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Four Ways to Make Your iPhone Invincible

Chris Dannen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:05:19 -0400

We've been hearing a lot about the fragility of our iPhones: The French say that they're spontaneously exploding, and some very un-scientific BlackBerry comparisons tell us they can't take the abuse a RIM phone can (see video below).

How 2009 Will Spur The Rebirth Of Cyber Squatting

Chris Dannen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:18:34 -0500

Call it the end of the dot-com world. Next year ICANN, the non-profit that oversees domain name and IP address registration, will start taking applications for new domain name suffixes, creating the potential for billions of new addresses ending with extensions like ".nyc" or ".law." But with the potential for new names comes an almost-certain rebirth of cyber squatting.

The Email Trail

Fast Company staff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:34 -0400

Subject: [Full-disclosure] Another 0day to sell.
From: Juergen Marester
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 14:42:35 CDT

Thanks for people who bought me codes since my last post.

I also have other 0day to sell. Contact by e-mail.

From: XXXXX@XXX
To: Juergen Marester
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:03:56 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Another 0day to sell.

what product?

The Black Market Code Industry

Adam L. Penenberg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:17 -0400

Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby -- black-hat hacking -- and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling "0days" (pronounced "oh-days" or "zero days," it generally refers to unknown, or zero-hour, software threats). These are recipes and code for penetrating the software run by governments, corporations, and private citizens.