AMD versus Intel, bye bye Intel
You may recall a few months back when AMD took out full-page newspaper ads to challenge Intel to a dual-core server duel. Intel declined to take up AMD on its offer, but the challenge got us thinking: what would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen dual-core CPU AMD systems power ahead of dual-core Intel-based PCs on more than one occasion.
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27.11.2005 Hack Windows Xp All in One
Include:
CIA Commander
WPa kill
Activate
Enable Updates
Windows genuine validation bypass
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31.1.2006 Short TimerStop.sys hack
Huskieguy731 report this very short TimerStop.sys hack in
our forum.
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3.2.2007 Microsoft WGA Update Anti-hack
Since the Windows Genuine Advantage debut as a pilot on 9/2004 Microsoft is slowly making the program more annoying and intrusive.
In the beginning the WGA was an opt-in feature, and then slowly it became mandatory. Users who choose not to validate their copy of Windows can not download updates from Windows update (they still can download critical security updates via automatic update feature in Windows).
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4.5.2006 Microsoft Decries Vista PatchGuard Hack
Microsoft officials say they are unhappy that security software maker Authentium has decided to bypass the controversial PatchGuard kernel protection feature in its next-generation Vista operating system, and said that the tactic could lead to eventual problems for users of the company's software.
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27.10.2006 Zune Hack: Trade Any File, Quick
Someone clever figured out a way to transfer any type of file onto the Microsoft Zune portable media player, after which the files can be wirelessly traded to other Zune users.
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25.11.2006 More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack
My post on the Vista SP1 activation hack has generated a lot of feedback (especially in the form of questions) from both individuals and other media outlets.
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12.2.2008 Hack into a Windows PC - no password needed
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
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9.3.2008 Hack to Force Enable Aero in Windows 7
Windows 7 has a nice little Windows Aero troubleshooting tool to find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects, and then enable and turn on Aero support (and also Aero Peek) in Windows 7.
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12.1.2009 Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Windows Vista
Microsoft may begin training the police in ways to break the encryption built into its forthcoming client PC operating system Vista.
The news was revealed in a parliamentary committee session, where Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University warned MPs that if such a move was being considered then the police should start learning sooner rather than later.
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19.2.2006 Microsoft "Hack Day" is creative play at work
A group of 75 Microsoft developers set out Thursday to brainstorm at an internal event called "Hack Day."
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8.4.2006 Hack claims Vista to ship on December 5th
Veteran Zdnet hack and exiled Evertonian Colin Barker reports that Microsoft has lined up a surprise 5 December "general release date" for the consumer version of Windows Vista.
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14.10.2006 Researcher Reveals 2-Step Vista UAC Hack
A Web application developer has uncovered a two-step process (PDF) for exploiting Windows Vista's User Account Control, essentially by having a Trojan piggyback on what could be a legitimate download.
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17.5.2007 Microsoft Exec Rages Against Vista Upgrade Hack
Sarcasm can be a powerful tool, and a Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) executive recently wielded it against industry sources who claim that a loophole exists in one of the software giant's licensing policies.
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15.4.2008 Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokes
A team of Swiss researchers say there are several ways to recover keystrokes from wired keyboards by simply measuring the electromagnetic radiations emitted when keys are pressed.
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20.10.2008 Hack Available to Download the Official Vista SP1 Straight from Microsoft
That's right! There is a hack available that will permit you to access, download and install the official release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 straight from Microsoft.
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17.10.2007 One More Reason to Upgrade to Vista: 6-Minute XP Hack Is Frightening!
Six minutes... that is all it took to hack Windows XP, and to completely take over the operating system. Nick McGrath, Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft U.K., witnessing the XP hack first hand, described the effortless attack and compromising of the platform as "enlightening and frightening.
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13.11.2007 Hack Available to Download Windows XP SP3 RC from Microsoft
That's right! Now you can get your hands on the first Release Candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 3! And all it will take is the implementation of a simple registry hack designed to allow Windows XP users to access, download and install Service Pack 3 Release Candidate straight from Microsoft.
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22.11.2007 Anti-Hack Update For Windows Vista Rev from Microsoft
The release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 not only heralded a long-awaited update of the operating system, it also meant the end of two common Windows Vista anti-activation exploits - the Grace Timer exploit and the Paradox OEM BIOS activation crack.
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12.5.2008 Hack Available for Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Locked Features
Although Microsoft showcased a much more feature-complete variant of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 at the professional Developers Conference 2008 and Windows hardware Engineering Conference 2008 in Los Angeles the past couple of weeks, the bits that made it out of Redmond contained a variety of locked features across the operating system.
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10.11.2008 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 Microsoft Serves the Official Version of the Hack Used to Access Windows Vista SP1
Do you remember a time when Windows Vista SP1 was not available as a public download? In the pre-Release Candidate Stages of Vista SP1, Microsoft restricted the access to the service pack only to selected testers.
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12.12.2007 Vista SP1 Beta Build 6001.17036 v.652 Kills Hack to Download the Service Pack
Microsoft is making headway toward the final release of the first service pack for Windows Vista. A new beta build of the first refresh for the operating system is now live following the initial beta release.
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12.11.2007 Hack to Turn Off and Disable Windows 7 CD or DVD Writer Burning and Auto Tray Ejection Feature
Windows 7 inherits the capability to burn or write to CD and DVD burner or writer, with additional support to directly burn ISO and IMG disc images with Windows 7 Explorer.
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18.8.2009 Intel going for a new logo(?)
The new Intel processor, codename 'Yonah', announced for the 3rd of January 2006, will according to X86-secret simply be called 'Core Solo' or 'Core Duo'. Depending on the amount of cores (no way! where did they come up with that). It's more than 10 years ago since Intel created ax X86-architecture CPU that wasn't called 'Pentium'. Machines with Centrino CPU's will also get a new sticker-logo from now on, saying only 'Centrino', without the real CPU name. The amount of cores will still be mentioned on the sticker.
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16.11.2005 Windows 7 Hack Brings Build 6801 Closer to Build 6956
Microsoft ensured that the Windows 7 development milestone delivered at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008 delivered less than what it showcased at the two events.
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10.12.2008 Hack windows home edition cd into professional edition
Easy way how to spare some money. Raymond found this hack from Technipages and think it's pretty cool. It enables the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD.
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27.12.2006 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Intel CPU bugs
Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting hisKris Kaspersky research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia.
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15.7.2008 Intel boosts Atom
Intel on Tuesday gave the first preview of its next-generation Atom chip, with a more integrated design intended to improve performance and energy efficiency.
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20.5.2009Intel prepares to roll out 65
nano Pentium 4s
Chip firm Intel will
introduce its 672 and 662
Pentium 4s on the 13th
November, and will price them
at just over $600 and $400
respectively.
These processors have 2MB
of cache, clock at 3.8GHz and
3.6GHz respectively, and have
800MHz system
buses.
This is in
preparation for the
introduction of its dual core
desktop chips in January, the
950, 940, 930, and 920. These
chips are all 65 nanometre
processors and support VT
virtualisation.
Fur
ther single core processors
will be released in January,
the 661 (3.6GHz), the 651, the
641 and the 631. The number
one at the end means these
will be 65 nanometre
processors and will have VT
enabled. They will have the
same prices as the 90
nanometre chips at the same
speeds...
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09.09.2005Apple, Microsoft, Intel Urge Patent Reform Act Passage, IBM Stays on the Fence
Tomorrow morning, the Senate
Judiciary Committee will hold
a new round of hearings
continuing the debate over
language in S. 1145, the
Patent Reform Act of 2007.
This morning, a coalition of
firms ranging in stature from
the Guymon, Oklahoma Chamber
of Commerce to Apple, Cisco,
Intel, and Microsoft urged
Committee chairman Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D - Vt.) to get
the debate portion over with...
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28.06.2007New Intel Xeon Steppings on the Way
Intel has issued a new product
change notification
(http://intel.pcnalert.com/con
tent/eolpcn/PCN107467-00.pdf>P
DF), or PCN, to partners in
regards to dual and quad-core
Xeon stepping changes. The
stepping change brings the
dual and quad-core Intel Xeon
5100 Woodcrest and 5300
Clovertown processors to
stepping G0. G0 introduces
energy efficiency and
virtualization enhancements.
Stepping G0 reduces
power consumption during C1E
halt states. Intel does not
state how much less power
stepping G0 processors consume
in idle states except śsome
amount.ť Intel improves VT
technology in stepping G0.
The enhancements
include:
- APIC Task
Priority Register (TPR)
Virtualization
-
NMI-window exiting
-
Advanced VM-exit information
for INS & OUTS..
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11.06.2007Intel Adds "Yorkfield" Core 2 Extreme
Intels latest roadmap adds two
more processors to the
upcoming lineup. The roadmap
reveals early plans for the
Yorkfield-based Core 2 Extreme
and another Core 2 Duo
E4000-sequence processor. With
Yorkfield, Intel
differentiates the Core 2
Extreme and Core 2 Duo models
by the front-side bus speed.
Intel Core 2 Extreme
Yorkfield processors will have
a 1333 MHz front-side bus,
continuing on where the
Kentsfield Core 2 Extreme
QX6850 leaves off. The
quad-core processor supports
Intel VT, Enhanced Intel
SpeedStep and Intel 64 and
Execute Disable Bit
technologies. Intel leaves TXT
technology out of the 45nm
Core 2 Extreme however.
Intels Core 2 Duo
E4000-sequence receives a
speed bump in Q42007. The new
Core 2 Duo E4600 clocks in at
2.4 GHz and remains on an 800
MHz front-side bus. Aside from
the speed bump, the Core 2 Duo
E4600 is no different from
other Core 2 Duo
E4000-sequence models. ..
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14.06.2007Those who can't hack (much), write
Since there have been computer intrusions, it seems, there have been crackers (that is, black-hat "hackers") wanting to write books detailing
What They Did. But often, the better the hack, the less the urge to write a book about it...
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14.10.2008TiVo Owners Uncover Storage Hack
Owners of Series3
high-definition TiVos will
soon be able to expand the
amount of programming they can
store on the digital video
recorder using an external
Serial ATA hard drive. While
the SATA ports have been on
the TiVo since the beginning,
a hack to activate them only
surfaced over the weekend...
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08.05.2007Engineer Demonstrates iPhone Hack After Acknowledging Apple's Patch
Though security consultant
Charlie Miller went through
with a scheduled demonstration
late yesterday afternoon of
how he and his colleagues
discovered how to hack the
Apple iPhone to obtain
personally identifiable
information from it, he and
his company's Web site both
acknowledged that Apple had
patched the vulnerability...
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03.08.2007What does the Sarah Palin e-mail hack say about Yahoo?
There's an underlying issue in the debate raging about the reported hack into the Yahoo e-mail account of VP nominee Sarah Palin, and it actually has
very little to do with the governor: Is there an e-mail vulnerability we should know about?..
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18.09.2008Intel Sheds Light on "Penryn" Enhancements
Intel plans to unleash its
Penryn family processors next
quarter, shortly after AMD
releases Barcelona. Penryn is
the umbrella for all 45nm Core
2 micro architecture products,
including quad-core Xeon
Harpertown, quad-core Core 2
Yorkfield and dual-core Xeon,
Core 2 Wolfdale processors.
On the
surface, Penryn looks like die
shrink of last years Conroe
micro architecture, but Intel
sought additional tweaks to
the micro architecture to
achieve greater performance at
the same clock speeds as
Conroe processors.
Intel improves
existing Wide Dynamic
Execution, Advanced Smart
Cache, Advanced Digital Media
Boost and Intelligent Power
Capability, technologies that
previously made its debut with
Conroe and Merom.
Penryn enhances Wide
Dynamic Execution technology
with a fast radix-16 divider
and improved Virtualization
technology. With a fast
radix-16 divider, the
processor can process 4-bits
per cycle instead of the
2-bits per cycle of Conroe “
doubling the divide
instruction capabilities.
Intel VT technology receives
enhancements that reduce
virtual machine transition
latencies by 25-to-75%. ..
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06.08.2007'Contractor error' suspected in $12,000 FEMA phone hack
FEMA is now investigating a hack attack against its voice mail system that racked up $12,000 in international calls, with preliminary evidence
indicating that "contractor error" was probably involved...
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22.08.2008Yahoo! Hosts 'Hack Day' in India
A motley crew of some 100 Web developers gathered at Taj Residency here for Yahoo's Open Hack Day, which made its first appearance in Asia over the
weekend.
The one-day event on Friday attracted students, employees of software companies and even the unemployed, who toiled over
24 hours to create new applications based on Yahoo's application programming interfaces (APIs) and technology.
This was the
third in a series of
Open Hack Day held over the
past year, and the first in Asia. Yahoo kicked off its inaugural Hack Day in Sunnyvale, United States, in September 2006, and held the second one in
London, United Kingdom, in June this year.
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12.10.2007New UK police powers to hack without a warrant
To the outrage of civil liberties groups and the government opposition, the UK Home Office has begun permitting police and MI5 officers to hack
("remote search") people's computers without their knowledge and without a court warrant. Information gleaned can then be shared with other
European forces, in line with a shift in EU policy. The goal, as with all such moves, is to track down terrorists, paedophiles, and cybercriminals.
One method for stealth surveillance involves installing spyware on targetted individuals' computers, normally by sending people emails with
infected attachments. This can, of course, be done from anywhere. Another method entails hacking directly into people's wifi networks from close
range.
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06.01.2009Hack into a Windows PC; with Winlockpwn.
A security consultant, Adam Boileau, based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds, via a Firewire port,
without the need for a password.
With this tool, called Winlockpwn, one could "unlock locked Windows machines or login without a password
... merely by plugging in your Firewire cable and running a command".
The hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been
tested with Windows Vista, was first demonstrated, at a security conference in Sydney in 2006, but Microsoft has yet to develop a fix. But now that a
couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau, decided to release the tool on his website.
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08.03.2008One year after Mac hack contest, Linux and Vista may be tested
One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking contest, the promoters of the
CanSecWest security research conference are thinking about giving hackers another shot at cracking the Mac. Only this time,
they're looking to broaden the field.
Last year, show organizers invited attendees to hack into a Macintosh laptop with the
successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize. But this year, they're talking about giving attendees three targets to choose from. "We're
thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first," said Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of
CanSecWest.
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06.02.2008Intel to unveil new brand to
employees today
Intel is scheduled to
reveal the details of its
massive rebranding campaign
today. But for now, only Intel
employees will be informed
about the ideas and reasons
why the old and familiar Intel
logo just was not up to the
task
anymore.
D
ropping the dropped 'e'
takes the center stage of the
rebranding and will be the
most visible sign for people
outside Intel that the company
wants to acquire a new image.
The Intel brand, currently
valued at about $35 billion,
is evolving, Intel told
employees that the new brand
"will tell the world in a new
way what Intel is all about,
and what the company
does."
Originally,
the name Intel was derived
from the firm's original name
"Integrated Electronics".
Later on, the two words were
combined and the "e" was
dropped to highlight the
separation of the two words.
At the time, the name
"Intel" was held by a hotel
company and was purchased by
Intel for $15,000...
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08.12.2005All Women Team Take Home Yahoo! Hack Day Prize
Yahoo! opened it's doors this
Friday and Saturday for the
first Yahoo! Hack Day,
designed to let teams of
developers build applications
and projects using the Yahoo!
APIs, with the most creative
winning prizes.
This year's winners were an
all women team who created a
Blogging in
Motion device.
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02.10.2006Microsoft block Windows 7 OEM key hack
Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage team
have responded to this week's news that a Windows 7 Ultimate
licensing hack had been identified.
After a Lenovo OEM Windows 7 image leaked and was used to extract a license key, Microsoft have worked with the manufacturer to blacklist the rogue
key and replace it - on genuine Lenovo PCs bought with the new OS - with a working version.
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31.07.2009Palm Pre hacked and ported to Verizon
When a product exists but is locked down in functionality a hacker does not see it as an obstacle but as a challenge. Case in point is that a
PreCentral forum member "Cleanser" has managed to take the Palm Pre and port it over to the Verizon network. The Pre has the potential to work
natively on Verizon but due to software locks and exclusivity agreements the Pre is not currently sold for anyone other than Sprint. All is not
perfect for the hack as "Cleanser" points out that currently only voice and SMS services are working but unfortunately data may take more time to
hack.
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10.07.2009Senate Accord with President Could Mean Immunity for Telcos
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D - Vt.) railed today against fellow Democrat - Jay Rockefeller (D - W.V.) for, as he put it,
"caving" to the wishes of President Bush. This followed an announcement this morning that senators on both sides of the aisle had reached an
agreement with Mr. Bush on substitute language for amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
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19.10.2007AMD Chasing Intel to 45nm by 2008
In an announcement before
semiconductor engineers in San
Francisco this morning, AMD
and IBM put forth proof of
what could be their
breakthrough process - their
response to Intel in the race
to reduction. It could pull
AMD back even with Intel by
2008, if Intel doesn't
respond in the intervening
months...
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