Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.
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2.2.2007 Microsoft Downplays Windows Vista Encryption Cracks
The concept behind Cold-Boot attacks on encryption keys stored in the computer's DRAM is not new. The implications of physical memory attacks, in the context of Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption, were discussed at Hack in the Box 2006 by Douglas MacIver, Penetration Engineer, Microsoft Penetration Team.
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26.2.2008 HD DVD Encryption cracked?
A thread on the Doom9 forum contains links posted by user Muslix64. They lead to a YouTube video and source download for a piece of java code to be employed in the breaking of Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encoded video.
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28.12.2006 WPA Encryption No Longer Secure
Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe.
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7.11.2008 DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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Vista SP1 Gives Extenders a Speed Boost
Word is that Vista SP1 is giving Linksys Extenders a bit of a speed boost, especially in the transition and animation field.
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25.3.2008 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.
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22.12.2007 Systembooster 2.1 - Speed up Shutdown, Restart & Logoff Process of Windows 7, Vista & XP
Adding too many applications on Startup may lead to slow restart and shutdown process in Windows and for non technical users it very difficult to find out & fix the reason of slow restart.
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19.5.2009 How to Reduce Windows Animation Speed in Windows Vista
When you minimize, maximize or close any windows/applications, the animation speed to perform these tasks is a default setting and you can’t really control it.
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10.2.2009 Full Speed v2.7
USB And CD Protection all in one give you the comlete conrol on your pc and important data to protect from steeling or illegal copys of your importan data and also USB protection protect your system and data too form unothorized useing.
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8.6.2007 Need For Speed ProStreet Preview
Electronic Arts made the big announcement just months ago and Need For Speed ProStreet is already shaping up into one of the best, if not THE best racing game ever developed.
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25.10.2007 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Need for Speed Shift Screenshots
Eight Need For Speed: Shift Screenshots Know much about Need for Speed: Shift? Neither do we! EA's released eight new screenshots from the game that we can gaze longingly at, though.
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5.3.2009 Need For Speed ProStreet Demo Out. Download Here!
Well what do you know, if it isn't the Need for Speed ProStreet Demo that you can download and play right now on your PC.
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4.11.2007 Best Need for Speed Underground 2 videos and download demo
Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed? Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.
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Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company Siemens said Wednesday that it had set a new network speed record, achieving a speed of 107 gigabits -- the equivalent of roughly two DVDs worth of data -- per second, two and a half times faster than the previous record.
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21.12.2006 How to Speed up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7
Windows 7 has much better aero transparency glass effect along with taskbar thumbnail preview. Taskbar Thumbnail Preview displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Many users have started loving taskbar thumbnail preview of windows 7.
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9.2.2009 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome.
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12.3.2009 Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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19.3.2009 Intel Plans to Speed-Up Desktop Quad-Core Chips’ Bus
Intel Corp. may be planning to once again speed-up its quad-core offering next quarter and introduce a chip with four processing engines with 1333MHz processor system bus (PSB), a rather unexpected, but a very logical move of the world’s largest maker of x86 microprocessors.
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14.4.2007 BootRacer 1.0 - BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter
BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter. Race your Windows boot using BootRacer and look at the results.
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1.2.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009Vista Encryption Concerns
British Police
British officials are
concerned about encryption in
Microsoft's forthcoming
Windows Vista release, saying
the technology could prevent
law enforcement from reading
suspects' computer files.
They claim certain new
features within Vista, while
intended to do good, may
actually set back terrorism
investigations...
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16.02.2006Vista Encryption Concerns
British Gov
British officials are
concerned about encryption in
Microsoft's forthcoming
Windows Vista release, saying
the technology could prevent
law enforcement from reading
suspects' computer files.
They claim certain new
features within Vista, while
intended to do good, may
actually set back terrorism
investigations...
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17.02.2006Intel, Oracle team on encryption to protect data in business 'clouds'
Judging from the announcement at this week's OracleWorld, both enterprise cloud computing and virtualization customers could soon get new data
encryption technologies that are "hardware-rooted."..
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25.09.2008IBM Embeds Encryption into
Processor
IBM on Monday unveiled a new
technology known as
SecureBlue, which is comprised
of a set of encryption
circuitry that can be
integrated directly into a
computer's CPU. The idea
behind the project is that no
software or external chip can
be truly secure, as hackers
can intercept the data as it
is sent to main processor...
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11.04.2006Vista SP1 Beta 1 to launch in mid-July, sources say
It's official: We are now in
the under-promise and
over-deliver era at Microsoft.
Just when Microsoft
had customers, partners and
competitors all believing that
it was going to delay the
first service pack for Vista
not releasing a first beta of
it until just before year-end
the company is set to deliver
Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in
mid-July.
Word (from
various sources who asked not
to be named) is Microsoft is
gearing up to drop Vista SP1
some time the week of July 16.
And despite what Microsoft
seemingly led Google, the U.S.
Department of Justice and
other company watchers to
believe, the final version of
Vista SP1 is sounding like
November 2007.
Microsoft is expected to
emphasize that SP1 is more
about fixes than new features.
Most of the elements of SP1
are expected to enhance or
supplment features that are
already part of Vista, sources
said.
In addition to
desktop-search modifications,
heres a list of other fixes
likely to make it in:
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Performance tweaks lessening
the amount of time it takes to
copy files and shut down Vista
machines (Yeah, I know
Microsoft said Vista shutdown
speed wasnt an issue. Guess
users werent so crazy, after
all.)
- Improved
transfer performance and
decreased CPU utilization via
support for SD Advanced Direct
Memory Access (DMA)
- Support for ExFat, the
Windows file format for flash
memory storage and other
consumer devices
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Improvements to BitLocker
Drive Encryption to allow not
just encryption of the whole
Vista volume, but also locally
created data volumes
- The ability to boot
Extensible Firmware Interface
(EFI) on an x64 machine
- Improved success rate
for firewalled MeetingSpace
and Remote Assistance
connections
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09.07.20077 Whole-Disk Encryption Apps Put A Lock On Data
Few IT professionals need to be lectured about data security. All too frequently we hear of the theft or loss of a computer or hard drive with data
stored in the clear -- without encryption.
Fortunately, on-the-fly data encryption is no longer some exotic, costly beast.
Rather than just encrypting single files, some applications are able to create virtual disks, either within a file or directly on a partition, where
everything written to the disk is automatically encrypted. On modern hardware, the overhead for encryption is minimal; you no longer need dedicated
hardware to make this happen.
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31.03.2008Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows
Vista are unlikely to
frustrate cybercrime
investigation, according to a
leading computer forensics
firm. Enterprise and Ultimate
editions of Vista include a
feature that provides data
volume encryption called
BitLocker Drive Encryption.
Suggestions that BitLocker
contains a backdoor allowing
law enforcement agencies
automatic access to encrypted
volumes have been robustly
denied by Microsoft.
But that doesn't
necessarily mean the
availability of Vista will
mean the widespread adoption
of disc encryption
technologies that will
frustrate law enforcement
investigations in computer
crime, including trafficking
in images of child abuse,
computer hacking, industrial
espionage and other offences.
For one thing, in two of its
three modes of operation
BitLocker requires a
cryptographic hardware chip
called a Trusted Platform
Module and a compatible BIOS.
These chips are yet to become
widely available much less
deployed. The third mode
requires a user to insert a
USB device that contains a
startup key in order to boot
the protected OS.
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02.02.2007Web browsers get a 12% speed boost in Windows 7 over Vista
If you've been testing the final Windows 7 Release Candidate on your own physical platforms, and you wonder what's giving you that feeling that
it's just a bit peppier, a tad zippier, it's not an illusion. Betanews tests all this week, concluding today, comparing all the major stable
release and development Windows-based Web browsers, running on exactly the same physical computer with fresh Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 RC
partitions, confirmed what our eyes and gut feelings were telling us: On average, most browsers ran 11.9% faster in Windows 7 than on the same machine
running Vista SP2, with most speed gains falling right around that mark.
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29.05.2009DRam crack breaks encryption software
Disk encryption software used on many systems can be circumvented using what researchers referred to as "simple non-destructive techniques".
A report from researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Princeton University and Wind River Systems concluded that many current
consumer disk encryption programs can be compromised via a computer's DRam. The problem is that data can remain in stored in memory even after the
system is shut down. By cold-booting the system, an attacker could access data from the DRam and retrieve encryption keys.
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22.02.2008Windows encryption programs open to kernel hack
Many popular Windows encryption programs that hide files inside mounted volumes could be fatally compromised by a new type of attack uncovered by a
German researcher.
According to a paper published by Bern Roellgen, who also works for encryption software outfit PMC Ciphers,
such OTFE (on-the-fly-encryption) programs typically pass the password and file path information in the clear to a device driver through a Windows
programming function called 'DevicelOControl'.
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15.01.2009Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption provide consolidated workloads a platform for secure data and systems. This paper describes
detail steps for setting up this platform for deployment of virtual machines.
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25.06.2008Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company
Siemens said Wednesday that it
had set a new network speed
record, achieving a speed of
107 gigabits -the equivalent
of roughly two DVDs worth of
data- per second...
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21.12.2006Full-Disk Encryption Is Partial Protection, Analysts Say
Full-disk and file-based encryption should be combined to best prevent data leaks, according to security analysts and vendors.
It
seems to be in the news about once a monthanother laptop disappears containing thousands of pieces of corporate or personal data.
Now the legal department wants to know whether IT can confirm that some or all of the data was encrypted so the company can determine both its
risk and what to do next.
It is in cases like these, when data is at risk, that some vendors and analysts say full-disk
encryption is the ultimate assurance against data leaks.
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05.10.2007Laptop hard drive with on-board encryption a first: Seagate
Thanks to Amano for his
front page submission.
ASI Computer
Technologies of Markham,
Ontario, Canada will be the
first to sell laptop computers
using Seagate Technology
LLC's computer hard drives
with built-in encryption
technology. The Scotts Valley,
California-based company has
included a chip that
automatically encrypts all
data written to the Momentus
5400 FDE (Full Disk
Encryption) hard drive on the
fly, rendering it unreadable
without a digital key or
password and allowing all data
stored on it to be instantly
erased. " I can't help but
think that this kind of hard
drive would become a standard
issue on corporate
laptops ," said Dave
Reinsel, a storage industry
analyst at market research
firm IDC.
Seagate
says its hardware-based
technology has an advantage
over software-based encryption
(example: Microsoft's
BitLocker, include in Ultimate
and Enterprise editions of
Vista), in part because it
would make it impossible to
even start a computer without
proper authentication. The
2.5-inch 160 gigabyte-capacity
hard drive is to include
security management software
by Wave Systems Corporation of
Lee, Massachusetts, to help
companies use the encryption
technology. " The drive's
hardware-based full disc
encryption delivers
significantly stronger
protection against hacking and
tampering than traditional
encryption approaches by
securely performing all
cryptographic operations and
key management within the
drive ," the world's
largest maker of computer hard
drives said in a written
statement.
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13.03.2007Seagate announces 1TB encrypted hard drive
About a month and a half ago, Seagate officially unveiled its 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 3.5" hard drive. The drive squeezes a terabyte of capacity onto
four platters that spin at 7,200RPM, all complemented by a hefty 32MB buffer. Seagate
has now announced a new 1TB Barracuda hard drive, this time featuring the encryption technology it introduced with its Momentus
5400.2 FDE mobile hard drive over a year ago.
According to Seagate, the Barracuda FDE series will be the world's first 3.5"
hard drive lineup to feature native AES encryption technology. In systems powered by the drive, logging on "requires a pre-boot user password that
can be buttressed with other layers of authentication such as smart cards and biometrics." Barracuda FDE drives will have 7,200-RPM spindle speeds
and will launch in 2008 with capacities up to 1TB.
In addition to its terabyte FDE disk, Seagate also intends to roll out new
Momentus 5400.4 2.5" mobile hard drives. Those drives won't have encryption functionality, but they'll combine capacities of up to 250GB with
5,400-RPM spindle speed and 300MB/s Serial ATA interfaces.
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07.09.2007Encryption could make you more vulnerable, warn experts
The use of data encryption could make organizations vulnerable to new risks and threats, a panel of security experts warned Monday.
Many organizations are encrypting their stored data to relieve concerns over
data theft or loss - for example, U.S. mandatory disclosure
laws on data breaches
do not apply to encrypted data.
However, experts from
IBM Internet
Security Systems,
Juniper,
nCipher and elsewhere
said that data encryption also brings new risks, in particular via
attacks -
deliberate or accidental - on the key management infrastructure.
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12.02.2008Misconceptions About Laptop Encryption May Put Data At Risk
Now that they have encryption capabilities on their laptops, many end users may be overconfident about the safety of the data that resides on them,
according to a study published this week.
The
laptop encryption study, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by security vendor Absolute Software, found that many
workers think the data on their encrypted PCs is safe, but that their behavior on the road may continue to put that data at risk.
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16.01.2009Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(
download PDF) for a
single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management
applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- and the password will be needed even before a
computer boots.
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29.01.2009Firefox 3.1 could catch up to Safari 4 in beta speed duel
With software continuing to get bulkier and less memory-efficient, the need for speed is re-emerging, and Mozilla could very well deliver.
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05.03.2009VIA announces PadLock RSA module for Microsoft Windows
VIA has announced the VIA
PadLock RSA Module, which
utilizes the strength and
speed of the VIA PadLock
Security Engine integrated
into all VIA C7 family
processors, to accelerate
public key encryption such as
RSA used in Microsoft Windows
operating systems.
Designed to help in the
fight against Internet fraud,
the VIA PadLock RSA Module
works by accelerating the
process of public key
authentication in Microsoft
applications, thereby enabling
users to utilize longer
authentication keys, making it
more difficult for computer
criminals to break and so
enhancing security in a wide
range of Internet and network
applications, such as online
banking and e-commerce, says
VIA. The VIA PadLock RSA
Module works in PCs running
Windows Vista, Windows XP, or
Windows 2000 Professional, as
well as servers with Windows
Server "Longhorn", Windows
Server 2003, or Windows 2000
Server, the company adds.
Once installed, all
Microsoft applications which
use RSA as standard or the
default CSP (cryptographic
service provider) can utilize
the VIA PadLock RSA Module to
offload some of the public key
encryption process to the VIA
PadLock Security Engine, a
hardware security engine
integrated into VIA C7
processors, accelerating the
process by as much as 275%,
claims VIA.
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