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Microsoft to open mobile games studio, develop and incubate Windows Phone 7 titles
Aug 12th
Microsoft employees may , but they won’t have to code cross-platform Windows Phone 7 games — Redmond job postings recently revealed that there’s a studio for that, which will develop and publish first- and second-party titles on the company’s dime. According to job descriptions, the newly-christened “MGS Mobile” will develop “showcase” Windows Phone 7 titles with an emphasis on , and also incubate titles from indie devs and partners like the original Microsoft Game Studios, its older Xbox-based sibling. Interestingly enough, games won’t necessarily be limited to Windows Phone 7 devices, but may appear on “emerging mobile platforms” as well — the idea being to advance Microsoft’s position in the mobile gaming space rather than just pimp the WP7 platform. Is the world ready for Halo on ? Oh, you bet your britches it is. Just don’t expect to see Xbox games .
originally appeared on on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:22:00 EDT. Please see our .
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Hacker intercepts phone calls with homebuilt $1,500 IMSI catcher, claims GSM is beyond repair
Aug 1st
In 2009, Chris Paget showed the world the vulnerabilities of RFID by from the safety of his automobile. This year, he’s doing the same for mobile phones. Demonstrating at DefCon 2010, the white hat hacker fooled 17 nearby GSM phones into believing his $1,500 kit (including a laptop and two RF antennas) was a legitimate cell phone base station, and proceeded to intercept and record audience calls. “As far as your cell phones are concerned, I’m now indistinguishable from AT&T,” he told the crowd. The purpose of the demonstration was highlight a major flaw in the 2G GSM system, which directs phones to connect to the tower with the strongest signal regardless of origin — in this case, Paget’s phony tower.
The hacker did caveat that his system could only intercept outbound calls, and that caller ID could tip off the owner of a handset to what’s what, but he says used by law enforcement don’t suffer from such flaws and amateur parity would only be a matter of time. “GSM is broken,” Paget said, “The primary solution is to turn it off altogether.” That’s a tall order for a world still very dependent on the technology for mobile connectivity, but we suppose AT&T and T-Mobile could show the way. Then again, we imagine much of that same world is still using and to “secure” their WiFi.
originally appeared on on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:28:00 EDT. Please see our .
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