Oh, XDA-Developers, how I love thee. You’re a haven for hardcore handset hackers everywhere, with much of the ROM hackery that makes our Android handsets oh-so-much better going on within your virtual walls. Every once in a while, though, ROM hackers get bored of the same stuff day-in-day-out — and when they do, awesome stuff like this Android-based garage door opener is born.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is mad that someone resurrected LimeWire in a form that is even better than before and claims that the culprit used to work or is still working at Lime Wire LLC.
At the end of October, RIAA won a case against Lime Wire LLC, the company which developed the formerly popular LimeWire file sharing application.
Along with its audited financial statements indicating a revenue increase of 34 percent last year, Mozilla late last week also published a "State of Mozilla" report providing a glimpse at what the organization is planning for the future.
Firefox for Android is one part of those future plans, of course, and will be released "in a few months," according to the report.
Ring-fenced Reader X promises to limit damage from attacks
Adobe says it has improved the security of its Reader software with the launch of a sandboxed version of the software.
The Protected Mode in Reader X – downloadable for Windows – is intended to make it harder for hackers to write files or install malware on machines.
A mysterious new Samsung firmware was posted online today designed for a new phone with the model number GT-i9200. Several hackers are digging through the image files to see if they can figure out what this device is, but the model number is very similar to the dual-core Samsung phone (GT-i9100) that was confirmed this week.
While no one can seem to place the model number with a specific phone, earlier this week, a tweet from the Korean based manufacturer confirmed the dual-core Google Nexus S being made by Samsung.
Sn0wbreeze 2.1, one of the many iOS 4.2 jailbreak programs to utilize the Limera1n exploit, has now gone -- you'll pardon the pun -- "0pen S0urce." The program's Canadian developer has decided to make the source code available to all and sundry, so fellow hackers can fine-tune it to their heart's desire.
Another day, another Adobe Acrobat vulnerability. I don't know about you, but Adobe's Update tool is a cheery presence on my computer, and I welcome its seemingly daily intrusion into my life to update software that I only use now and again. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.
But this is actually a serious issue. McAfee reckons that, by the end of 2010, Adobe Acrobat will represent the number one target for hackers who want to compromise your system. We might joke about it but these vulnerabilities are very serious for individuals and businesses.
Trend Micro has released a tool that administrators can use to scan dozens of computers at a time for Stuxnet, the malicious software program that has raised widespread concern for its targeting of industrial systems made by Siemens.
Adobe today issued an emergency update for its popular Reader PDF software that patched two critical vulnerabilities, including one attackers have exploited for weeks.
The more notable flaw fixed in Reader 9.4.1 for Windows and Mac OS X was a bug that hackers have been leveraging since late October using malicious PDF documents. Those attacks have taken advantage of a flaw in Reader's "authplay" component. Authplay is the interpreter that renders Flash content embedded within PDF files.
A massive security update from Apple plugged more than 130 Mac OS X security holes but left users of PGP's whole disk encryption product locked out of their systems.
Wednesday, customers of PGP, now a division at Symantec, reported being unable to boot their computers after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6.5. Later that day, PGP posted a warning to its customers using Mac Whole Disk Encryption (MAC WDE) urging them not to upgrade.
