22.10.04

Neural Prosthetics

Researchers working with slices of rat brains come up with a microchip that mimics the part of the brain responsible for creating memories. They hope to create a prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years. By Lakshmi Sandhana.

21.10.04

Hack at UC Berkeley Potentially Nets 1.4 Mil SSNs

Hackers took advantage of a known vulnerability on an unpatched computer to potentially gain access to some 1.4 million names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses and dates of birth at University of California at Berkeley, officials said Tuesday.

20.10.04

Pendulum Breezeblock Mix

Hive - Last Call VIP
Chase & Status - Love Game
Roni Size - Want Your Body (Calibre Remix)
Zinc - New Skull
Hazard - Unknown
Future Prophecies - Thunder & Lightening
Ed Rush & Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum Remix)
Noisia - Excorcism
Mampi Swift - Tripped (Gridlok Remix)
Fresh - The Living Daylights
Nightbreed - Pack Of Wolves (Pendulum Remix)
TC - Dub Tings
Pendulum - Girl In The Fire
Fresh & Baron - Supernature
Blame - Tomahawk
The Upbeats - Warewolf
Armour - Afterlife

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File size: 62 540 904 bytes

Credential Manager

Credential Manager is a new SSO solution that Microsoft offers in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP to provide a secured store for credential information. It allows you to input user name and passwords for various network resources and applications once, and then have the system automatically supply that information for subsequent visits to those resources without your intervention.

16.10.04

Signal - Pulsar (clip 96kbps)

Rhetorical TTS :: interactive demo

This rVoice demo is made available for non-commercial demonstration purposes only. The input text is limited to 255 characters (about 50 words).

Genesis Crash



LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said Friday.

Because of the backward drawings, the switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and trigger its parachutes were placed incorrectly, said Michael G. Ryschkewitsch, chairman of the board.

He emphasized, however, that the panel has not completed its findings on what went wrong with the $264 million mission to capture particles of the solar wind.

The design drawings were produced by Lockheed Martin Astronautics, which built Genesis for NASA, Ryschkewitsch said. How the mistake escaped detection is under investigation, he said.

The capsule spent three years in space but slammed into the Utah desert Sept. 8 at nearly 200 mph after its parachutes failed to open. The impact shattered the special collector arrays inside the capsule.

The pieces now fill more than 3,000 containers that have been sent to NASA's Johnson Space Center, where scientists are optimistic the samples will be useful.

Python

Python 2.3.4 is the current production version of Python. You should start here if you want to learn Python or if you want the most stable version.

X-Scan 3.1

xscan
X-Scan is a general network vulnerabilities scanner for specific IP address scope or stand-alone computer by multi-threading method. Plug-ins are supportable and GUI or CUI programs are separately provided. The following items can be scanned: service type, remote OS type and version detection based on TCP/IP stack, weak user/password pair, and all of the nessus attack scripts combination. For the most known vulnerabilities, the corresponding descriptions and solutions are provided. As to other vulnerabilities, please refer to "Document" and "Vulnerability engine" in www.xfocus.org.

X-Scan-v3.1-en.rar
Create: 2004-07-30
Platform: Windows
Size: 6616136 Bytes
MD5: dac14a3efbab833cdc8538b583ef4cb6

15.10.04

Pray for Evol

evol intent


but can we get an update?

SSH Host Key Protection

This is the first in a series of articles on SSH in-depth. We start with looking at standard SSH host keys by examining the verification process to ensure you have not been the victim of an attack. Please note that this article applies to the widely used OpenSSH application that is bundled with most Unix based operating systems, and not the commercial version of SSH.
by Brian Hatch

DJ Uisce - Throw it in and Pray

tracklisting
01_Charlie Clouser - Last I Heard :: SAW OST
02_Impulse - Future Fear :: NVR003
03_Pacific - Another Place :: EXR002
04_Noisia - Vanishing Point :: SLR004
05_Fresh & Pendulum - Kingston Vampires :: BBK001LP
06_Tactile - Catapult :: INNA012
07_SKC & Safair - Gonzo :: ORGONE017
08_Thinktank - Run & Shove :: P51005
09_Future Prophecies - Dreadlock :: BBK001LP
10_Tactile Feat. Mindscape - Dormant :: INNA012
11_Noisia - Massada :: CITRUS015
12_Greg Packer - Cyborg Dance :: DUB
13_Chris SU Feat. Suzie M - Sublime :: ORGONE017
14_Silent Witness & Break - Dialling Out :: CRIT013
15_Tactile - Falmouth :: CHANEL9620
16_J-Cut & Canoma - Between :: DUB
17_Pacific - Inferno :: EXR002
18_Greg Packer Feat. MC Assassin - Supernatural :: DUB
19_Kiko, Mayhem & MC Mecha - Echelon :: SLR004
20_Rob F - Resistance :: HOSTILE005
21_Phetsta & Replica - Running Scared :: DUB
22_Impulse - Sexstation :: NVR003
23_Silent Witness & Break - Godpad :: CRIT013
24_Charlie Clouser - X Marks The Spot :: SAW OST

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Configuring PuTTY - A step-by-step guide

The following instructions illustrate a "typical" PuTTY SSH client configuration, using Port Forwarding, (Tunnelling), to forward email traffic over the encrypted SSH link

14.10.04

Writing Trojans that Bypass Windows XP

Windows XP Service Pack 2 incorporates many enhancements to try to better protect systems from malware and other forms of attacks. One of those layers of protection is the Windows XP SP2 Firewall. One of the features of this Firewall is the ability to allow users to decide what applications can listen on the network. By allowing users to control what applications can communicate on the network, Microsoft believes that systems will be protected against threats such as Trojans. Like so many things Microsoft says, this is inaccurate and in fact it is very easy for locally executing code to bypass the Windows Firewall. So don't worry you aspiring Trojan developers, your still going to be able to Trojan consumer and corporate systems to your hearts content.

Tykal - Smokin Heartcore

John B & MC Lowqui @ Greenbeatz Cologne

13.10.04

Genuine Fraud - Maximum Overchill (100 BPMS)

Tracklisting:
01 Major Force International Presents The Japanese Noise Band - At Random
02 Röyksopp - Eple
03 Casino versus Japan - Blinking
04 Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling
05 Prefuse73 - Our Solstice Walk
06 Ultramarine - By Turns
07 Wagon Christ - The Funnies
08 Dr. Walker & M-Flux - Spice Girlz Island (Hagedorn Remix)
09 Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
10 Rob Base - It Takes Two
11 Air Liquide - Hal's Favorite
12 Dr. Walker - Dann Neunhunderdrei
13 DJ Magic Mike - The Man With The Bass
14 Meat Beat Manifesto - Now
15 Unidentified Musical Objects - Green For Go
16 Amon Tobin - Verbal (Prefuse73 Remix)
17 The Herbaliser - It's Just For You
18 Akufen - Heaven Can Wait
19 Geoff White - Twitl
20 Codebase - Perkowitzs Coda
21 Thomas Fehlmann - Lindt
22 Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - It's Thunder
23 Daedelus - Amscray

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Length: 63:00
Size: 86.5 MB

DJ Zinc - Nowsound 2004.03.06

1: Total science- Defcom69- Metalheadz Platinum dub
2: ????
3: Shimon & Moving Fusion- Mysterons- Ram
4: Krust- Follow the Vision- Full Cycle dub
5: Zinc feat Eksman- Drive by Car- ????
6. Zen - Kebab Knife - Grid
7: Calibre- Highlander- Signature
8: ????
9: Zinc- South pacific- Bingo
10: Roni Size- Groove On- V Dub
>>>> BC- Planet Dust- Prototype
11: Die & Clipz- Monorail- Full Cycle dub
12.Gridlok - Heatwave
>>>> BC- Planet Dust- Prototype
13: ???? (stunning!!!)
14: D Kay- Its on the way- Soul:r
15: Maldini- True Romance- Metalheadz platinum
16: Solid state- Just a vision (MIST remix)- Talkin loud
17: ???? dropzone??
18: Dj Zinc- Pitcher VIP- Dub
19: Fresh- Signal- Ram
>>>> Fresh-Signal- Ram
20.JB & Benny Blanco - 48 Hours
21: ???? (heavy)
22: D Kay & Mc 3igga- Lion Dub- Bingo dub
23: Roni Size- Brown paper Bag- Talkin loud
24: Zero Tolerence feat Lenny Fontana- Spread Love (nu:tone remix)- Hospital
25: J Majik + Wickaman - Spy catcher
26: Zinc- Fruitella (Riddim Killa VIP)- Dub
27: Freeland- We want your soul (Ed rush & Optical remix)- Marine Parade
28: ????
29: Fierce & Trace- Foodchain- Quarentine dub
>>>> Andy C & Shimon- Quest- Ram
30: Benjie & Rymetyme- Donkey Kong
31: Zinc feat Ms Dynamite- Freenote VIP- Dub****
32: Pendulum- Another Planet- Breakbeat Kaos
>>>> Rawhill Kru- Mo? Fire (Andy C & Fresh Remix)
33: Influx UK- Ghost people 2004- Formation
34: Clipz- Cocoa- Full Cycle
35: Zinc- Steppin Stones- Bingo
36: Jammin- Kinda Funky (Shimon Remix)- Bingo dub
37: Jammin- Go DJ (dnb mix)- Bingo??
38: D Kay- In My Soul- Bingo dub
39: Zinc- Flim (Calibre remix)- Bingo
40: JB- World of Music (Twisted Individual remix)- Back2basics
41: Jo- R Type (Shogun 2004 remix)- Shogun recs
42: ????
43: Badmarsh & Shri- Signs (Calibre remix)- Outcasted
44: Zinc- Ready Or Not (2003 remix)- white
45: ????

length: 129:24 min
Bitrate: 128 kbps
filesize: 118.48 Mb

Dj Skrapes Volume V

1: Clipz + Die - Monorail - Full Cycle
2: Total Science - Chicken Lips - C.I.A
3: Peshay - Jammin - Cubik
4: D-Kay - Lion Dub - Bingo
5: St:Cal - Red Light - Soul:R
>Roni Size - Trust Me - Talkin Loud
6: TK - My Trade - Bingo
7: Marcus Intalex - Temperance - Soul:R
8: D.Bridge and Vegas - True Romance - Metalheadz Platinum
9: J.Majik + Wickaman - Lose Control ft. Kathy Brown - Infrared
10: Total Science - West Side Story - C.I.A
11: Subfocus + Danny Wheeler - Ghost - Infrared
12: Jammin - Kinda Funky (Shimon Remix) - Bingo
13: Total Science - All Ya Favourites - C.I.A
14: Total Science - Big Man - C.I.A
15: Future Prophecies - Dreadlock - Breakbeat Kaos
16: Ed Rush and Optical - Gas Mask (Ed Rush and Optical Remix) - Virus
17: Pendulum and Fresh - Kingston Vampires - Breakbeat Kaos
18: Kryptic Minds + Leon Switch - No Escape - Defcom
19: Ed Rush and Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum Remix) - Virus
20: Wildchild - Forbidden (Drumsound + SBS Remix) - Wildstyle
21: J Majik + Wickaman - U Disgust Me - Infrared
22: Pendulum - Masochist - Breakbeat Kaos

12.10.04

MSN fighting Messenger difficulties

CNet: “several hours of outages on Monday morning”

11.10.04

Using the Forensic Server Project (PDF)

Chapter 8 of:


Windows Forensics And Incident Recovery
Author: Harlan Carvey
Pages: 480
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0321200985

Forgotten Passwords & Recovery Methods

Ever wondered how to recover or reset a forgotten password in WindowsXP? This guide will help you get back into your computer, all without reinstalling the operating system. - Version 1.0.0

DOA MIX: WILDCHILD & MC ESKMAN

1) Wildchild - Forbidden (Drumsound and Bassline Smith remix)
2) Ed Rush and Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum remix)
3) ?? - ???
4) Spor - Outspoken
5) ?? - ???
6) Klone - Blood Side
>> Bad Company - The Nine
7) TK - Freaky
8) Blame - Secret File
9) Wildchild & skitty - untitled-wildstyle
10) Pendulum - Masochist
11) XRS - Mosca
12) Cause 4 Concern - Life Support
13) Ed Rush and Optical - Gas Mask (remix)
14) ?? - ???
15) Fresh - Living Daylights
16) ?? - ???
17) Drumsound and Bassline Smith ft Skibadee - ???
18) Spirit - Dial Up
19) Wildchild - Precious
20) Distorted Minds ft Eksman and Foxy - Back In The Day
21) Bad Company - The Nine
22) Konflict - Messiah

Superman Is Dead

superman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paralysed film actor Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, has died, Fox News Channel television has reported.

Fox quoted a U.S. news agency as saying Reeve died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack on Saturday and going into a coma.

Reeve, 52, suffered multiple injuries including two shattered neck vertebrae when he was thrown from his horse at an equestrian event in 1995.

OMCREATOR - Reverse Suicide Mix

tracklisting
1 killdizk -persongrinder
2 arqer -phaethon
3 sz0n1ck -down in flames
4 d-struct -carnivore (FSR1203 "brooklyn rat count/carnivore")
5 hellraizer -WIF
6 deadman + noxious -ruby rain (FSR1204 "torrential/ruby rain")
7 ufo! -8th & market love
8 killdizk -killed by drum edits
9 art pathos -torque
10 aqua_tek -nimbus
11 robot death squad -prosthesis
12 break_frequency -here we go
13 sz0n1ck -kamikaze
14 ufo! + omcreator -brooklyn rat count (FSR1203 "brooklyn rat count/carnivore")

She Can't Smile Without You

mona lisa The Mona Lisa's half-smile is famously ambigious. Is she grinning or grimacing? Art historians argue that her mercurial mouth is little more than Renaissance special f/x. Neuroscientists offer newer theories: It's about how your brain processes light - or how your eye perceives detail. Maybe all three explanations are right. Leonardo, as good a scientist as he was an artist, probably would have thought so.

Theory 1: Brush strokes

Art experts credit sfumato, the brush technique da Vinci used to paint Mona's expression. From the Italian for "blended" or "smoky," sfumato refers to the use of featherlight strokes to apply layers of translucent color. The blended tones soften outlines, hazing the boundaries between Mona's lips and cheeks [A]. The shadows around the lips seem to pull up the corners of the mouth, suggesting a smile.

Theory 2: Fields of view
Mona's enigmatic expression may literally be in the eye of the beholder. "Look directly at her mouth - her smile disappears," says Margaret Livingstone, a Harvard neurobiologist. "Central vision does not perceive shadowy components well. Look at the eyes, seeing the mouth only with your peripheral vision, and her glorious grin becomes obvious." That's because the human eye's foveal, or central, vision is set up to best perceive detail (and is connected to a disproportionately larger chunk of the brain's visual cortex); peripheral vision is optimized for broad visual strokes.

To illustrate the effect, Livingstone altered Mona in Photoshop. She used a Gaussian blur filter to emphasize the coarse [B] and medium [C] grains, to mimic how you'd see the painting out of the corner of your eye. Then she applied a high-pass filter to underscore the finer detail [D], isolating the dead-ahead view. The result: As detail increased, Mona's grin goes flat.

Theory 3: Mental images
The human brain is wired to perceive emotion in facial expressions. But with millions of neurons clicking on and off, the brain is also intrinsically noisy. This neural static lends a normally imperceptible instability to what we see. And it can make Mona's face seem to flip from happy to sad, depending on what the noise distorts. The critical features: her lips and cheeks.

Researchers at San Francisco's Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute tested the effect of the noise by overwriting a copy of Mona with random, computer-generated pixelation. In the images where the pixels accidentally enhanced the curvature at the corners of her mouth [E], observers saw Mona as happy. Images where the pixels got in the way of the curve, giving a straighter line [F], had the opposite effect. "It worked with a photo of my girlfriend, too," says vision scientist Leonid Kontsevich. "But she refused to have her picture published in the study."

- Kari Lynn Dean


from Wired

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

lol
http://www.mame.net/
http://digita.mame.net/
http://www.mess.org/

play all the leet games.

8.10.04

Primer

primermovie.com

Info Security Writers

A major objective of the Info Security Writers is seeking the security enthusiasts who write. Most of the site’s content is generated by these people willing to share their knowledge and experiences on the various aspects of security/hacking via original white papers, articles and projects.

Threat Modeling

Threat Modeling for Web Applications using the STRIDE Model “thesis presenting the new wave of modeling threats for Web applications” (pdf)

6.10.04

Thinktank live on Sub88

thinktank - monaco - bbs
skc / bratwa - prophecy - soul:r
thinktank - focus - unsigned
sporophyte - rascal - unknown
thinktank - fiveball - dsci4
origin / ufo! / skyler mc - overdose - unsigned
thinktank - delirium tremens - dsci4
thinktank - space robot man - p51
psidream + mc mecha - atomsmash - uprising
noisia - vanishhing point - slr
subhuman - eggplant (black sun empire remix) - red light
thinktank - run and shove - p51
phace - brainwave - subtitles
mayhem / evol intent / psidream - assimilation - evol intent
genr8 / body + soul - the passage - bc present

djc(recon, us crew)- october mix

Nothing – fuckbar
Art pathos & prode – El nino
Sunchase – marazmatic
Cyb orc – sunflower
Sinthetix – c4
Pyro – implant control
Prode & Destruct – ampule
n.phect & dizplay – hell & earth
muffler – embrace
sunchase – the mole
art pathos & prode – breakage
purple unit – be sure
corrupt souls – racer x
pyro – metal fatigue
paul b & nothing – panic room
dizplay & coresplittas – genetic
us crew & the virus – man on fire

Cyb Orc - Final Transmission

final one from Cyb Orc out of Ukraine

X Prize


MOJAVE DESERT, California (CNN) -- SpaceShipOne achieved its most spectacular flight yet, climbing to an altitude of 364,000 feet (70 miles), eight miles beyond what was needed to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize.

X Prize Story @ CNN

4.10.04

EWUN - FALL MIX (feat. mc tourettes)

>skratch-intro <
1. jae kennedy, karl k., kaos - miami vice rmx - habit
2. ed rush & optical - compound[gridlok rmx] - virus
3. psidream, mayhem, evol intnt - assimilation - evol intent recs
4. gridlok & kaos - piston - violence
5. raiden - clone - renegade hardware
6. ewun - interstellar - barcode
7. spor - 3 ravens - barcode
8. evol intent - red soil [resonant evil rmx] - outbreak
9. ewun - 25 to life - unsigned
10. ewun & evol intnt - headcase - barcode
11. exile - devils chimney - evol intnt recs
12. ewun - the divide - evol intnt recs
13. evol intnt - the blood - renegade hardware
14. dom & roland - dance all night [calyx rmx] - moving shadow
15. evol intnt - horns and halos - barcode
16. tech itch feat. mc jakes - soldiers - penetration
17. ewun - i dominate - unsigned
18. ed rush & optical - alien girl - prototype
>outro feat. fresh aka harvey wallbanger<

runtime: 55:14

DOA Unsigned Mix!

This mix is 100% quality unsigned tunes from the DOA underground! Every style is represented so there is no reason not to check it out.

If anyone would like to contact any of the artists featured in this mix, just search for their DOA name [in the brackets!]

01. 00.00 The Infagreen - the outcome [the_infagreen]
02. 01.50 Eveson - raggamuffin [akira]
03. 04.13 Affinity - bass player (remix) [Kodec]
04. 07.00 Bios - out of earth [bios]
05. 09.49 Cloak & dagger - Catacombs [Concealed Identity]
06. 12.26 Jcb - Lucid [jcb]
07. 15.20 The infagreen - Scattered mind [the_infagreen]
08. 18.11 Mistabishi - Meh [mistabishi]
09. 19.35 Eveson - Turntable grime [akira]
10. 21.32 Bios - Reflection [bios]
11. 25.28 Desimal - Promist [desimal]
12. 29.40 Reform - A flute with no name [batfink]
13. 33.15 Jmcee - Surreptitia [jmcee]
14. 36.34 Failsafe - 913 VIP [Ki & Nuendo]
15. 39.44 Reform - Tomorrow v2 [batfink]
16. 42.18 Mistabishi - Other [mistabishi]
17. 45.09 Truly one - Bound in stone [Dj_Stealth]
18. 47.40 Milo - Black hawk down VIP [Milo]
19. 50.06 >> Forsaken - Speaking in tongues [DJ Bubonic]
20. 52.10 Morgan - Sprites [nworldsound]
21. 56.14 Miklo - Rain [miklo]
22. 58.59 Hypnotic - Invisible frontier [hypnotic]

2.10.04

1000 sets

1.10.04

Quantum cryptography gets practical

In theory and in labs, quantum cryptography -- cryptography based on the laws of physics rather than traditional, computational difficulty -- has been around for years. Advancements in science and in the world's telecommunications infrastructure, however, have led to the commercialization of this technology and its practical application in industries where high-value assets must be secure.

Story @ Computer World