MIT Students Use LED Lights, Hack Building to Play Tetris

Students at MIT took to the university’s Cecil and Ida Green Building over the weekend to transform the 21-story research building into an oversized, playable game of Tetris. Emulating the classic ’80s video game with the help of a console and 153 color-changing LED lights, students were able to...

Study Finds China Censorship Of Social Media Is Real, Pervasive

A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has concluded that Chinese social media sites are deleting messages with content that might be construed as controversial by the Communist Party – the first conclusive evidence that state censorship extends to social media sites like Sina Weibo...

Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope

Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope Have you ever wanted to inspect or photograph something up close, but could not find amagnifying glass or did not have enough light on your subject? Well read on, because this project will do the job for you at little or no cost called "My...

Make Your Own Real Android Robot !

Android's little green robot mascot is pretty cute. Even one of Apple's biggest fans could admit he's cooler than a slightly bitten fruit. So seeing how commonly hacked Android is, when Instructables member Tanabata decided to hack a figurine to make it responsive--the Android robot is, of course...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2009:0014)

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1106 Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages...

MDVA-2009:005 : x11-server

This updated x11-server-xorg package provides the following fixes: The OpenOffice.org application menu would trigger a bug in the X server's xkb cache code causing it to crash segfault. Fake key events generated by the XTest extension would not change the state of the keyboard leds. This would...

Countdown to Conficker's April 1st climax

By Byron Acohido, LastWatchdog.com Two schools of thought exist about what the Conficker worm will do come the wee hours of April 1, 2009, GMT. Some experts, like WinPatrol creator Bill Pytlovany, are sensing that the worm’s controllers will run circles lastwatchdog.com around the Microsoft-led...

OCE 3121/3122 Printer (parser.exe) Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit for hardware platform in category dos / poc ============================================================ OCE 3121/3122 Printer parser.exe Denial of Service Exploit ============================================================ !/usr/bin/perl OCE 3121/3122 Printer DoS Exploit...

OCE 3121/3122 Printer (parser.exe) Denial of Service Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl OCE 3121/3122 Printer DoS Exploit ---------------------------- By Herman Groeneveld aka sh4d0wman trancelover75 AT gmail.com Description: the printer runs a webserver to provide various printing tasks from java enabled browsers. Input is being...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Led-Forums

Product: Led-Forums Versions: Beta 1 Vulnerability: XSS- and redirection-Bug Date: October 30, 2003 Discovered by: ProXy [email protected] 1. - XSS-Bug The Welcome-Message of the Led-Forums software could be changed by everybody. Normal Text, HTML and Javascript it's all allowed! : eg:...