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Last month was our best month in terms of visitors, but we are still lacking on entries for the 2009 Tutorial Contest. The prizes are much better with all 3 places getting shirts and first place getting a choice between a $120 modified modem (with memory upgrade) or a ticket to Defcon 18. Help spread the word about this contest and get your submissions in before 01-01-2010. Please submit all entries to [email protected]

After weeks of testing by crew members and VIP site members, Agent Steal is ready for public release. This tool was written as an apology to Geek Squad for our community cracking their MRI. If it confuses you why Geek Squad would want a tool to steal files off of a customer's PC, maybe you should read Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn. This tool was written in February of 2009, so it took a long time for me to get around to releasing it. Future Labs projects will hopefully have a much faster turnaround time. We already have plans for password stealing add-on tools, so hopefully those will be released before the holidays.

Today, a second PSP tutorial has been made available which continues where the first left off by explaining how to enable functions usually available in Custom Firmware on models like the the 2000 series with TA-088v3 motherboards and PSP 3000 series which cannot have custom firmware flashed onto them. With the completion of this tutorial, I wish to receive input on if I should do another PSP related tutorial or make a tutorial for another console.

Thanks to buggy for the suggestion on the forums. Would you like a SX T-Shirt but don't have the cash? SOLDIERX proudly presents the official 2009 SX Wallpaper Contest. The contest begins now and lasts until 04-30-2010. For all of you that like to write, don't forget about our 2009 Tutorial Contest. Here are the details about the 2009 SX Wallpaper Contest:

Image must be a minimum size of 1024x768 (any size larger is fine, dimensions are up to you)
Image must have something to do with SOLDIERX
Image should be emailed to [email protected]
Image should be in jpg/png/psd format (contact RaT if there is another format that you'd like to use)

Good luck everybody! Check out SX Propaganda for ideas.

With the releases of various software modifications being released (ie MRI 5.1.0.0) by various members, more and more people keep asking us how to reverse engineer software. While none of us have had time to write a definitive guide, pirrup has offered a neophyte's guide to reverse engineering at http://www.soldierx.com/Neophytes-Guide-I-Want-Reverse-Engineer-Software. Please take some time to check it out if you are interested in the subject. If you know a decent amount about reverse engineering and would like to contribute to the group, please contact RaT. Agent Steal has been released to VIP and above members of the site, so expect a public release soon. Not a VIP yet? Support us by buying a shirt and become a VIP today!

sn4ggl3, a mysterious hacker from SX's past, has decided to return to the group as the Adviser to RaT. This position was previously held by Amp who helped SX break away from the previous path that was set by Durandal and Origin. This decision has been made to take SX back to its roots, with a stronger focus on software development (SX Labs). After sn4ggl3 conquered the security world, he got into more complex topics such as advanced data mining and artificial intelligence. He has decided to bless us by leading our labs and advising group decisions. Normally there is a long process for somebody to work their way up from Inductee to High Council, but sn4ggl3 is simply resuming his old position in the group. Any member can come out of retirement at any time, although previous positions are not guaranteed. Amp's new position will be that of enforcer - meaning that he will enforce high council decisions to SX members, SX inductees, and regular site members.

September was a great month. We broke records in terms of visitors, posts, new memberships, shirt sales, amazon book sales and new inductees. The high council has finally pushed a new system that has had amazing results in terms of organization and member productivity. I would like to give a big thanks to all of our contributing crew and regular site members, without all of you this growth would not have been possible. Now that things are moving forward, let's keep things moving forward! We can always use more contributing crew members, so consider joining SX. We really appreciate our regular members as well, so keep coming back and keeping our forums strong like you have been. If you know of somebody that might be interested in SX, please refer them to the site.

We are in need of a few good people who like researching and writing about hacker history. The majority of our members are currently occupied with coding/hacking/reversing projects so we are hurting in terms of HDB updates. We have many links and information about hackers who are not currently listed, we just do not currently have the resources to sort through and post it all. If you would like to contribute to the HDB, please contact RaT asap.

A few months ago, we asked if people would be interested in seeing the past flash work that was done for this site. Based upon this response, I have made them available as the start of a new Project that I am calling Yesteryear. (Located at http://www.soldierx.com/sxlabs/Project-Yesteryear) Based upon the response, there may be more additions to this project which will give some insight to the past of SoldierX.

Kayin has taken the old Neophyte's Section (circa 2001) and rewritten it for 2009. You can view it by click here. If there's anything you'd like to see added, please feel free to leave a comment. This is part of a push to help people get started in our area of computers. Thanks to everybody who has been posting useful information to the forums and a special thanks to those supporters who have bought shirts from us last month. Our next big focus is to get a few solid projects released via SX Labs. We would also like to welcome Amp back from his trip to Bosnia.