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iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage   BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole   BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone   Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer   BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits   Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux diams...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo

News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage   BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole   BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone   Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer   BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits   Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux diams...

Tags: itv, channel 4, online, iplayer

[15 Apr 2008]

BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii

News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage   BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole   BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone   Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer   BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits   Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux

Tags: tv, nintendo, iplayer

[10 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage ¦ BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole ¦ BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits ¦ Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux ¦ BBC signs up with...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

BBC iPlayer hacked… again

News The iPlayer hack released on Thursday can run on Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems, Battley claimed, and circumvents Windows-based digital rights management. He then rewrote his own original Ruby iPlayer interface "hack" code.

Tags: bbc, hack, iplayer, released

[17 Mar 2008]

BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole

News BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ BBC signs up with iTunes ¦ BBC's iPlayer is go ¦ BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row ¦ 16,000 back iPlayer petition ¦ Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row...

Tags: iplayer, drm, online, content

[13 Mar 2008]

Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest

News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The hacking competition at CanSecWest 2008 will pit the Linux, Leopard OS X and Vista operating...

Tags: leopard, apple, microsoft, vista

[08 Feb 2008]

Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft

News A year ago, the company changed Vista to disable a hack known as "Frankenbuild" that merged elements of the final Vista with a pre-release version. Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. Microsoft said it's seeing piracy rates for Windows...

Tags: microsoft, pirate, xp, vista

[04 Dec 2007]

Linux Desktop Hacks: Create Your Own KDE Right-Click Menu Actions

whitepaper This is a very cool hack because it can create a context menu to launch scripts or programs written in any language. When one uses KDE, does one ever find them self having to click too many times to do a simple operation, or resort to opening up a...

Tags: linux - open source, context, file, action

[24 Oct 2007]

Wireless Hacks: Wall Off Your Wireless

whitepaper If one has decided that small form factor PCs are available, and have invested in such a motherboard with the intentions of making their own access point, one is in the right hack. Pebble is a good example of a small Linux distribution designed for...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, linux, distribution, form

[10 Oct 2007]

Block OS fingerprinting on Linux/UNIX systems

whitepaper This sample hack from O'Reilly's Network Security Hacks shows how to effectively block Nmap from "fingerprinting" a Linux/UNIX system. Chapter: Hack 86: Write Your Own Snort Rules When an attacker attempts to penetrate a targeted Linux/UNIX system...

Tags: training and certification, reilly, os, published

[16 May 2006]

Open source: Where the LAMP stacks burn brightest

Comment PHP saves me money when I'm a little business but ultimately it costs me more when I'm a big business," he complains, adding that whereas enterprise-class systems often force you into best practice, LAMP products let you hack together quick systems.

Tags: lamp, open source, mysql, linux

[29 Jun 2005]

Forgetting to Lock the Back Door: A Break-In Analysis on a Red Hat Linux 6.2 Machine

whitepaper This paper is intended to highlight the steps taken in ascertaining the level of damage done in a network break-in (or hack attack) on the system, and the steps taken in rectifying the damage. Using the crisis case encountered in a small company...

Tags: network security, damage, evidence, attack

[21 Feb 2005]

Hackers deface SCO website

News In a hack that began sometime before 0530 (PST) on Monday, someone placed a graphic atop SCO's home page that read "we own all your code" and "pay us all your money". Monday's hack is the latest in a string of attacks launched against SCO.

Tags: web site, deface, hacker, hack

[30 Nov 2004]

5 years ago... Hackers offered cash prize

News Microsoft certainly didn't think so when a $200,000 prize was put up for the first person to hack the Xbox and get Linux running on an unmodified console. Unfortunately for Argus the winners actually managed to complete the hack before the show's...

[13 May 2004]

UK gets first 'hacking' training course

UK gets first 'hacking' training course

News Apart from having a spare few thousand quid to get on the course, students must also have at least two years of IT security experience, a working knowledge of TCP/IP and familiarity with both the Windows and Linux environment.

[04 Mar 2004]

Anatomy of a Hack: the PC Week Linux Web Server Attack

whitepaper The Linux PPC (Linux on the PowerPC architecture) group put up a system which you could have if you cracked the Web server. While hacking has never gone out of favor, the notion of putting a system up on the Internet and inviting hackers to have a...

Tags: web servers, fashion, hackers, failure

[24 Feb 2004]

An Experiment in Forensics Reveals Attackers' Techniques

whitepaper To this end, an ID (Intrusion Detection) system was set up to collect network traces of scans and attacks, and monthly challenges, along the lines of "identify the scanning tool" or "name that hack". Around midnight of November 7, 2000, a Linux...

Tags: linux - open source, attack, installed, attacks

[24 Feb 2004]

TCP HACK: TCP Header Checksum Option to Improve Performance over Lossy Links

whitepaper We refer to this extension as the HeAder ChecK-sum option (HACK). Our results have shown that HACK performs substantially better than both SACK and NewReno in cases where burst corruptions are frequent.

Tags: industry standard protocols, packet, extension, links

[24 Feb 2004]

Apple puts out Mac OS security fix

Apple puts out Mac OS security fix

News An Apple representative said the probability of a hack occurring was low, because the hacker would have to be an insider. And Linux and Apple weren't being left out. The number of flaws found in Linux will likely increase as well, according to...

[23 Dec 2003]

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