About two weeks ago we found out that a virus has been released out in the wild and that it’s attacking jailbroken iPhone 3G/3GS users who haven’t changed their root password. At the time the ingenious coder was only trying to alert people that their smartphones are not as secure as they thought and that simple safety measure would keep them away from trouble, however, some less well intended hacker has refined the iPhone worm to actually steal sensitive details.
Fast forward to our days because today we caught wind that the Australian who started everything, has been offered a job as an iPhone application developer by a company called mogeneration. Although 21-year-old, Ashley Towns has publicly acknowledged that he’s in charge with the Ikee worm that made unauthorised modifications to people’s handsets, he was never under investigation, hence why he took the opportunity.
Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone’s wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley.
Mr Towns has now been employed as a iPhone application developer for Australian firm mogeneration.
Ikee was not malicious but paved the way for a more serious variant which targeted users of the online bank ING.
Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. Chromium OS is so simple. The OS adds features such as a battery life indicator and window management. A big advantage to Chrome is that the cloud-based model has the potential for extremely fast computing, including a boot time as short as three seconds.
After a long fair period with the beta version, yahoo released the final version of Yahoo! messenger 10 today. The final release of Yahoo! messenger 10 is compatible with Windows 7 and it also fixed several bugs found in Yahoo! messenger 10-beta.
Yahoo!Messenger 10 Features:
Here are the key features of Yahoo Messenger 10:
- High-quality video calls – You can make high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Video Calling now includes the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. You can even go full-screen with your video call
- Y! Updates” view of contact list – If the friends in your contact list had opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
New Features:
- Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal server in APR-RDP sniffer filter.
- Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems.
- Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder.