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It seems to be common knowledge now among security professionals that the Google Play Store is infiltrated with malware.  In an attempt to control the malware surge, Google is stepping up its efforts to clean house via security updates in 4.2. One central mechanism appears to be signature-based recognition of apk files.  When an apk is loaded on a device, the app signature...

Friends of mine know that I'm a huge Lifehacker.com fan, and in reading a recent article discussing how even though there's ample support for allowing people to rip their own DVDs to multiple devices, the U.S. Copyright Office still considers it illegal.  On a quick side note, the...

I just read about it on LifeHacker, but the function of In My Words is to replace words on the fly with words you specify as you browse the Internet.  David Galloway, the author of the article, mentions using it as a tool to replace words you find annoying.  If you're reading comments and are tired of seeing the words "OMG", "LoL", etc. this tool can replace those words...

I wanted to look at a packet capture today, and realized I hadn't installed one of my favorite tools:  Wireshark.  For the uninitiated, Wireshark is dependent on the WinPCAP driver and when installing Wireshark you have to install the WinPCAP driver at the same time.  Much to my dismay, the WinPCAP driver fails during installation due to "known compatibility issues"...

Continued from Three great things about Windows 8 so far... The hotkey driver was another matter.  For starters, there was no driver for it for the Windows 8 64-bit driver set listed on Sony's website!  For those that have ever loaded an OS from scratch, this will immediately...

NOTE: I have not read about any features of Windows 8, so some of these items may already be old news. I decided to go head and upgrade to Win8 and mess around with it for a week to see what's what.  I figured that if it was bearable, I would just stick with it.  So I installed Windows 8 Professional and my initial impression is that it's not vastly different than Windows...

**updated scripts links as of 1/30/2013 In preparation for the CyberLympics, I wanted to have all my tools updated to the most recent available versions, and as a result I loaded the latest 64-bit revision of Back Track 5 (revision 3).  After registering and updating Nessus, I tried to log in through the web interface but kept getting an error that flash wasn't installed. First,...

UMUC Takes Second The UMUC team has returned home from Miami as heroes!  Representing North America, we out-maneuvered six other teams from Hungary, Brazil, Australia, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka to take 2nd place.  The defending champions, hack.ers (Netherlands), were slow to start, but soon out-paced everyone in obtaining points and maintaining that lead.  The gap between...