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Geohot’s PS3 Hack Raises Security Issues for Console Users

George Hotz, aka Geohot, the 20-year-old hacker who successfully cracked the Apple iPhone, claimed in a Friday blog post that after working on the PlayStation3 for nearly five weeks, he has finally managed to hack Sony. The hacking of the PS3, which typically runs only the Sony-approved digitally signed software, is a noteworthy feat given the fact that it happens to the only console that, unlike its rivals - Microsoft The link for this article located at TopNews is no longer available. . The hacking of the PS3, which typically runs only the Sony-approved digitally signed software, is a . george, geohot, 20-year-old, hacker, successfully, cracked, apple, iphone, claimed. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Jan 26, 2010 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Hacks/Cracks
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Israeli Hacker Breaks Amazon Kindle DRM: Major eBook Shift

An Israeli hacker says he has broken copyright protections built in to Amazon's Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices.. The hack began as an open challenge in this (translated) forum for participants to come up with a way to make ebooks published in Amazon's proprietary format display on competing readers. Eight days later, a user going by the handle Labba had a working program that did just that. The hack is the latest to show the futility of digital rights management schemes, which more often than not inconvenience paying customers more than they prevent unauthorized copying. Once upon a time, Apple laced its iTunes-purchased offerings with similar DRM restrictions that evoked major headaches when trying to do something as simple as transferring songs to a new PC. When reverse engineering specialist DVD Jon neutered the mechanism, that was the beginning of the end to the draconian regimen, which Apple called, ironically enough, Fairplay. The link for this article located at The Register is no longer available. . A cyber expert from Israel breaches Kindle's copyright protections, allowing eBooks to be accessed on alternative platforms, underlining vulnerabilities in digital rights management systems.. Kindle DRM Bypass, eBook Protection, Copyright Hacking. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Dec 23, 2009 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Hacks/Cracks
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Blu-ray Encryption Exposed: Janvitos' Innovative Extraction Method

Late last year, a crafty individual who goes by the name . Janvitos extracted the information by going through his system The link for this article located at Daily Technology is no longer available. . Janvitos extracted the information by going through his systemThe link for this article located at D. crafty, individual, janvitos, extracted, information, going. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Jan 25, 2007 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Cryptography
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Attributor’s Innovative Tool Monitors Copyright Compliance Online

To deal with the mounting copyright issues swirling around video and other content online, a start-up founded by some respected Silicon Valley executives is taking a novel approach: combing the entire Web for unauthorized uses. Privately held Attributor Corp. of Redwood City, Calif., has begun testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients' audio, video, images and text -- potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use. The start-up, which was founded last year and has been in "stealth" mode, is emerging into the public eye today, at a time when some media and entertainment companies' frustration with difficulties identifying infringing uses of their content online is increasing. The problem has intensified with the proliferation and increasing usage of sites such as Google Inc.'s YouTube, which lets consumers post video clips. . Media and entertainment companies have so far relied on a combination of technology and their own scanning to protect their content online -- but with mixed results. Media companies have used digital-rights management technology designed to make it hard to copy or transfer files. But such measures have often proved to be clumsy, despised by consumers or quickly thwarted. That's the case for DRM technology built into DVDs to prevent them from being ripped onto computers, for example. Entertainment and media companies have also relied on their own staff to scan Web sites for infringing content. But even when such content is spotted and taken down, the companies often see the content pop up in the same places or elsewhere soon after. The link for this article located at Wall Street Journal is no longer available. . Media and entertainment companies have so far relied on a combination of technology and their own sc. mounting, copyright, swirling, around, video, other, content, online, start-u. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Dec 21, 2006 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Privacy
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RSA Algorithm Attack Analysis: Threats to DRM Software Development

Security researchers have developed a new approach to breaking the RSA algorithm that creates new problems for the development of effective rights management software. Cryptoanalysts already known the time taken to make different calculations using the same encryption key might, in theory at least, give attackers code-breaking clues in much the same way electro-magnetic leakage or power fluctuations can be used in so-called "side-channel" attacks on secure systems. The new so-called Branch Prediction Analysis (BPA) attack is a refinement on this approach that makes code breaking feasible on commodity PCs instead of expensive high-performance kit. . The link for this article located at TheRegister.co.uk is no longer available. . The link for this article located at TheRegister.co.uk is no longer available.. security, researchers, developed, approach, breaking, algorithm, creates. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Nov 27, 2006 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Cryptography
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Understanding Encryption Limitations In Digital Rights Management

Now let’s be clear right from the start that if you want to have any kind of control over the content of an electronic document you have first of all got to use encryption. But encryption is only the start of implementing a DRM service. Poorly packaged encryption, badly thought out licensing, integration that exposes weaknesses in the packaging of the method for displaying the document, are all ways in which even the most powerful encryption system can be made useless. And, of course, there is the very important question about what is actually encrypted, and what, if anything, is not. . The link for this article located at InfoSecWriters is no longer available. . The link for this article located at InfoSecWriters is no longer available. . let’s, clear, right, start, control. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Dec 09, 2005 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Cryptography
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SanDisk TrustedFlash: Cross-Device Access for Digital Content

Flash memory pioneer SanDisk has embedded DRM and copy protection functions into several flash card form factors. "TrustedFlash" will allow users to buy music, movies, and games on flash cards for use interchangeably in mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, and other devices, according to the company. . SanDisk says its new, patent-pending DRM approach turns the flash memory card into the system's digital rights manager, in contrast to typical proprietary DRM schemes that bind content to a particular host device, such as a specific cell phone or MP3 player. This means users can move a card -- and its DRM-protected content -- from device to device, without compromising its content protection system, according to the company. The link for this article located at LinuxDevices is no longer available. . SanDisk's innovative, patent-pending DRM solution allows seamless utilization of flash memory cards across various platforms.. TrustedFlash, SanDisk, DRM, Flash Memory, Content Access. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Oct 05, 2005 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Vendors/Products
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Exploring DRM Technology and Its Impact on Data Protection

The key to this shift is the technology that protects information from unauthorized or illegal use. It's called digital-rights-management software, or DRM. Like it or not, rights management is increasingly going to be a fact of your life. Not only will . . . . The key to this shift is the technology that protects information from unauthorized or illegal use. It's called digital-rights-management software, or DRM. Like it or not, rights management is increasingly going to be a fact of your life. Not only will music, books and movies be steeped in it, but soon such mundane artifacts as documents, spreadsheet files and e-mail will be joining the domain of restricted information. In fact, the next version of Microsoft Office will enable creators of certain documents to issue restrictions that dictate who, if anyone, can read them, copy them or forward them. In addition, you can specify that the files and mail you send may "sunset" after a specified period of time, evaporating like the little tapes dead-dropped to Peter Graves in "Mission: Impossible." The link for this article located at MSN is no longer available. . The key to this shift is the technology that protects information from unauthorized or illegal use. . shift, technology, protects, information, unauthorized, illegal. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Jun 18, 2003 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Privacy
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