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Pandora's Box Pro

2009-01-12T13:59:00.000-08:00

Pandora's Box is a revolutionary product, that allows a user to interrogate and analyze the internal "flash" memory of cell phones. The market is currently populated with products that produce a blind report from data obtained from a particular source. By "blind", we mean that the user has no concept, control or understanding how the result was obtained from the original date. The "plug and dump" methodology and system, although quick in producing reports, gives the examiner a role no more involved than a "button presser" on a production line.

Pandora's Box allows the examiner to look underneath the surface of data files obtained from mobile telephones. Built-in scripts and decoding routines allow the examiner to manually probe data and qualify and quantify findings, and more importantly allow them to be happy that the tool is correctly reporting their evidence.

Pandora's Box is not designed to be a replacement to other software products and tools, it was designed to accompany them. Use Pandora's Box to examiner and parse data from the other tools. The scope is limitless.

Our latest build of the software includes SMS cache and Bluetooth device history, with MAC address support.

Until relatively recently, the only way to forensically examine cell phones was to utilize classic "forensic" tools which in turn would request information from handsets and produce the results in a report.

Although this is an effective means of interrogating handsets, it means that a device has to be switched on and "live" during an examination.

We at IDFS have been working hard on an alternative method to this kind of examination, allowing an examiner to interrogate the memory of a handset without the risk of incoming data overwriting existing data.

In addition, we have developed methods where previously unavailable information can now be recovered. Information such as the identity of previously inserted SIM cards, chat, the T9 (user dictionary), deleted / previous call information and more recently Bluetooth pairing information / MAC addresses.

Our latest work includes the support for the very latest Series 30 handsets from Nokia; Pandora's Box is now able to recognize and process handsets with multiple phonebooks.

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SE - PDF Edition

2009-01-12T13:45:00.000-08:00

Level design is one of the most important, influential, and complex aspects of video and computer games. It is a fairly new design form and is maturing rapidly. As the available hardware capabilities and associated technology continue to increase in complexity, level design will also become increasingly complex. This book will help both aspiring and veteran designers come to terms with future changes in level design. Rather than addressing the usual ‘how to make a room’, or ‘how to place a light’, this book tackles how to make that room look good. The book details why certain decisions are made in order to achieve the design goal, and how to plan the route to the goal: the hows and whys.

The chapters within describe all aspects of level design; from the initial design phase, to gameplay for singleplayer and multiplayer levels, to visual aspects regarding lighting and architecture, and more. The overall purpose is to explain the theories behind level design. It covers why light color X or architectural feature Y would work better in situation Z rather than color A or architecture B. It describes why a level is fun and what the level design does to enhance it: the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of creating environments for games.

The book is divided into three major parts plus two smaller appendix chapters at the end. Those are: Design, Gameplay, and Audiovisuals, plus an Example and an Interview appendix chapter. All three major parts contain multiple extensive chapters. Starting with an introduction each covers each aspect in a chapter: Floorplans, Sounds, Texturing, Lighting and so on.

The book also offers many detailed, illustrated examples of good and bad design practices through screenshots and descriptions of various situations the author has personally encountered. Also included are six extensive interviews with industry professionals, and an examination of the design process for three separate levels from start to finish... The topics covered in the book can be universally applied to level design in general. The concepts can be applied to any modern game, although the most attention has been given to 3D action games.

ProtectMac AntiVirus

2009-01-12T13:08:00.000-08:00

The next generation security product for Mac OS X, designed to keep you safe from viruses and spyware.

ProtectMac AntiVirus allows you to scan any area of your Mac or network for both Macintosh and non-Macintosh malware. The user-friendly, graphical interface enables you to perform user scans, set up scheduled scans to run in the background, monitor status information and manage any threats that are discovered.

ProtectMac AntiVirus automatically checks for updates daily, downloading new threat identities and product updates and installing them without user intervention or the need to restart your Mac.

At the heart of the product is a file-access scanner that is always running in the background in real-time checking for threats, intercepting every file that is opened, closed or copied, any application that is launched, any file that is downloaded from the internet or email attachment that is extracted.
With the ability to scan any device or location directly from Finder's contextual menu, as well as automatic scanning of DVDs, CDs, USB devices and dmg files as they are mounted, checking for threats on your Mac has never been easier!

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