Messages for OSX

As iPhone users will know, iMessage has become the new way of communicating with friends all across the globe. It is loosely based on the same concept that RIM has integrated into Blackberry’s with BBM, however it works on a PIN-less structure. iMessages automatically detects whether or not the person you want to...

Mastered for iTunes Mar03

Mastered for iTunes

If you’re stilling living in the prehistoric .wav or .aiff days check out Mastered for iTunes. Apple’s techs state that the sound that you hear when the media is converted to AAC is how the artists initially the sound engineering to be. I’m not sure about you, but I’m making the switch from .mp3 to AAC....

Our Brains In Robots? Mar02

Our Brains In Robots...

So basically, there’s is this russian individual with deep pockets who is paying a number of local scientists to do research into “Avatar” based technologies that would eventually lead to to human brains being implanted into robots in order for consciousness to last forever ie immortality. He also wants to...

YouPorn Compromised

YouPorn, a well known porn streaming website, has been compromised from a bug that has apparently been known since 2007. This compromise didn’t involve any fancy exploits, XSS, or SQL injection, it just consisted of someone indexing the site for files that are not linked but are publicly available. Apparently the...

Free Internet, Yay!

So I’ve had this POC under my belt for a while now and am deciding to release it publicly. It’s really nothing new just a demonstration of a security flaw in a network I was associated with at the time. It consists of spoofing MAC addresses of users on the network that have an associated/authenticated session...

Google’s Wits Dec02

Google’s Wits

Beyond Barrell Roll, here are some other neat tricks that the search engine has hidden up it’s sleeves. Google Askew Google Recursion Google Pacman Google Earths Flight...

Google “Do a barrel roll.” Nov05

Google “Do a b...

As stated on Wired. if you type in “Do a barrel roll.” on google, your search results will in fact to a barrel roll in association with the term declared in Starfox 64. Simply hilarious . JR

F8 Sep18

F8

I just read this pretty cool article concerning Facebook’s developers conference, set for 9/22/11. I’m excited for the keynote, we’ll see what they have in store. Feel free to comment any predictions that you may have. Mine are: Possible introduction of Spotify or another peer music share...

OSX Lion Jul21

OSX Lion

Mac OSX 10.7 Lion has been released and with it, a bunch of new features that aim to close the gap between computers and iOS devices. There is a very cool and very long analysis of the new OS at Ars Technica where they explore everything in detail. As for myself, I’m not sure if I am ready to do the switch just yet, are...

Delete iTunes Duplicates in OSX With This Perl Script Jul16

Delete iTunes Duplic...

Hi everyone! Hopefully you’re all doing well. I just wanted to post a recent project that I had done a while ago but I had recently revamped. It’s a simple perl script that will delete any duplicates in iTunes using perl in conjunction with the terminal and the unix Find command. Here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl use...

This is what happens when you steal a hacker’s machine Jun22

This is what happens...

This is what happens when you steal a hacker’s...

MS Hyper-V Persistent Local DOS Vulnerability Jun15

MS Hyper-V Persisten...

I was checking out exploit-db today and came across this advisory. It outlines a vulnerability discovered by core security that allows a local persistent DoS attack to occur on a server using Microsoft’s Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor solution. Basically if you are authenticated on any of the guest operating systems...