Halo for Macintosh now shipping

Grok Headline matches for Halo for Macintosh now shipping

Halo for Mac reaches Gold Master;
shipping this week

Halo for Mac reaches Gold Master;
shipping this week 12/08/2003 11:51 AM
MacSoft today announced that the Mac version of Halo: Combat Evolved has reached Gold Master...

Mac Halo Can't Talk To PC Halo

Mac Halo Can't Talk To PC Halo 12/17/2003 10:48 AM

Off-by-one bug in Halo 1.04

Off-by-one bug in Halo 1.04 09/10/2004 01:59 AM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 09 2004)

Halo 2

Halo 2 06/17/2004 04:32 PM

Halo PC 1.05

Halo PC 1.05 09/06/2004 09:44 PM

Are You Prepared for Halo 2?

Are You Prepared for Halo 2? 08/27/2004 02:04 PM

Project Halo

Project Halo 11/12/2003 04:32 PM
Game Changed

Halo 2 Movie

Halo 2 Movie 05/07/2004 04:15 PM

Halo 1.05 Patch

Halo 1.05 Patch 09/07/2004 06:05 PM

Halo 2 Updates

Halo 2 Updates 04/16/2005 02:52 PM

Halo 2 Screenshots

Halo 2 Screenshots 07/01/2004 05:24 PM

Halo for Windows Hot-Fix v1.04

Halo for Windows Hot-Fix v1.04 02/12/2004 03:20 PM
The GameSpy Security Hot-Fix for Halo PC addresses a rare crash bug that could occur if a malicious individual (hacker) purposely tried to exploit the GameSpy CDKey SDK. This Hot-Fix changes the version number of Halo PC and Halo PC Dedicated Server to v1.04 from v1.031.

Dogfooding Halo 2

Dogfooding Halo 2 09/01/2004 01:20 PM
Halo 2, due out November 9, is nearing its completion deadline. According to Andy Pennell, a member of the Visual Studio team, 8,000 Microsoft employees are among the Halo 2 beta tester pool.

Halo v1.5.1 Released

Halo v1.5.1 Released 12/30/2004 12:51 AM
MacSoft has updated Halo to v1.5.1. This update fixes Pixel Shaders and compatibility with ATI 8500, 9000, and 9200 cards.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Halo Goes Gold

Halo Goes Gold 12/08/2003 01:07 PM

No "Halo" Effect? Look Again

No "Halo" Effect? Look Again 08/03/2004 10:32 AM
The success of iPods and Apple stores stopped Macs' market share from sinking lower. And signs indicate even more future converts. By Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

Notes on Halo

Notes on Halo 04/02/2005 10:07 PM
Some reviewers of computer games have begun to adopt the first-person techniques of New Journalism.

Halo 2 vs. Tribes 2

Halo 2 vs. Tribes 2 12/22/2004 01:03 AM

I went to visit my brother in Colorado over the weekend, and he had a copy of Halo 2 with an X-Box Live subscription. I didn't get to play it, but I watched him quite a bit.

X-Box Live is hailed as the big thing that propels Halo 2 into gaming infamy. However, in watching my brother play, I was struck by how much it looked like a similar, older game: Tribes. It was perhaps more graphically advanced than Tribes, but it didn't look much better than Tribes 2.

Gameplay dynamics seemed pretty much the same. My brother was amazed at the idea of playing people from around the world in a giant game of capture the flag, but I just couldn't kick the thought that I had seen this all before.

Is there anyone who has played both Halo 2 and Tribes 2 that can comment on how similar they are or which is better? Is Halo 2 that good, or is it just Tribes 2 for the console-playing masses? (The flame doors have just swung open...)

Halo v1.5 Released

Halo v1.5 Released 12/19/2004 03:00 PM
MacSoft has updated Halo to v1.5. Among several bug fixes and enhancements, this massive update also brings Halo in sync with v1.06 of the PC build and adds support for GameRanger.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Is The Halo Real?

Is The Halo Real? 04/15/2005 09:37 AM

3D Halo 2 Screenshot

3D Halo 2 Screenshot 05/28/2004 09:31 PM

Halo (No, Not The Game)

Halo (No, Not The Game) 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
 WindowShade X 3.1b4 (release is available) Once again improved shadows handling under Panther. Fixed a bug with live shadow preview...

Halo 2: 3D SCREEN SHOCK

Halo 2: 3D SCREEN SHOCK 07/09/2004 04:57 PM

Halo For PC And Mac MicroBungie's
Priority

Halo For PC And Mac MicroBungie's
Priority 03/13/2003 10:23 AM

New Halo 2 Multiplayer Maps

New Halo 2 Multiplayer Maps 03/26/2005 08:48 AM

Halo 2's Hidden Message

Halo 2's Hidden Message 07/24/2004 04:29 PM
It looks like Microsoft is possibly kicking off another internet-based viral marketing campaign, similar to the one they put on promoting the movie Artificial Intelligence: AI. That game had dozens of sites, each containing cryptic clues and arduous puzzles. When the game was over, just before its masterminds disappeared, they promised something even bigger - something that they said would change the world. That was three years ago.

MacSoft ships Halo

MacSoft ships Halo 12/12/2003 10:33 AM
Destineer Inc. subsidiary MacSoft on Friday confirmed that its long-awaited Mac conversion of Halo has begun to ship to retailers. The company said that, as promised, Halo went out to retailers on Thursday and is already available on some store shelves. Halo for Mac is expected to be available in Europe later next week.

Halo Messenger 2005

Halo Messenger 2005 06/03/2004 08:18 PM
First Source Upload Soon

Gizmondo to Land Halo?

Gizmondo to Land Halo? 01/05/2005 01:45 PM

Brother site Kotaku is hearing that there is some sort of deal working between Microsoft and Gizmondo that will lead to Halo showing up on their portable device. The GPS-enabled portable gaming device is also getting some backing from Electronic Arts and Sega. A Gizmondo rep goes as far as saying that their device is better than the Playstation Portable.

Halo Going Portable [Kotaku]

Halo 2 Multiplayer Hands-On

Halo 2 Multiplayer Hands-On 05/11/2004 08:02 AM

Halo 2 for the next generation Xbox

Halo 2 for the next generation Xbox 12/28/2004 09:07 AM
The Voodoo Extreme site is reporting that the Bungie team may work on a project to port Halo 2 to the next generation Xbox, adding in additional content and improving overall gameplay and picture quality. From the news, Bungie may be sinking some of that quarter of a billion dollar profits that Halo 2 made into a Xbox 2 port project.

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo: Combat Evolved 12/12/2003 08:56 PM
Following in the tradition of well-produced, stylish, innovative and fun game releases, Bungie Studio's Halo is a landmark first person shooter. (Jean-Luc Dinsdale via MyAppleMenu)

Halo: Combat Evolved 1.0.4

Halo: Combat Evolved 1.0.4 02/13/2004 07:56 PM
Join the battle. Live the epic adventure yourself. You are the last of your kind. Bred for combat, built for war.

Halo: Combat Evolved ret

Halo: Combat Evolved ret 09/07/2004 06:09 PM
Techzonez Sep 7 2004 9:44PM GMT

HALO PC - flood, howto

HALO PC - flood, howto 02/10/2004 02:41 PM
AMDMB Feb 10 2004 6:29PM GMT

$20,000 Halo Tournament Chicago, IL

$20,000 Halo Tournament Chicago, IL 06/25/2004 02:34 AM
The AGP and the Digital Realm Proudly Present the final HALO 1 tournament ever! [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]

Inside Halo 2 Movie

Inside Halo 2 Movie 12/03/2003 09:48 AM

Halo 2: Warlock 3D Screenshot

Halo 2: Warlock 3D Screenshot 04/10/2005 12:19 PM

Mac Halo 1.03 Update Has Finally Come

Mac Halo 1.03 Update Has Finally Come 01/22/2004 02:50 AM
The Halo 1.03 update has finally come. This allows you to play on all 1.03 servers, which is great since most 1.02 servers were laggy and there weren't very many.
Grok Description matches for Halo for Macintosh now shipping
GrokA matches for Halo for Macintosh now shipping

NEC 2500 Hacked Firmware just out beta7
- write @ 6x or 8x on 4x media

NEC 2500 Hacked Firmware just out beta7
- write @ 6x or 8x on 4x media 04/15/2004 05:06 PM

KernelThread Examines Extensible
Firmware And Open Firmware

KernelThread Examines Extensible
Firmware And Open Firmware 06/17/2004 01:12 PM

PSP hacked into something more useful

PSP hacked into something more useful 04/06/2005 06:17 PM
Apparently hackers have turned Sony's latest portable game player, the PSP handheld, into a device for online chat, Web browsing, and a venue for movies and music. Leave it to hackers who managed to add an online chat function by hijacking a Web browser built into a racing game called "Wipeout Pure." Once the hackers are able to change the PSP's network settings, they can point the browser to a Web portal. There's also a way for hackers to transfer TV programs recorded on the TiVo service to the PSP player, a program for reading e-books, and a viewer for...

You've Been Hacked!

You've Been Hacked! 06/24/2005 09:40 PM
Seven signs that a bad guy has commandeered your financial life.

EZ-USB HID Firmware

EZ-USB HID Firmware 01/22/2004 06:11 PM
EzHID release 0.8

I Hacked at O'Reilly

I Hacked at O'Reilly 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The O'Reilly Hacks site now has a hacks page for each contributor; mine's here.

How your phone could be hacked

How your phone could be hacked 04/25/2004 08:41 PM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 0:36AM GMT

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked?

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked? 04/21/2004 03:53 PM
Tower Records and the FTC have apparently reached a settlement after the FTC accused them of allowing hackers to access customer records. This brings up a very interesting question that isn't often discussed. Since hack attacks to get at customer data happen all the time how does anyone determine whether or not the company itself is negligent in not protecting the data? At what point is it negligence rather than just being vulnerable? If the standard is set too low, then companies have less incentive to protect their data (though, pissed off customers may provide that incentive). However, blaming the victim for being hacked seems to present a lot of slippery slope style questions.

Will the election be hacked?

Will the election be hacked? 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
A Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know.

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked"

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked" 11/18/2003 10:22 AM

Cisco Hacked?

Cisco Hacked? 05/17/2004 10:38 AM
Spooky news for the biggest makers of the Internet's infrastructure.

Hacked for Spam

Hacked for Spam 12/08/2003 11:18 PM

From the New York Times:

Computer security researchers have been watching the evolution of remote-access rogue programs as they have become more common and have put more machines under the control of hackers. Programs like Sinit infect target machines and surreptitiously open back doors that allow outsiders to control the PC's. The rings of infected computers have been used to send spam, to present online advertisements for pornographic Web sites or to trick people into giving up information like credit card numbers.

In fact, at least a third of all spam circulating on the Internet is now sent from or relayed by personal home computers that have been taken over, said Jesse Dougherty, director of development at Sophos, an antivirus and antispam company.

Emphasis mine. Of course, whether or not you want to believe a director from a company that directly profits from people's fear of security attacks is up to you. That said, I've seen plenty of supporting evidence in the past few months that indicates that spamming is now the number one reason that a cracker would want to take over a PC, not least this Wired article.

Continuing on the same theme, The Rise of the Spammers is a fascinating article by David Barroso Berrueta describing how one of his servers was turned in to a spam relay after being compromised through a vulnerability in a PHP script. The technical details are intriguing; the attacker downloaded and uncompressed a daemon which then communicated with another host using an extended version of the SMTP protocol, receiving spam email bodies along with lists of addresses to send the spam on to.

Let's talk about the PHP vulnerability in question: yet again, it was the classic problem where an attacker can instruct PHP to download and execute code from their own server by feeding in a query string parameter that is passed un-checked to an include() function call. While there are a number of steps that can be taken to deny this kind of attack, it unveils a fundamental problem with PHP itself - that it will execute code retrieved from a URL in the first place! This feature should be removed from PHP - it has almost no purpose in the real world aside from allowing servers to be cracked in to. The feature exists because PHP has the extremely useful ability to open remote files over HTTP. Unfortunately, this feature extends to the include() and require() functions which will execute any PHP code in the file passed to the functions. The most obvious solution to my mind would be for these functions to refuse to execute PHP in files that were opened via HTTP. I have no doubt that this would involve an ugly hack on behalf of PHP's maintainers, but I believe the number of security problems it would solve would be well worth the trade-off.

Incidentally, I know you can disable opening files over HTTP and I know you shouldnt allow the direct creation of variables from the query string in the first place. The problems here are two-fold: firstly, opening files over HTTP is actually a very useful feature, one that would be all the more useful if it didn't carry the risk of executing arbitrary code. Secondly, the problem is mainly down to third party software which often requires insecure PHP settings (such as register_globals) in order to work.

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II 08/01/2004 12:27 AM

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If you missed part 1 of this series, I strongly suggest that you read it here. “On This Page: There Is More to Information Security Than Viruses Salvaging Data in the Absence of Backups Recovering After an Attack – What Tools Will Help? Conclusion”…

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked.""

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked."" 07/03/2004 02:10 AM

BTC firmware updates

BTC firmware updates 06/16/2004 09:52 AM

Pioneer DVR-108 and DVR-A08 firmware
v1.06

Pioneer DVR-108 and DVR-A08 firmware
v1.06 08/07/2004 03:35 PM

Pioneer DVR-108 and DVR-A08 firmware
v1.14

Pioneer DVR-108 and DVR-A08 firmware
v1.14 09/17/2004 08:02 AM

Hacking Your GPS Firmware

Hacking Your GPS Firmware 04/01/2005 11:21 AM

More Power To The Firmware

More Power To The Firmware 06/17/2004 11:24 AM

More Power to Firmware.

More Power to Firmware. 06/17/2004 07:25 PM
KernelThread: More Power to Firmware.

La purga del firmware

La purga del firmware 04/30/2004 01:43 PM

NEC DVD RW-/+ Firmware Updates

NEC DVD RW-/+ Firmware Updates 05/04/2004 08:08 AM

SCO Group Web site hacked again

SCO Group Web site hacked again 12/10/2003 09:10 PM
Boston Globe Dec 10 2003 7:25PM ET

SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again

SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again 12/10/2003 07:46 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 10 2003 6:53PM ET

SCO hacked in apparent IP protest

SCO hacked in apparent IP protest 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again...

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again... 07/21/2004 08:22 PM
Acxiom is one of the nation's largest providers of direct marketing (spam) lists, and the company can't seem to keep its databases safe from hackers. Late last year a man was caught copying one of their databases. Now, in what appears to be a much bigger case, authorities have hacking into the database repeatedly over a year and a half to retrieve names and personal info which he then sold for thousands of dollars to spammers. "Information accessed included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, customer demographics, and probably some birth dates and Social Security numbers." They discovered the breach soon after the first case, when they decided (what an idea) that it might make sense to actually check to make sure their databases were secure. And, of course, for those who are already in an Acxiom database and worried about the implications and would like out of their database, remember that they make it as difficult as possible to "opt out."

Google's Web site is hacked

Google's Web site is hacked 07/26/2004 10:50 PM
Big News Network Jul 27 2004 2:57AM GMT

Has your wireless connection been hacked

Has your wireless connection been hacked 12/26/2003 03:04 AM
I am very strict about personal PC security and have levels of protection on my systems that most people would...

E-Voting Firm Hacked

E-Voting Firm Hacked 12/29/2003 02:58 PM
While lots of people have pointed out the risks of electronic voting, now a story is coming out that one firm providing e-voting technology has been hacked. Of course, it sounds like the break-in was on their corporate network, and not of the voting system itself, but this is the sort of thing that will make people think twice about trusting electronic voting systems. In fact, the company thinks that the break-in may have been motivated by political reasons.

Google email being hacked

Google email being hacked 08/10/2004 06:00 PM

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“Software designed to exploit the much lauded Gmail service has been released this week. Aptly named “Gmail Hack” the software performs Dictionary and Brute Force Attacks against a GMail email account.” FYI to those of us with Gmail accounts. Be sure you’re using strong password practices!…

Halo for Macintosh now shipping

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