On the Black Hat 2010 conference in Crystal City notorious smart card hacker Christopher Tarnovsky explained how he managed to hack current Trusted Platform Modules by Infineon. This time Tarnovsky managed to read secured data from TPM chips like RSA and DES crypto keys. His approach took six months and a lab consisting of devices [...]
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[Security] Tarnovsky Explains Infineon TPM Hack
February 14th, 2010 
J. Epstein 
Posted in Labs, XBox360 
Tags: 2010, Black Hat, Chris, Christopher Tarnovsky, Compromise, crack, Cracking, DC, Hack, Hacking, Infineon, Markus Kuhn, Nagravision, NDS, Season, Security, Smart Card, Star Trek, Tarnovski, Tarnowski, Tarnowsky, TPM, Truste Platform Module, Washington, xbox 360 
1 Comment »[Security] Credit Card Authorization Compromised
February 14th, 2010 J. Epstein Security experts from the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge have compromised the electronic autorization and verification process of major credit and debit cards like EC-Card, Eurocard, Mastercard and VISA (EMV). The computer scientists team around Steven Murdoch found a flaw in the in the EMV protocol which allows criminals to use a stolen [...]
Posted in Labs, misc, News Tags: Authorisierung, Cambridge University, Credit Card, EC Karte, EMV, Hack, Interface, Kredit Karte, Kreditkarte, Markus Kuhn, Mike Bond, PIN, Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer, Season, Season Interface, Signature, Star Trek, Steven J. Murdoch, Terminal EC-Terminal, Unterschrift, Verification No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues
January 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Forum reports seem to be growing about this issue. A certain amount of first generation Palm Pre’s being sold all over the world seem to have slider issues. “It just wobbles too much, thus making it feel like a 500€ plastic toy.”, said a customer in a local O2 store. Our testing device received from [...]
[Pre] Enable Developer Mode
January 26th, 2010 J. Epstein Enabling the Developer Mode gives access to a thousand of homebrew apps and apps which are currently under beta testing. There are now two ways known to enable the Pre’s dev mode. 1. Simply enter the Konami cheat code: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart 2. or enter this: webos20090606 in either way, you’ll see a “secret” menu switch that [...]
[Pre] webOS 1.3.5, webOS 1.3.5.1 and the CES 2010
January 6th, 2010 J. Epstein European customers are still waiting for webOS 1.3.5 update. The European carrier Telefonica (o2 and MoviStar) seems not to have approved it yet. Meanwhile it seems versions 1.3.5 had issues. According to PreCentral.net, Palm Pre customers on Sprint (USA) and Bell (Canada) are able to update to version 1.3.5.1 since Januar 5th, 2010. Version 1.3.5 [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 3, Accelaration, CES, CES 2010, Doom, EMH, GPU, Graphics Acceleration, Palm, Palm Pre, Palm Pre 3, Palm Pre Plus, Plus, Pre, Rubinstein, update, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, WebOS, webOS 1.3.5, webOS 1.3.5.1, webOS Internals. Emergency Migration Helper No Comments »[MacOS] Add Avi Files to iTunes Library
January 5th, 2010 J. Epstein I. Abstract As some of us have already realized: iTunes by default does not allow adding AVI files to its library. This is very sad, but there are several solutions for this problem. II. Converting or going Commercial? One might be converting all files to something that QuickTime allows to play. As this is not [...]
[MacOS] Chameleon On USB: Mounting USB Stick Correctly
December 29th, 2009 J. Epstein Inserting USB sticks to your Mac OS X based system makes Mac OS X mount the stick without assigning certain permissions like owners, or groups. I. How things get mounted on Mac OS The mount command on the terminal returns most likely some lines, like that: testuser$ mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs [...]
[Labs] Unofficial InsanelyMac.com Search Plugin for Firefox
December 25th, 2009 B. Kreisky Merry Chrismas, guys. We felt it was kinda overdue to have an INSANELYMAC.COM search plugin added to our beloved Mozilla Firefox. Of course we can also do this manually, but why not having things automized? So here we are. What does the plugin do? Basically we’re using our beloved Google.com to search the InsanelyMac.com site. [...]
Posted in Labs, misc, News Tags: Firefox, InsanelyMac, Insanelymac.com, Mozilla, MyCroft, Plug-In, Plugin, Search, Search Engine No Comments »[misc] Web Empfang von MMS mit Alice / Hansenet
December 13th, 2009 alexander Wir alle kennen die Situation. Ein Freund sendet uns eine MMS und wir erhalten eine SMS stattdessen, obgleich unser Telefon MMS fähig ist. Warum eigentlich? Nun das ist sehr einfach: sofern man selbst keine MMS bislang versendet hat, geht der Provider davon aus, dass man kein MMS fähiges Mobiltelefon besitzt. Das ist einerseits ein guter [...]
[Pre] Re-Enable Full App Catalog in Europe
November 25th, 2009 B. Kreisky The European Update 1.3.1 On Monday European Palm Pre users were just happy to eventually have the 1.3.1 update that has already been provided to U.S. customers two weeks earlier. Sadly the smiling in our faces didn’t last long. European customers rapidly found out that their App Catalog had been crippled. PreCentral explains why this [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 1.3.1, App Catalog, App Store, Beschränkung, Cripple, Crippled, Deutschland, Espagna, Espana, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Limit, Limited, Movistar, O2, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, root, Spain, Terminal, United Kingdom, update 2 Comments »[Pre] Video Recording with Precorder 0.2 Alpha
November 24th, 2009 H. Frahm The long waiting is over. A team around the Precentral’s forum member Prenosicator has released an alpha version of a Palm Pre video recording application. It requires WebOS 1.3.1. You will not find it in the know homebrew repositories as long as it is in alpha status. Anyway for all of you able to root [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 0.2, 3GS, Alpha, app, App Catalog, application, apps, beta, Cycorder, Dev Team, Homebrew, Installation, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Precorder, Prenosicator, Preware, Recording, Video, Video Recording No Comments »[MacOS] Intel Atom CPUs still Unsupported in 10.6.2 beta
November 7th, 2009 J. Epstein In contrast to what is being written on the major internet newspapers, the latest beta build 10C535 of Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.2 does indeed still not support Intel Atom CPUs anymore. Stellarola investigated into this issue some of his spare time to find out why different sources tell different things. And the reason is [...]
[MacOS] Comprehensive Gigabyte Hardware Specification List
August 28th, 2009 J. Epstein With the advent of Snow Leopard many users have issues installing it onto PC based hardware. Well this is not very curious, since a PC is no Mac. Anyway as Gigabyte motherboards proved to be very close to the original Apple Intel specifications many people decided to buy those boards. With the release of Snow [...]
[MacOS] Recommended Apps: MacTubes
July 10th, 2009 J. Epstein Abstract Do you ever wanted to download some of the YouTube videos, simply to have them available when being on the road? Or say: you wanna archive them, because as we’ve seen in the past with several major media services: there will be a time when they don’t exist anymore. But YouTube does not support [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News, Recommended-Apps Tags: Download, Downloading, Flash, Flash Playe, Flash Player, FLV, HD, MP4, Record, Recording, Screen, Screening, Stream, Streaming, Video, YouTube No Comments »[Windows] Recommended Apps: Really Slick Screensavers
July 5th, 2009 J. Epstein Abtract Have you also been trying to find a really nice screensaver for your Windows machine. There are so many nice screensavers for the Mac, but for the Windows world you can’t find them. What we found While searching for nice screensavers we came accross this collection of free of charge and open source screensavers [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Recommended-Apps, Windows Tags: Best Of, Goa, Halocinogen, Halozingen, Mac OS, Optic, Optical, Screen Savers, Screensaver, Screensavers, Top Ten, warp, Win, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP No Comments »[iPhone] HowTo Make MMS Work on iPhone 2G
July 5th, 2009 J. Epstein NOTE: This walkthrough is for iPhone OS 3.0 only! For MMS on iPhone 2G with firmware 3.1, buy SwirlyMMS on Cydia Store I. Abstract Many iPhone 2G users are not very amused about Apple’s update policy. As of iPhone OS 3.0, owners can eventually use MMS on their iPhones. All owners? No, not the ones [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: Activate, Activate MMS, ActivateMMS2G, AT&T, bug, camera, Cellular Data Network, Cydia, EDGE Settings, firmware 3.0, France, Great Britain, guide, Help, How To, Howto, incomplete-news.com, iPhone 2G, iPhone OS 3.0, issue, Italy, Jailbreak, MMS, MMS Settings, O2, Orange, Profile, Profiles, Rogers, settings not saved, Step by Step, Steps, T-Mobile, tutorial, UK, Unlock, USA, Verizon, Vodafone, Voicestream, Walkthrough, worldwide 44 Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot releases iPhone 3Gs Jailbreak (Upd.)
July 3rd, 2009 J. Epstein Update July 5th, 2009: GeoHot now also provides a Mac OS X version of the jailbreak tool. Windows and Mac versions ready for download at purplera1n.com… That’s it with the 3.0 firmware and the iPhone jailbreaks. Apple has been beaten again. This time by GeoHot. Although the iPhone Dev Team seems to have their programs [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: Activate, exe, firmware 3.0, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, How To, Howto, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gsm Unlock, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone DevTeam, iPhone OS 3.0, iPhoneDev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, MucleNerd, Muscle Nerd, PlanetBeing, PurpleRa1n, PurpleRain, pwn, Pwnage, Pwnage Tool, PwnageTool, tutorial, ultrasn0w, ultrasnow, Unlock, Unlocked, Win, Win 7, Windows No Comments »[MacOS] Recommended Apps: QuickSilver
July 3rd, 2009 J. Epstein I. Abstract You don’t like Spotlight, because it is too slow? But you want to to speed up command execution? Yes there is a nice freeware solution available called QuickSilver by BlackTree. Wikipedia writes: Quicksilver “allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts, [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News, Recommended-Apps Tags: Command Execution, Command Launcher, Launchy, leopard, Mac OS X, QuickSilver, Snow Leopard, Speed up, Tiger 1 Comment »[iPhone] Activate MMS on iPhone 2G? (Update)
June 30th, 2009 J. Epstein Update July 04, 2009: MMS now works, MMS server settings are getting saved with the help of some (more or less complicated) tricks. We’re currently prepping a fool proof step-by-step tutorial for all of you. We recommend to not play around with those settings at the moment to not screw up settings worse. Tutorial will [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: ActivateMMS2G, Cydia, guide, Hack, How To, Howto, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, Jailbreak, MMS, sim unlock, Swirly MMS, SwirlyMMS, tutorial 4 Comments »[MacOS] Recommended Apps: SimplyRar and MacPar Deluxe
June 28th, 2009 J. Epstein I. Abstract Coming from the Windows world most of us people know the .rar archive format very well. Besides the newer 7zip format, Rar allows a good compression and is widely used on internet distribution. II. What do we need? People who only need to have a decompressor for compatibility reasons can use MacPar Deluxe. [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News, Recommended-Apps Tags: Compress, decompress, leopard, Mac OS X, Pack, Rar, Snow Leopard, Tiger, unpack, Unrar No Comments »