• Google patches 19 Chrome bugs week before Pwn2Own hacking contest

    Google on Monday patched
    19
    vulnerabilities in Chrome
    , paying nine researchers $
    14,000
    in bug bounties for reporting the flaws. 
    As it did last year, Google
    beefed up the security of its browser a week before the kickoff of Pwn
    2
    Own, the annual hacking contest held at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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    The update to Chrome
    9.0.597.107
    fixed
    16
    flaws rated “high,” the second-most-severe ranking in Google’s threat system, and quashed three “medium” bugs.
    None of the vulnerabilities were ranked “critical,” the category essentially reserved for bugs that may let an attacker escape Chrome’s anti-exploit “sandbox.” Google patched two sandbox-escape bugs — both pegged critical — in Chrome this year.

    The bugs patched Monday were in several components, including WebGL, the hardware accelerated
    3
    D graphics API that debuted in early February with Chrome
    9
    ; SVG (scalable vector graphics) rendering and animation; and the browser’s address bar.
    Nearly a quarter of the vulnerabilities were identified as “stale pointer” bugs, a term used to describe flaws in an application’s — in this case, Chrome’s — memory allocation code.
    As is its practice, Google locked its bug tracking database to bar outsiders from viewing the technical details of the just-patched vulnerabilities. The company blocks public access to flaws for weeks or even months to give users time to update.

    Google paid out $
    14,000
    , the second-highest total this year, for the
    15
    vulnerabilities found and reported by outside security researchers. Nine different researchers received checks, with Martin Barbella taking home $
    3,000
    , Sergey Radchenko $
    2,500
    and two others $
    2,000
    each.
    Google and Mozilla, which makes Firefox, are the only browser developers to pay bounties directly to bug researchers.

    In hindsight, Monday’s update should have been expected: In
    2010
    , Google also patched Chrome the week before Pwn2Own.

    2011
    ‘s Pwn
    2
    Own begins March
    9
    , when security researchers will vie for fame and cash by trying to take down not just Chrome, but also the current versions of Apple
    ‘s Safari
    5
    , Microsoft
    ‘s Internet Explorer
    8
    , and Mozilla’s Firefox
    3.6
    .
    Monday’s patches could be particularly important this year, since Google has a special stake
    in Pwn
    2
    Own: It put up the $
    20,000
    prize for hacking Chrome on the first of the contest’s three days. (After that, if no one breaks the browser, the rules change and Google will fork over just $
    10,000
    , with Pwn
    2
    Own sponsor HP
    TippingPoint ponying up the other $
    10,000
    .)

    At least one other browser builder will issue patches before Pwn
    2
    Own’s first day of competition. Mozilla has scheduled a security update
    of Firefox
    3.6
    for later today.
    The patched Chrome 9 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Google’s website. Users already running the browser will be updated automatically.

    Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/google-patches-19-chrome-bugs-week-pwn2own-hacking-contest-989

     
  • ‘TruPrint’ Brings AirPrint Compatibility to Your Unsupported Printers

    TruPrint is a Cydia app that enables iOS AirPrint printing for hundreds of network printers. iOS officially supports a few Printers via AirPrint, TruPrint extends AirPrint ability to most of the network printers.

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    Apple introduced the AirPrint feature to iPhone 4, iPad And iPod Touch 4G in iOS 4.2 but limited wireless printers are supported. AirPrint is considered an extremely useful feature, still Apple won’t allow you to use it with any wireless printers out there. But, when it comes to jailbreak community, there’s no such limitation.

    Apple gave iOS 4.2 printing. But they forgot that not everyone has one of 8 printers. With TruPrint, you can print to most network printers! Simply install, and use Apple’s built-in print menu. New printers will now show up thanks to TruPrint!

    TruPrint Features

    • Autodiscover your printers!
    • Print to most network printers!
    • Advanced CUPS platform
    • No setup required

    Download TruPrint

    You can download TruPrint from Cydia for $9.99. No additional setup steps are required. The TruPrint developer also offers a 3 days trial to test the app before purchasing.TruPrint supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch running iOS 4.2+. Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch must be jailbroken.

     
  • iTunes Jailbreakers Alternative Coming From iPhone Dev Team


    If are one of the many iOS users with a jailbroken iPhone you probably use Cydia for jailbroken apps but still have to use iTunes, however you may not have to at some point in the future if rumours are correct and a new alternative iTunes for jailbreakers turns up.
    The word is according to an article over on Daily iPhone Blog and by way of the iPhone Download Blog that the iPhone Dev Team may be in the early stages of coming up with an alternative iTunes for jailbreakers.
    Apparently the rumour of a jailbreak specific iTunes possibility has come via a tweet from noted jailbreak developer P0sixninja, who was asked if there would be an alternative to iTunes, to which P0sixninja responded…”yes, soon.”
    However don’t go expecting the new jailbreak iTunes to appear overnight as apparently the earliest users are likely to see the replacement arrive is sometime in the autumn of this year.
    Of course if an iTunes for jailbreakers does turn up, no doubt it will really annoy Apple who will undoubtedly attempt to block it as they do with every other jailbreak solution.

     
  • Cydia install – new Cydia version online

    You can install the new version as follows:
    You don’t have these requirements:
    iOS devices with jailbreak iFile installiertDen Safari download ManagerNun goes step by step to install it from Cydia:
    Goes with your iPhone on following page and download the .deb file down.IFile starts after successful download (you will see the following source: http://apt.thebigboss.org/)Geht to the following folder: / var/mobile / media / DownloadsWählt the under 1.) downloaded file and install clicks Installingafter completed ended iFile and launches the iPhone neuFeritg – now you have the current Cydia on your iDevice installiertIhr could file via PC Download and use WinSCP to load on the iPhone:
    You connect via Wi-Fi your iPhone with the PCStellt WinSCP with OpenSSH connect – user: root, Passwort(Standard) = aplineDie downloaded .deb file in the folder var/root testtab the console with the keyboard shortcut CTRL + T and dpkg-i filename .deb eingebenDie .deb file of LöschenDas iPhone neustartenIch hope you know now how to install Cydia can:-)

     
  • Misleading advertising for mobile TV: Telekom hitpoints injunction


    Interim injunctions are – just overlooking the iPhone business – nothing new for Telekom. Last, the former exclusive iPhone provider turned over the legal pressure in the July 2009 Vodafone against unfair “marketing activities for the Apple iPhone in the German mobile market” to proceed. Currently, the Telekom is concerned.
    So the online portal reports digitalfernsehen.de fax mail on Friday of the Pay-TV provider “Sky”. Sky, since mid last year represented own application in the AppStore, complains about misleading advertising of Telekom for the mobile TV mobile television service. Commercial formulations of Telekom, so sky is not obvious that a Smartphone with UMTS module and a corresponding power supply are required for use of the mobile TV service.

    According to digitalfernsehen.de, the injunction prohibits Telekom now advertising to receive League total mobile phones use the following statements:Bundesliga live – wherever you want. All Bundesliga matches live on your mobile phone’s you experience the Bundesliga live – as you want: at home with your personal Live Conference or on your HandyDie Bundesliga live on the road erlebenLIGA total on the mobile phone, path and still mittendrinAlle games Bundesliga live and in full on their mobile phones. Of course in perfect network and transmission quality and without WerbeunterbrechungDie Bundesliga erlebenDie go live Bundesliga go live on the HandyMit LIGA total! and mobile TV television for on the go GenießenImmer at ball level. LIGA total! and mobile TV watch on your mobile phone – for on the go