Archive for July, 2009
Apple Thinking to Patch iPhone Security Flaw
A UK based carrier told BBC today that Apple will trying to remove a serious security fault in their iPhone. This iPhone security flaw will give hacker opportunity to disable or take control of the device.
Although Apple and AT&T have not said anything about device’s security flaw. Apple will launch this patch on Saturday via iTunes. Charlie Miller is the man who have presented the flaw at Black Hat security conference. A remote hacker can disable or take over iPhone by sending them a series or hundreds of hidden SMS. A square character only appears in the last message.
4 Free Proxy Tools To Block Unwanted Ads
So now you have tested Google Chrome and now you have made decision that you like it. If you say that you would switch, then I must tell you that there’s no adblocker? But luckily for you, several free, tiny filtering proxy applications are available that can get this job done.
The best part of this thing is that, they’ll help you to block ads in any browser that also includes Chrome.
Before that I get into a list, the thing that you must know is that several of these apps haven’t been updated in ages. Despite of all the facts, content filtering is a pretty straightforward operation, so even the old ones work well and you can always change the blocking rules yourself as you wish.
Now with Just one Text Message Hackers can take over your iPhone
It has been figured out by security researchers that how to disable or take over the iPhone and other smart phones by just using simple text messages.
Charlie Miller has made his name as hacking cool stuff like the first Apple iPhone, T-Mobile HTC G1 phone with Google Android software, Second Life, and the Mac operating system. All these things have been done by him not for a criminal purpose, but for the sake of improving security. But he has always been a thorn in the side of big companies.
He has done it again, he has figured out how to take over your iPhone by using this new trick. He and partner Collin Mulliner, who is a German security researcher getting his doctorate at the Technical University in Berlin, have done this by constructing the message with such type of data and programming that causes your iPhone to crash. Then they can take it over and are then able to run any code they want on it.
Apple: Jailbreaking iPhones Could be a Threat to Cell Phone Networks
In a report issued by Apple to the U.S. Copyright Office, it has been claimed by Apple that jailbreaking iPhones could cause “potentially catastrophic” attacks against cell phone networks,as reported by wired.
It has been said by Apple’s report that hackers may use the phones in order to crash tower software, or a tower might be potentially disabled by them.
More Holes Found in Web’s SSL Security Protocol
Some serious flaws have been found by the security researchers in software that uses the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption protocol which is used to secure communications on the Internet.
On Thursday, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas , a number of attacks has been unveiled by the researchers that could be used in order to compromise secure traffic that is travelling between Web sites and browsers.
This type of attack could make an an attacker able to steal passwords, he may hijack an on-line banking session or even a Firefox browser update can be pushed out by him that contained malicious code, all these things have been told by the researchers.
6 Absolutely Free Tools To Tweak Windows
If you’re working on the Windows 7 RC, then there are good chances that you’re the kind of user who really likes to monkey around with settings and change your OS. While what you can do is that you may go to the DIY route and hack your registry and then run your mouse ragged clicking through various control panel screens, there are several good free apps available that are designed to simplify tweaking.
Pro tip: If you re running one of these apps, then you should use their built-in checkpoint creator before committing changes or you should yourself create a system restore point- just in case something goes away.
Here are few, go ahead and add your picks in the comments if in case you don’t see your favorite ones in the list!
1. EnhanceMySe7en
One strike against EM7 is that you must have to install it in order to use it. Its positive quality is that it is 32 and 64-bit. And the negative thing in it is that it uses 65Mb memory when it is running. But it has a good thing and that is it comes with a free frogurt!
Jokes apart, EM7 is absolutely packed with options. Other than the tweaks covering every nook and cranny in Windows 7, Cleaners are also included in the program like registry and disk cleaning tools, a shortcut creator, it also provides fast access to many built-in Windows utilities, and much, much more. We can rightly say it a beast.
Twitter becomes a real-time search engine
Micro-blogging site had its makeover with homepage revamp. The homepage of Twitter has been redesigned and it appears to have improved its search capabilities.
By having a major update to Twitter’s homepage this micro-blogging site has now turned into a real-time search engine tool.
Those web users who want to know that what is happening in the world at a certain particular moment can now use Twitter without being logged on to the site.
In a blog post It has been said by Twitter founder Biz Stone that the redesign has been done to make Twitter more accessible to newcomers.
Now you can see Twitter’s search feature and Trending Topics section on the homepage, and the most popular topics can be instantly viewed by visitors that are being searched by minute, day or week.
Barnes & Noble Launches Free Wi-Fi
Barnes & Noble are hoping to sell more e-books so that they can compete with Amazon.com‘s Kindle.
On Tuesday free Wi-Fi has been launched by Barnes & Noble at its bookstores, which provides a convenient way to buy and download electronic books to its customers.
AT&T will provide the free wireless hotspots, by which Barnes & Noble’s paid Wi-Fi network has been managed since 2005. In 50 states 777 stores are being operated by the bookseller and it offers more than 700,000 e-book titles.
Microsoft Retail Stores Announced for Arizona and California
Today it has been announced by Microsoft that it will open its first two retail stores that are similar to those of its archrival Apple Inc. in Arizona and California.
According to Cnet, it has been confirmed by the Vole that on Tuesday it has signed leases on storefronts in those two upscale bedroom communities.
The Redmond, Wash., giant will open stores in Scottsdale, Ariz. and in Mission Viejo Apparently. Apparently, the Mission Viejo location has been targeted by Microsoft because there’s already an Apple store in the same mall.
It has been said by Kevin Turner, who is Microsoft’s chief operating officer,that his company’s strategy is such that they will put some of its stores near rival Apple stores.
According to news reports, these two stores should open in the fall.
13 Quick Ways To Make Tiny URLs
Having all the URL shortening sites that have been emerged recently and even those kind of services that enable you to make your own, an idea comes in mind that you should take a look back at some link-shrinkers that are legitimately useful.
So, without further adding anything else let me present you a big list of ways by which you can create very small URLs:
This is still one of the best link shorteners that we find around. For tracking the traffic to your shortened link it scores points, and it also let you see if anyone else has made a bit.ly link to the same URL.
It is a fairly recent entry havinga super-short base URL, and also gives you a bonus of generating links that you can easily read out loud to someone or you may also type out from scratch.
Awe.sm is now offering its clients the facility of creating a custom URL shortener, which is based on its own service that’s not too shabby either.
This URL shortener uses unicode symbols for having its short URL even more shorter and also a kind of cool-looking URLs.
