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Today, ElcomSoft is integrating a wireless sniffer into Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor. The integrated sniffer turns Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor into a one-button, all-in-one solution ready to be used by corporate security officers without specific experience in information security.

Call us crazy, but if you’re a C-level security officer with no specific information security experience then maybe you shouldn’t be sniffing people’s data packets. Then again, we’re sure ElcomSoft will happily sell their $1,199 pro software or $399 standard edition to any hacker willing to pay, white hat or not.

Continue reading ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system

ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That picture above is no joke — that’s where I ended up last night trying to revive my Droid X review unit. It was fun, in a hacky mad-scientist sort of way, but it’s also really sad — a testament to how Google approves Android device hacking with a wink and a nod, but doesn’t provide any safety nets for its most passionate users.

Let’s back up, though. How did I end up in such dire straits? It started when I had the nerve to update this Droid X to the leaked Android 2.2 build — a simple process that involved installing the file on a microSD card and restarting. Unfortunately, since Motorola refuses to provide a sanctioned upgrade path from the leaked build to the official 2.2 build released earlier this week, I was forced to downgrade back to 2.1 to get back on track. Based on how easy the update was, this would be a piece of cake, right?

Continue reading Editorial: Firmware, forums, and desperation — the dark side of Android hacking

Editorial: Firmware, forums, and desperation — the dark side of Android hacking originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it? Sure, jailbreaks and homebrew titles are all well and good, but you know a console has really arrived when it starts emulating the classics. The ever-versatile Snes9x has been given a quick and dirty port to the newly jailbroken PS3, and while it’s missing fancy features like “save states” and “UI,” it’s certainly looks to be doing the most basic task of playing games just fine. Meanwhile, the creator of famed Dreamcast emulator NullDC has a very rough version it up and running on the PS3 as well. We naturally have a long way to go, but this looks like a promising beginning.

PS3 gets early SNES and Dreamcast emulation originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Insignia’s Infocast gains a web browser, a little dignity in the process originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lots of activity involving the just-announced HTC Desire HD in the past couple days, despite the fact that it’s yet to be released anywhere — and frankly, that’s just the kind of can-do attitude from the dev community that we like to see. First off, the HD2 — which, considering the screen size and general spec sheet similarity, makes an obvious candidate for a ROM transplant — has indeed gotten an early port, and something tells us this hack is going to get a lot of spit and polish over the next few weeks and will end up breathing fresh life into a phone that had been crippled by its dead-man-walking operating system. There’d been a video of the port in action, but sadly, it’s been pulled off YouTube for some mysterious reason, so hopefully it’ll reemerge (along with instructions for HD2 owners) soon.

Meanwhile, the Desire HD is apparently putting up some hardcore benchmark scores on the strength of its updated Snapdragon MSM8255 processor, posting a Quadrant score of nearly 2,000 — about two-thirds better than a Froyo-equipped Nexus One. The dumped ROM is already online, so feel free to start digging through it… and if you somehow have a prototype Desire HD lying around, all the better.

[Thanks, garsim]

HTC Desire HD ROM gets dumped, ported, chopped, and screwed… oh, and benchmarked originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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