DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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HD DVD Encryption cracked?
A thread on the Doom9 forum contains links posted by user Muslix64. They lead to a YouTube video and source download for a piece of java code to be employed in the breaking of Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encoded video.
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28.12.2006 All-In-One RapidShare Hacks
Several free RapidShare Hacks are combined into one and call it All-In-One RapidShare Hacks like the picture below.
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9.6.2006 Two Vista Registry Hacks
Thanks to rzalonis for this post in our forum. Here are two easy registry hacks for minor performance gains.
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17.4.2007 Recover Files from Damaged or Corrupted CD,DVD,HD DVD,Blu-Ray Disks
CD/DVD are optical storage media easily gets corrupted or damaged. CD & DVD discs have low durability and single scratch on CD/DVD will permanently damage your data.
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4.9.2009 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 WPA Encryption No Longer Secure
Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe.
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7.11.2008 Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.
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2.2.2007 Microsoft Downplays Windows Vista Encryption Cracks
The concept behind Cold-Boot attacks on encryption keys stored in the computer's DRAM is not new. The implications of physical memory attacks, in the context of Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption, were discussed at Hack in the Box 2006 by Douglas MacIver, Penetration Engineer, Microsoft Penetration Team.
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26.2.2008 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 Vista says NO to old DVD drives
Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives.
Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
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2.1.2006 Windows 7 DVD Covers
Inspired by the Windows 7 Ultimate Box Art DVD Cover which I posted about a week ago, Michel of MyDigitalLife forums has created a complete set of DVD Covers for Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional editions.
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16.8.2009 HD DVD Addon is for Movies Only
You may have heard recent rumors regarding Microsoft publishing Xbox 360 games on HD DVD discs (and in turn meaning that you would need the upcoming HD DVD add on to play them). Microsoft has officially responded.
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16.8.2006 Is Microsoft Cracking Down on DVD Ripping?
Is Microsoft trying to thwart DVD-ripping on PCs using Windows Vista with the new beta of Vista Service Pack 1?
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19.1.2008 Microsoft and Intel to Support HD-DVD
Microsoft and Intel on Tuesday pledged their support for HD-DVD, the next-generation DVD format created by Toshiba. Microsoft had previously remained neutral in the standards war between HD-DVD and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as the company's VC-1 Windows Media Video codec will be included with both formats.
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Holographic DVD to Hold 1.6 Terabytes next year!
Move over HD DVD and Blu-ray. Bell Labs spin-off InPhase Technologies and Hitachi Maxell are currently working on a computer disc about the size of a DVD that could hold up to sixty times the data. The companies hope to have the disc and compatible drives on the market by the end of next year.
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27.11.2005 Microsoft Fully Commited to HD-DVD
Microsoft's Peter Moore sparked a wave of interest at CES when he indicated that the Xbox 360 might be blessed with an external Blu-Ray drive at some point in the future. The only trouble is, his bosses say it won't.
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19.1.2006 Vista Retail DVD on Pirate Websites
Copies of Windows Vista Retail DVE have been ripped and made available for download free of charge on pirate websites and peer-to-peer networks.
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7.2.2007 How To Burn Downloaded Windows Vista to DVD
OK, you've just purchased Windows Vista from Windows Marketplace and you selected "Digital Locker Download" instead of "Buy and Ship".
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20.4.2007 Installing Vista Beta 1 (x86) without DVD media
I know, I know - Everyone should have a DVD burner these days... but I don't. Here's a rough guide on getting Vista Beta 1 (x86) installed without the use of DVD media. I am not responsible for lost partitions, data, etc!
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Microsoft shows off HD DVD drive for Xbox
Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of an external HD DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console.
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8.8.2006 CES 2007: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray
With the realization today that the LG "Super Multi Blue" player is a bit lax on its capabilities in the HD DVD department, not to mention all-around, it's fair to say it's premature to declare the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format battle over by any stretch of the imagination.
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10.1.2007 XP Black Edition USA 2007 DVD
Thanks to odeeee and other posters to for this download. No Viruses....Cracks....for the programs it comes with.....Falsly reported as Viruses....Coz they R Crackz.
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7.5.2007 iTunes DVD deal focuses on Apple TV
Apple on Thursday announced that iTunes would get new movie releases from studios the same day as their DVD release, but the larger question is whether this move can give Apple TV more traction.
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1.5.2008 Windows 7 Ultimate Box Art DVD Cover
Windows 7 has already been RTM’d and is now officially available to Connect, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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7.8.2009 Windows 7 RTM USB/DVD Download Tool Available
Microsoft is offering a free tool designed to streamline the creation of bootable Windows 7 RTM DVDs or USBs.
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23.10.2009 "Father of DVD" blasts Sony's Blu-Ray plans
Warren Lieberfarb, who is known as the "Father of DVD" for his efforts to standardize the format while president of Warner Home Video, spoke yesterday at the European Video Perspectives conference about Sony, Blu-Ray, and the battle for the next video format.
Lieberfarb launched right into Blu-Ray versus HD DVD, but his comments were somewhat surprising. He stated that Hollywood had been "duped" into blindly following a battle between game consoles instead of making a decision based on their best interests.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft XBOX 360 HD DVD Player pictures
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10.8.2006 Windows Vista Retailing: All versions On 1 DVD: Color Coded
As you may have heard there are going to be a “few” versions of Microsoft Vista when it is finally released. Redmond this week start to lift some of the details for retailers. Some interesting ones to note are that all versions of Vista will be on the same DVD.
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18.9.2006 Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass HD DVD
Data from Nielsen indicates that sales of Blu-ray media for the first time has outpaced that of HD DVD; however, as expected, both camps in the high-definition format war have different ways of interpreting the data.
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24.2.2007DRM vs. Hackers: Time to Surrender?
Industry experts
question the future of digital
rights management in the face
of the latest assault on AACS
encryption.
The recent news that a
tool from SlySoft can bypass
the newest Advanced Access
Content System encryption
scheme is the latest assault
on digital rights
management—and some are
taking it as proof that the
technology needs to change or
wither away.
"I
don't think it has been easy,
but nevertheless
is
being broken … due to
software implementations,
although there have been hacks
done on HD DVD drive firmware
as well," said Alec Main,
chief technology officer of
Cloakware, based in Vienna,
Va. "Clearly these software
implementations need to take
better precautions against
being hacked." ..
winbeta.org - 24.05.2007
HD DVD User Claims to Have Bypassed AACS Encryption
In a separate matter perhaps
inspired by, but otherwise
unrelated to, last December's
discovery of how a
software-based HD DVD player
may have left title keys
exposed, giving users access
to one of the key components
necessary for them to back up
their content onto separate
discs, another user has posted
the source code that may
enable HD DVD users to
determine the title keys for
themselves...
betanews.com - 14.02.2007
HD DVD anti-rip encryption cracked
Has the HD DVD next-generation
optical disc format's
anti-rip technology been
cracked? That's certainly
what's being claimed by a
programmer going by the name
muslix64 who has posted a
Java-based app he maintains
will free the video on a disc
from its encryption
shackles.
HD DVD
used the AACS copy-protection
system to encode content. So
does the Blu-ray Disc format,
though it adds a couple of
extra anti-piracy techniques
to boost its level of
protection. According to
muslix64's posting on a Doom9
forum, nosing around his PC's
memory, he found his test
disc's title encryption key
and was able to use to copy
the movie to his hard drive
and decrypt the video.
neowin.net - 28.12.2006
Intel, Oracle team on encryption to protect data in business 'clouds'
Judging from the announcement at this week's OracleWorld, both enterprise cloud computing and virtualization customers could soon get new data
encryption technologies that are "hardware-rooted."..
betanews.com - 25.09.2008
IBM Embeds Encryption into
Processor
IBM on Monday unveiled a new
technology known as
SecureBlue, which is comprised
of a set of encryption
circuitry that can be
integrated directly into a
computer's CPU. The idea
behind the project is that no
software or external chip can
be truly secure, as hackers
can intercept the data as it
is sent to main processor...
betanews.com - 11.04.2006
Three-Layer 51 GB HD DVD Apparently Approved by DVD Forum
News is only now leaking out that the three-layer, single sided format for HD DVD engineered by Toshiba was given the green light by the DVD Forum,
official backer of HD DVD, on August 31...
betanews.com - 11.09.2007
7 Whole-Disk Encryption Apps Put A Lock On Data
Few IT professionals need to be lectured about data security. All too frequently we hear of the theft or loss of a computer or hard drive with data
stored in the clear -- without encryption.
Fortunately, on-the-fly data encryption is no longer some exotic, costly beast.
Rather than just encrypting single files, some applications are able to create virtual disks, either within a file or directly on a partition, where
everything written to the disk is automatically encrypted. On modern hardware, the overhead for encryption is minimal; you no longer need dedicated
hardware to make this happen.
winbeta.org - 31.03.2008
Vista Encryption Concerns
British Police
British officials are
concerned about encryption in
Microsoft's forthcoming
Windows Vista release, saying
the technology could prevent
law enforcement from reading
suspects' computer files.
They claim certain new
features within Vista, while
intended to do good, may
actually set back terrorism
investigations...
betanews.com - 16.02.2006
Vista Encryption Concerns
British Gov
British officials are
concerned about encryption in
Microsoft's forthcoming
Windows Vista release, saying
the technology could prevent
law enforcement from reading
suspects' computer files.
They claim certain new
features within Vista, while
intended to do good, may
actually set back terrorism
investigations...
betanews.com - 17.02.2006
Toshiba Shows Prototype That Records High-Def to DVD
At the CEATEC electronics show in Chiba, Japan, Toshiba showed a prototype of an HD DVD recorder capable of burning up to two hours of 4 Mbps MPEG-4
high-definition video. That video is apparently being burned using a red laser -- not blue -- to an ordinary DVD-R, DVD-RW, or DVD-RAM disc...
betanews.com - 05.10.2007
Microsoft slams the door on Vista pirates
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: With the launch of SP1 Microsoft promised to put an end to two popular hacks used by pirates to allow a non-genuine install of
Windows Vista to function in the same way as a genuine install. Testing that Ive carried out in the lab today suggests that Microsoft has been true to
its word.
The two most common hacks used were the OEM BIOS hack and the grace timer hack (of which there were two flavors which
were widespread).
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has shown me
that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then require
activation - and if the system isnt activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
winbeta.org - 11.02.2008
DRam crack breaks encryption software
Disk encryption software used on many systems can be circumvented using what researchers referred to as "simple non-destructive techniques".
A report from researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Princeton University and Wind River Systems concluded that many current
consumer disk encryption programs can be compromised via a computer's DRam. The problem is that data can remain in stored in memory even after the
system is shut down. By cold-booting the system, an attacker could access data from the DRam and retrieve encryption keys.
neowin.net - 22.02.2008
Windows encryption programs open to kernel hack
Many popular Windows encryption programs that hide files inside mounted volumes could be fatally compromised by a new type of attack uncovered by a
German researcher.
According to a paper published by Bern Roellgen, who also works for encryption software outfit PMC Ciphers,
such OTFE (on-the-fly-encryption) programs typically pass the password and file path information in the clear to a device driver through a Windows
programming function called 'DevicelOControl'.
winbeta.org - 15.01.2009
HD DVD Player Drops Below $200
Despite the fanfare, the battle for control over the next-generation DVD market is still inconsequential; the DVD version of Transformers sold
43 times more copies than the HD DVD version, which was the best selling title thus far. But that could change this holiday with players finally
dropping below $200...
betanews.com - 30.10.2007
EU Opens Inquiry into Next-Gen
DVD
The European Commission said
Thursday it was looking into
the licensing procedures of
next-generation DVD formats HD
DVD and Blu-ray. Neither side
is being accused of any
wrongdoing at this time...
betanews.com - 27.07.2006
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption provide consolidated workloads a platform for secure data and systems. This paper describes
detail steps for setting up this platform for deployment of virtual machines.
winbeta.org - 25.06.2008
Toshiba: DVD Forum Hasn't Yet Approved Final 51 GB HD DVD After All
In a statement to BetaNews this afternoon, a Toshiba spokesperson said that only a preliminary version of Toshiba's 51 GB three-layer, single-sided
HD DVD format had been approved by the DVD Forum, caretaker of HD DVD...
betanews.com - 14.09.2007
All Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Encryption Defeated by One Key
The first breakthrough came
when a hacker named
"Muslix64" circumvented both
HD DVD copy protection and
Blu-ray copy protection,
resulting in the release of
pirated copies on the
Internet. On Sunday, another
Doom9 forum poster named
"arnezami" discovered how
the Processing Key could be
used for decryption on both HD
DVD and Blu-ray discs
(Previously every HD movie
needed its own unique key in
order to be decrypted).
Arnezami used only an Xbox 360
HD DVD player, the bundled
King Kong movie and his
computer to find the key.
Other Doom9 forum contributors
proved that both HD DVD and
Blu-ray Disc movies could be
decrypted using the Processing
Key found from King Kong.
Arnezami unlocked the
secrets to HD DVD and Blu-ray
Disc encryption without the
use of any hacked software or
hardware: " Most of the
time I spend studying the AACS
papers. A good understanding
of how things worked have
helped me greatly in knowing
what to find in the first
place (and how to recognize
something) ." Arnezami
isn't revealing which
software player he used to
expose the key information for
fear that the Advanced Access
Content System Licensing
Administrator would crackdown
on the software developer.
What he did want to say,
however, is that he made his
discovery simply by watching
the data as it passed through
his system.
neowin.net - 14.02.2007
InterVideo Sues Dell Over DVD Autoplay
Dell was slapped with a lawsuit on Monday from software maker InterVideo over patent infringment regarding DVD technology that allows a DVD to play immediately after inserting it into a drive. InterVideo makes DVD copying and playback software, including the popular WinDVD suite...
betanews.com - 16.08.2005
Microsoft Fighting Back Against Xbox 360 Firmware Hacks
According to reports from the
Xbox-Scene forums, Microsoft
has started shipping Xbox 360
consoles in the UK and
Australia regions with an
updated Hitachi DVD-ROM drive.
The new version of the drive
has implemented changes to the
hardware designed to make
hacking the firmware much
harder than before, including
changing the firmware chip
type, removing debug mode, and
encasing the chip with black
hard glue to make it harder to
access the chip and controller
pins. Consoles with a
manufacture date of August
2006 in the two affected
territories have been shown to
have the updated drive, but it
is certainly possible that
consoles manufactured on
earlier dates have the changes
as well. Microsoft has made
its first counter-move against
the hackers looking to open up
the Xbox 360, and this will
probably only be the first
salvo in an ongoing battle.
neowin.net - 03.10.2006
