbox? I know your probably calling me crazy right now for even thinking of it, but it’s true!

The ScanCam 200 is exactly what you want for security surveillance of your property. The unit is a small quad-rotor UAV drone that comes with it’s own climate controlled hangar. The unit can be remotely launched and even set to come back and land right where it took off from.

The unit sends live video back so you can see what it sees. The unit is completely autonomous and navigates itself from one preset point to another. While the unit is docked in it’s mailbox looking hangar, the unit recharges itself until it’s called back into action.

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Another week another bunch of stuff that we posted. In case you missed any of it we have everything from Videogame Alarm Clocks to Secret Knock Door Openers. Enjoy.

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In case you missed anything last week; we have everything from Metallica on your iPhone right through to a $1200 Mouse. Enjoy

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In case you missed anything this past week, we have everything from cooling with mineral oil to video editing on your iPhone. Enjoy.

Gadgets

Asus Keyboard PC

Gaming

Cool Your Xbox With Mineral Oil
PS3 Smashing Into A TV At 80 KMH
Open Source DS Bluetooth Adapter
Black Wii For The Brits
Rock Band For iPhone Now Available

Hacking and Security

Remote Control That’s Impossible To Lose
DIY: Build A Solar Power Station
PS3 Laptop
Hard Drive Lock Pick

Mac

Dead: ZFS For The Mac
Rebel EFI: A Thorn In Apples Side
ReelDirector: Video Editing For Your iPhone

Tech News

Project Eagle Claw: Taking Out The Scammers
Skype And Chrome Go Portable
Microsoft’s App Lab
Windows 7: Will You Upgrade?
B&N Nook Officially Released
Super Fast Robot Hands

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For those of you who love to carry with you everything you might ever need to fix a friends system NirLauncher is the right product for you.

You get over a 100 utilities included right out of the pop and it even gives you the ability to tweak it and add more. You can easily build one killer flash drive with everything you might ever need to fix (or dare we say it, sniff) someone else’s machine. If you more into the later of that bracketed comment you might be better off picking up the awesome security based distro Back Track.

NirLauncher is 100% free and is for Windows only.

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I love to use Back Track as my all around security testing OS (If your not sure what Back Track is check out my little write up about it the other day). I also love to use Back Track on my EEE pc. It’s small, light, and has decent wifi range. Thanks to Larry Pesce that will soon change. He modded his Asus EEE 4G Surf with an external RP-TNC antenna connector. This will definitely increase the range when your out scoping open wifi’s.

Full details on the surgical procedure can be found here

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I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only answer I have for them is “depends on what you want to do”. I have spent sometime working on a list of Linux distros and what they are good for.

Now, before I start. Discussion distro’s with people is like discussion religion. Everyone has one and everyone feels something different towards other people who aren’t of the same faith. I just want to remind everyone that this list is just what I see, and how I feel about each distro. It’s definitely not a “what’s right and what’s wrong” type of list. Enjoy.

Knoppix – The one that started it all. Knoppix was the first major LiveCD based distro to hot the scene and open up a whole new world of bootable operating systems. This is probably the best known and most complete LiveCD distro out there. It contains everything you need to act as a full production replacement system. Word Processing, graphics editors, media players, browers, mail clients. You name is, Knoppix has it.

SystemRescueCD – This one I keep with me all the time. SystemRescueCD is a massive collection of tools to help you get out of a bind. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, …) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use. Plus, it can also be booted via a USB flash drive. A must for anyone’s collection.

Dynabolic – Billed as a complete media distro, dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software!. Just boot off the CD and your ready to go.

BackTrack – The king of all penetration testing and security distros. If you’re worried about security or exploits then this is the one for you. With more than 300 different up-to-date tools which are logically structured according to the work flow of security professionals. This structure allows even newcomers to find the related tools to a certain task to be accomplished. New technologies and testing techniques are merged into BackTrack as soon as possible to keep it up-to-date.

NimbleX – This is one of my favorite all around LiveCD based distros. It’s full featured but a lot smaller than something like Knoppix. With everything you need to act as a Desktop replacement in a 200 MB CD image, what more can you ask for.

Gentoo – The hardcore Linux distro. What makes Gentoo unique compared to other distros is the need to manually compile every part of the OS. I know that their are gui installers now and pre built packages for the mindless, but having the ability to tweak and optimize every aspect of the OS will not only give you a stable system, but one hell of a quick one too. Mind you, all of this compilation could easily take you days before you have a base system, especially when you make Xorg and a windows manager like KDE or gnome.

Debian – My day to day OS. Debian is one of the oldest and most stable distros around. The core to a bunch of other distros like Knoppix and Ubuntu. If your looking for something that will give you no headaches and carries a very stable branch of applications, Debian is the distro for you.

Ubuntu – Ubuntu is Debian to the next level. It’s a fork of Debian that has quickly become the most popular Linux distro in the world. It’s easy to install, easy to use, and is probably the best Windows replacement OS that is Linux based. Ubuntu’s software repository contains applications that are more recent than say Debian, but the down side to that is the fine edge you walk on when it comes to stability.

Fedora – The big boy on the block, and by big boy I don’t mean popularity, I mean in size. Fedora comes chalked with what seems like every application ever made. Although to some this might be nothing more than bloat, to others it’s a full and complete experience. Install Fedora and you pretty much have every open source application that is useful at your finger tips. If you have never experienced Linux before this is a great distro to get your feet wet with.

I know there are other great distro’s like Slackware, DSL, and OpenSUSE, this list is just a collection of distro’s that I find useful or that I have had experience with. Feel free to add your recommendations in the comments.

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Is there anything that hacker Dark_AleX can’t do? I mean just a mere 2 days after Sony releasing version 5.0 of it’s firmware for the PSP he has gone and thwarted the security measures. This will allow people to update their PSP without the fear of losing and homebrew functionality.

5.0 brings some useful features to the table like the Playstation store that will bring direct download movies, and games.

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Looks like we are being told to be afraid of hackers again, this time they are going after our cellphones.

Security experts at Georgia Tech are telling us that hackers could soon turn their attention toward creating botnets out of our cellphones. With more and more smartphones making their way into consumers hands and with every generation of phone becoming more powerful it’s a serious possibility.

These botnets could be used to send spam or other malicious attacks. A user could go out searching for ringtones for their phone only to download something with a nasty payload that could take your phone and turn it into a zombie. Now before people start panicking, this is all speculative at this point, but quite possible. Remember that most cell companies have yet to plug the hole in the bluetooth stack that leaves your phone vulnerable to a snarfing attack.

It’s a scary though to have millions of infected phones that are almost always on and just waiting for a command. I wonder what a DDOS attack vie edge or 3g would do.

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Last week we showed you how to screw with people who were stealing your Wi Fi signal by flipping their browsers and blurring their images. Today we show you how to hunt those Wi Fi moochers. The problem with leaving your Wi Fi unprotected is that malicious people can use it to download illegal files that can be tracked back to you. The best thing to do is lock down your Wi Fi to ensure that no one does something that you might be blamed for, but if you choose to leave it open and have a problem with a user or two taking advantage of it you can track them down and pay them a visit.

First thing you are gonna want to do is download MoocherHunter. MoocherHunter tracks the data that is being streamed from your unprotected Wi Fi right to their front door. The program is pretty straighforward to use and is part of a much larger wireless auditing toolkit called OSWA-Assistant which is chalked full of useful tools to make sure your Wi Fi is well protected.

Use this information wisely, don’t go out and do something stupid with it. Remember, this is to be used for personal research, not as an excuse to knock at someone’s door and start a fight.

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Last night Apple rolled out a security update for it’s AppleTV. According to Apple, this update fixes a bug in the unit that could allow a “maliciously crafter movie file to lead to an unexpected termination of arbitrary code execution”. Doesn’t sound good at all for all the Apple TV owners, all 6 of us.

With yesterdays release Apple also sneaked in a Genius playlist function. When you hold down the play/pause button while a song is playing then a popup menu will appear and allow you to “Start Genius”.

You can pick up the update via the Update Software option in your AppleTV. Anyone found any new and exciting features in the latest update?

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Helix 2 has been released (not 3 as the graphic say). Helix is a great collection of computer forensics tools. You can find out all sorts of juicy information with this toolkit. Winlockpwn allows you to break Windows security, Volitility processes data our of raw memory, and a whole slew of others.

This is the ultimate toolkit that all security experts should have in their CD kit.

[Link to Helix 2]

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Apple today released the 10.5.5 update to their Leopard OS. The update contains a long list of fixes for the core OS as well as app fixes like iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. Here’s a list of what’s included:

General

• Includes recent Apple security updates.
• Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
• Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
• Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
• Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
• Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
• Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
• Includes improvements to Active Directory.
• Improves Speech Dictionary.
• Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
• Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Address Book

• Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.
• Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.

Disk Utility and Directory Utility

• Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.
• Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.

iCal

• Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.
• Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.
• Resolves an issue in which the “Refresh All” option may be dimmed (“grayed out”) in the contextual menu for certain calendars.
• Fixes issues with read-only calendars.
• Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.
• Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.

Mail

• Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.
• Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.
• Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
• Addresses an issue with the “Organized by Thread” view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.
• Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.
• Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.
• Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.

MobileMe

• Improves overall sync reliability.
• Improves Back to My Mac reliability.

Time Machine

• Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
• Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.
• Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.
• Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).

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Almost every laptop user has faced this problem at one time or another. You plug in your USB mouse and thumb drive only to be out of ports for your camera or iPod. Well, someone at RiTEK must have also run into this stumbling block because they have the perfect product for you. The Yego USB Flash drive is not only a conventional USB thumb drive,but it also acts as a mini USB hub. It not only free up the port that it used, but also give you an additional port as well.

If security is your concern then the Yego can lock it’s ports and only let in the person with the right password. We’re not talking file-by-file encoding, we are talking the entire flash drive is encoded with a password. It’s got an LED indicator that let’s you know which port is operating and even comes with a power save mode.

It’ll work with all flavours of your favorite OS and can be picked up in sizes from 128MB right up to 8GB

RiTEK

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Two security researches have demonstrated a technique that enables someone to intercept internet traffic on a massive scale using an exploit in the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol). The exploit allows an attacker to monitor unencrypted traffic anywhere in the world and even allows them to modify the packets before they get to their destination.

Anyone with a BGP router (ISPs, large corporations or anyone with space at a carrier hotel) could intercept data headed to a target IP address or group of addresses. The attack intercepts only traffic headed to target addresses, not from them, and it can’t always vacuum in traffic within a network — say, from one AT&T customer to another.

The method conceivably could be used for corporate espionage, nation-state spying or even by intelligence agencies looking to mine internet data without needing the cooperation of ISPs.

You can read the rest of the article on Wired

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A low-tech solution to a hi-tech problem, I love it. Japanese accessory maker Thanks has come up with a physical padlock for anything with a USB end on it. Sticks, connector cables, mice, you name it, if it has a usb end on it, the it can be protected.

Other than making access to the USB device difficult, it really doesn’t offer much else on security, but for $7 what do you expect. People who live outside of Japan will have to hope that they put it up for sale on their English online shop.

When it does, you can enter “rarmono5″ as a coupon code and get an additional 5% off.

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One of the nice things about the downgrade is that they have ben able to perfect the precautions they take to prevent bricking. On a side note, the RiP Dev team has been doing some great work on Installer 4 which will help everyone instal software on their iPhones/touches that isn’t from the AppStore.

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In a world filled with enough plugins to make your head spin, it can be quite frustrating looking for that right plugin to do that job your after. Most bloggers have spent countless hours sifting through google or wordpress.org looking for a plugin to do something they are after but just can’t come up with the name that they need.

Everyone can probably name their favorite plugin. The trick is to name the plugins that are worth installing, ones that can actually add something useful to your blog. Remember, plugins tend to slow down wordpress blogs, so it’s a good to keep an eye on performance and only activate what you actually need.

Once we switched tech.nocr.at over to wordpress some time ago we too spent countless days tweaking and installing plugins, looking for the right combination to do the job. So here I present to you, the list of must have plugins for any pro-blogger. All of them are installed and activated right here.

The List

Of course, these plugins don’t make your blog an instant success, but they do add some important and needed feature to a blog. Concentrate on content if you want to attract readers and let the plugins do their jobs and help you along the way.

Must Haves

The following plugins should be install on any blog no matter what type of content you have or how popular your blog is. No exceptions.

1. Akismet
   This one is a no brainer, I mean, who the hell wants spam on their site?
2. WP-Super-Cache
   Once one of your posts hits the front page of Digg or you become popular on StumbleUpon you are going to be thankful of this puppy. This plugin stores a static file of each page in html, which is easier to show than dynamic content. It lowers the processing of PHP and the database hits that can kill you.
3. All in One SEO Pack
   Want to have your site indexed properly on search engines? Let this puppy take all of the hard work off of your hands.

SEO & analytics

1. Google Analytics for WordPress
   Probably the worlds most used analytics package. Install this one and you will be greeted with more stats than you can handle.
2. WP-UserOnline
   Does exactly what it says, tells your how many people are on your site right now. Even gives you referring URL’s and spiders too.
3. Google XML-Sitemap Generator
   Search engines just love sitemaps, especially google. This plugin will create a XML-Sitemap for you automatically and keep it up-to-date.

RSS Plugin

1. Feedburner Feedsmith
   Feedburner is probably the industry standard for rolling out your feeds. This plugin will ensure that any link on your site to your RSS feed is redirected to your feedburner account.

Comment Plugins

1. Move Comments
   This plugin in will give you the ability to move comments from one post to another. Keeps your commenters on track.
2. CAPTCHA
   Just incase Akisment didn’t get em, this one will help you out.

Miscellaneous Plugins

1. Related Posts
   Shows a number (set by you) of posts that relate to this post a users is one. This is a great plugin for giving people a choice of similar content on your site and having them dig deeper.
2. Maintenance Mode
   If you ever need to tweak or upgrade your system, this plugin will allow your to show a static HTML page telling people that you are down for some upgrade and tweak love. The best part is if log in, you can still access your site to test those tweaks and upgrades.

Well there it is, this list of wordpress plugins that are must haves. There is always room for improvement though. If you have a must have plugin in that we should know about then let us know.

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• EeePC Keyboard Backlight for $15
• Dalek Security Camera
• Worst MP3 Player Ever
• Optoma Pico Projector
• Google Employees Get Special Toilets
• Robot Easter Egg
• DYI Chromakey Screen

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Do you live in a rough part of town? Been thinking about getting a dog or a security system to help protect your house? Maybe you should think of getting this Paintball Sentry Gun. Just turn this baby on and you will be totally protected. By the time you get back you might see a few kids in your neighborhood tagged with paint.

It’s really amazing how quickly this puppy responds and how actuate it is.

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Here is a great addition for all of you home security/Dr. Who fans. The Dalek security camera features a tiny pinhole spy cam. It might look like a toy at first glance, and most people won’t give it a second thought.

Guys, if your girl friends of wives come home with a Dalek statute for you be wary, it might be spying on you.

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Here’s a neat trick that will always make sure that your face stays off those pesky public cameras. Mount an bunch of IR LEDs on you, possible in the brim of your hat. These will produce a powerful white light that won’t be seen by people passing by but will blind those pesky pubic cameras that invade your privacy.

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The latest release for Mac’s latest OS, Leopard, is now available. The Update fixes a whole slew of bugs and quirks which have been plaguing the OS.

After installing 10.5.2 it’s also recommended that users install the 48.9 megabyte Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 to fix some other issues that will speed up you system.

While you can visit Apple’s site here to get a full list of bug and security fixes, these are the highlights:

• Resolves Airport issues that result in kernel panics when running certain programs
• Updated Stacks option adds “folder view” for all of us annoyed at seeing a document or file instead of our folder of choice.
• You can turn off menu bar transparency (that should thrill many) and overall menu translucency has been reduced.
• Fixed an issue where set-up assistant could randomly start up
• Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine
• Additional RAW and iSynch support for new devices

All in all a worthy update.

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Looking to beef up security around the house or office? Looking to catch them kids who are messing up the front of the house? Why not build your very own Witness Camera?

“The Witness Camera is a combination of a VGA CMOS camera, a passive-infrared movement sensor, a 1 GB SD-card (or bigger), and an AVR Mega32 microcontroller implementing a solid-state time-lapse recorder. It is a compact, complete, self-contained surveillance system designed with home users in mind. It can be installed in minutes wherever there is a mains plug, and it is affordable because of it is built using an handful of inexpensive parts.”

[Link via Make]

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HowtoForge has a great guide on installing and using the Ubuntu Tweak utility.

“Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc”

It only works on Gnome desktops, but its a really easy way to customize your splash screen, desktop, and hibernation settings. The tweaks are virtually endless.

Link to tweaking hidden Ubuntu settings.

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Wikileaks has released some scanned documents from the German police revealing the governments intent to intercept Skype voice calls. The publication of the documents is causing a massive storm in the German Press.

The first document is a communique between the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutors office about the cost splitting for the technology. The second document is an offer made by Digitask, the German company secretly developing the Skype interception technology, outlining pricing, licensing models, and other details. The technology includes interception boxes, key forwarding trojans, and anonymous proxies to hide police communications.

The parent company of Skype, Ebay, has always promoted Skype calls as being encrypted and secure, and has yet to comment on the documents.

This should bring some much needed attention to the overall security of any voip application. Big brother just might be listening.

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Ever purchase a DVD at your local Blockbuster and get home only to find out that the guy behind the counter forgot to remove the locking mechanism off the DVD case? You know that strip of plastic that runs down the side of the opening?

Some of the locking mechanisms used by the big box locations will actually destroy the DVD if you try to pry it open, much like the ink security tags that clothing stores use. Unless you have one of the fancy gizmos at home like they have at the stores your S.O.L.

“The secret is two very powerful magnets. From reading the sales literature for the locks, these magnets are supposedly only available to sooper-seekret authorized personnel. What they don’t tell their customers is that these magnets are also available inside every junk 3.5″ hard disk drive made in the last 15 years. They are part of the head seeking motor.”

Link to How To

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Just for the record, I am one of those people who are against automatic or semi-automatic weapons, being from Canada it’s just a Canadian thing, but on the other hand this is one cool weapon (Video after the break).

The briefcase machine gun is something out of every espionage or spy movie you have ever seen, essentially a MP5K machine gun mounted in a briefcase. Weighing in at 4.4 pounds and 13 inches long, the briefcase may look typical, but it packs one hell of a punch. This looks to be geared to the military or law enforcement, not the type of brief case you want to be caught with walking around town or trying to get through airport security with.

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Tom Ward who designs electronics for a living wanted to create a lasting impression on people who he meets so why not create a business card that dials his number for you?

To use the card you simply hold the corner, which contains a small speaker over the phone’s mouthpiece. The card then emits a series of DTMF audio tones to dial the number for you.

Although a single card might not be that cheap you can get you costs down to about $2 a card if you produce them in large batches. At $2 a card you might not hand your card out to each person you meet, but if you want a lasting impression then it would make quite an impact.

Tom posted a very detailed step by step of this process over on Instructables. I wonder what they would say at airport security when you passed your card through the X-Ray.

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Wired.com has a great article on the “hackability” of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Apparently the computer network in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment is connected to the plane’s control, navigation and communications systems which is a serious no no.

Apart from it being one hell of a security risk trying to hack this baby would probably have your ass smacked around real bad by any law enforcement agency

“This is serious,” said Mark Loveless, a network security analyst with Autonomic Networks, a company in stealth mode, who presented a conference talk last year on Hacking the Friendly Skies(PowerPoint). “This isn’t a desktop computer. It’s controlling the systems that are keeping people from plunging to their deaths. So I hope they are really thinking about how to get this right.”

You can read the complete Wired article here

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• Mac Errors (Frank)
• Unofficial Linux Support For New iPods (Frank)
• Make it all portable: Thinstall it (Rob)
• VMware goes flash with 3i (Rob)
• Wii to get Turbografx Titles (Frank)
• USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps (Frank)
• 6V Battery hack (Frank)
• NES Clone – Good cheap memories (Frank)

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There are tons of places to get RSS feeds and security information, including right here, but this site includes RSS feeds from security blogs around the world, and the latest security podcasts all wrapped up in a nice splashpage-like package.http://www.securls.com

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Are you a hacker? Want to give back a little? Check out the site for more information.

iHackCharities.org

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• iTunes Movie Rentals? (Frank)
• iPhone: User racks a $4,800 bill (Frank)
• How To: Add RAW support to low end Canon camera (Frank)
• Mouse Danger in Vista (Frank)
• Hacking an Alarm Clock (Frank)
• Un-Portable Nintendo DS (Frank)
• Urine Powered Batteries (Frank)
• DS gets VOIP (Frank)
• iPhone firmware 1.1.1 may break soft unlocks (Frank)

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• Small Fry 1,000,000 Volt Mini Stun Gun (Frank)
• Hackers at Microsoft (Rob)
• Windows Error: “Operation Completed Successfully” (Frank)
• 26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256 (Frank)
• Learn to Hack (Rob)
• New Phone-less Ipod’s and more (Frank)
• How To: VGA over Cat-5 (Frank)
• Eco-Friendly DVR (Frank)
• Inflight USB: Power for you gadgets from an audio jack (Frank)

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• How To: Make a USB Air Conditioner (Frank)
• Free File: SpaceMonger (Rob)
• How To: 360 Controller with a PSP (Frank)
• Network Magic: Easy Mac and PC networking (Frank)
• How To: Build a Night Vision System (Frank)
• Image retargeting (Rob)
• Microsoft puts the smack down on AutoPatcher (Rob)
• Hidden Flight Sim in Google Earth (Frank)
• Apple and NBC get divorced (Frank)
• iPhone goes *poof* during Unlocking (Frank)

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• Blinged Out Shuffle (Frank)
• Howto: Hide Files Inside of Images (Rob)
• Fix a Wet Cell Phone (Frank)
• Relaunch of suprnova.org (Rob)
• tech.nocr.at on your Cell Phone (Frank)
• Mac Upgrade Kit: Hammer and Cheque Book (Frank)
• Google Earth Sky Easteregg (Rob)
• Coin-Operated Washer/Dryer Hack – Real or Fake (Frank)
• Media downloading made simple (Rob)
• Rumour: New iPod Nano on Sep. 5th (Frank)
• Lab with Leo: 100th Episode Party (Frank)
• Google gPhone set to launch in 15 days (Frank)

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• Nmap 127.0.0.1 : Flash Style (Rob)
• Vista powered Super Nintendo (Frank)
• Free File: HTTP File Server (Rob)
• Fully mechanical Pong – No TV (Frank)
• Free File: Emergent Task Timer (Mike)
• Emgeton Mini One – Windows powered iPhone Clone (Frank)
• Hack your remote control (Frank)
• Free File: PC Decrapifier (Mike)
• WhiteDust Gone? (Rob)
• Unlocked iPhones available in Hong Kong (Frank)
• It’s time to Evolve (Rob)

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Isn’t it about time that you start using Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript ? Might as well throw in another good add-on called StumbleUpon as well.

::UPDATE:: It has been confirmed that this only works when the html document is opened locally. The reason I didn’t wipe the article all together is the fact that things like this usually are a seed to find an actual working way to get this done.

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• iPhone unlocked, almost (frank)
• Flashlight that will make you puke (frank)
• Daily Free File – Coconut Battery (mike)
• NES controller for your iPod (frank)
• NES on your iPhone (frank)
• Multi-Touch Macbook (frank)
• Blackjack, Save $840 a year (mubix)
• Facebook source code leaked (frank)
• Robotic Bartender (frank)
• Laptop battery hack (frank)

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By using a low level driver to re-direct all the network traffic to the Pico, before Windows and the TCP/IP stack see it, means that any attacks on your computer will hit the Pico before it has a chance to affect your computer. This actually provides a physical separation between your machine and the internet (or network your connecting to, think free internet hotspot).

It’s $179 plus $30/year for updates, it isn’t exactly cheap but if you prefer paying for anti-virus and anti-spyware rather than using free versions, this might be great for you.

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It’s small and packs a serious punch. It’s called the Small Fry and don’t mess with it. It can shoot out 1,000,000 volts and can easily barbeque someone. It comes with a rechargeable battery system (at least it’s environmentally friendly) and a safety button to prevent accidental discharges that could kill you. You can pickup this power house for $79.95

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The Ironkey is not only a strong USB key because of it’s metal casing but is also has military-grade encryption built right in. This thumb drive can hold up to 4GB of pr0n, errrr, I mean data and includes a hardware encryption chip that scrambles up all of the 1′s and 0′s so as to make the drive completely unreadable without a password. Although passwords can be hacked, but not with the IronKey, 10 incorrect attempts and the encryption chip self-destructs, making the contents, and the drive useless. You can pick this puppy up for $149

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Dylan Stephen Jayne of Pennsylvania has decided to sue Google for 5 Billion dollars (cue Auston Power music).

The premise of his complaint revolves around the following assertion;

“I, Dylan Stephen Jayne, plaintiff, has [sic] a social security number that when the social security number is turned upside down in its entirety it is a scrambled code that does spell the name Google®.”

Mr. Jayne must have put a lot of thought in the case. The five pages, all hand written, further implicates Google is responsible for compromising the safety of his identity, as they persist on using his social security number in coded form. For good measure, Mr. Jayne accuses Google of not doing enough to fight terrorism, nor having any respect for his civil liberties.

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There are some serious issues that can arise from this. The first is that this code can be using by people to better understand how Facebook works, or for the malicious purpose of finding further security hole or bugs that can be exploited. Once an attacker starts to gain entry into the workings of a system he or she can easily locate, if any, bugs or exploits that can lead to even more headaches.

This leak can’t be good news for the guys at Facebook. It raises some questions about the security of user information. If main code can be leaked then there is a possibility of anything happening. Facebook has become such a large and profitable outfit that it virtually has a bulls-eye on it much like myspace did to attackers

[Update] Facebook has made an official response to the leaked code on TechCrunch:

I wanted to clarify a few things in your story. Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.

Thanks to you and the TC readers for helping us out on this one.

Brandee Barker
Facebook

Not sure if this is the “legal” or “pr” answer to what happened, but I’m sure that we’ll be finding out if there is anything to come of this leaked code in the next few days or weeks.

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With the industry and those in it so seemingly hostile to Whitedust, and pure apathy from anyone who thinks otherwise. Why bother. This site is now closed permanently. It’s staff have abandoned the scene and the industry for real world projects – for good, you won’t be seeing us again. You “Won”.

Good luck out there. You’ll need it. -The Staff

When a security firm goes under, who looses? The rest of us. No matter how controversial a firm is, the research and development that comes out of their firm is going to be missed in our space.

To those who “Won”: congratulations, you have hurt the security field
To Whitedust Staff: I and the rest of the Technocrats wish you the best of luck with future ventures.
http://www.whitedust.net/

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Or, you might be a Penetration Tester who is in the “Enumeration / Information Gathering” phase. Or a Security Professional that wants to keep tabs on what kind of fingerprint their company has out there.

Any one of these reasons and methods might leave you with information overload, or just not enough information. Well, it’s time to evolve.

Paterva has released a product called Evolution. It comes in 3 forms. Web, which is their “classic” version. GUI, which is an installable version that I think is FAR superior. And then they have “Wizard”, which isn’t completed yet.

So, when I first heard about this product, I was like “meh, another google search aggregator”. But when I gave it a shot, it floored me. Evolution does relational linking of search results. Now all the Database geeks just peed their pants and the rest of us pretended like we knew what that meant. (I had to google it) What that means is, it automates the process of looking at the search results and finds relationships between them, scoring them on how much a certain item is related to.

What does this mean to you? Scarier or more informative results, depends on which side of the coin you are on, Security Pro, Pen Tester, or just another eager ego surfer.

My only gripe about the GUI is that it doesn’t run on Vista. But, it is still in the perpetual beta that is the industry standard now ‘n days.

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First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched machine, to adding LEDs to your DefCon 15 badge. And if you are like most hackers, you have already stopped reading so here are some videos to get you started:

Virtual Training Enviroment at Cert.org
Learn Security Online’s Videos
Youtube entries by SANS

Also you have podcasts such as Hak.5, Pauldotcom Security Weekly and many others, that publish new content on a monthly or weekly basis.

Today also marks the day of the newest release of Hak.5. In this release I do a guest segment on anonymous enumeration or information gathering. The following are links to all of the sites that I cover in this segment, plus a few more that I don’t:

The main portion of the segment is over Evolution by Paterva. Downloadable at MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11LK7HH3 The windows version at least. If the Linux version creeps up, I’ll let you know.

Domain Dossier w/ Service (Banner) scan
http://www.centralops.net/

Submit a file to be virus scanned by 17+ different scanners to help identify the virus, and to see which pick up the virus
http://www.virustotal.com/

Submit a file to be analyzed by the CWSandbox software. It even can give DNS lookup information and network connectivity requests
http://research.sunbelt-software.com/Submit.aspx

Using known transforms, this site give you a great bit of detail about any particular site, based on the details gleaned from the source
http://www.builtwith.com/

Great site that has a lot of tools. My favorite being “File-Info” in which the serversniff servers download and hash dump a file of your choice with the option to attempt a string dump. (Couple this with Virustotal.com, and the CWSandbox link, you will know everything there is to know about a file, without ever having to have it on your box.
http://www.serversniff.net/

An online front end for NMAP. It is restrictive so that you can only scan the IP you are coming from. However, this is form information that is being passed.
http://www.nmap-online.com/

Probably the best whois site on the planet.
http://www.whois.sc/

The default site that everyone know for looking up information on anything with a host name or IP
http://www.dnsstuff.com/

A good amount of tools that the other sites have, but centrally located
http://www.network-tools.com/

Network Query Tool
http://www.windowspms.com/

Can’t go anywhere without Sam Spade
http://www.samspade.org/

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Real or Fake? You be the judge.

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The attack begins when a user gets and IM with a link from someone in their contact list or from an unknown user. There are several variations of the chat message, which seem to be very cleverly written. The link appears as a JPEG file, but if clicked causes the Windows Run/Save dialog box to pop up and ask whether the user wants to save or run a .scr file.

“Users whose computers are infected with this virus will send a chat message to other Skype users asking them to click on a web link that can infect” their computers, Arak wrote on the Skype heartbeat blog.

To avoid trouble, users should not download the file. At least two security vendors, F-Secure and Kaspersky Lab, have updated their software to detect the worm, Arak wrote.

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You might remember they were caught with there pants around their ankles a few years back when they were installing rootkit like software on peoples computers who inserted CD’s into their computers there were from the Sony-BMG label. Now a line of flash drives that Sony sells has been discovered to install rootkit-like functionality that hides folders on people’s computers.

You’d think that after the mess they hand on their hands with the CD rootkit debacle someone at Sony would write a memo to the rest of the organization explicitly stopping this type of development, but no, instead they do it again.

This can lead to a serious security issue for computer users, these hidden folders are perfect for malware writers to use as hiding places for their malware. I’m left speechless.

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The incapacitating flashlight is being developed for the Department of Homeland Security in the US. The Uber bright light which is generated from an array of LED’s will be able to use a range finder to measure the distance to the target’s eyes so that it can adjust the energy of the light to a level that won’t cause permanent damage but, you guessed it, will make you toss your cookies

The DHS is funding the research on the new nonlethal weapon. Cops, border security personnel and the National Guard could be carrying these things around by 2010.

What’s next? Freaking sharks with laser beams on their heads. Once 2010 rolls around I’ll make sure to wear my sunglasses at all times. That should fool em.

[Via MIT Review]

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