World's first hack free software developed in Australia

MELBOURNE: 

      A team of Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence's spinout company Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) developed a microkernel The 'seL4' and claimed it to be the the world's first hack-free software which can protect systems from failure or malicious attacks.  It is a small operating system kernel which regulates access to a computer's hardware. Its unique feature is that it has been mathematically proven to operate correctly, enabling it to separate trusted from untrusted software, protecting critical services from a failure or a malicious attack, say the scientists.

 

     In future applications, seL4 could ensure that trusted financial transaction software from secure sources like banks or stock exchanges can operate securely on a customer's mobile phone alongside "untrusted" software, such as games downloaded from the Internet, according to its developers.

     Lead scientist Gerwin Klein said, "Our seL4 microkernel is the only operating system kernel in existence whose source code has been mathematically proven to implement its specification correctly. Under the assumptions of the proof, the seL4 kernel for ARM11 will always do precisely what its specification says it will do."

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A Man hacked 3,200 Gmail Accounts

1)     Sometimes you read about a criminal who is so much of a small-minded pervert and borderline mutant you almost can’t help but admire him. George Bronk is just such a criminal: the 23-year old has just pleased guilty to hacking into the email accounts of 3,200 girls, looking for nude photographs, then posting the pictures to their public Facebook profiles. That’s some single-minded skeeviness.
2)     Bronk was arrested in late October after he used the same technique that was popularized by hacker David Kernell to break into Sarah Palin’s email. Namely, Bronk scoured his victims’ Facebook accounts looking for the answers to security questions used for password recovery by services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
3)      Once he had access to an email account, it was go time: he’d do an extensive search for nude photographs sent by the account holder, then trigger a Facebook password recovery to get into their account and post the pictures live to their profiles.
4)     Gronk did this to over 172 women: he even convinced one woman to send him even more explicit photos of herself by threatening to post the ones he’d already stolen if she didn’t. 
5)     Gronk now faces six years in prison for felony hacking, child pornography (it seems several of the girls were minors) and identity theft charges. 
6)     Wow. Most pervs would stop at just getting the naked photos, but the added step of posting them to the girls’ own Facebook profile? That’s just the creep-de-la-creep.

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