Filed under: Networking
Like having control of your connection to the internet? Don’t tell Dan Kaminsky that — the researcher has developed a method of DNS attack utilizing typical D-Link or Linksys routers that can allow hackers to gain command of your gear. The winner-takes-all maneuver, which is called a “DNS rebinding attack,” functions by putting JavaScript into play that fools your browser into altering your router’s configuration, thus letting the operator remotely administer the device. The concept isn’t water-tight, as it takes advantage of easily-guessable router admin passwords, though Kaminsky says the enabling bug exists as a “core issue” for browsers. The attack will be showcased at tomorrow’s RSA security conference, where it’s hoped the demonstration will raise awareness about router security vulnerability. In the meantime, we suggest you change that default password.
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Filed under: Laptops
It’s a full 24 hours after we expected it, but with looks this hot we’re not surprised the HP Mini-Note 2133 is fashionably late. Specs are exactly what we’d heard and what was up on Amazon earlier: 2.6 pounds, Via C7-M processor, 1280×768 8.9-inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard that’s just 8 percent smaller than normal, and a variety of configurations ranging from a $499 1.0GHz Linux-powered unit with 4GB of flash and 512MB of RAM to a maxed-out $749 config with a 1.6GHz processor, 120GB drive and Vista Business. Laptop managed to score some hands-on time, and from the video it looks like this thing might actually be as popular as HP is predicting — except for those crazy side-mounted vertical mouse buttons, which are totally messing with our heads. Still no word on availability, but it seems like HP’s ready to go — anyone taking the plunge right away?
Read - HP press release
Update: Plenty of early reviews are in. Things are looking good so far, check ‘em out:
Read - Laptop hands-on video (scroll down)
Read - jkOnTheRun checks it out
Read - Notebook Review, um, review
Read - Notebooks.com blows it out
Read - PC Mag review (4/5)
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Filed under: Laptops
It’s a full 24 hours after we expected it, but with looks this hot we’re not surprised the HP Mini-Note 2133 is fashionably late. Specs are exactly what we’d heard and what was up on Amazon earlier: 2.6 pounds, Via C7-M processor, 1280×768 8.9-inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard that’s just 8 percent smaller than normal, and a variety of configurations ranging from a $499 1.0GHz Linux-powered unit with 4GB of flash and 512MB of RAM to a maxed-out $749 config with a 1.2GHz processor, 120GB drive and Vista Business. Laptop managed to score some hands-on time, and from the video it looks like this thing might actually be as popular as HP is predicting — except for those crazy side-mounted vertical mouse buttons, which are totally messing with our heads. Still no word on availability, but it seems like HP’s ready to go — anyone taking the plunge right away?
Read - HP press release
Read - Laptop hands-on video (scroll down)
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Filed under: Cellphones
It appears that Nokia is readying its official response to the iPhone, a project grossly codenamed “Tube” that will feature a touch interface. The new handset — which is said to closely resemble Apple’s device (see above, we assume) — was shown during a slideshow at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California. The slide demonstrated the phone’s UI, including a promotional shot featuring Shrek The Third. Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, believes that the company can compete for the iPhone’s marketshare, though the phone-maker hasn’t set a street date for the device. Apple has sold more than 4 million units since the iPhone’s launch, but Libretto smugly noted that, “We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday,” (though he failed to mention that it was 4 million low-end candybar handsets). He then put on a monocle, puffed on a Cuban cigar, and knocked back a tall glass of Cristal while chortling, “Oh, I do say!”
[Thanks, Alex]
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Filed under: Cellphones
It appears that Nokia is readying its official response to the iPhone, a project grossly codenamed “Tube” that will feature a touch interface. The new handset — which is said to closely resemble Apple’s device (see above, we assume) — was shown during a slideshow at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California. The slide demonstrated the phone’s UI, including a promotional shot featuring Shrek The Third. Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, believes that the company can compete for the iPhone’s marketshare, though the phone-maker hasn’t set a street date for the device. Apple has sold more than 4 million units since the iPhone’s launch, but Libretto smugly noted that, “We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday,” (though he failed to mention that it was 4 million low-end candybar handsets). He then put on a monocle, puffed on a Cuban cigar, and knocked back a tall glass of Cristal while chortling, “Oh, I do say!”
[Thanks, Alex]
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Filed under: Portable Audio
You’d think that after three whole versions of the MobilBLU Cube, the company could get itself off of .mac and onto a real server — but you’d be wrong. Regardless, the Borg-ship-aping media player is back, this time sporting a whopping 2GB of storage (just enough for those 14 LPs you own). Of course, you can’t beat its support for MP3 and WMA files, compatibility with PlaysForSure content, FM tuner, and shiny, happy OLED display… or can you? We’re not completely sure, but if you want to get to the bottom of this mystery, grab one on May 1st for $99.
[Via Engadget Spanish]
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Filed under: Portable Audio
You’d think that after three whole versions of the MobilBLU Cube, the company could get itself off of .mac and onto a real server — but you’d be wrong. Regardless, the Borg-ship-aping media player is back, this time sporting a whopping 2GB of storage (just enough for those 14 LPs you own). Of course, you can’t beat its support for MP3 and WMA files, compatibility with PlaysForSure content, FM tuner, and shiny, happy OLED display… or can you? We’re not completely sure, but if you want to get to the bottom of this mystery, grab one on May 1st for $99.
[Via Engadget Spanish]
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Filed under: Laptops
It looks like the rumors of HP launching the sexy 2133 UMPC today were off the mark, but it certainly does seem like the diminutive laptop is coming soon — placeholder pages for an “HP 2133 Mini-Note PC” have popped up at Amazon and other retailers. That’s the first we’ve heard of the Mini-Note name, which is interesting in terribly uncreative way, but we’re slightly more intrigued by the addition of a 1.0GHz SuSE model with 4GB of flash instead of a hard drive — we’d originally heard that the 2133 would come in such a configuration, but none of the specs we’d seen so far had mentioned it. Of course, an empty Amazon product page with no pricing information doesn’t make the 2133 any more official, but we’ve got a feeling it’s pretty close — come on HP, we know you’re confident, let’s see what you’re hiding back there.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - Amazon product page for the 1.2GHz / 120GB config
Read - Amazon product page for the 1.0GHz / 4GB flash config
Read - Product listing on compsource.com
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
It’s one thing to put the kibosh on whispers of across-the-board layoffs; it’s another to go and fire twice the amount rumored. Sure enough, a recent report from the AP notes that the California-based chipmaker is expecting to layoff 10-percent of its 16,000-person workforce by Q3 2008. Additionally, the outfit is trimming its sales outlook for Q1 due to “poor sales in all of its business segments,” and as if that wasn’t enough, it’s expecting to “incur an [undisclosed] restructuring charge in the second quarter as a result of the layoffs.” Ouch.
[Via The Street, thanks Aaron]
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Filed under: Storage, Networking
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Apple_says_AirPort_Disk_use_with_Time_Machine_is_unsupported_2′; Okay, the Time Machine / AirPort Extreme situation is now officially ridiculous. TidBITS’s Glenn Fleishmann says Apple’s confirmed to him that the Extreme is unsupported for use with Time Machine, even though the latest batch of updates enable AirPort Disks to show up in the Time Machine disk-selection box. Fleishmann thinks a it’s leftover developer testing glitch, but either way, Apple’s will-they-won’t-they routine means lots of people now have an unsupported backup solution that works “erratically.” Seriously, if you thought AirPort Extreme owners were pissed off about Time Capsule, just wait until backups start failing. Not a lot of options left, Apple — better get this feature up and running ASAP.
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