DVD Jon has been able to activate an iPhone without activating its phone features so that you can use the iPhone as a wifi-enabled PDA/iPod. Combined with the fact that users have already found the name and password for two accounts, including root and you have to wonder how long until either: a Skype or other VOIP program will be able to run on the iPhone using only its wifi capability The iPhone can be truly unlocked and run on any GSM phone network (not just AT&T/Cingular)
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Nifty, but the iPod needs to be running Linux to be infected by Linux.Noslo. Kaspersky Lab has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPod portable media players. The virus, which has been named Podloso, is a proof of concept program which does not pose a real threat. The virus is a file which can be launched and run on an iPod. It should be stressed that in order for the virus to function, Linux has to be installed on the iPod. If the virus is installed to the iPod by the user, the virus then installs itself to the folder which contains program demo versions. Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement. Also, the virus has to actually[…]
Here [via SANS ]. For example: Paradise Systems sells a product called Car-Safe, which is designed to protect your valuables while they are being stored/transported in the trunk of your vehicle. Better yet, carry your laptop with you at all times possible.
Now this is “thinking ahead” about security. Let’s see if the technology makes it though (personally I have high hopes). Worrying about malicious software may be premature for a technology so young. The first digital electronic computer, ENIAC, went online in 1946 and the first known attacks against computer systems occurred about two decades later. Yet, in all likelihood, such attacks will become a reality, and that’s reason enough to worry now, said USC’s Lidar. There is no telling what such an attack might look like. Destroying data or circumventing a calculation on a quantum computer is the easiest course. Attackers could operate a rogue computer on the quantum network or corrupt the communications line, he said. Because some of[…]
From eWeek: If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history. Wary of the security risks associated with a computing monoculture—millions of machines with hardware and software of identical design—OLPC foundation officials are seeking help from the world’s best hackers to review the full specifications of the $100 laptop’s security model. It’s a good question, and worth some thought. You probably can’t go down the typical anti-virus route depending on constantly updated signatures of common viruses. Yet, you need an updating scheme for when flaws are detected. You need strong controls everywhere[…]
Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are. Source: MSNBC Wrong. It will prove that your machine is your machine. Here’s a scenario: Young person in a coffee shop with a laptop browsing the Web. They get up for a second – then (enter bad-guy), snatch and run. Now “bad-guy or gal” doesn’t need a password to login to your bank account online. Or savings, or Amazon account, etc.[…]