Archive for July, 2008
2 weeks with the iPhone
So I have been living with the new 3G iPhone for about 2 weeks now. I must admit that I love the device but it is not without faults.
I am getting used to the keyboard and although I can not type as quick on it as I can my crackberry, it is acceptable.
Battery life really [...]
Filed under: Apple, Mobile Phone | 1 Comment
Tags: 3G, active sync, app store, Apple, battery life, features, iPhone, review
BlackHat Here I Come
Tonight I got the green light for BlackHat 2008 in Vegas. It will be a great chance to catch up with my security peeps and attend some really interesting sessions. I’ve never been to Vegas for a conference before but can only imagine it is pure insanity, especially with this group of characters. If you [...]
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Tags: BlackHat, conference, Defcon, Vegas
My buddy Ryan Naraine wrote about this yesterday and I passed it along to a bunch of people via email. For those you who didn’t get my email here is the scoop:
RIM has recently released an advisory about a flaw in the PDF distiller of the Blackberry Attachment Service. This flaw would allow a specially [...]
Filed under: Blackberry, Security | Leave a Comment
Tags: Blackberry vulnerability, code execution, pdf
3G iPhone Follies
In case you live under a rock, the 3G iPhone was released today. I was actually encouraged by my employer to buy one for testing so off to the local AT&T store I went this morning. I figured there may be 10 or so people in line prior to the store opening which wouldn’t equal [...]
Filed under: Apple, Mobile Phone | 4 Comments
Tags: 3G, Apple, brick, iPhone, long waits
There are some really smart guys over at IOActive and one of them happens to be Dan Kaminsky. I’ve met Dan once, read some of his stuff, and heard a bunch of interesting stories….I sure am glad that I’m not on his shit list. A few months back Dan was playing around with DNS and [...]
Filed under: Security | 2 Comments
Tags: CERT, Dan Kaminsky, DNS, Kaminsky, patches, vulnerability
