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After a considerable amount of negotiations, I am proud to announce that that SoldierX has officially become a part of Geek Squad. In recent months, we were contacted by Geek Squad, stating an interest in our services. As other members of the crew were involved with other tasks, I was asked to handle this process on behalf of RaT. Yesterday, the deal was finalized and we at SoldierX are very excited about working with Geek Squad as their security component.

In the spirit of educating our community, Kayin has released a 16-Bit Rijndael Project. Much like neotek's webserver project, this is not designed for production use - but rather for educational purposes (NOTE: neotek's webserver could be used for production in embedded systems). Kayin's 16-bit Rijndael only has a 16 bit blocksize and 16 bit key for the purpose of being easy to follow and debug. It is an ideal project to assist users with practicing linear/differential cryptanalysis. We suggest that you check it out. We're hoping to churn out at least one new project in SX Labs per month. Last month we gave you updates to Agent Steal and OFACE.

First of all, I would like to announce neotek's release of the SX Webserver. It's a simple event driven TCP webserver for educational purposes or embedded devices with very limited resources. I really appreciate neotek taking the ball and coding something for us, particularly since he's our scene guy and really isn't expected to do any programming projects. If you're interested in the basics of how a webserver works, check it out! neotek has stated that if there is enough interest he will continue to add enhancements and possibly even port it to Windows or other operating systems.

Hello again everybody, we are somewhat back - although we are still working out some bugs. Sorry about the "seized by ICE" message. We were getting overwhelmed with emails so we decided to put that up. It did do us some good though, we were able to uncover a few bad apples such as Shane Tarleton (aka COSCStudent). The guy that disseminated MRI to us on multiple occasions and then started the OFACE project (due to how much he hated Geek Squad) was on the Geek Squad private forums declaring our site going down a huge "win". He also portrayed us as some sort of computer repair company, which we aren't. Sorry Shane, none of us clean mouse balls for a living like you - we all work in programming and security. Shane - in the future be careful about playing both sides even if it is on a private forum. We have eyes everywhere.

This morning we had some emergency maintenance that needed to be performed due to a power outage which out lasted the time span of our UPS's. We are thus looking in to purchasing a generator and other alternative means of power to remedy this solution and ensure it does not happen again in the future. A bit of good news though, the server had been up for 693 days w/o a reboot or going down so I would say given my hosting situation that's not too bad! =]
Power may continue to drop periodically through out the day due to inclement weather conditions. If this does happen we will do our best to keep things online/get things back online as soon as power restores.
Thank you for your patience.

-cisc0ninja

We had a great first month of the new year. We set a new site traffic record with 3,189,536 hits! That's an increase of 753,012 hits in just one month. Thanks to everybody who has been spreading the word about SX. The other thing that I wanted to report is that we have released the 1.0.0.4 Agent Steal VIP Build in the VIP Downloads area. If you are a VIP member, please check it out and let me know what you think. This version addresses all of the issues reported in 1.0.0.3 as well as gives you a new feature to run your own code from Agent Steal.

Due to only having two security related tutorials (and the low number of entries), we are extending the 2010 Tutorial Contest until February 28, 2011. We will also be including all of the 2010 tutorials from SX crew members as part of the competition (we have done this in the past, but decided to not do it for the 2010 competition to make things more interesting - unfortunately it did not work). Please send your tutorials ASAP to [email protected]. Please see http://www.soldierx.com/Tutorial-Contest-2010 for more information.

We have decided for the hard work that zkoolkyle put into his tutorial on iPhone Game Hacking, we will be sending him a SOLDIERX Shirt regardless if he places in the competition or not. Thanks for all your hard work zkoolkyle, we hope to see more tutorials from you soon!

Psychlone has won the 2010 Wallpaper Contest with a landslide victory. He had 64% of the votes, where as the runner up had only 12% of the votes. Congratulations Psychlone, you've earned it! We still don't know what we are doing about the 2010 Tutorial Contest. We can either extend the contest, cancel the contest, or include all of the SX Crew tutorials from 2010. Any ideas people?

I am happy to say that the Holiday Releases are finally over. The new 1.0.0.3 version of Agent Steal has been posted as well as a new VIP release. I'm not going to mention the VIP release by name, but let's just say that it's a very popular application modified to the standards of SX. The new Agent Steal includes the password stealing add-on pack that was previously VIP only. It also addresses the bugs that people found when running Agent Steal under 64 bit XP, Vista 32/64, and Windows 7 32/64. We hear that Agent Steal is very popular with the Geek Squad. We hope that this release will help them not only steal customer pr0n, but also to steal customer passwords. Happy hacking!

It is with great honor that I would like to announce the High Council's decision to promote Jerbo to the status of full crew member of SOLDIERX. During the past months, Jerbo has worked night after night with RaT and pirrup on the new SX Watermarking System. Thanks to the efforts of Jerbo, we were able to meet our holiday testing goals. As with all members promoted to the status of full crew, we hope that Jerbo will continue his efforts and show the same enthusiasm and workmanship that he showed during his inductee status. Congratulations Jerbo!