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A move by legislators in the US state of Maine to require brain-cancer warnings on mobile phones is expected to trigger a worldwide response, the Australian industry has said.

A Democrat state representative, Andrea Boland, wants new mobile phones to carry health warnings like those on cigarettes and is pushing ahead with the legislation despite a lack of scientific consensus.

Read more here:
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/push-for-cigarettelike-warnings-on-mobiles-20100104-lnvo.html

A presentation and paper on Reverse engineering JTAG at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress is now available to download here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/3670.en.html

Other Hacking and reverse engineering papers and talks from the conference can be found here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/index.en.html

The hacking track is here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/index.en.html

Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

More on the story here:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/i_team_8/Sexting_20091112

This report concerns the theoretical and practical issues with automatically populating mobile devices with reference test data for use as reference materials in validation of forensic tools.

It describes an application and data set developed to populate identity modules and highlights subtleties involved in the process. Intriguing results attained by recent versions of commonly-used forensic tools when used to recover the populated data are also discussed. The results indicate that reference materials can be used to identify a variety of inaccuracies that exist in present-day forensic tools.

The Paper can be downloaded in PDF format from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7617/nistir-7617.pdf

More on the paper here:
http://www.testandmeasurement.com/article.mvc/NIST-Develops-Experimental-Validation-Tool-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO

The tool itself can be downloaded from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html

The tool is called SIMfill, and it’s a java application that populates Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) with reference data and can be used to assess the data recovery capabilities of forensic SIM tools. The package includes an initial set of reference data for use with SIMfill, the source and compiled code, a readme file, a user’s guide, and a video demonstration. It can be downloaded free from:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html

For more information please visit:
http://www.marcotempest.com/

Created by Chris O’Shea for the BBC. The billboard is called “Hand from Above”. It is an augmented reality billboard that pokes, lifts, and squeezes bystanders.

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

For the official website, go here:
http://www.chrisoshea.org/projects/hand-from-above/

More on Augmented reality here:
http://thomaskcarpenter.com/
http://augmented-reality.alltop.com/

CNN Coverage:

Georgia Institute of Technology Video:

More information and Paper:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/augearth/

The report features attack data from TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems protecting 6,000 organizations, vulnerability data from 9,000,000 systems compiled by Qualys, and additional analysis and tutorial by the Internet Storm Center and key SANS faculty members. Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them. The full report is found in the link below:

http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/

Palm is going to release a new mobile phone in addition to the WebOS Platform based Palm Pre. The new mobile phone will be smaller and in candy bar form as opposed to the Pre’s slider form. For complete coverage and list of differences and similarities between the Palm Pre and the Pixi, please visit The Unofficial Palm Pixi Blog:

http://www.pixiblog.com

There is little research done on the forensics for Google’s Android mobile phone platform. This presentation by Andrew Hoog covers some background information about the platform and some history of how it came about. It also provides some technical aspects of the platform. The presentation focused on the rootable RC29 firmware and manual updates of it. Their technique involves using dd or cat to perform the forensic acquisition.

The paper also mentions the forensic software that support or plan to support Android in the future and some theoretical approaches to acquire android based devices.

ViaForensics has performed extensive research and development and will soon release a book on Android Forensics. Here is the paper:

http://viaforensics.com/wpinstall/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Android-Forensics-Andrew-Hoog-viaForensics.pdf

For more information, please contact Via Forensics:
http://viaforensics.com

A new tools evaluation paper is out from Via Forensics. The paper examines and rates commercial tools as well as Jonathan Zdziarski’s technique. The paper is written by Andrew Hoog and Kyle Gaffaney.

Tools covered are:
- WOLF
- Cellbrite
- Device Seizure
- MacLock Pick
- MDBackup Extract
- .XRY
- CellDEK

The paper concludes that each vendor has a unique place in the market. It also concluded that Zdziarski’s technique is the only one poviding bit-wise copy of the user data and gave it the highest score.

http://viaforensics.com/wpinstall/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iPhone-Forensics-2009.pdf

1- Astrid: a to do list app
2- SnapPhoto Free: a camera app
3- ACast: podcast client
4-Toggle Widgets: A widget app that has five separate one-square widgets that simply turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and your phone ringer on or off, and change your screen brightness with every tap.
5- Sherpa: GPS based, find what’s “Around Me” kind of app
6- Sound Manager‎: manages volume of sounds on your android. you can set schedules for different levels of sound. pretty neat.
7- PdaNet: tethering for the android
8- Amazon: take a picture of an item, it is mailed to Amazon and an email is sent to you back from amazon with more details on the price of the item or a similar one.
9- Astro File Manager: a serious file browser, one that can download (nearly) any file you find a URL for, pass files on your SD card along to the Gmail client for attaching, find the files that your music or movie player can’t seem to find on their own.
10- Retro Defense: a Tower-Defense-like action game with Tron-style graphics.

Link for more information from Life Hacker:
http://lifehacker.com/5331710/ten-more-neat-and-productive-android-apps/

We have successfully registered the domain name iPhoneForensic.com for future use. We will keep you posted on any developments with it.

According to a survey by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, about 75% of Australians are either “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with their telecommunications services. I was surprised to see that there wasn’t a massive difference between metropolitan and rural areas, despite rural areas having a much less options and less bandwidth as metro areas. Those users who weren’t happy largely focused on price, customer service and poor mobile reception.

Read more here:
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311777

Hackers claim to have stolen all T-Mobile US’s corporate data, customer accounts and network infrastructure. More information from the Register can be found below:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/tmobile_us_loss/

Three individuals who allegedly hacked into telephone systems in the United States and abroad and sold information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy. Italian law enforcement arrested the financiers of the hacking activity. Those financiers allegedly used the information to transmit over 12 million minutes of telephone calls valued at more than $55 million over the hacked networks of victim corporations in the United States alone. Read more below:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7645

Here is an article about the security of the newly released iPhone 3.0 software for both iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7647

oFono is a Linux-based mobile OS for GSM handsets. The project combines people from both Intel’s Moblin initiative and Nokia’s Maemo project. It sounds like something big is in the works

Medialets created the world’s first shakable advertisement for Dockers, together with agencies OMD and Razorfish. Users shake their iPhone to make the Dockers guy dance. This ad utilizes the iPhone’s accelerometer as well as audio capabilities and appears in targeted, free iPhone applications.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090512/7278/?mod=ATD_rss

A research team from Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheba, Israel, found that talking on a cellular phone harms the mental abilities of the user.

The influence of cellular phones on brain functions and general health has been widely researched in recent years. Most of the experiments try to understand whether electromagnetic radiation is cancerous or not. Researchers from Ben Gurion University and Soreq Research Center for Nuclear Energy have decided to take a closer look at the effect mobile phones have on people’s cognitive functions.

Read more here:
http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/7033/cell-phone-usage-damages-memory.html

The research team, which included Edith Cowan University of Australia and BT, revealed some early results yesterday in news reports by the BBC and British television affiliates.

To read more about the research go here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8036324.stm
and here:
http://www.darkreading.com/security/storage/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400054&cid=nl_DR_DAILY_H

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials easily.

Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430101445.htm

Having a rooted phone means you can do tricks like setting up a 3g/wifi bridge. The process starts by using a rooting app to revert the phone to the rc29 build. then using the “android stupidly executes everything you type” exploit to launch telnetd and upgrade the bootloader. After that, the upgrade process is fairly easy. Just flash a new baseband and build. once you’ve got your new custom firmware, you can do future updates using an app from the android market.

Read More here:

http://hackaday.com/2009/05/05/easy-g1-rooting/

You might know some of them but most of them are just an inside code and some can raise red flags.

Here are some of them:
D46 - “Do you want to have sex?”
LG6 - “Let’s have sex”
GNOC - “Get naked on camera”
TDTM - “Talk dirty to me”
LMIRL - “Let’s meet in real life”

See the link below wich includes a video:

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=10310438

The video talks about a couple of people who’s lives are ruled by harrasing calls and threats. They claim that their phones are tapped with special software.

Rick Mislan talks about the software and how easy it is to be placed on mobile phones.

Software such as:

• http://www.mobile-spy.com/
• http://www.world-tracker.com/
• http://www.flexispy.com/
• http://www.e-stealth.com/
• http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/spyphone/
• http://www.thespyphone.com/allinone.html

Link to Video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg

Learn more here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7991777.stm

It looks and functions like a Blackberry 8830 but it sure is NOT a regular Blackberry. It is locked down by NSA. I am not really sure if it is a good idea at all. NSA is installing the SecurVoice software on it for both voice and messaging as one of the ways to secure the phone. I am sure that there is a whole infrastructure that is required to run his handset services. Even considering all that, I Still believe that a mobile-phone-carrying president opens so many doors for hackers.

Can NSA and Obama get away with using a (persumably) secure mobile phone service and handset? That is the question of the day!

Read more here:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/obama-to-get-ba.html

It is persumed that the phones can be modified and used in receiving SMS verification codes sent from banks:

criminals have already collected thousands of login details for online bank accounts in countries such as Germany and Holland where banks send a transaction authentication number (TAN) code by SMS to a person’s mobile phone in order to complete transactions.

Read the original post byUltraScan here:
http://www.ultrascan.nl/html/press_room.html#25.000%20Euro%20for%20your%208%20years%20old%20Nokia%201100

Read more about it here:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/553344-hackers-pay-top-dollar-for-old-nokia-1100-handsets

and here:
http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2922

Having downloaded the latest beta of the iPhone yesterday (seen above), I started using it today and when a friend of mine asked to use it to dial a phone number, all they saw was this:

I restarted the phone and I got the proper dial screen shown below.

This happened to me again today… So I decided to post it on the inter web

Many gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com were incorrectly being flagged as adult due to a cataloging error which made the books hard to find in searches.

Twitters got angry about the issue and started a discussion called #AmazonFail. Thousands of people were angry that gay-themed books had disappeared from Amazon’s sales rankings and search algorithms. The number of Tweets on that easter sunday afternoon that had the term “AmazonFail” surpassed even those with the words “Easter” or “Jesus.”

This led Amazon.com to quickly fix the cataloging error.

Read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp?from=blog_last3

Read the discussion here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23AmazonFail

Poken is a hardware device that connects the web 2.0 social networking virtual world to your real world contacts and people you meet in conferences, coffee shops and elsewhere.

How does it work and when was it released?
It was released in March as far as I could tell. Here is how it works

Here are more links on it:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5987575.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/mar/17/sxswi-startups1

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/dan_monsieurle/blog/2009/03/30/who_am_i__a_panda_or_a_chimp

If you want to buy a poken, then use the following coupon code for a 10% discount:
PUTUPYPAJFAZTSD3PEHM

Watch the 46 minute long Google TechTalk about Poken here:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/2009/03/08/poken-extending-online-social-networking-into-the-real-world/

The hardware details are here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/entry-10224130228.html

and here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/theme-10011686327.html

A blog about pokens:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/

Blog post about the release in Japan:
http://nthambazale.com/2009/03/tokyo-cgm-night-episode-poken-launched-in-japan/

Let me know if you have any questions about Pokens

A man accused of raping a university student was cleared because of the mobile phone footage showing the woman ‘actively’ having sex with him. The jurors voted to acquit the man, who’d been charged with four counts of rape, including two of rape by oral penetration.

Read more here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166466/Man-cleared-rape-court-shown-phone-footage-woman-actively-taking-sex.html

It might not be because they are secure, but simply because the ROI is just a mere phone handset! Add to that the device, OS, and carrier variations.

Read more here:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/25/1238246&from=rss
and here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Mobile+and+Wireless&articleId=9130346&taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1

Chris Ogle (29) from Whangerei, New Zealand has stumbled across the sensitive military details of U.S. military personnel after purchasing a secondhand MP3 player in Oklahoma, USA. He discovered around 60 sensitive military files dating from 2005 on the used music player. The files were clearly marked as ’secret’ and contained the phone numbers of numerous soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

For more on the story visit:

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200905/2852/Man-finds-U-S-military-secrets-on-secondhand-MP3-player

Growth projection for the mobile sector does not look good

Read More Here:

http://www.iphonestalk.com/new-survey-results-bring-good-and-bad-news-for-the-mobile-sector/

We acquired the domain names AndroidForensics.com and AndroidHack.com . Both domain names should take you to MySecured.com for now. We might dedicate the Android Forensics domain in the future to a website catering specifically to the Forensics of Android-Based Cellular Phones. The Android Hack domain name will be probably dedicated to the Hacks and Mods for the Android Based mobile phones and other devices such as netbooks and laptops.

Try the domain names now:
http://www.androidforensics.com
http://www.androidhack.com

An interesting article about pedophilia and ’sexting’ in the mobile age. Sexting means sending nude or semi-nude pictures of oneself on mobile phones to others. Two cases are discussed in the article.

READ IT HERE.

In my opinion, lawmakers should consider the changes in technology and evolve the laws to deal with the new issues emerging from the proliferation of cell phones in our societies and changes to the ways mobile phones are used.

A guy at the US Airways crash took a picture of the Airplane and used Twitter to stream it to the Internet. Here is his account of the incident:

http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. 12:36 PM Jan 15th from TwitPic

http://twitter.com/jkrums/status/1121915133

Robert Scoble aka Mr. Twitter talk to Larry Magid at CES. Robert has 48,000 people who follow him (read his Twitter posts which are called “tweets”) but he follows nearly 21,000 people. How he does that? Tweetdecks is one way! They also talk about the Palm Pre Surprise. Listen to the whole podcast here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10141183-238.html

This is starting to be like citizen reporting via tweets again. This time it has help from tweet decks. Can this be the beggining of a new way for us to get news from the inside of conflicts, disaster areas and maybe even anonymous news tips? Rumors?

A new site dedicated to the Palm Pre Mobile Phone and its WebOS operating system and Application Catalog. Visit it at:
http://www.PreMobilePhone.com

I don’t know if this is true or not yet but here it goes! There seems to be a vulnerability that affects Nokia Series 60 phones, including N95 and N73 handsets that blocks all SMS and MMS from reaching the phone, hense the name “Curse of Silence”. attacker in this case sends a specially designed SMS message to the target phone. What’s worrying is that the recipient will receive no indication that they got the message.

The only way to get the target phone to recieve messages again is to factory reset it. Even after the factory recet, the phone still remains vulnerable to future silent curses. The attack will only work on phones running version 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 of Symbian S60.

Source: http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2505

It can be done!

An in-depth look at the new Palm Pre Mobile Phone:

@ Engadget.com

I love how fast it is and how they allow you to have “pages’ of applications running at once… Look at the videos to see what I mean. What I hate is the numbers on the keyboard are Orange just like punctuation marks on the T-Mobile G1… I can’t see them at all! But that’s just me…

Related:

Plam stocks are up.
Google Finance on Palm, Inc.

Official Website.

Is it going to be the iPhone killer? or will it suck like the Google Android did before it? Give it six months and we’ll see

Watch in on Fora.tv to see the whole transcript as in the Pouge video in the previous post.

The video is Long (32 Minutes!).
- It starts with a parody song (as usual!).
- 3:35 Trends for 2009
- 4:30 VoIP cell phones
- 6:40 VoIP on Mobile Phones with T-Mobile (By the way BT has it too!)
- 10:40 Grand Central: A service that rings all your phone numbers at once at the same time on a single number! Watch the demo
- 12:50 Google Cellular: Free SMS and Voice initiated 411 directory enquiry service
- 16:25 1800 Cha Cha: Ask any question by voice and get answer by text
- 18:00 Voice Messagase by email or SMS services e.g. spinvox, PhoneTag and CallWave
- 21:00 More on Callwave and a feature demo
- 22:35 Popularity Dialer .com
- 23:50 iPhone beginings. How iPhone changed US carriers
- 25:00 iPhone with internet all the time
- 26:30 iPhone shuffle and App Store apps demos like: Midomi, Pandora, Urban Spoon
- 28:30 T-Mobile G1 and Verizon
- 29:30 End with a Song: The iPhone Song

Modding Education for iPhone users AKA ModEdiPhone.com is a new website for all iPhone users who would like to jailbreak their iPhones or SIM unlock them whether they are using a first generation iPhone or the 3G iPhone. It provides guides and step-by-step videos and advice on how to do each hack or mod without any complications. It includes software, firmware, and hardware mods and hacks. It also contains the last five posts from the most popular iPhone blogs and news sites. It is a must visit and subscribe-to website so make sure you add it to your favourites

Here is the link:
http://www.modediphone.com/

Attached with and armband, it is a portable and multi-purpose tool:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/the_us_armys_secret_weapon_the_ipod_touch-2.html

Cellphone Gun:

Pen Gun:

Windows will run soon on the iPhone using Citrix Receiver, a remote screen software that connects to a PC and enables you to run Microsoft’s Windows Apps remotely over the wi-fi or 3g network.

More info here:
http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=51937665

Go here:
http://gizmodo.com/5116433/the-best-iphone-apps-of-2008

Yes you can Watch this:

Get your gadgets coated with this micro polymer here:
http://www.golden-shellback.com/

for more information go here:
http://www.electronics-au.com.au/blog/computers/apple-iphone-underwater/

A man in the United States used his mobile phone and the social networking service Twitter to inform the world even as he was trying to escape a burning 737. Read or hear more from the ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2453641.htm

I have previously heard of a case where a man used the twitter service to let people know he was arrested by Egyption authorities:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html

Both stories might be looked at as extreme uses of the twitter service or other micro-blogging and social services. As mobile phones become more location-aware, social networking services such as twitter are tapping into this capability of mobile phones making them even more usable in distress situations or even to report crime. Coupled with cameras, these services in addition to location-aware devices can become effective crime fighting tools.

As predicted, it did take a long time to unlock the 3G version of the iPhone as compared to the 1st generation iPhone. It is never the less a great achievement for the Dev-Team. So, if you are still using a SIM proxy to unlock you iPhone 3G, then this unlock is for you. For all others, this makes no difference at all

For those who do require the SIM unlock I give you this warning: never upgrade you phone to 2.2 as it will unpgrade your modem software making it impossible to unlock with the SIM unlocking solution from the dev-team.
So: NEVER UPGRADE OR RESTORE YOUR IPHONE IN ITUNES

For more information, please visit the dev-team’s website at:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

For more information on the harmless totally-reversable hack, go to:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/video-android-rocking-on-the-htc-touch/

Get the hack and instructions directly from xda developers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382265

GadgetTrack software was used to track and arrest a thief in Anchorage, Alaska. For more details visit the site below:

http://www.usbhacks.com/2008/11/24/mobile-phone-thief-captured-with-tracking-software/

You can pre-order the Kogan Android phone AKA The “KOGAN AGORA” and “KOGAN AGORA PRO” for 299 and 399 respectively. The pro model has added features such as GPS, Camera and Wi-Fi.
SPECIFICATIONS:

Operating System
Android™
Google Mobile Functions
Google Search™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Maps™, Google Talk™, Google Calendar™.
Display
2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 262K QVGA (320 X 240 pixel) resolution
Device Control
Central Navigation Key
Keyboard
QWERTY keyboard
Keyboard backlighting
GPS
GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)
Connectivity
Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11b/g (included with Kogan Agora Pro)
Camera
2.0 megapixel colour camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)
Audio
Built-in microphone and speaker
Headphone jack
Ring tone formats:
· MIDI, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, PCM
Video
Video formats supported:
· MPEG2 H263, H264, MPEG4, AVI
Mail attachment support

Viewable document types:
· JPEG, GIF, WBMP, MIDI, AMR, MP3, WAV
Dimensions (HxWxD)
108 mm x 64 mm x 14.8 mm
Weight
130g
Battery
Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1300 mAh
Talk Time
Up to approximately 400 minutes
Standby Time
Up to approximately 300 hours
Processor MHz
624 MHz
Memory
ROM:
256 MB
RAM:
128 MB

microSD™ card expansion slot
Network

UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

The official site is Here.

If you were waiting for the Arabic to be ready for the 2.2 version of the iPhone then your wait is over it is now ready from iPhone Islam

Just go here for the guide to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and then read more information about the new upgrade here.

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a SIM card proxy (a small SIM-shaped electoronic circuit that goes behind your SIM card) then NEVER upgrade your phone to 2.2! You will not be able to use your phone if you upgrade.

The iPhone user manual and user guide for the iPhone 3G and 2G is now available in Arabic as the iPhone is introduced in Egypt and will be introduced in other Arabic countries such as Qatar.

Here is the link to the pdf file:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/ar_EG/iPhone_User_Guide_ARA.pdf

You can customize the color of your T-Mobile G1, the Google Android based phone at Colorware Custom. This is the design I did with custom Metallic Paints for all colors except for the yellow which is a solid color called “Caution”:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-170-tmobile-g1.aspx?2081=candy_apple&2082=alpine&2083=caution&2084=midnight

BTW, the phones are unlocked which means that they can be used with any carrier and not only T-Mobile.

As far as I know, this is the first Chinese made Android based phone apart from T-Mobile G1. There is an Australian company that is planning to release their own Android Based mobile phone by xmas. The link for that is here.

It does not have a physical keyboard!

The official site:
http://mysciphone.com/G2Specia.asp

I found a phone on ebay.

Visit the company’s Official website.

Review here.

As the name suggests, this site is for all the things iPhone can do for you.

Visit it here.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

Instructions: Here.
Dowload: Here.

http://ocarina.smule.com/

According to Gartner, “Through 2010, 40% of application failures will be usability-related, rather than functionality-related.”Join Sybase iAnywhere’s usability and human factors expert for a complimentary webcast designed to help you conquer usability issues with building mobile applications. The webcast will provide tips and techniques to help ensure your mobile application supports and impresses your end users.

Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 2 p.m. EST
Register now to learn how to make your mobile applications more usable. There is no cost to attend these webcasts, but registration is required.

Enterprise Mobile Applications: A Study of Strategies and Adoption Trends - Webcast.

AKA Ben Stein vs. The Man on the Street:

Geography:

It’s the two hottest touch-screen phones duking it out. Can the new kid on the block take down the champ?

Want to learn how to upgrade your Android to RC30 and get root access on it? get a step-by-step guide here:
http://modmygphone.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

On October 6th AccessData sent a letter to Guidance Software expressing its interest to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Guidance Software at $4.50 a Share. Read more below:

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=569441

Here is a sample video of Noise Alert:

For more videos visit the website:
http://www.androidapps.com/

For Apple iPhone App reviews, visit AppVee’s iPhone website at:
http://www.appvee.com/

The iPhone will decide for you Just shake it!

Your iPhone can not delete or forward SMS Messages? Yes it can! Use MySMS to do that!

Your iPhone can not forward a contact number to another one? Now it can! Just use MySMS

You want more options such as:

- landscape typing
- punctuation keys at the right side of typing window
- sms forwarding (even conversations)
- single / individual sms or conversation deletion
- character counter (to know if your text will be sent as one or multiple SMS messages)
- send contacts through sms
- Use message templates
- set password on app loading/launch
- Easy contact list search!
- disable auto correction in SMS typing (very useful if you are typing in other languages)
- skins (downloaded from the dev’s repo: isoftru.ru/repo/)
- set mySMS as the default SMS app
- Option to Tap return key twice to send message

For more information go to:
MySMS
and to see more screen shots and instructions on how to downlad the application from Cydia, go to:
http://iphonehelp.in/2008/11/13/mysms-ultimate-sms-app-for-the-iphone-3g-2x-via-cydia/

A good start is Google’s own documentation page:
http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html

Books are another good source for step-by-step development. One Andoid book that I read is:

ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE (Paperback)

It guides you through installing Eclipse, Android SDK and all the different steps that lead you into developing a “Friend Finder” application.

Other books of interest that i found on Amazon include:

I love David Pogue… He gave us the iPhone Music Video when the iPhone first came out See it again here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE

Just watch

A Friend of mine asked me for this as he has an X SIM II Unlocked and Jailbroken iPhone and didn’t want to risk loosing the space or jailbroken apps on his phone or un-activate his phone. He has 2.0.2 and wanted to upgrade to 2.1.

For him and for all of you out there, here is the guide:
Sleepers.net

Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) will enable Enterprise users who pick a phone with embedded support for virtualization to run multiple operating systems or multiple profiles — for example, one for personal use and one for work use — on the same phone.

The IT department will able to set up one profile that follows all the policies necessary to keep the enterprise secure, but at the same time end users can run anything they like on their personal profile, according to Sjöstedt.

Users will also be able to more easily move personal data and files — including applications, pictures, videos, music and e-mail — to a new device, making the upgrade to a new phone less painful.

Read More Here:

pcworld.com

Even though Android OS is open source, it does not allow root access. Without full access to the phone’s software and hardware, a lot isn’t possible, notably video recording: “there’s no way in hell you could do video compression fully in software fully on dalvik” according to Jay Freeman the guy who jailbroke the G1 and installed Debian on it. This modification will also allow users to theme and skin the OS and Applications on it.

For more information and complete instructions and links to required downloads, please visit:
http://modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5191

http://www.Securify.Me

We have secured the domain name Securify.Me and we are in the process of forwarding it to MySecured.com. MySecured.com has been getting positive feedback from visitors and the financial gain from Google Ads is great. So, we are investing the money form the advertisements into buying cool domain names! Our overhead for the website is very low, so getting traffic through clever web domains has served us well so far

If the domain name sounds familiar, it is because of two parts of the domain:

- Securify: Packet Storm Security’s domain name used to be http://packetstorm.securify.com . Takes you back ages ago doesn’t it!
In fact, this is how it used to look like from 1999-2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://packetstorm.securify.com

Thanks to the Way Back Machine

- Me: It is the new Top Level domain name. It is also a previous version of Windows: Windows Me. More recently, Apple Computers used it for the replacement of the .MAC Cloud Computing service. It is now known as MobileMe or Mobile Me.

Keep visiting the websites and keep those suggestions coming Visit our sponsors while you are at it… it is what keeps us going after all….

contribute (at) My Secured DOt Com!

BTW: If you are interested in ANY of our domains, let us know… We might just sell it to you for the right price

The founders of google missing around with the Android and writing their own applications for it. This includes an application that uses the hardware sensors on the phone. This is an invite to all geeks to hack their Android phones. It’s not like you needed an invite or anything… but it is a good thing to have nevertheless.

Fun Fact: Notice that one of them calls “Android Market” the “App Store”…! I guess one of them was using the iPhone too much

A new book with companion DVD by Jesse Varsalone. Expected retail price is AUD 79.00.

Key Features include:

- Companion DVD Contains Custom Materials That Can Be Used in a Real Digital Forensic Investigation
- Includes Unique Information about Mac OS X, iPod, iMac, and iPhone Forensic Analysis Unavailable Anywhere Else
- Authors Are Pioneering Researchers in the Field of Macintosh Forensics, with Combined Experience in Law Enforcement, Military, and Corporate Forensics

Sounds good? Then for more information go to:
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781597492973

A video file by ZiPhone Maker crashes the iPhone:
Forbes.com

Call it “on-demand computing”, “grid computing” or “software as a service”, cloud computing is the wave of the future whether people like it or not. When it comes to smartphones both iPhone and the Android platform are betting their success on cloud computing. Apple’s MobileMe and Google through its Google Apps on G1 did not get a great start but they are improving their acts with fixes and updates. Microsoft announced lately that they are getting into the cloud computing arena with cloud based servers that target both smartphones and sub-laptop devices called “netbooks”. There are too many news articles to list here to support this post and new articles on the subject seem to pop up every singe hour of the day. So, I am going to leave all the searching for cloud computing articles to you! Here is a google search for smartphone and “cloud computing” to get you started:

- Google Web Search

- Google News Search

- Google Blog Search

Intersting article involving a child porn case:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-court-rules-hash-analysis-is-a-fourth-amendment-search.html

People living in Australia can get their hands on a T-Mobile G1 via eBay.com. They will be able to use the 3G HSDPA fuctionality on Carriers other than Telstra though. For 3G connectivity, the G1 will work only if the carrier’s network uses the 2100MHz frequency band. Currently those carriers include Vodafone, Optus and Three. Telstra’s Next G network runs on the 850MHz frequency so it’s not supported.

For more information, read on:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/google-phone-hits-australia-via-ebay/2008/10/29/1224956120782.html

Get more information about this application and much more on Android’s Developer blog.

Also, visit Google Code Pages for Android.

Google Marketplace is where developers can easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones including the T-Mobile G1.

In an article in The Register, Google defends limiting accress to Non-Marketplace applications to the following:

At this point, we think it is too dangerous to give a third party application blanket access to install applications without the user being involved. That may change in the future, but for now that is the way it is.

Read more about it in the article.

The first ever Android was released in the USA in November but as in the previous post here on Mysecured.com, there were no people linening up outside of shops there!… The T-Mobile G1 was released in the UK yesterday (October 30th), with about the same results as the US launch… No one seems to be interested in it so far.

The week the same still holds even after reports show that the phone has been unlocked as shown in the video below:

Is this about to change here in Australia? Well, I’ve asked around and it seems like people were holding back on buying the US version of the G1 because they though it was using different 3G bands than the ones Australian telecoms use. But they thought that UK version will use the same frequencies as the Ausie carriers but so far there are no UK version T-Mobile G1s on sale on eBay UK.

Buyers here in Australia might be more interested in buying the UK version of the G1 but for now they have no choice but to wait for some of them to be either available on eBay. There is another choice however which is to buy an proprietary Android phone from an Australian technology company Kogan Technologies which will start selling their in house Chinese manufactured Android based phones that will go on sale on December 15 for $199 AUD.

For more details on that story go to:
The Age.

In other reports, people just don’t see that the G1 is either open source nor ground breaking. Wired Magazine notes that the phone has restricted use of VOIP technology as in this article:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/g1-android-phon.html

On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here is a look at the top 15 out of those.

The one that scares me is the sex offender warning application. It tells you where your G1-carrying daughter or grandma are and how far and in which direction is the nearest registered sex offender to them!

See what I mean by watching the demo here:
http://www.freefamilywatch.com/demo.html

Follow the link for the story and pictures:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152384/in_pictures_15_killer_android_apps_for_the_g1.html

As you might know, the iPhone 3G comes either on a contract which means that it is locked to the provider or Unlocked via iTunes on pre-paid plans or through a special arrangement with the service provider for a small fee. Locked phones however can be unlocked via hardware SIM attacments such as TurboSIM (discussed in detail in my paper) or other cheaper alternatives such as Universial SIM. What you might not know is that some sellers sell iPhones as if they are officially or leagally unlocked but in actuallity they are unlocked with alternative SIM attachments as shown in the pictures below:

SIM insertion slot showing extension wires

The actual Universal SIM attachment

To find out if the iPhone you are buying is unlockable by its carrier or not, ask the seller for the phone’s serial number and then visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

Buying a fake-unlocked iPhone could mean that your phone might be illegal to use in some countries because it violates usage laws. Also, it means a degration and sometimes the denial of service when it comes to data services and the quality of phone calls.

Pictures and Story from the Arabic source iPhone Islam. The only source for Arabisation of iPhone.

The beggest selling points for the Android and the G1 in my openion are the simultanious execution of applications and street level on google maps. Who needs any of these?!

You can run applications in the background on iPhone by using the Cydia app Backgrounder and you can use google earth for now to get street level pictures and wait for 2.2 iPhone software for full street view capabilities

I am sticking to my iPhone for now Gotta love the big screen and the safari browser responsiveness and page browsing speed.

The people behind modmyi.com have an Android Forum but it doesn’t seem to have as much interest as the iPhone:
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/index.php
I won’t judge the Android Platform yet though, I’ll give it six months

app.ifonetec.com: http://app.ifonetec.com/cydia/
cake.mapleidea.com: http://cake.mapleidea.com/cydia/
BigBoss & Planet-iPhones: http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/
Hack&Dev.org: http://iphone.hackndev.org/apt/
Hackers.nl: http://apt.hackers.nl/
iClarified: http://cydia.iclarified.com/
iPhone-notes.de Repo: http://apt.iphone-storage.de/
ispaziorepo.com: http://ispaziorepo.com/cydia/apt/
ModMyiFone.com: http://apt.modmyifone.com/
Niklas Schroder: http://apt.paperclipsandscrambledeggs.com/
RichCreations: http://www.richcreations.com/iphone/apt/
SaladSoft: http://nickplee.com/cydiasource/
Ste Packaging: http://repo.smxy.org/cydia/apt/
Steffwiz: http://steffwiz.webs.com/iphone/repo
Telesphoreo Tangelo: http://apt.saurik.com/
urbanfanatics.com: http://urbanfanatics.com/cydia/
WeHo.ru: http://weho.ru/iphone/
www.iacces.com: http://www.iacces.com/apt/
ZodTTD: http://www.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/

NEW Cydia Language Sources

comcute&gecko (Estonian): http://gecko.pri.ee/cydia/
CZ&SK: http://csid. tym.cs/repo/
iPhone-patch (Bulgarian): http://mspasov.com/
iphone.freecoder.org (Chinese): iphone.freecoder.org/apt/
iphonehe.com (Hebrew): http://iphonehe.com/iphone
Marcin Laber (Polish?): http://cydia.i-apps.pl/

Sources for Installer 4.0

Big Boss: http://apptapp.thebigboss.org/repofiles/installer4/
iPhone-notes.de: http://i.phone-storage.de/
iSpazio: http://repo.neolinus.org/ispazio/
ModMyiFone.com: http://i.modmyifone.com/
Rip Dev: http://i.ripdev.com
Ste Packaging: http://repo.smxy.org/installer4/
German: http://sendowski.de/iphone

Sources for Installer 3.1

Community Sources for Installer 3.11

iSpazio Official: http://repo.ispazio.net
ModMyiFone.com: modmyifone.com/installer.xml
RiP Dev (Kate, formerly Caterpillar): http://repository.ripdev.com/
Ste Packaging:http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/ (make sure you include the last /)

Other Sources for Installer 3.11

aka.Repository: akamatsu.org/repo.xml
AlliPodHax Source: ihacks.us/index.xml or allipodhax.3host.biz/index.xml
AlohaSoft 1.0.2 - homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/102.xml
AlohaSoft 1.1.1: homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/111.xml
AlohaSoft 1.1.2: homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/112.xml
Apple (not really Apple): applerepo.com
Apple Daily Times: www.appledailytimes.com/installer
AppTapp Official: repository.apptapp.com
Apogee LTD: apogeeltd.com
Blaze Official: blazecompany.googlepages.com/
BigBoss Beta: sleepers.net/iphonerepobeta
BlackWolf: m8an.de/ownrisk.xml (Extended Preferences)
Byooi Digicide: byooi.com/iphone/digicide.plist (Jiggy Apps)
CedSoft (iSnake/Bounce): prog.cedsoft.free.fr
Chris Miles Repository (iSolitare): iphone.rustyredwagon.com/repo
Conceited Software Beta: http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/beta/
Conceited Software: http://www.macminicolo.net/conceited/iphone/cache.plist
CopyCoders: homepage.mac.com/hartsteins/copycoders/copycoders.xml (Network Apps)

dajavax: dajavax.googlepages.com/repo.xml
databinge: repo.databinge.com
DavTeam: davteam.com/repo.xml
Death to Design: iphone.deathtodesign.com
Digital Agua: repo.digitalagua.com
Dlubbat’s Apps: www.dlubbat.com/iphone.xml
Ettore Software Ltd: ettoresoftware.com/iphone/beta/ty.iphone
Fight Club: dezign999.com/repo
FreeMyiPhone: pxl.freemyiphone.com/
Fring: fring.com/iphone.xml
Gogosoft Source: www.blackblack.org/gogobeta.plist
GravyTrain ’s Vault: iiispace.com/installer2.xml (Includes user submitted themes)
Hijinks Inc.: hijinksinc.com/i/installer.xml
hitoriblog Experimental Pack: hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi
HighTymes: hightymes.org/iphone/plist/index.xml
iApp-a-Day: iappaday.com/install
Imagine09: home.twcny.rr.com/imagine09/Imagine09.xml
iBlackjack: iphonefanclub.com/native
iClarified: installer.iclarified.com
iFoneTech: app.ifonetec.com
Intelliborn: intelliborn.com/repo
Intelliborn (Cydia Source): intelliborn.com/cydia
iPhone Cake: iphonecake.com/src/all
iPhoneDevDocs: idevdocs.com/install
iPhone For Taiwan (SummberBoard Themes): iphone4.tw/showme
iPhoneFreakz: iphonefreakz.com/repo.xml
iPhoneIslam: apps.iphoneislam.com
iPlayful: iplayful.com/r
i.Marine Software (Caissa): caissa.us
imimux Repository (Real Artist): imimux.com
iPod Touch Fans: www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml
iPod Touched: ipodtouched.net/repo.xml
iPod-Touch-Themes.de: www.ipod-touch-themes.de/installer/repo.xml
iSwitcher (old): web.mac.com/iswitcher2/list.xml
iSwitcher (new) = MeachWare: meachware.com/list.xml
Jeremie Engel: rep.visuaweb.com
Jiggy Main Repository (Jiggy): jiggyapp.com/i
lazyasada: lazyasada.xeterdesign.com/repo.xml
Limited Edition iPhone: limitededitioniphone.com/lei.xml
Loring Studios: loringstudios.com/iPhone-schnapps/index.xml
McAfeeMobile Dev Repository: ipkg.mcafeemobile.com
MarcoGiorgini.com: marcogiorgini.com/iPhone/plist.xml
Makayama Software (CameraPro): tinyurl.com/2t8cax
MaomaLand: maomaland.com/iphone/repo.xml
Mateo (BeatPhone): bblk.net/iphone
McCarron’s Repo: patrickmccarron.com/irepo
MeachWare (new iSwitcher): www.meachware.com/list.xml
Mkv iPhone Repository: repo.mkv.mobi
Mobile Stacks: mobilestack.googlecode.com/svn/repository/internal.plist
ModMyApple.it (iBirthday): www.serverasp.net/chiafa/MMA/repo.xml
Moyashi: hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi
MTL Repository: home.mike.tl/iphone
MyApple.pl: i.myapple.pl
newATTiPhone.com: newattiphone.com/repo.xml
NPike.net: http://apps.npike.net/repo.xml
Nuclear Design: nucleardesign.net/repository
Planet-iPhones: planet-iphones.com/repository
Polar Bear Farm: www.polarbearfarm.com/repo/
Polleo Limited: source.polleo.no
Private Indistury: brandonsgames.com/chriss/index.xml
Pyrofer’s Projects: pyrofersprojects.com/repos/repos.xml
R4m0n (iPhysics): iphone.r4m0n.net/repos
Robota Softwarehouse: iphone.robota.nl
Sanoodi Repository: sanoodi.com/iphone
Saurik’s Coding Toolbox (Cydia): apptapp.saurik.com
ScoresPro: www.scorespro.com/iphone/repo.xml
scummVM: urbanfanatics.com/scummvm.xml
sendowski.de (MobileChat)sendowski.de/iphone
Shai’s Apps: ride4.org/shai.xml
Simek’s Graphic: simek.ddl2.pl
sipgate repository: iphone.sipgate.com
Skrew: i.danstaface.net
Slezak’s Stuff: www.spencerslezak.com
Smart-Mobil: www.smart-mobile.com/beta
Soneso Repository: soneso.com/iphone
SOS iPhone (ContactFlow): rep.sosiphone.com
Spiffyware: spiffyware.net/iphone
Studded: studded.net/installer/index.xml
Surge: iphonesurge.com/iphonesurge.xml
Swell: lyndellwiggins.com/installer/Swell
Swirlyspace: swirlyspace.com/SwirlySpace.xml
Touchmod Team: touchmods.net/rep.xml
Trejan: trejan.com/irepo
Trivialware: mazinger.cs.yale.edu/iphone-apps/index.xml
Unlock.no: i.unlock.no
weiPhone (weTools/weDict): app.weiphone.com/installer
Wiki2Touch: 168weedon.com/i/
Wizdom on Wheels (Common Website Links): iphoneapps.wizdomonwheels.com
XK72 Repository: http://xk72.com/iphone/repos/
ZodTTD.com Releases: zodttd.com/repo

Language Sources for Installer 3.11

Arabic: apps.iphoneislam.com
Czech: repo.iphone.cz
Chinese: iphone.org.hk/repository.plist
Danish: iphone.vildmedmac.dk/install
French: rep.sosiphone.com
FrenchIphone: rep.frenchiphone.com
German: sendowski.de/iphone
German aXP: lostsoul.aeroxp.org/iphone/index.xml
Greek: greekrepo.com
Hebrew ?????: ihebrew.net
Hungarian: ifhone.hu/install.xml
Norwegian - iFon: install.ifon.no
Polish - iPolish: krzak.net/iphone
Polish - iPolish(1.1.2): wakoman.ovh.org/iphone
Português-Brasil(1.1.2): iphonemod.com.br/forum/repo/installer.xml
Russian iPhone.RU: iphones.ru/r
Russian iPhone ??-??????: russianiphone.ru/beta
Russian Tools (in English): russianiphone.ru/beta/en
Spanish Phyros iPhone-ES: iphone.frickr.es/index.xml
Swedish iFun.se: ifun.se/swe
Taiwanese: iphone4.tw/unlock
Thai: pradt.net/iphone
Turkish: niffob.com/triphone.xml
Vietnamese: iphone.billydragon.net

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Source:
http://sleepers.net/2008/10/23/compiled-source-list-for-2xfw-1xfw-cydia-installer/

OLDER LIST FOUND HERE:
http://www.mysecured.com/?p=201

The LayerOne 2008 talk by David Hulton titled: Intercepting Mobile Phone/GSM

Visit the GSM Hakcing WIKI at:
http://wiki.thc.org/gsm
The USRP is available at: http://www.ettus.com
Learn more about the GNU RADIO project at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio

David is the Chairman of Toorcon

MyPhone2008.com

An interesting news article about the work of BT (formerly British Telecom), Glamorgan University, Australia’s Edith Cowan University and Sim Lifecycle Services where researchers recovered data from handsets from mobile phone recycling companies:

Mobile phones can never be totally wiped clean of data

To get more information on the research at Edith Cowan University and its upcoming conferences please visit SECAU Security Research Centre’s website:

http://www.secau.org/

Here are some published refereed journal and conference papers to give you an idea of what to expect for the Edith Cowan University conferences in December:

- Valli, C. and A. Jones (2008). A study of 2nd Hand Blackberry for sale - World class security foiled by humans. Proceedings of the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing - SAM 2008 - The 2008 International Conference on Security & Management., Las Vegas, USA.

- Al-Zarouni, M. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Introduction to Mobile Phone Flasher Devices and Considerations for their Use in Mobile Phone Forensics. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Profiling Through a Digital Mobile Device. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007). Deleted Mobile Device’s Evidence Recovery:. Paper presented at the Media and Information-War Conference 2007, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

You can register to attend Edith Cowan University’s conferences here:

http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/

Hope to see you there

According to the article below, iPhone 2.2 beta which was provided to developers contained an Android-like Street View capability within the Google Maps App.

I Don’t know about you, but to me, it seemed like the street view feature was one of the most attractive features that Google used in selling the Android platform to consumers. I personally see a great potential in Android for app development but I still think that the iPhone will keep on keeping on especially after the dropped the NDA requirement for app developers

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007891.html

I’ve had my iPhone 3G with MobileMe for a while now but it didn’t seem like the push service from mobile me was working at all. This changed starting from yesterday though It is working now and I am happy with it so far.

Here is a link to the T-Mobile G1 website where you can play around with a basic emulator without having to download the SDK. You can also get a basic guide on features here:
http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/

A more functional emulator can be downloaded with the Android SDK here:
http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

Finally here is a good video Introduction on Android OS for Developers. A must see if you have anything to do with the Android Platform(WARNING: 52 MINUTES LONG!):

More demo videos on user interface and applications can be found on the Android developer site:
http://code.google.com/android/index.html

Here is one of them to get you started:

These are some of the prototype Mobile Phones on show.

3D Navigation and Situational Awareness in a Mobile Phone:




Separatable mobile phone:




Projector Mobile Phone:

Ideally the emergency dial screen should allow ONLY EMERGENCY NUMBERS to be dialed out on a passcode locked phone. The iPhone however allows for ANY NUMBER to be dialed when it is passcode locked! This bug is not new, it was present in iPhone 2.0.2 as well!

Here is a video demonstrating the issue:

I discovered this bug in 2.0.2 just a couple of days before 2.1 came out. So, it was too late for me to give a heads up to Apple. So, I waited for 2.1 to come along to see if it was fixed. I did that today and found out that it wasn’t fixed.

This of course could be an Auatralia-only issue or even an Optus-only issue. Nevertheless it is a security issue with the iPhone and should be addressed.

UPDATE 18 Sep 08:

There is some debate on whether it is a bug or feature! Look at the following link for some more information on the issue:
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/09/17/iphone-2-1-emergency-call-anyone-bug-or-feature/

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About the author:

Marwan Al-Zarouni CISSP is currently pursuing a Doctor of Information Technology award at Edith Cowan University. He is a member of the Security Research Centre at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia.

The features include: live rss feeds, live TV streaming channels, TV guide while watching TV, credit card and transport card functions on the phone, biometric fingerprint reader, 3+Mbps speed 3g data speeds… etc.

It has street view

The CSI Stick is a portable USB stick kind of device that can be connected to a mobile phone to conduct a copy of some sort of memory from the mobile phone device without the need for a computer to be connected to the mobile phone. The type of data collected form the mobile phone can be chosen through a slider switch. The device currently supports certain Motorola and Samsung phone models with more manufacturer support coming soon. The data collected by the device can then be interpreted via the use of Paraben’s Device Seizure or DS Lite. The cost is $199 USD.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.physorg.com/news139460365.html
and
http://computing.in.msn.com/safe/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1658902
or the device’s official website:
http://csistick.com/

Even though the iPhone doesn’t officially support Arabic yet, Google Translator includes it in 24 languages it supports for the web based software. You can use it by pointing the iPhone browser to: http://translate.google.com.

WOLF claims to forensically extract the information from the internal memory of the iPhone without altering the device.

WOLF claims it can obtain the following information from devices:

The price, training and other information can be obtained from Sixth Legion LLC, a division of IDFS LLC on:
http://www.hex-dump.com/wolftest/index.html
or
http://sixthlegion.com.

PwnageTool 2.0 MACOSX version is released.
For more details, please visit:

rlslog.net
also see:

dev team blog

UPDATE: Don’t have a Mac? You can do it in Windows as well. For instractions, go here:

Step-by-Step Guide to Pwn first generation iPhone running firmware 2.0 using Windows

In a previous post http://www.mysecured.com/?p=202 I showed that your data is not wiped when you do a normal restore. So in this post I will show you some of the ways you can wipe your phone with some degree of certainty that the information on it is wiped.

If you want to wipe your iPhone before you sell it on eBay or give it back to Apple because the touch screen stopped working all of a sudden! Then here are the different ways you can wipe it:

- Jonathan Zdziarski’s method:
http://www.zdziarski.com/papers/wipe.html

It involves jailbreaking and command line access. It is best suited for people with jailbroken iPhones and are really paranoid and control freaks!

- Rich Mogull’s (securosis.com) method:
http://securosis.com/2008/05/20/formatting-an-iphone-to-wipe-data/Which is an easy to do 2 restores and 3 overwrites of the iPhone device’s user data area. Look at this video from CNET on youtube:

- BigBoss Wipe App Method:
http://sleepers.net/news/?p=174
This needs the iPhone to be jailbroken as well. It does a zero out wipe on the device, so it will require a restore afterwards.

The basic idea of all of the methods is to overwrite the data in the user area. Be it by overwriting it with music as in Mogull’s method or by using a wipe tool as with BigBoss or by overwriting it with zeros as in Jonathan’s method. I prefer the latter two methods as overwriting with music might leave some of the data intact (call me paranoid!). But on the other hand it could be the only option for people who do not want to jailbreak their iPhone or do not have the technical expertise to do so.

UPDATE (28 August 2008):

iPhone software 2.0 and above comes with an erase all feature that was not available in previous versions of the iPhone and therefore this feature can be used to completely wipe the iPhone. This can be done on the iPhone itself without needing to connect it to iTunes.

So, on the iPhone tap Settings -> General -> Reset and then select the “Erase All Content and Settings” option from the buttons shown. Users must note that under the 1.x iPhone software, invoking this setting erased the iPhone’s obvious data, but not did NOT PERFORM A ‘bit-by-bit’ WIPE. Under the 2.0 software however, you get a much more thorough wipe (bit-by-bit). which can take an hour or two to complete depending on the storage size of the iPhone being wiped.

According to Jonathan Zdziarski:

So, if you have to return your iPhone to an Apple or AT&T store and they offer to replace it with a new one, make sure that you wipe your data properly first. A proper bit level wipe is needed here and NOT a system restore!

UPDATED LIST IS FOUND HERE: http://www.mysecured.com/?p=221

Sources for downloading iPhone third party apps. Here is a list:
Community Sources:
BigBoss: thebigboss.org/repo.xml
Conceited Software: http://www.macminicolo.net/conceited/iphone/cache.plist
ModMyiFone.com: modmyifone.com/installer.xml
Ste Packaging:http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/ (make sure you include the last /)
iPod Touch Fans: www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml

Other Sources:
aka.Repository: akamatsu.org/repo.xml
AlliPodHax Source: ihacks.us/index.xml or allipodhax.3host.biz/index.xml
AlohaSoft 1.0.2 - homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/102.xml
AlohaSoft 1.1.1: homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/111.xml
AlohaSoft 1.1.2: homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/112.xml
Apple (not really Apple): applerepo.com
AppTapp Official: repository.apptapp.com
Apogee LTD: apogeeltd.com
Blaze Official: blazecompany.googlepages.com/
BigBoss Beta: sleepers.net/iphonerepobeta
BlackWolf: m8an.de/ownrisk.xml (Extended Preferences)
Byooi Digicide: byooi.com/iphone/digicide.plist (Jiggy Apps)
CedSoft (iSnake/Bounce): prog.cedsoft.free.fr
Chris Miles Repository (iSolitare): iphone.rustyredwagon.com/repo
Conceited Software Beta: http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/beta/
CopyCoders: homepage.mac.com/hartsteins/copycoders/copycoders.xml (Network Apps)
dajavax: dajavax.googlepages.com/repo.xml
databinge: repo.databinge.com
Death to Design: iphone.deathtodesign.com
Digital Agua: repo.digitalagua.com
Dlubbat’s Apps: www.dlubbat.com/iphone.xml
Fight Club: dezign999.com/repo
FreeMyiPhone: pxl.freemyiphone.com/
Gogosoft Source: www.blackblack.org/gogobeta.plist
GravyTrain ’s Vault: iiispace.com/installer2.xml (Includes user submitted themes)
hitoriblog Experimental Pack: hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi
HighTymes: hightymes.org/iphone/plist/index.xml
iApp-a-Day: iappaday.com/install
Imagine09: home.twcny.rr.com/imagine09/Imagine09.xml
iBlackjack: iphonefanclub.com/native
iClarified: installer.iclarified.com
iPhone Cake: iphonecake.com/src/all
iPhoneDevDocs: idevdocs.com/install
iPhone For Taiwan (SummberBoard Themes): iphone4.tw/showme
i.Marine Software (Caissa): caissa.us
imimux Repository (Real Artist): imimux.com
iPhoneIslam: apps.iphoneislam.com
iPod Touched: ipodtouched.net/repo.xml
iPod-Touch-Themes.de: www.ipod-touch-themes.de/installer/repo.xml
iSpazio: http://repo.ispazio.net
iSwitcher (old): web.mac.com/iswitcher2/list.xml
iSwitcher (new) = MeachWare: meachware.com/list.xml
Jeremie Engel: rep.visuaweb.com
Jiggy Main Repository (Jiggy): jiggyapp.com/i
lazyasada: lazyasada.xeterdesign.com/repo.xml
Limited Edition iPhone: limitededitioniphone.com/lei.xml
Loring Studios: loringstudios.com/iPhone-schnapps/index.xml
MarcoGiorgini.com: marcogiorgini.com/iPhone/plist.xml
Makayama Software (CameraPro): tinyurl.com/2t8cax
MaomaLand: maomaland.com/iphone/repo.xml
Mateo (BeatPhone): bblk.net/iphone
McCarron’s Repo: patrickmccarron.com/irepo
MeachWare (new iSwitcher): www.meachware.com/list.xml
Mobile Stacks: mobilestack.googlecode.com/svn/repository/internal.plist
ModMyApple.it (iBirthday): www.serverasp.net/chiafa/MMA/repo.xml
Moyashi: hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi
MTL Repository: home.mike.tl/iphone
MyApple.pl: i.myapple.pl
newATTiPhone.com: newattiphone.com/repo.xml
NPike.net: http://apps.npike.net/repo.xml
Nuclear Design: nucleardesign.net/repository
Polar Bear Farm: www.polarbearfarm.com/repo/
Polleo Limited: source.polleo.no
Private Indistury: brandonsgames.com/chriss/index.xml
Pyrofer’s Projects: pyrofersprojects.com/repos/repos.xml
R4m0n (iPhysics): iphone.r4m0n.net/repos
RiP Dev (Caterpillar): http://repository.ripdev.com/
Robota Softwarehouse: iphone.robota.nl
Sanoodi Repository: sanoodi.com/iphone
Saurik’s Coding Toolbox (Cydia): apptapp.saurik.com
ScoresPro: www.scorespro.com/iphone/repo.xml
scummVM: urbanfanatics.com/scummvm.xml
sendowski.de (MobileChat)sendowski.de/iphone
Shai’s Apps: ride4.org/shai.xml
Simek’s Graphic: simek.ddl2.pl
Skrew: i.danstaface.net
Slezak’s Stuff: www.spencerslezak.com
Soneso Repository: soneso.com/iphone
SOS iPhone (ContactFlow): rep.sosiphone.com
Spiffyware: spiffyware.net/iphone
Studded: studded.net/installer/index.xml
Surge: iphonesurge.com/iphonesurge.xml
Swell: lyndellwiggins.com/installer/Swell
Swirlyspace: swirlyspace.com/SwirlySpace.xml
Touchmod Team: touchmods.net/rep.xml
Trejan: trejan.com/irepo
Trivialware: mazinger.cs.yale.edu/iphone-apps/index.xml
Unlock.no: i.unlock.no
weiPhone (weTools/weDict): app.weiphone.com/installer
Wizdom on Wheels (Common Website Links): iphoneapps.wizdomonwheels.com
ZodTTD.com Releases: zodttd.com/repo

Language Sources:
Arabic: apps.iphoneislam.com
Chinese: iphone.org.hk/repository.plist
Danish: iphone.vildmedmac.dk/install
French: rep.sosiphone.com
FrenchIphone: rep.frenchiphone.com
German: sendowski.de/iphone
German aXP: lostsoul.aeroxp.org/iphone/index.xml
Greek: www.greek-iphone.com/grloc
Hebrew ?????: ihebrew.net
Hungarian: ifhone.hu/install.xml
Norwegian - iFon: install.ifon.no
Polish - iPolish: krzak.net/iphone
Polish - iPolish(1.1.2): wakoman.ovh.org/iphone
Português-Brasil(1.1.2): iphonemod.com.br/forum/repo/installer.xml
Russian iPhone.RU: iphones.ru/r
Russian iPhone ??-??????: russianiphone.ru/beta
Russian Tools (in English): russianiphone.ru/beta/en
Spanish Phyros iPhone-ES: iphone.frickr.es/index.xml
Swedish iFun.se: ifun.se/swe
Taiwanese: iphone4.tw/unlock
Thai: pradt.net/iphone
Turkish: niffob.com/triphone.xml
Vietnamese: iphone.billydragon.net

More Sources here:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/wiki/index.php?title=IPod_touch_Installer_source_list

http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/sources/

http://www.installerapps.com/sources/

According to tuaw:

A half dozen different firms are actively hunting for developers who can assist law enforcement in reading data off unjailbroken iPhones

When: April 17, 2008 at 17:00 GMT
Who: Jonathan A. Zdziarski.
Details: While some of a suspect’s data can be viewed using the direct GUI interfaces in the iPhone’s software, much hidden and deleted data is available as well, which may provide for more thorough evidence gathering. Existing commercial forensic tools are sadly lacking their ability to perform deep raw disk level recovery, and so Jonathan will demonstrate how to install his custom forensics toolkit on any existing model iPhone and send a raw disk image to a desktop machine. He will also show you how to recover files specific to the iPhone including deleted keyboard caches, photos, web objects, and much more. Jonathan’s custom forensics toolkit and his accompanying forensic manual will be available free to forensic investigators in law enforcement.

Read More here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/949?CMP=ILC-orm_webinars&ATT=iphone-forensics

I know that you’ll love this as a research tool. I love the visulization part and not so much the cover-flow type interface. It is still in beta, so I am expecting more GUI improvements

Get it here:
http://www.yourergo.com/

Here is a link to a Video demo shown on CNET News.com. It shows the potential of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications like Basecamp or Salesforce.com on the iPhone. This could boost the sales of the iPhone and at the same time provide another dimention to information accessable to the iPhone mobile device.

Get them here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/60232/2007/10/nov07mobilemac.html?t=213

Thanks to Macworld magazine

As requested by Haitham. The Hard drive is not actually a hard drive. It is a Samsung 65 Nanometer NAND flash part number “K9HBG08U1M” the same one used earlier in the 8GB iPod Nano.

Data sheet can be found here:
http://www.datasheet4u.com/download.php?id=604473

More information and other links can be found here:

http://www.iphonefreak.com/2007/07/iphone-componen.html

Good news for iPhone forensics:

Paraben’s Device Seizure can get a variety of data depending on the operating system version as well as whether or not the phone has been unlocked (often called Jailbreaking). The following is a general guide to what data can be acquired from the different versions, however, our testing shows that different Jailbreaking methods unlock different portions of the phone (for instance, one method allowed Device Seizure to acquire most media files but did not allow access to phone records, contacts, or images uploaded to the phone):

Firmware 1.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2: Most logical data can be acquired from the phone Firmware 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4: Only the /var/root/Media folder will be acquired Firmware Unlocked by a Jailbreaking Utility: Should
acquire most logical data depending on the unlocking software used. This is our first release for the Apple iPhone and we expect to see many more additions to this technology in the future. Keep your subscription
current to make sure you get all the new updates.

As quoted from Paraben. For more information please visit Paraben.

Instructions in Arabic can be found here:

http://www.iphoneislam.com/?p=62

Instructions and download in English can be found here:

http://iphone.unlock.no/

If you get error “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)” you need to install .NET Framework 2.0. The executable unzips the GUI executable to “Program Files\ziphone”

Now you can unlock new iphones that are OTB 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 (bootloader version 4.6) with just software and no need for special microchips that go behind your SIM card. Here is a link to the guide:

http://iphone.unlock.no/OTB112unlock.htm

 To see it in action, check out this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SXnAUa6f0s

Gear Live has a cool gallery of pictures of the new additions to the iPhone interface in its 1.1.3 release. The most impressive feature for me was the locate-me feature for the google maps application. Other features include dragging and dropping icons on the springboard and bookmarks icon on the springboard. Another much-needed feature is the multiple-people SMS capability.

To see some screen shots of the changes please follow the link below:

http://www.gearlive.com/gallery/category/C51/

An Arabic keyboard has been developed for the iPhone. Now you can write Arabic SMS messages on you iphone

For more information and to update you iphone to support arabic typing please visit:
http://www.iphoneislam.com/?p=20

Also, make sure to bookmark their site for the latest islamic and Arabic related links and stories about the iPhone:

http://www.iphoneislam.com/

All you have to do is place a font file in the direcotry:

system/library/fonts/cache

It can be downloaded from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/70430782/arialuni.ttf.html

And your safari browser will be able to ready arabic in the correct direction this time! As shown below

Credit for this one goes to Mishary.

Thanks

For more information go to:

http://www.threeskypephone.com.au/

Boise State University is working on research to power a D-size battery by walking motion. Here are the details:

http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9818487-54.html?tag=nefd.top

Finally, someone did something for the iPhone and the iPod touch that enables users to get full disk level access with read/write prevliges on the iPhone’s disk via AFP.  The AppleTalk Filing Protocol makes the iPhone show up on the Mac desktop as a disk with full read/write access. For more from the “Core” click the link:

http://wickedpsyched.net/iphone/afp/

This is a stand-alone hard disk wiper! No computer needed. Wiebetech’s pocket-sized eRazer erases at a rate of 35MB/s, effectively wiping a 250GB hard drive in under two hours. The eRazer meets the DoD erasing standerds and sells in two versions one for $99 and the Pro which supports SATA and Multi-pass sells for $150… Cheap!

http://www.gizmodo.com.au

Also called “An Open Handset Alliance Project”. Here are some screen shots and a video preview of it from Gizmodo:

gizmodo

and video Preview:

gizmodo

The SDK can be downloaded from here:

http://code.google.com/android/download.html