First iPhone Trojan Horse Reported

Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, first reported on Saturday, has already come and gone reports CNET News. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware. Billed as an "important system update," the code does little more than cause annoyance. According to various sources, once the Trojan is installed it simply displays the word "shoes."

However, the Trojan also overwrites several legitimate applications, including Erica's Utilities, Launcher, Doom, and OpenSSH, meaning that if you uninstall the Trojan, you will need to reinstall these applications later. This appears to be a consequence of poor programming.

The risk to iPhone users is now considered negligible since the host sites have all been taken down.

As antivirus vendor F-Secure concluded in its blog, "This time it was an 11-year-old kid playing with XML files who created the Trojan. Next time it might be someone else with more skills and with specific target."

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Seagate's 1TB HDD With Native Encryption

Seagate announces a 3.5-inch 1TB hard drive with full disc AES encryption and a 250GB notebook hard drive.


Seagate this week announced two new hard drives for desktops and notebook computers. The new desktop hard drive is a 1TB 3.5-inch internal drive with integrated government-grade encryption technology to keep data safe from unauthorized users. The drive is called the Barracuda FDE for full disk encryption and is the world’s first 3.5-inch desktop hard drive with native encryption and uses the same technology as the Momentus FDE notebook hard drives.

Seagate employs AES, which is the strongest level of commercially available encryption protocols. The Barracuda FDE encrypts the entire drive’s contents for full protection when the system is off. Booting a computer with a Baraccuda FDE drive requires the user to enter a pre-boot password. The Barracuda FDE desktop drive is available in capacities up to 1TB and has a 7200-rpm spindle speed.

To reach this high level of storage, Seagate employs perpendicular magnetic recording technology it pioneered on the 750GB Barracuda hard drive last year. The Momentus 5400.4 also has improved durability with an operating shock tolerance of 325 Gs and a non-operating shock tolerance of 900 Gs.

The Momentus 5400.4 is scheduled to ship to system builders in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the Barracuda FDE is on track for shipment in 2008. Seagate has no comment on pricing of either drive at this time.

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Lock Folder Without Any Software

A very useful trick to lock a folder without the need of any software.This trick has only been tested in Windows XP.

Suppose you want to lock the folder "Photo" in d: which has the path D:\Photo. In the same drive create a text file and type

ren Photo Photo.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Now save this text file as lock.bat.

create another text file and type in it

ren Photo.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Photo

Now save this text file as key.bat.

Now you have two batch files lock.bat and key.bat.When lock.bat is pressed the folder named lucky will change to Control Panel and contents will be unaccesible.Again when the key.bat is pressed it revert back to its original contents and the contents are accesible.

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Hide one file into another

Today we need many files to be hidden or don't want other users to view those...so here is a simple trick through which u can save one format of file into another.To be precise here it is only described how to hide a .pdf file into a simple looking .JPEG file.

Follow this process ::::

Step 1: You will need two files - the file you want to hide and one jpg image - it can be of any size or dimensions.Then add it to RAR archieve by right clicking on the file to be hidden and then "Add to archieve " option or alternatively ZIP it if not using WinRAR.

Step 2: Copy the above two files to the C: (or anyother location preferred by you) folder and open the command prompt window.


Step 3: Move to the c: root(or the location where the two files are present) by typing cd \

Step 4: The most important step - type the following command:

copy /b image.jpg + filetohide.rar my_new_image.jpg

You will get the message::::image.jpg
filetohide.rar
1 file(s) copied.

To recover the original file, just open the WinRAR and locate the new image file here it is my_new_image.jpg or in simple extract the image file with WinRAR.

Here we illustrated with an pdf file as that works with simple renaming. If you want to apply this technique to other file formats like XLS, DOC, PPT, AVI, WMV, WAV, SWF, etc, you may have to first compress them in RAR or ZIP format before executing the copy /b DOS command.

That's it - No advanced Steganography tricks involved here. Just be sure to write the correct syntax of the copy command:

copy /b sourceimage.jpg + filetohide.rar targetimage.jpg

So start hiding your files from your father or from your friends.

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