October 2008

A hacker who posted candid photographs of Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus on the internet was the subject of an FBI raid yesterday. 19-year-old Josh Holly, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, boasted that he had broken into the Disney teen queen’s email account and stolen photos - including, according to media reports, pictures of her baring her midriff in the shower, and “posing provactively” in her underwear and swimsuit. ...

If Sysinternals shows you what is running, OllyDbg shows you what a program is thinking — one x86 instruction at a time. In 2008 it is the standard debugger for 32-bit Windows binaries: unpack a crackme, trace a malware sample in a lab, or understand why an installer behaves oddly when the vendor will not answer support calls. OllyDbg 1.10 is the version most people use. It is freeware, debugger-only (no disassembler license debates), and extensible with plugins. ...