Anonymous' attack tools

Article on arstechnica.com: High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools

Account of a "legal" bank robbery

(via BoingBoing)

New virus targeting Iran?

Reports of a new virus, "Stars," hitting Iran: son of Stuxnet?

Anonymous vs. HBGary

Here's an article that sums up what happened last month with the whole "Anonymous vs. HBGary"-thing.
Aaron Barr, the CEO of HBGary, pisses of Anonymous, they teach him a lesson and, in the process, find a lot of juicy material and make it public.

Also:
Article on BoingBoing entitled "How Anonymous decides: inside the lulz-sausage factory"

The boy who stole Half-Life 2

Eurogamer has an article about Axel Gembe, who stole the Half-Life 2 sourcecode back in 2003:
The boy who stole Half-Life 2
Can't believe that was over 7 years ago already.

Ruby programming for beginners

Found this article on Lifehacker about Hackety Hack, a Ruby programming/learning tool for beginners.

In the comments of this article, someone mentioned Why the lucky stiff, the person behind Hackety Hack, and pointed to this article that tells a bit of background information on him.

Google Beatbox

Google now offers beatboxing as a new service!
(click on link and then on "Listen")

DIY PC build

Kotaku has a nice article about building your own PC vs. buying it pre-built.

Make XBMC run emulators

Turn Your XBMC Media Center into a Video Game Console (lifehacker.com)

Password Security

How I'd hack your weak passwords (Lifehacker)

Free people search

Kevin Mitnick's business card

Best business card ever.

Portal Puzzle

Valve pushed out an update to Portal recently and people found that there was some hidden code in there which they proceeded to decrypt. Here's a summary of what happened so far.

Hack a wireless WEP connection

iPhone: DFU and Recovery Mode

I got confused between DFU and recovery mode on the iPhone while trying to restore a custom 3.1.2 firmware.

So here's the breakdown:

Recovery mode:
To put your iPhone into recovery mode, first disconnect your iPhone from USB cable and power off your iPhone. Then hold the Home button and connect USB cable again. Keep holding the Home button until you see a dock cable pointing to the iTunes icon (or yellow triangle for older version of iPhone or Steve Job logo for pwned iPhone). Now you are in recovery mode.
(found here)

DFU mode:
Connect the phone to the USB cable and turn it off. Then hold the Home and Power buttons for 10 seconds. Then let go of the Power button but keep the Home button pressed for another 10 seconds. If done right, iTunes should start automatically and tell you that the phone is in DFU mode and that it needs to restore.
(found here)

In order to restore the custom 3.1.2 firmware I had created using Pwnage Tool, I had to use Recovery mode. In principle, DFU mode should have worked as well, but I always got an error from iTunes when trying that. Recovery mode worked, though.

How to disable data (internet access) on iPhone

http://brent.kearneys.ca/2008/07/21/iphone-20-how-to-disable-cellular-internet-access/

Change OSX Leopard Dock appearance

I find the 3D Dock in Leopard annoying, one can't see well which programs are running because the white spot fades in with the clear background. With this command the 3D Dock can be switched back to 2D:

Open the "Terminal" Application and type this:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

Safe-crackers' "Penetration party"

Personal Account of Safe-Cracking "Penetration Party"

The Conficker worm and April 1st

Article on Gizmodo about how the Conficker worm changed on April 1st.

Antwerp Diamond Heist

Wired published this article in their current issue ("The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist"). The story sounds like a real-life Ocean's eleven. Leonardo Notarbartolo was released from prison last week.
Here's the website of the article's author, Joshua Davis.

Siftables