Wine based Crossover 9.2 now brings Civilization 5 support to the Mac and Linux. Crossover runs flawlessly with Civilization under Snow Leopard and with some minor flaws under Leopard. Prices Crossover Standard (incl. updates for 6mths): 37€ Crossover Professional (incl. updates for 12 mths and incl. Crossover Games) : 64€ Aspyr will release a native [...]
Archive for 2010
[Pre] Palm Pre 2 Coming to France on October 22
October 20th, 2010 
J. Epstein German Heise.de and american Precentral.net report today, that HP finished upgrading their smartphone flagship Palm Pre. Interestingly the Palm Pre 2 will be first released to the french market on october 22 on SFR‘s network. Sadly there is no reliable information about when it will hit other markets like the US, Germany or Canada. The [...]
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No Comments »[WTF] Did Stuxnet Sabotage Iran’s Nuclear Facilities?
September 23rd, 2010 J. Epstein Newspapers are full of speculations and details about this unique piece of software code, that obviously is a work by a government.Stuxnet used 4-zero-day exploits to infect computer networks running with Microsoft Windows. It was compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Register writes: (..) the Stuxnet worm was programmed [...]
[PS3] Firmware 3.42 Breaks Jailbreaks
September 15th, 2010 J. Epstein Sony tries to rearm their game console flagship. Most of you using your Playstations will likely have found out: since the end of last week Sony broadcasts a new firmware 3.42. They say it fixes security issues, which not quite wrong. But do we wanna have this issue fixed? At the moment for online players [...]
Posted in News Tags: Free, Groove, Hack, HyperVisor, Jailbreak, modchip, playstation 3, Unlock, update No Comments »[MacOS] Using Windows 7 From The iPad With Parallels Desktop 6
September 15th, 2010 J. Epstein Windows can eventually be used from the iPad. Users of Parallels Desktop 6 can seamlessly logon their Windows virtual appliance from the iPad. The required iPad app “Parallels Mobile” can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store (get it here). In the meantime check their vid:
Posted in News Tags: Parallels 6, Parallels Desktop, Parallels Mobile, virtual machine, Virtualization, VM Ware, VMWare No Comments »[MacOS] Handle DMG Images under Microsoft Windows
September 14th, 2010 J. Epstein Are you one of those lonesome people who tried to access the contents of a DMG image under Windows? Yes, there are several ways like converting to ISO with programs like Magic-Iso or mounting with Mac-Drive. All these solutions are nice, handy and well… expensive… Simply using 7-zip is in my opinion the easiest way, [...]
[Pre] Palm Pre Jailbreaks PS3
September 6th, 2010 J. Epstein A coder going under the nick “black_zero” ported the PS3 jailbreak to the Palm Pre. Find his instructions for “PS3 Freedom for Palm Pre” on the PSX-Scene.com. [Update] In contrast to “PS3 Groove” this version also seems to enable the possibility of backups – means circumventing of copy protections. It is legally not allowed to [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, Backups, Debug, Debug Mode, Decrypt, Freedom, Groove, Homebrew, Jailbreak, Palm, Palm Pre, Playstation, playstation 3, Pre, ps3, PSX, Unlock, Unsigned Code No Comments »[Apple] Facebook Blocks Apple’s Ping
September 3rd, 2010 J. Epstein According to AllThingsDigital Facebook blocked Apple from using the Facebook API to access user data. Using Facebook’s API is normally free, but not for large scale access and not if it’s getting used a lot. iTunes got a user base of 160million, so that would be quiet a lot. Kara Swisher writes: Sources said Apple [...]
[Muzaq] Downbeats: Exploring Tripppless
September 1st, 2010 J. Epstein Exploring Soundscapes Chapter 1… This track is currently at pre-mastering stage and meant as a preview…
[News] Blogosphere Under Attack by Righthaven LLC
September 1st, 2010 J. Epstein Wired.com published an article about the business strategies of Las Vegas based law firm Righthaven LLC. Righthaven’s strategy to “save” the media world is simple: buy copyrights of newspaper articles instead of sending takedown notices under the DMCA, they rather sue blogs and website, who repost articles without consent of the owner Righthaven’s first client [...]
Posted in News Tags: Blog, Blogs, Copyright, copyright infringement, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, DMCA, File, infringement, Las Vegas, Law, Litigation, Review Journal, Righthaven LLC, Steve Gibson, Suit No Comments »[PS3] PSGroove: Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released
September 1st, 2010 J. Epstein As expected an open source version of the PS3 Jailbreak has been released by french hackers Mathieulh and RichDevX. Find the source code here. Support for PS3Jailbreak’s backup manager which would technically allow piracy, has thus been disabled as this implementation targets at homebrew only. The exploit is intended to be burnt to AT90USB and [...]
[PS3] Game Over – PS Jailbreak Exploit Is Public Now
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein A community around french hacker Mathieulh has provided information and assumptions of the PS Jailbreak’s bowels. Find the original article here and a PDF copy here. Picture is courtesy of PS3News.com… Sniffed Code and Processing As of yesterday they say they successfully managed to clone PS Jailbreak and they will document the exploit on the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, French, Harddisc, Harddisk, Homebrew, Mathieulh, modchip, PS Jailbreak, Reverse Engineer No Comments »[MacOS] Pace iLok Dongle Compromised
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein A worldwide team of crackers managed to generally attack the Pace iLok dongle security system. An automized unwrapper for protected applications has surfaced on the net. The unwrapper is compatible to MacOS X 10.6 (Slow Neopard) and works for the Intel based part of universal binaries only. The Pace iLok dongle is mainly used by [...]
[News] Quantum Cryptography Compromised
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Nature.com posted an article describing that a hacking team around Vadim Makarov at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have now cracked two commercial quantum cryptographic systems.Vadim Makarov said Our hack gave 100% knowledge of the key, with zero disturbance to the system (..) The Norwegian team attacked one system by ID [...]
Posted in News Tags: Attack, Circumvent, Compromise, Cryptography, Hacking, Light, Man-In-The-Middle, Quantum, Vadim Makarov No Comments »[PS3] Sony Australia Vs. PS Jailbreak Suppliers
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Sony Australia somehow managed to get court orders for a temporary injunction against australian based modchip sellers like OZModChips, ModSupplier and Quantronics. Until today (Aug 31st, 2010) none of the modchip sellers is allowed to sell any PS Jailbreak device they rather have to give up the whole stock that they get until today. Well [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, Game Copy, Hack, Harddisk, Homebrew, modchip, PS Jailbreak, ps3, PSJailbreak No Comments »[E-Biz] Intel To Acquire Infineon
August 30th, 2010 J. Epstein According to Businessweek there are rumors that Intel is about to purchase german chip manufacturer Infineon. Infineon is a former Siemens subsidary that has been spun out of the parent company in 1999. Infineon is the main supplyer of the baseband modem chips of Apple’s iPhone.
[PS3] Hacking the Hackers: PS Jailbreak Reverse Engineered
August 29th, 2010 J. Epstein German Gamefreax claim to have reverse engineered a testing PSJailbreak device. They say this exploit is based on emulating of a USB hub which gets virtual devices attached and unattached at certain points during the boot process. Among those emulated devices there is also one that uses the ID of Sony’s JIG module. Anyway Gamefreax [...]
[Privacy] International VPN Provider Searched by Authorities in Germany
August 26th, 2010 J. Epstein Perfect Privacy reports today, that a member of the staff of the well known international VPN provider Perfect Privacy has been police searched last friday (August 20th). H-Security writes: The search warrant was reportedly issued on suspicion that unknown perpetrators may have routed potentially criminal communications via the servers in the German city of Erfurt. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Freiheit statt Angst, Perfect Privacy, Privacy, Proxy, Security, Überwachung, Virtual Private Network, VPN No Comments »[PS3] PS Jailbreak and Clones To Be Released
August 26th, 2010 J. Epstein Media have widely reported about the latest steps in hacking the Playstation 3 console. Obviously that tiny PS Jailbreak USB Dongle turns a consumer PS3 into a debug PS3, thus allowing to run games from the internal or from an attached USB harddrive. The price is said to be around 160US$. For legal reasons here [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, Circumvent, Copy, copy protection, Debug, Game Copy, GeoHot, Hack, Harddisk, Harddrive, illegal, install, Jailbreak, Playstation 1 Comment »[Pre] Palm Testing Final Version Of Adobe Flash 10.1
June 22nd, 2010 J. Epstein Adobe.com today announced, that Adobe Flash 10.1 for mobile devices has been released to mobile platform partners: Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.1, Adobe, Android, Flash, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mobile Device, Palm, Palm Pre, Pixi, Pre 1 Comment »