Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox's settings aren't exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually.
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29.5.2007 Microsoft Frowns on iDefense Hacking Challenge
Security intelligence outfit iDefense Labs is offering a $10,000 reward to any hacker who finds a worm hole in Microsoft's products, but the software maker isn't exactly thrilled by the gambit.
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23.2.2006 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009Reporters booted from Black Hat Conference for hacking
Three French journalists have been shown the exit from the yearly hacking confab after it was discovered they were hacking into the press room's
Wi-Fi network...
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08.08.2008Microsoft's Xbox Hacking Fix Backfires
In an attempt to prevent
hacking of the Xbox 360
console, Microsoft has not
only locked out those who have
hacked into the console, but
possibly others who have had
to send their consoles in for
repair that may have required
modifications...
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04.11.2006Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest
The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio,
that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
<...> It took two days of work, but Shane Macaulay, finally cracked the Vista box on Friday, with a little help from his friends.
Macaulay, who was a co-winner of last year's hacking contest, needed a few hacking tricks courtesy of VMware researcher Alexander Sotirov to make
his bug work. That's because Macaulay hadn't been expecting to attack the Service Pack 1 version of Vista, which comes with additional security
measures. He also got a little help from co-worker Derek Callaway.
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29.03.2008Hacking programmable road signs
Many citizens might notice the construction digital road signs on the side of the road while driving, indicating important information such as road
closures or traffic delays, but what if the sign included information such as "Zombies ahead" or "this sign has been hacked". (image courtesy of
i-hacked.com) These digital road signs can be compromised as easily as breaking into them. A viral video shows the possibility of future sign
hacking with a laptop and a Nokia N95. A user has posted pictures of how to break into the digital road signs on www.i-hacked.com, teaching users how
to access and change the sign information.
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28.01.2009IBM criticizes TippingPoint over hacking contest
IBM's ISS division
has torn into rival
TippingPoint for sponsoring
the hacking contest that led
to the disclosure of a
QuickTime vulnerability in
Apple's Safari
browser.
Such criticism isn't new.
Two Gartner analysts, Rich
Mogull and Greg Young, made
the same point last week in
their analysis of April's
CanSecWest security
conference, which saw $10,000
put up as a prize for managing
to hack Apple computers in an
open challenge.
The
hole that allowed hacking
challenger Dino Dai Zovi to
win the prize, turned out to
be a potentially serious
unpatched vulnerability
affecting all OS X computers.
TippingPoint said that Apple
would be informed privately,
but others have pointed out
this is no guarantee that the
exploit information could not
have made it into the public
domain by other channels. ..
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13.05.2007Twitter used as a hacking tool
Mysterious accounts seem to be appearing all over the popular Twitter micro-blogging website. The suspicious accounts appear to be posting complete
gibberish, when in reality are posting executable commands that are downloading malware to victims computers. Hackers have always longed to find new
ways to hide their tracks and make attacks harder to see coming, but now hackers have turned to Twitter to become the host of a serious of attacks
against users. Hackers have managed to form a botnet using Twitter as a way to control compromised PCs.
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27.08.2009Win 7 and smartphones targeted in Pwn2own challenge
An annual hacking challenge has put the security of browsers and smartphones in the firing line.
The latest Pwn2own contest at
CanSecWest next month will reportedly include challenges involving hacking into
browser packages running on Windows 7 PCs and a separate contest involving breaking into next-generation smartphones. 3Com's TippingPoint security
division is to sponsor both contests, due to take place at the Vancouver conference from 16 March.
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12.02.2009Police take down hacker network with up to 1 million zombies
In what was described as the largest hacking scam in Canadian history, Quebec provincial police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and
arrested 16 people between the ages of 17 and 26.
The hacking network may have profited by as much as $45 million through the use of
phishing sites set up on compromised computers. The majority of computers attacked by the network were in Poland and Brazil, but some PCs in Manitoba
and the United States were also hacked, he said. Several government computers were also compromised, but investigators will not say in which country.
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21.02.2008Paris Hilton Hacker Sentenced
Teen gets 11 months'
detention for charming,
hacking data out of T-Mobile.
A Massachusetts juvenile has pleaded guilty to a January 2005 attack that ultimately exposed the cell phone address book of U.S. socialite Paris Hilton to the Internet, according to T-Mobile, the mobile phone provider whose servers were compromised in the attack.
The juvenile, who was not identified because of his age, has been sentenced to 11 months' detention, to be followed by two years of supervised release, for a series of hacking incidents and threats made over a 15-month period beginning in March 2004. He is also prohibited from using computers, cell phones, or any device capable of accessing the Internet during the period of this sentence...
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15.09.2005HOPE conference highlights everyday hacking
From sessions on how-to create fluorescent mice and crack safes to discussions on losing your privacy in a taxi and complaints about Wikipedia, the
Last HOPE conference starting here on Friday has something for just about everyone.
The conference is the brainchild of Emmanuel
Goldstein, aka Eric Corley, who publishes the notorious 2600 magazine. Corley has seen the community grow from its early days in the1980s with kids
going to jail for breaking into the AT&T network, to millions of regular citizens skirting the law with their digital entertainment consumption and
iPhone hacking.
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18.07.2008Researchers: Forensics Software Can Be Hacked
The software that police and
enterprise security teams use
to investigate wrongdoing on
computers is not as secure as
it should be, according to
researchers with Isec Partners
Inc.
The San
Francisco security company has
spent the past six months
investigating two forensic
investigation programs,
Guidance Software Inc.'s
EnCase, and an open-source
product called The Sleuth Kit.
They have discovered about a
dozen bugs that could be used
to crash the programs or
possibly even install
unauthorized software on an
investigator's machine,
according to Alex Stamos, a
researcher and founding
partner with Isec Partners.
Researchers have been
hacking forensics tools for
years, but have traditionally
focused on techniques that
intruders could use to cover
their tracks and thwart
forensic investigations. The
Isec team has taken a
different tack, however,
creating hacking tools that
can be used to pound the
software with data, looking
for flaws...
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25.07.2007Find a Critical Windows Flaw,
Win $10k
VeriSign subsidiary iDefense
has launched what it calls a
"Quarterly Hacking
Challenge" that offers
monetary rewards for those
discovering security
vulnerabilities. For this
quarter, iDefense is offering
up $10,000 to anyone who finds
a critical vulnerability that
leads to the publication of a
Microsoft Security Bulletin...
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17.02.2006Experts warn of hacking 'cold war'
Government groups around the world are becoming increasingly involved in efforts to launch and defend against web-based attacks, security experts
warn. A new report from McAfee, conducted in association with several law enforcement and security research bodies, claims that a new 'cold
war' is taking place on the internet.
The security firm cited recent attacks on Estonian government sites, and allegations of web
attacks conducted by China, as examples of how cyber-attacks could take a part in global conflicts. "The nature of the equaliser that is the
internet has dawned on people," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee. "It is dawning on a lot of places
that maybe they don't need a mole some place." Marcus told vnunet.com that levels of preparedness within governments varies greatly.
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28.11.2007Facebook sues Ontario porn company over alleged hacking
Facebook is suing a Toronto-based porn company and 17 people for allegedly trying to hack the social networking site for the personal information of
its users. According to an amended statement of claim filed by Facebook in San Jose, Calif., Istra Holdings Inc. which does business online under the
name SlickCash and the other defendants attempted to access its servers more than 200,000 times in June. SlickCash offers advertising commissions to
web publishers for directing surfers to its collection of adult sites. "The defendants knowingly and without permission took, copied, or made use of,
data from Facebook's proprietary computers and computer network," said the amended statement of claim, filed last Wednesday.
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18.12.2007'White hat' hackers in demand
Gregston Chu knows all the tricks of being a hacker, from talking his way into secure buildings to exploiting holes in Internet security or gaps in
internal company systems to grab control of computers.
That makes him a highly valued consultant and as such, he's crisscrossed
the U.S. and traveled to Europe and Asia to uncover computer system vulnerabilities for Fortune 100 companies and other large corporations.
"It is kind of fun to find things that aren't supposed to be found," said Chu, who performs "extreme hacking" work as a senior
manager for Ernst & Young LLP's Advanced Security Center, based in Houston. "We get the thrill that a lot of hackers do, without that going to jail
part."
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08.01.2008Microsoft Blue Hat: Researcher Demos No-Hack Attack
A researcher at Microsofts closed-door Blue Hat summit last week demonstrated how seemingly mundane information available online about an individual
or a business can be used against them in a targeted attack.
Roelof Temmingh, founder of
Paterva, demonstrated how hackers dont need traditional hacking tools given all of the information thats freely available about
people and organizations on the Internet. With a little reconnaissance and the use of a handy information-collection, correlation, and visualization
tool he built called Maltego, Temmingh showed how an attacker wouldnt have to bother with a port scan or other hacking tools to hack a person or a
business.
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22.10.2008Expert: public utilities may be at risk for hacking
Researchers with security firm Core Security Technologies are warning that flaws within the software that manages the nation's public utility systems
may be vulnerable to incursion via the Internet...
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13.06.2008Hacking Your Graphics Card
With GeForce 8800 GT availability issues, other manufacturers are selling this popular video card with different clock speeds and prices. To save a
buck or two, and possibly squeeze out some extra performance, ExtremeTech has a helpful primer on overclocking your 8800 GT with some very easy
hacks.
If you go into this with the right mindset, you can end up with a card that's just as good as those pricey overclocked ones. But
remember that you won't be able to return the card for repair if something goes wrong. If that thought gives you the willies, we recommend paying
a few bucks more for a factory overclocked card.
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13.12.2007Gary McKinnon faces life sentence for hacking into Pentagon
When he wakes up on Sunday morning, Gary McKinnon will be 72 hours from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks
to his obsession with aliens. McKinnon (42) from Enfield in north London, is accused by American prosecutors of illegally accessing top-secret
computer systems in what they claimed in one legal document was "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
The self-taught IT
expert insists he was simply looking for information the US government had on UFOs and is adamant that he never damaged any of its computer systems.
This argument, however, cuts little ice with the Americans, who are trying to extradite him. Five years after being told by British police that he
would probably get a six-month community service order for his exploits, McKinnon finds himself still wanted by the US authorities. A 2006 High Court
ruling granted the extradition request, and on Wednesday the House of Lords will decide on McKinnon's appeal against that ruling.
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29.07.2008British Hacker Extradited to
U.S.
A British computer expert
accused of hacking into U.S.
military computers will now
face extradition to the United
States in order to face
charges, after England's
Interior Minister John Reid
signed an order to begin the
process...
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