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30.1.2007 Zune DRM cracked
A program has surfaced that strips DRM off of tracks purchased from the Zune Marketplace, or traded via Wi-Fi.
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16.7.2007 Potential pirates, not Vista, get cracked
35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the "devils0wn", began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system.
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6.12.2006 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 Windows Vista Copy Protection Cracked
More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista.
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5.3.2008 Pirates release fully cracked Vista install
DISCUSSING PIRATED software is still fairly taboo within the press, but sometimes a scene release is worthy of note, despite the influx of staunch anti-piracy e-mails that will flood our in-box.
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18.5.2007 Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection Cracked!
It would seem that there's absolutely nothing out there, no type of copy protection system that can resist the hard efforts of ingenious "security researchers", especially when the respective system is designed to protect valuable multimedia content (namely, movies).
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31.10.2007 Microsoft's new WGA for XP v1.8.31.0 cracked!
You should know by now that Microsoft enhanced Windows XP anti piracy measures with Genuine Advantage v1.8.31.0 (KB905474).
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8.9.2008 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.8.32.0 CRACKED
A new version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool has been released by Microsoft.
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26.10.2008 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.8.32.1 CRACKED
100% working on Windows Update, Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update
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1.12.2008 Windows 7 Ultimate cracked and activated with OEM master key
Hackers cracked and permanently activated Windows 7 Ultimate RTM Final Version. Once again hackers wins the cat and mouse battle game from the Redmond giants.
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29.7.2009 Genuine Advantage Cracked WGA v1.9.40.0 & OGA v2.0.48.0
This Installer will resolve both WGA and OGA validation issues. Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation Cracked, WGA v1.9.40.0 & OGA v2.0.48.0 Release Date: September 07, 2009
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16.9.2009 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008 Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo
A fortnight ago, detailed plans of the long anticipated Microsoft Store were revealed in all its theoretical glory when Gizmodo published over 50 slides from a Powerpoint presentation prepared by the project’s consultancy firm.
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5.8.2009 Microsoft Launches Microsoft TalentLab in The Netherlands
Demand for ICT specialists is growing; new portal site advertises job vacancies at Microsoft partners – with guaranteed training.
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25.3.2007 Microsoft 4 Patas
Four different wallpapers with those that are considered men best friend. Besides that, icons and sounds give a special touch in this theme, that is already a success in those that love dogs.
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5.1.2006 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society.
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15.12.2006 A word with you, please, Microsoft
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista."
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2.1.2007 Microsoft’s IE 8.0: More than just vaporware
When I mentioned in a post yesterday that I had heard there was an alpha build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 circulating inside Microsoft, some were skeptical.
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15.1.2007Windows Media DRM Cracked, Again
The cat-and-mouse game
continues between Microsoft
and a group of hackers intent
on breaking the copy
protection technology on its
Windows Media files. This
time, an individual has
cracked the latest DRM scheme
employed by Microsoft...
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16.07.2007iPhone encrpytion can be cracked in under two minuetes
One major barrier to entry into the business world is security. RIM has earned a solid reputation with reliable and secure data transmissions along
with Microsoft. As Apple attempts to show that its platform is ready for the business world, a well known hacker is claiming that the phones
encryption can be cracked in less than two minutes. The ease of use of the iPhone is what is attracting many to the platform. With its finger
friendly OS and an application database that is growing at incredible rates; compatibility is expanding each and every week.
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24.07.2009Security Firm Cracks Sober
Worm
Finnish security firm F-Secure
said on Thursday that it had
cracked the Sober worm, and
could now warn of what URLs it
would check to update itself.
The company claims it had
cracked the code back in May
2005, but chose to stay
silent, only alerting German
authorities...
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09.12.2005Windows 7 Ultimate cracked and activated with OEM master key
Windows 7 has yet to even be released officially to the general public, and already the dodgy folk on the Internet have fully cracked and activated
the Ultimate version, with help from a leaked Lenovo OEM DVD .ISO file. The news comes from website My Digital Life who state that you can already
pass Windows Genuine Advantage validation offline, OEM style. The leaked .ISO was originally posted on a Chinese forum, which was then downloaded in
order for people to get hold of the boot.wim, and in turn retrieving the OEM-SLP key, plus the OEM activation certificate. Microsoft uses the same
digitally signed OEM certificate, which has an .xrm-ms extension, as that in Windows Vista.
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29.07.2009Hulu tried to encrypt content, already cracked
Hulu is trying to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers. By doing so it hopes to shut down clients such as Boxee and other apps that
enable the websites content to be distributed over non traditional browsers. Milliesoft "h
come across an interesting development with Hulu
this morning. They have started encoding the html that they send to people's browsers, and then decoding it using javascript before
rendering it." This appears to be an on going battle against non traditional means of displaying Hulu's content. The reasoning may be revenue
based as the site may not receive proper views or clicks when viewed in such manor.
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neowin.net - 02.04.2009
HD DVD anti-rip encryption cracked
Has the HD DVD next-generation
optical disc format's
anti-rip technology been
cracked? That's certainly
what's being claimed by a
programmer going by the name
muslix64 who has posted a
Java-based app he maintains
will free the video on a disc
from its encryption
shackles.
HD DVD
used the AACS copy-protection
system to encode content. So
does the Blu-ray Disc format,
though it adds a couple of
extra anti-piracy techniques
to boost its level of
protection. According to
muslix64's posting on a Doom9
forum, nosing around his PC's
memory, he found his test
disc's title encryption key
and was able to use to copy
the movie to his hard drive
and decrypt the video.
neowin.net - 28.12.2006
Microsoft Confirms
PlaysForSure Crack
Microsoft conceded Wednesday
that the latest version of its
Windows Media digital rights
management had indeed been
cracked, and said it is
working on a patch to prevent
customers from using the
FairUse4WM
program to strip the
copyright protection from
downloaded songs...
betanews.com - 30.08.2006
Microsoft Fights Back Against Vista Pirates
Microsoft is fighting back
against those attempting to
distribute a cracked version
of Windows Vista. It has
issued an update to detect use
of a tampered build which
mixed files from test and
final versions of the OS...
betanews.com - 15.12.2006
Dreamscene cracked, now runs on regular Vista
Microsoft has been hard at
work trying to bundle a set of
special goodies to reward
people who shelled out the
cash for Vista Ultimate, such
as Dreamscene, a bundle of
animated wallpapers that uses
Vista's advanced compositing
display engine.
Well, the hackers have been
hard at work dissecting how
Dreamscene works and have come
up with a method to run the
program under any version of
Windows Vista, whether it be a
Business edition or just Home
Basic.
neowin.net - 11.05.2007
iPhone Encryption Can be Cracked?.. In Under Two Minutes!
One major barrier to entry into the business world is security. RIM has earned a solid reputation with reliable and secure data transmissions along
with Microsoft
. As Apple attempts to show that its platform is ready for the business world, a well known hacker is claiming that the phones
encryption can be cracked in less than two minutes.
The ease of use of the iPhone is what is attracting many to the platform. With its
finger friendly OS and an application database that is growing at incredible rates; compatibility is expanding each and every week.
Encrypting message is something every organization relies on in-case the mobile equipment accidentally falls into the wrong hands to prevent trade
secrets from being stolen. Jonathan Zdziarski, a well known iPhone hacker, claims that "I don't think any of us have ever seen
encryption implemented so poorly before, which is why it's hard to describe why it's such a big threat to security." He claims that he was only
using off the shelf software
and compromised the iPhone in under two minutes.
Until Apple has proven the strength of its encryption it
may take longer for widespread corporate adoption. As the user base of the iPhone continues to grow it will become a larger target for malicious users
who wish to inflict harm on individuals and corporations; security can never be overlooked.
jcxp.net - 25.07.2009
WPA is going the way of WEP, cracked in 15 minutes flat
According to PC World the days of securing your WIFI network using Wi-Fi Protected Access
(WPA) may be over, as researcher Erik Tews will show how he was able to crack WPA encryption in around 15 minutes at a the Tokyo PacSec Conference in two weeks time.
WPA was designed to overcome the insecurities in
hacked Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) which can be hacked in a few minutes using a modern laptop.
Erik Tews will be demonstrating how he
cracked the WPA encryption to read the data being sent from a router to a laptop.
To read the data being sent Tews found a way to crack
the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key without resorting to using a dictionary attack which, security experts have agreed that the protocol
might be vulnerable too.
Although this is a big step Tews was still unable to crack the keys used to encrypt the data being sent back to the
router from the laptop.
If the demonstration lives up to its headline then the days of WPA look to be numbered. This would come as a big
blow to both consumers and corporations alike.
WPA is the most common standard of encryption in uses but, there is also a newer more
secure standard WPA2, (which uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and is unaffected), although support is still patchy. Consumer may find they are
forced to still rely on the now unsecure WPA encryption to connect their devices to the network.
For Business this is even bigger headache.
The TJ Maxx chain had hundreds of millions of customer details stolen due in part to the fact that they were still using the cracked WEP standard.
It’s easy to see a situation where hackers may try to do the same using WPA forcing corporate users to VPN or WPA2 dumping devices that
can’t support these protocols.
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neowin.net - 06.11.2008
iPhone hackers are a step ahead of Apple
Two groups of hackers trying to keep the iPhone unlocked say they have obtained the beta of the iPhone firmware version 2.0, and have already cracked
it...
betanews.com - 13.03.2008
SlySoft claims to have cracked BD+, naysayers fall quiet
We haven't broken down the minutes and seconds or anything, but we're fairly certain that July 10th wasn't exactly ten years ago. Nevertheless, the
so-called "impenetrable" BD+ DRM scheme has reportedly already been subverted, and it's no shock to hear that the folks behind SlySoft had a hand in it. Regrettably,
there's not a lot of details beyond that just yet, but according to the outfit's CEO, the software is ready to rock and should be released before
the end of 2007. Chalk (yet another) one up to the hackers.
winbeta.org - 30.10.2007
Progress made on cracking Blu-ray's special DRM, BD+
SlySoft, the Antigua-based company behind AndDVD HD, has claimed that it knows how to defeat the additional BD+ encryption available on Blu-ray
devices, and that BD+ movies will be cracked by the end of the year. In a press release, the company appears to relish its outlaw status in Hollywood.
"I should really think about hiring a bodyguard now, since this product wont please everybody," said James Wong, the companys head
developer. Hes certainly right about that.
AACS, the "advanced" copy protection system deployed on both high-def disc formats,
proved itself to be something less than hacker proof when it was cracked in a couple of months. Back in April, hackers announced a set of
"non-revocable cracks" and then promptly cracked AACS again a day after it was "fixed." BD+ is a second layer of encryption that
can be slapped on top of AACS. It wasnt used with initial Blu-ray releases because, well, it wasnt actually done. The specs and licensing arrangements
werent worked out until June of this year, and it wasnt long after that BD+ went to work annoying legal users.
neowin.net - 31.10.2007
Skype Protocol Reportedly
Cracked
A Chinese software company has
reportedly reverse engineered
the protocol and encryption
used by Skype to make calls
over the Internet, although
details are still sparse. The
news could mean that third
party Skype clients are on the
way...
betanews.com - 15.07.2006
China moves to sanction video sites, shut down others
China has cracked down on over 50 video-sharing Web sites for distributing content it feels is pornographic, violent or subversive, by either
punishing or shutting down the sites altogether...
betanews.com - 21.03.2008
iTunes copy protection 'cracked'
The code that prevents
music downloaded from Apple's
iTunes store being played on
any portable player other than
an iPod has been "cracked".
Apple has not
commented on claims that Jon
Lech Johansen has "reverse
engineered" the FairPlay
system.
Prominent
hacker Mr Johansen has made a
name circumventing software
used to restrict the use of
digital media.
His
company, DoubleTwist, said
that it planned to license the
code to other digital music
player manufacturers.
"There's a certain amount
of trouble that Apple can give
us, but not enough to stop
this," Monique Farantzos,
managing director at
DoubleTwist told Associated
Press.
"We believe
we're on good legal ground,
and our attorneys have given
us the green light on this."
neowin.net - 25.10.2006
Netflix DRM Cracked with FairUse4WM
FairUse4WM, a program that
strips the copyright
protection from Windows Media
audio and video files,
continues to be a thorn in
Microsoft's side. An
individual has now posted
detailed instructions on how
to bypass the DRM in
Netflix's movie streams,
making it so customers can
download and share the films...
betanews.com - 09.08.2007
Possible iPhone Security Hole to be Demonstrated in Las Vegas
Three researchers using a
handful of tools mostly
developed by others over the
few weeks since the product's
introduction, claim they have
successfully cracked the Apple
iPhone. The group plans to
demonstrate the methods it
claims to have discovered at
the BlackHat security
conference in Las Vegas next
week...
betanews.com - 24.07.2007
New AACS Protection Cracked Already
The cat and mouse game
continued Thursday between the
movie industry and those
wanting open access to the
content they purchase.
Software vendor Slysoft
released an update to its
popular AnyDVD HD program that
copies the latest HD DVD and
Blu-ray titles - bypassing the
newest AACS copy protection...
betanews.com - 17.05.2007
