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Wednesday 28 March 2012

Video: iPhone Passcode Bypassed In Under 2 Minutes [ 28-03-2012 17:50 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Forbes Translation by: Paul Smith

In the video below you can see a piece of software called XRY. This software, from Sweden's Micro Systemation, allows law enforcement officials to get around the iPhone's pass code lock featue. That's the little code that you setup and have to enter on the lockscreen, which you think will keep all your precious data secure. Well it doesn't of course. Using XRY the oftware can crack that passcode within 2 minutes and dump a whole host of data from the handset to a computer. XRY also works with Android devices too by the way so it's not just iPhones that are vulnerable. In neither case does XRY use backdoor vulnerabilities to gain access, but rather looks for "security flaws in the phone's software", or in other words it's not a million miles away from jailbreaking.

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Video: Transparent Gesture Controlled 3D Computer [ 28-03-2012 17:50 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Much has been made of 3D in recent years, mostly in the form of trying to improve viewing experiences for television and film, but in the hubub of big name 3D films applications for computing, especially home computing, haven't really made much of a splash. One PhD student at MIT, Jinha Lee, working as an intern at Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group, has come up with a prototype PC that uses 3D interaction to allow users to carry out everyday tasks and it has to be said that the results look quite impressive.

The prototype uses a transparent display to show the user the desktop and related components in 3D, The user can then use gesture based commands to interact with those components. The gestures themselves are performed behind the display. That's a bit different to how things normally work in these cases where gestures are performed in front of the display. Even so a front mounted camera tracks the user's head to enable the 3D display on the screen to be adjusted when the users moves position.

The system also feature a more traditional keyboard and trackpad, again located behind the screen.