The new firmware 2.1 is available for the iPod and introduced a new feature: You can configure your device to automatically erase all its data after ten unsuccessful password attempts! No idea if the same feature will be present in the iPhone version (which should be available today). Nice feature
Month: September 2008
eBay Protects iPhone Buyers
The new iPhone launched two months ago was a real worldwide success. It was difficult to find one and quickly waiting lists were set up to buy the precious gadget… To protect the buyers against false iPhone available stocks, eBay increased the protection level to fight fake announces: To sell
Google Chrome Flagged As Dangerous in Germany
So much has already been written over the new Google browser (Chrome) that I did not write anything about it on this blog until now. The “BSI” (Federal Office for Information Security in Germany) warned users about the new Google toy. They recommend to not use the browser in professional
Global Security Week… Go go go!!
The Global Security Week announced by L-SEC starts today! Check out the press release for more details (fr or nl). It’s a good opportunity for all of us to promote security in our environments and ‘stick the knife in deeper’ with key facts: Use a strong password management (strong passwords,
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-09-07
Back to work! # I hate writing docs… #
Hacking Laptop Passwords
Interesting paper found via USB Hacks: Hacking Password Protected Laptops. That’s right: It’s easy to protect your laptop with a password (at BIOS or OS level). But if your laptop is stolen, your data are unsafe! It’s very easy to bypass or recover your passwords and access your data as
Tiny Password Generator
Found on Korben’s Blog, a nice way to generate a random password on UNIX: # < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c8 tOULPeOk Just create an alias for a more convenient day-to-day use: # alias gen_pw='< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c8' # gen_pw wbk0ewpn Note: this works
iTunes Allergic to Security Searches?
Today, I was looking for some applications related to security on the App Store in iTunes. I searched for the following keywords: “lock“, “password” or “scan“. All of them returned the same error: I tested on a second iTunes installation. Same issue?!? Any other search request works perfectly.
Promiscuous Colocation?
This blog moved to a new server located in France a few weeks ago but I’m still running the old server located in a data center in Zaventem(BE). For debugging purpose, I started a tcpdump on the box and was surprised to see a *lot* of traffic not mine! WTF!?