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 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 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 Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission
The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is investigating a complaint against Microsoft made by the Taiwanese Consumer Foundation, which claims the company is effectively using its monopoly to force sales of Vista.
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18.8.2008 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 Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 – No Word on Windows 7 M2
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010. Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008, a potential timetable for the availability of the successor of Windows Vista was also made public.
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12.3.2008 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 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 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 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 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 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 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006ATI to roll out five new
chipsets for AMD M2 platform
in 2006
ATI Technologies is
gearing up to introduce a
lineup of five new chipsets
for the AMD Socket M2 K8
platform in 2006, industry
sources indicated. The
upcoming chipsets will be
manufactured at Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company (TSMC), the sources
noted.
In
2006, Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD) will adopt the M2
940-pin design for all of its
single- and dual-core desktop
processors, as reported on May
9.
ATI is preparing
the RD580 and RD580C for the
high-end segment, with the
chipsets supporting ATI???s
crossfire dual-graphics card
technology, the source
indicated. The two solutions
will compete against Nvidia's
nForce4 SLI (scalable link
interface) series. According
to ATI???s roadmap, volume
production is slated for the
end of this year, but sources
stated the company will need
to adjust its roadmap and
bring it in line with AMD???s
M2 launch schedule...
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06.09.2005Mobo makers: AMD???s Socket M2
to simplify next-generation
CPU
Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD) plans to simplify its
90nm CPU platform with its
940-pin Socket M2 CPU design,
according to motherboard
makers. As Intel schedules to
unify desktop PC- and
notebook-use processors in the
second half of 2006, AMD is
looking to standardize a full
CPU line for entry-level,
middle-range and high-end
segments, indicated the
makers.
AM
D Taiwan declined to comment
on the
report.
AMD???s
Socket M2 CPU line will
originally target the high-end
market, the makers said,
noting that the chip vendor
has informed them that the
940-pin platform will also be
released for the mainstream
and entry-level segments next
year. AMD is now delivering
samples of the next-generation
CPU to its downstream
customers, the makers
added.
During the
platform migration, products
that support the new Socket M2
and the old Socket 939 and 754
will still be on the market by
the end of 2006, according to
motherboard makers. The makers
expect that AMD???s CPU
standardization will help
reduce production and handling
costs...
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24.10.2005Apple uses DMCA as a weapon against an open source iTunes hack
A simple effort by an open source developer to make his iPod's data legible by a Linux-based program, could balloon into a test of copyright so
important that the fate of global trade agreements could hang in the balance...
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27.11.2008Those 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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18.09.2008'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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22.08.2008Samsung LCD Boasts 100,000:1 Contrast With Local Dimming LED
Unlike with conventional LCD
panels that use cold cathode
fluorescent lamp (CCFL)
backlights which have a
constant light source, local
dimming LED backlighting
allows the backlight to be
turned off in dark image
areas, resulting in a "true
black".
Samsung
unofficially took the wraps
off a 40-inch LCD HDTV
featuring 500 cd/m2 of
brightness, 180-degree viewing
angle and a 1366 x 768 pixel
(720p) HD resolution. The
widescreen panel also claims
to offer an impressive
100,000:1 contrast ratio,
achieved using with local
dimming. The hardware company
also showed off a 2560x1600
(WQXGA) resolution 30-inch
LED-backlit model featuring
16.7M colors, 300cd/m2
brightness, 6ms response,
180-degee viewing angle and a
900:1 contrast ratio. A
15.4-inch 1440x900 resolution
LED-backlit LCD which offers
330cd/m2 brightness, 262k
colors and a covers 45% of
NTSC color gamut, is only
5.8-mm thick and has a 3.1W
power consumption, making it
perfect for notebooks.
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07.02.2007US trade rep attacks European electronics tariffs at CES
According to US Trade Representative Susan Schwab, the US is now considering taking action with the WTO over existing and proposed European tariffs on
LCDs, set top boxes, and MFDs...
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10.01.2008Yahoo! 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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08.03.2008Trade Commission to
Investigate iPod
The U.S. International Trade
Commission voted earlier this
week to investigate Apple
Computer and its iPod music
player, affirming a complaint
filed by Creative in May.
While not a decision in the
matter, it is the first step
in deciding the merits of the
case...
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14.06.2006One 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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06.02.2008Amazon Looks to Movie
Downloads
Amazon has been rumored to be
readying its video download
service for launch in
mid-August. First reported by
trade magazine Advertising Age
on Sunday, the service is said
to offer both movies and
episodes of television shows...
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25.07.2006All 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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02.10.2006CEA president calls upon CES attendees to back free trade policy
In a keynote speech this morning at CES, Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro called upon members to back an initiative to give
President Bush more latitude to negotiate trade agreements worldwide...
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07.01.2008Trade Commission Upholds Qualcomm Chip Ban
After having waited for a
jury's verdict last month to
withstand judicial review, the
International Trade Commission
this morning upheld a decision
to ban the import of certain
goods containing Qualcomm
chipsets into the US. The
banned devices are mobile
handsets whose use of EV-DO
and W-CDMA technology was
found to have infringed upon
three of Broadcom's patents...
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23.06.2007Google, Microsoft File FTC Complaint Against NFL, MLB, NBCU
Claiming that copyright
warnings are "misleading
consumers," the Computer &
Communications Industry
Association -- a trade
organization whose more
prominent members include
Microsoft and Google -- filed
a formal complaint with the US
Federal Trade Commission
yesterday...
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