Jan 19

Motorola Milestone reaches milestone, gets rooted

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Following its American cousin by just a few short weeks, the Motorola Milestone has now been rooted by a handful of enterprising hackers, opening the door to the usual array of forbidden fruits that Moto never intended you to have: WiFi tethering, wacky Sense ports, fully customized ROMs, and the list goes on. Proceed at your own risk, but seriously — you don’t want to be the one uncool kid on your block with a stock software stack, do you?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Motorola Milestone reaches milestone, gets rooted originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 18

Novatel’s MiFi devices shown to be incredibly useful, easily hacked (video)

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Novatel's MiFi devices shown to be incredibly useful, easily hacked (video)

We’ve personally experienced the joys of portable wireless routers like Novatel’s MiFi, little things that do the 3G talkin’ for you, but from what we’re seeing here current users may be about to experience something altogether different: fear. A hack that is both very nasty and easy to execute has been shown which would, most troublingly, allow a malicious page to modify the MiFi settings on behalf of the user, possibly disabling security or even locking out the owner of the router, as shown in a quick demonstration video after the break. A factory reset fixes it all, of course, but doesn’t do anything to alleviate the apparently shoddy security mechanisms at play here. Time for another firmware update, perhaps?

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Novatel’s MiFi devices shown to be incredibly useful, easily hacked (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 16

Germany advises its citizens to say ‘nein’ to Internet Explorer

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Autsch! In light of the recent attacks on Google China and Microsoft’s revelation that an Internet Explorer security flaw served as an impetus in the assault, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security has released a warning to its population: avoid IE. Specifically, the report calls out the latest three versions — 6, 7, and 8 — but let’s face it, those older versions should be avoided on grounds of usability alone. Boy, bet the Bonn-based agency is happy about that Windows 7 web browser ballot screen, eh?

Germany advises its citizens to say ‘nein’ to Internet Explorer originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 15

IE security flaw exploited in recent Google attacks

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This next item’s for any rogue states out there that might be planning a comprehensive wave of cyber-attacks: It looks like Microsoft has admitted that indeed it was a security flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers based in China exploited in the recent attacks on Google. As is often the case, the flaw is neatly summed up in the title of the advisory: “Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution.” According to news agency AFP, the incident (which targeted Chinese human rights activists) shows “a level of sophistication above that of typical, isolated cyber criminal efforts.” (Which is, evidently, how we like to think of our own cyber criminal efforts.) Microsoft has yet to release a formal software update. In the meantime, if you think your machine could be at risk, hit the source link for all the details. Or just switch to Firefox.

IE security flaw exploited in recent Google attacks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 15

Cold Feet wedding bouquet responds to your nerves on the big day

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When geeks get married, there’s always room for some nerdy insanity. This new take on the bouquet comes to us via just that route — a couple of geeks getting hitched decided to DIY themselves an LED bouquet which responds to changes in Galvanic skin response (GSR). So, when the LEDs are blue, the person holding the flowers is essentially calm, whereas white LEDs indicate excitement. Now, the bouquet cannot actually tell us if the excitement stems from being overjoyed or horrified to find out that your intended owns a fully realized and accurate Quark costume, but at least it’ll give you some clues to start with. Regardless, this awesome contraption is also capable of recording heartbeat rates for both bride and groom and makes use of a 1GB SD card to store the data, and other features like infrared proximity sensors to record how many times a day the bride and groom are near each other. Check out the video of the bouquet after the break.

[Photo credit: Jonas Eriksson]

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Cold Feet wedding bouquet responds to your nerves on the big day originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 15

Researchers Crack 3G Network Encryption

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Just two weeks after researchers broke the encryption inherent to GSM networks comes word that another team has cracked 3G encryption.

The attack takes just a few hours on a typical PC, reports Ars Technica. That’s enough time to crack 3G’s KASUMI system, which is based on a simplified type of Fiestel encryption called MISTY (pictured; good luck with that.) MISTY uses multiple keys and a recursive, multi-round encryption process.

The “simplified” KASUMI algorithm was supposed to make it “faster and more hardware-friendly” without compromising security. But as the report indicates, it seems that’s no longer the case. This doesn’t mean that every AT&T and T-Mobile cell phone is suddenly insecure; a research environment is very different than the real world. But it’s food for thought nonetheless.

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Jan 09

Droid gets overclocking, Nexus One gets tethering, Android hackers get mad props

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Droid gets overclocking, Nexus One gets tethering, Android hackers get mad props
If there’s one problem with Motorola’s Droid it’s that the battery life is just too long. We can almost make it through an entire day without a recharge and really, who wants that? Thank goodness there’s a hack to enable an extra 50MHz boost, bumping the Droid up to a full 600 and, according to at least one user, significantly decreasing stability in the process. We’ll go ahead and skip that one, but on the more alluring side there’s a new add-on to the (already rooted) Nexus One that enables wired or wireless tethering. It’s not a full ROM but does entail a kernel update, and as always these things can go horribly wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing. Not sure if you know what you’re doing? Chances are you have your answer.

Droid gets overclocking, Nexus One gets tethering, Android hackers get mad props originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 08

Nexus One gets a custom ROM

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It’s been but a week since the gang at Modaco rooted the Nexus One — and what do we have here? A quick visit to the self-same forums today has revealed that the handset has a new custom ROM. Based on the 22607 release (in case you’re curious), this bad boy sports many new and exciting features, including the Nano 2.09 text editor, wireless tether, Titanium Backup, Busybox 1.15.3, and more. Feelin’ adventurous? Hit the source link to give it a go. And make sure you drop us a line and let us know how it goes. (You don’t think we’re going to be the first to try it, do you?)

[Thanks, Jules]

Nexus One gets a custom ROM originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Modder merges Bose headphones with inline Apple remote, shows you how (video)

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Modder merges Bose headphones with inline Apple remote, shows you how
Everybody knows that Apple’s default headphones aren’t the best, and while many would argue that those from Bose aren’t exactly top-notch either, they’re surely a step up. What if you want Cupertino’s inline controls and some over-the-ear isolation from Framingham’s most famous foreign-sounding speaker company? That’s what Freddy Deeble wanted, and that’s what he achieved. What seems like a challenging feat is actually a reasonably straightforward mod if you have some soldering skills — and a general disregard for warranties. The whole process is described in a thoroughly helpful video after the break but, as always, don’t call us if you wind up with a set of severed wires and a smoldering pile of rosin.

[Thanks, Freddy]

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Modder merges Bose headphones with inline Apple remote, shows you how (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 05

PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video)

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PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video)
The PS3 has thus far proven to be something a tough nut to crack for those wanting to play backups on non-modified consoles, but word on the web is that a technique has been found that will make it possible — if the stars happen to align properly for your hardware configuration. What you need is a PS3 model capable of running Linux, Ubuntu, Windows XP on top of that, a suite of utilities, a copy of the original Motorstorm, and a Blu-ray burner. Get all that configured properly and you should be able to use the technique at the read link to play those copies of games that have thus far been expensive coasters. Given the complexity of this approach we can’t be 100 percent sure it’s legit, but for what it’s worth there is video “proof” after the break, and should you attempt this feat of hackery yourself please do let us know how you get on.

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PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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