The files contain information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170 countries. The leak amounts to 260 gigabytes of data, or 162 times larger than the U.S. State Department cables published by WikiLeaks in 2010.
via Massive data leak exposes offshore financial secrets – World – CBC News.
Memfetch
It is a simple utility to dump all memory of a running process, either immediately or when a fault condition is discovered. It is an attractive alternative to the vastly inferior search capabilities of many debuggers and tracers – and a convenient way to grab “screenshots” from many types of text-based interactive utilities. To install memfetch:
## FreeBSD ## pkg_add -r -v memfetch ## other *nix user download it from the following url ## wget http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/memfetch.tgz tar xvf memfetch.tgz cd memfetch && make
via Top 8 Tools For Linux / Unix Memory Forensics Analysis.
This looks like a useful tool. From the README file:
Debuggers like gdb are pretty good for examining small sections
of code or memory, but are pretty much useless for massive comparison, sophisticated searches and such. It’s good to be able to retrieve full memory image to run it thru grep, strings, your favorite viewer or any other tool. Quite obviously, I developed this code not because it’s extremely difficult to do it on your own, but because it is a valuable shell utility for all kinds of deep hacking activities that simply saves you time.Memfetch is a convenient screenshot grabber for ssh or screen sessions, by the way 😉
I chose memfetch from the eight since it seemed the most intuitive and simple. The downloadable tarball contains a single .c file and a make file. Unfortunately the installation isn’t as easy as portrayed in the above blurb. On Fedora 14 I needed to futz with the C_INCLUDE_PATH and add the kernel…/asm-generic into the path. I also had to symbolic link an asm to asm-generic in the kernel source include directory because the program wanted a asm/path.h file. Things have changed since 2007 when this program was last updated. But it works and it may prove useful. I’m sure Backtrack 5 must have this tool, or tool like this, pre installed.
Instead of personally composing the pieces, Schwencke developed a set of step-by-step instructions that can take a stream of data — this particular algorithm works with earthquake statistics, since he lives in California — compile the data into a pre-determined structure, then format it for publication.
via ‘Robo-reporter’ computer program raises questions about future of journalists.
The starting price for Dell’s XPS 10 is now US$449 for a 32GB model, scalping $50 off the original launch price. The 64GB model is $499, which is a drop from the original $599 price. By comparison, the price of the Latitude 10 tablet with Intel processors and Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS remained stable at $499.
Microcenter always has a full fledged decent laptop for under $300. Here’s the special this week for $279. I don’t know why anyone would pay double for a tablet which is hard to do any real work on. I recently bought a 7″ Samsung S3 tablet for $180 (on sale) that does everything one would ever need to do on a tablet.
Note: The above link to this special will most likely be dead after the sale.
We’re pleased to introduce the latest and greatest Incredible PBX with an incomparable VoIP feature set. For the Pioneers, you now get transparent support for both Asterisk® 1.8 with PIAF-Purple and Asterisk 10 with PIAF-Red. Just download the PIAF 1.7.5.6.3 ISO and pick your favorite flavor
via Nerd Vittles » 3 Steps to VoIP Nirvana: It’s Incredible PBX 2.0.
So what can you do about all this the next time you’re ready to upgrade phones? The alarming answer is not much. According to Reiber, all of our volunteers did the right thing. They used the software tools available to restore each phone to its factory settings. But that didn’t matter. The data is still there, if you have the means to recover it. In fact, Reiber says there’s only one surefire way to make sure someone isn’t going to come along behind you and scarf up your old bits: Take a hammer to it.
via Break Out a Hammer: You’ll Never Believe the Data ‘Wiped’ Smartphones Store | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Another reason not to use your mobile gadget for storing any sensitive information. Here’s a link to MPE+ Mobile Phone Forensics mentioned in the article. Here’s a sample of their features:
PHYSICAL IMAGING OF ANDROID DEVICES
MPE+ enables physical imaging of Android devices. MPE+ features built in rooting functions that allows the physical analysis of any partition on an Android device. No need to pay for additional “rooting” suites.
The Europa Clipper mission would place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of the giant planet’s moon Europa — a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust and which could host conditions favorable for life. The Europa Clipper mission would send a highly capable, radiation-tolerant spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to perform repeated close flybys of Europa.
Redirections such as
>or|are performed by the running shell, before it invokessudo.You have to either use
sudo sh -c "echo blah > /proc/blah", or run a root shell withsudo -s.
via linux – Bash: permission denied for file write – Super User.
This had me stumped until the greatness of google divined the answer and why my user script couldn’t write to a root owned file using plain old sudo. After figuring this out I also realized I don’t need to write to a root owned file after all but I found this solution interesting.
They’re also launching a new distributed database called Plazma, which offers significant improvements over HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Files System). Plazma is significantly better than HDFS precisely because it’s more efficient and is able to compile and parse data at a much faster rate.
Both computers—the mind-blowing C-64 and the somewhat bland TRS-80—feature their own version of the language we mentioned earlier, BASIC. In fact, the two versions are virtually identical. Nevertheless, the company paying top dollar for that ad you see to the right, Commodore, has created a more spectacular version of the language. Therefore, the award for BASIC must go to the C-64. William Shatner is always right, after all.
via Radio Shack TRS-80 vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans.