Hijacked Blackberry Turns Data Spy

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.

February 5th, 2008 The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. I was recently testing this list againt spam email.

April 9th, 2009 Did you ever imagine that your blackberry can be used as a modem too. Yes, thanks to berry4all, a free, open-source software for using your Blackberry on alternative OS’es (Linux, OSX)It has been tested on Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora) and OS X (Tiger (PPC & x86), Leopard) and is found to be good.

May 17th, 2006 Erazer-A is a trojan with a mission. It deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines.

May 18th, 2005 An excellent article describing Blackberry architecture and two application models (The browser-based model or Custom Java Application). The browser-based model allows developers to focus on developing back-end content in a standard markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML) or the compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML).

July 2nd, 2007 Here is a simple one line change which will make your webpages viewable well on iPhone and Blackberry. Add the following to your HTML HEAD section: <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"> Apple is using the following on their RSS reader website: <meta name = "Viewport" content = "maximum-scale=1.6,width=320" > The other parameters you can experiment with: initial-scale (first loaded scale), user-scalable (boolean), minimum-scale (default 0.25), maximum-scale (default 1.6).

February 15th, 2008 Interesting articles and announcements emailed to me - 1. Compilation of BlackBerry Tips, Guides & Resources - link.

January 28th, 2009 After some initial hitch ups with the buggy OS code, the new and improved Blackberry Storm is all more hyped. Storm was to open new possibilities in software applications.

January 16th, 2009 Microsoft is getting on with Apple's ubiquitous touchscreen device. This time its up with another cutting edge application to make  iPhone users happier.

January 15th, 2009 Malware have become very prevalent in the internet these days. You do not know where they may come from, you don't know how, and to add to it you don't know how to prevent them from damaging your computer or deleting your important data.

January 6th, 2009 Hackers have penetrated popular social messaging utility Twitter hijacking the accounts of more than 30 celebrities that include President-elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez. This was confirmed by the company early on Today.

January 8th, 2009 Just imagine your yahoo account hacked from under your nose. All your personal mails, confidential files, pictures, membership access, and contacts being accessed by a disguised criminal.

June 6th, 2006 Overview Socket hijacking allows you to override a server socket opened on the same port by a different process. There are several good uses of socket hijacking like developing a port blocker application (poor man's firewall) and some bad uses too.

November 13th, 2007 PHP supports shared memory which can be used to store and retrieve data across processes. This is also another alternative way to communicate between php scripts.

August 8th, 2008 IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.