Sony PS3 Public Private Key Found and Hacked (Video)

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Dec 302010
 

fail0verflow, famous for their Wii hacking, did a presentation yesterday called Console Hacking 2010 at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27c3). One of the major highlights was the dongle-less jailbreaking by breaking the PS3 loaders, giving complete control over the system. They showed how they retrieved the Sony PS3 private cryptography key, giving users the ability to sign their own SELFs. Apparently, Sony uses the same “random” number all the time. If you can’t wait, skip to 33:00 for the good stuff. You can follow @fail0verflow on twitter.

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released

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Dec 292010
 

This totally slipped off my radar. Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is released and ready for download! The update should be available on Windows Update soon, but if you can’t wait, you can download Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 directly.

The major features in this new release is the Network Inspection System, a network intrusion detection system that works on Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as a new anti-malware engine that employs heuristics in malware detection.

Visualization of Life Expectancy vs Wealth of 200 Countries over 200 Years in 4 Minutes

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Dec 292010
 

This is simply an amazing video showing how visualization of statistical data can be fun, interesting, yet informative providing several conclusions in a clear, concise manner. Amazing.

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

StarCraft II Game-Time Passes Now Available Online

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Dec 292010
 

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty game cards provide an additional, flexible payment option alongside the existing boxed version of StarCraft II, which includes unlimited access for the life of the game. They are available in 3-day, 7-day, and 30-day pass versions, and can be used on the Southeast Asian Battle.net server for StarCraft II single-player and multiplayer play. The prepaid game cards will be distributed across Southeast Asia in select Internet gaming cafes, convenience stores, and gaming retail shops.

You can find out where it sells in Singapore here. It’s available at most 7-Eleven shops in Singapore.

Pricing for the game-time passes varies by region as listed below:

Region 3-day pass 7-day pass 30-day pass
Indonesia 10,000 IDR 20,000 IDR 70,000 IDR
Philippines 50 PHP 100 PHP 350 PHP
Singapore Unavailable 3 SGD 10.50 SGD
Thailand 35 THB 70 THB 250 THB

Players can now conveniently visit http://blizzard.iahgames.com/sc2-prepaid.html to purchase game-time passes by using local popular online payment methods.

Merry Christmas (X’mas) Everyone and Announcing the Winners of the Giveaway

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Dec 242010
 

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a great Christmas ahead. I will be taking a break from blogging for a few days, but I’ll be back again soon. Before I leave, I’ll like to announce the winners of all my giveaways. I’ll be sending you, the winners, an email soon.

For the Fisheye Lomography Camera Giveaway, Erin gets it!
For the Norton Internet Security 2010 + 2011 + 360 v4 Giveaway, Peter gets the Norton 360, Ashley Lin gets the NIS 2010, ant gets the NIS 2010, Dixon Chan gets the NIS 2011!
For the Wonder Girls – 2 Different Tears Signed Copy Giveaway, Yanwen gets this CD!
For the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 Giveaway, DANAE. wins it!!
For the Sony Walkman NWZ-W252 Giveaway, Qiyun WINS with the best comment ever!
For the Sony S-Frame DPF-D75 Digital Photo Frame Giveaway, Zane Lee wins it. :)
For the Philips Docking Entertainment System DC190 Dock for iPod Giveaway, Benny wins this awesome.

Philips Docking Entertainment System DC190 Dock for iPod Giveaway

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Dec 222010
 

On the 7th day of Christmas… Sorry guys, I was so busy and lazy yesterday I forgot to post this out. Do you know how tiring it is to give away so many things for Christmas? I’m giving out the Philips Docking Entertainment System DC190 Dock for iPod dual alarms retailing at SGD$99 today.

For this giveaway, just post a comment here that you want to it, and I will randomly select a person to give this wonderful docking entertainment system to. This giveaway will end on the 23rd December 2010 2359 (Note: You only have 1 day to do this), and only people residing in Singapore are eligible.

Last day of Giveaways for the first 5 Giveaways

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Dec 222010
 

On the 1st day of Christmas, I’m giving away… Fisheye Lomography Camera Giveaway

On the 2nd day of Christmas, I’m giving away… Norton Internet Security 2010 + 2011 + 360 v4 Giveaway

On the 3rd day of Christmas, I’m giving away… Wonder Girls – 2 Different Tears Signed Copy Giveaway

On the 4th day of Christmas, I’m giving away… Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 Giveaway

On the 5th day of Christmas, I’m giving away… Sony Walkman NWZ-W252 Giveaway

And all these 5 giveaways ends tonight, 22nd December 2010 at 2359. If you wish to have any of them, comment on the post and you’ll stand a chance to have it for Christmas.

The Great Singapore Telco 3G Speed Test (#SGTelcoTest) for iPhone 4 Has Officially Started

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Dec 202010
 

I have officially started doing my speedtest around Singapore, and covered a few locations today. Apparently, SingTel and M1 are kind of tied for being great at certain areas, but poor at other areas. StarHub seems to be consistently bad at every one of the major areas I’ve visited. I’ll do a video and some explanation of how I’m doing the test in another post at a later date.

You can follow my twitter for the latest updates or follow the hash tag #SGTelcoTest. You can get the latest updates also from the spreadsheet above as I will update the results as soon as I’m done testing.

Disclaimer: These results are independent, and are taken by myself using Speedtest.net Mobile Speed Test. It is just data and not representative of the overall performance of each individual telco. The speed of the 3G connection depends on various factors and results might defer from person to person.

Sony S-Frame DPF-D75 Digital Photo Frame Giveaway

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Dec 202010
 

Ok, I took a break over the weekend. On the 6th day of Christmas… I’m giving away a Sony S-Frame DPF-D75 Digital Photo Frame. It is a modern, sleek designed 7″ LED S-Frame to bring out the best in your Christmas photos this season. This Sony S-Frame DPF-D75 Digital Photo Frame is retailing at S$169.

For this giveaway, just post a comment here that you want to it, and I will randomly select a person to give this wonderful digital photo frame to. This giveaway will end on the 23rd December 2010 2359 (Note: this is 1 day AFTER the previous 5 giveaways), and only people residing in Singapore are eligible.

Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori ノルウェイの森) Movie

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Dec 202010
 

I didn’t realize Norwegian Wood, a classic love novel written by a famous author Haruki Murakami (one of my favourite authors of all time), was adapted into a movie! It just got released in Japan on the 16th December 2010, and 36 other countries over the next few months. I hope it comes to Singapore soon! I can’t wait to watch it and buy the DVDs!!!

Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo. Through Toru’s reminiscences we see him develop relationships with two very different women — the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively Midori.

- Wikipedia

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