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from arstechnica
As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been uploaded to Microsoft’s servers. Currently, the final build is only available on the download.windowsupdate domain in the following languages: Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, English, French, German (Deutsch), Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified (Chinese), Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. According to Microsoft TechNet, the 300MB+ x86 standalone installer (build 5512) will not be available today on the Microsoft Download Center nor on Windows Update.
There will be no x64 version of SP3 released; Windows XP x64 will be updated at the same time Windows Server 2003 is updated, since it is derived from the codebase of the latter. Although Microsoft has still to confirm the date, SP3 should be rolled out via Automatic Updates on June 10, 2008.
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from Slashdot
“The Hardy Heron has taken flight: it’s the second LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world’s most popular distro. New features include the Wubi Windows installer and Firefox 3 beta 5. Grab a copy here, and check out Linux Format’s overview of the release.”
from lifehacker.com
The open-source-friendly folks at the FOSSwire blog have posted a PDF “Ubuntu Cheat Sheet,” covering the basic terminal commands one might have to use and, just as importantly, naming important programs and packages so you don’t end up deleting or messing with something that’ll cause headaches down the line. WIth the release of Hardy Heron one day away, adventurous newcomers might want to keep FOSSwire’s printed and handy for reference.
from Darknet – The Darkside
WifiZoo is a tool to gather wifi information passively. It is created to be helpful in wifi pentesting and was inspired by ‘Ferret‘ from Errata Security.
The tool is intended to get all possible info from open wifi networks and possibly encrypted also in the future, at least with WEP without joining any network, and covering all wifi channels.
WifiZoo does the following:
gathers bssid->ssid information from beacons and probe responses
gathers list of unique SSIDS found on probe requests
gathers the list and graphs which SSIDS are being probed from what sources
gathers bssid->clients information and outputs it in a file that you can later use with graphviz and get a graph with “802.11 bssids->clients”.
gathers ‘useful’ information from unencrypted wifi traffic ala Ferret,and dsniff, etc; like pop3 credentials, smtp traffic, http cookies/authinfo, msn messages,ftp credentials, telnet network traffic, nbt, etc.
You can download WifiZoo v1.3 here:
wifizoo_v1.3.tgz
from Defcon Forums
Check out this new contest brewing for DEFCON 16!
From the DEFCON Forums:
The Race to Zero involves contestants being given a sample set of viruses and malcode to modify and upload through the contest portal. The portal passes the modified samples through a number of antivirus engines and determines if the sample is a known threat. The first team or individual to pass their sample past all antivirus engines undetected wins that round. Each round increases in complexity as the contest progresses.
Further details are available here: http://www.racetozero.net/
from earthtimes.org
San Francisco – Do you crave a Mac but baulk at shelling out thousands of dollars for Apple’s alternative PCs?A company by the name of Psystar may have the answer for you.
On Monday it released what it calls an Open Mac, for 400 dollars. The clones, which are standard Intel-based machines, use a piece of software wizardry called an Extensible Firmware Interface to trick Apple’s Leopard operating system into thinking it is running on a genuine Mac.
The basic machine comes without any operating software, but Psystar offers to sell users a copy of Leopard and even preinstall it so that buyers get a fully operational Apple clone straight out the box.
Legal experts said the tactic could violate the licensing agreement on the Leopard software and that Apple is likely to sue.
The OPen Mac sale price is 200 dollars less than an original Mac with lower specifications, but there’s a catch. The company’s website crashed shortly after announcing the new product – either because it was inundated with eager buyers, or with threatening letters from Apple’s legal team.
from lifehacker.com
Coupons—they’re never around when you get that sudden urge to splurge on electronics. Not so with a 10-percent-off printable discount at Best Buy, which is posted as an image at a U.S. Postal Service “Mover’s Guide” site with an easily-anticipated URL. Tech blog CyberNet points out that the coupon can be found by slotting the appropriate month and year in, so this month’s coupon, for example, is:
https://moversguide.usps.com/img/coupon/bestbuy/200804_clientarea.gif
If you don’t feel like scoping the fine print on that image, the CyberNet link below details the categories and prices the coupon is good for, for however long the URL hack lasts. I have to assume our readers know of similar URL-based coupons, whether at Mover’s Guide or elsewhere, so spread the wealth in the comments.
from bunnie’s blog
For ETech08, I built the “Chumby Tower” and one of the hacks featured in the tower is a version of the chumby that sniffs wifi and renders captured packets onto the display. The chumby is a great device for passively monitoring wifi signals, because it has a screen for rendering the data real-time, sufficient CPU power to do the data processing, and it’s cheap enough that you don’t mind dedicating it to that application. It’s handy, for example, to see if your neighbors are stealing your wifi link to surf the web; at a glance you can see what URLs are going by over the air.
