Apple Battery Hack, Detected by a Security Researcher

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_NK841Rog7XrqxzNk5FsMCfSEMGpBcUkASvB3VwU4Q4BwmyUIiHBWdO9j3Fwx3JEcc3xFBX6oPZheGBxcKTJzsV3uDNBHPfU6NhchX6XEHOk2zdKSzXcaPtp1qmI_h_fT2Use8ZAM6w/s1600/macbook-battery-legs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="macbook-battery-legs" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_NK841Rog7XrqxzNk5FsMCfSEMGpBcUkASvB3VwU4Q4BwmyUIiHBWdO9j3Fwx3JEcc3xFBX6oPZheGBxcKTJzsV3uDNBHPfU6NhchX6XEHOk2zdKSzXcaPtp1qmI_h_fT2Use8ZAM6w/s1600/macbook-battery-legs.jpg" /></a></div><br />A security "noob" mistake has left the batteries in Apple’s laptops open to hacking, which could result in a bricked battery or, in a worst case scenario, fire or explosion. This was revealed Friday after Accuvant Labs security researcher Charlie Miller disclosed that he plans to detail the hack at the annual Black Hat security conference in early August.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMxkv7slsZeE9N3_hk4tLwQHWFtdfob3CavDWrafoqNTToS_cRVrp_MogzMqE4H6t3t7KUBEb0-ABbPkN48D0H0T3WW9YcxuLXCmaFSxhVKyC-Xo09wPwoAwOWG-Y7c46QtcE01W7NOc/s1600/ars-technica_logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="ars-technica_logo.gif" border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMxkv7slsZeE9N3_hk4tLwQHWFtdfob3CavDWrafoqNTToS_cRVrp_MogzMqE4H6t3t7KUBEb0-ABbPkN48D0H0T3WW9YcxuLXCmaFSxhVKyC-Xo09wPwoAwOWG-Y7c46QtcE01W7NOc/s320/ars-technica_logo.gif" width="168" /></a></div>According to Ars Technica, "we were curious as to how Miller, known for repeated hacks of Apple’s Safari Web browser at the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition, stumbled upon this hack in the first place—after all, it is somewhat obscure and doesn’t fall into what most people consider to be his typical focus area (browsers). Miller took time to answer our questions about what the hack is and how he found it, as well as what he plans to do when Black Hat rolls around."<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The vulnerability</b></span><br /><br />Laptop batteries include microcontrollers which constantly monitor charging voltage, current, and thermal characteristics, among other properties. These microcontrollers are part of a system called the Smart Battery System, designed to improve the safety of Li-Ion and Li-Poly cells used in these batteries.<br /><br />According to Miller, these controllers can be hacked in a fairly straightforward manner. By reprogramming the microcontroller’s firmware, a battery could report a much lower internal voltage or current, causing the charger to overcharge the battery. In Miller’s testing, he was only successfully able to turn a series of seven $130 MacBook Pro batteries into expensive bricks, but he told Ars that it may be possible to cause fire or even an explosion.<br /><br />"Lithium-ion batteries are potentially dangerous, and it’s possible that futzing with the parameters could cause the battery to fail at best, or explode at worst," Miller said. "I know there are internal fuses and other safeguards to prevent that from happening, and I never did it myself, but there’s certainly potential to get some malware to rewrite the smart battery firmware and cause some catastrophic failure."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Pj3-4TFC7GFGGc7l3EssTS1aboLrMrE5BQi2MOrX7lVnvxTMdTmIwFhPbI-PVVBHP89OZI5obqsownIb8wtIFu00le_ewe8s3_wmSM0ug7J3e1dWM0ak_BGD6sf8GDQoa41aZvCa_Uc/s1600/sbs_system_diagram.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sbs_system_diagram.png" border="0" height="306px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Pj3-4TFC7GFGGc7l3EssTS1aboLrMrE5BQi2MOrX7lVnvxTMdTmIwFhPbI-PVVBHP89OZI5obqsownIb8wtIFu00le_ewe8s3_wmSM0ug7J3e1dWM0ak_BGD6sf8GDQoa41aZvCa_Uc/s1600/sbs_system_diagram.png" width="508px" /></a></div><div style="background-color: black; color: white; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-top: 7px; padding-left:7px;">Typical single smart battery system. (SBS-IF)<span style="background-color: black;"></span></div><br />As Miller noted, Smart Battery Systems include fuses which can disable cells if they reach dangerous internal voltages. But even these safeguards occasionally fail, resulting in toasted laptops.<br /><br />Miller also told Ars that the battery firmware hack could be used to create a sort of “permanent” malware infection. Such malware, or a least a portion of it, could be installed in the micorcontroller’s flash memory. Even if an infected computer’s drive were replaced and the operating system re-installed, it’s possible that an exploit could allow the malware to be reloaded from a laptop’s Smart Battery System firmware.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The discovery</b></span><br /><br />While the threat of un-installable viruses that cause laptop batteries to explode is highly unlikely, the truth is that the vulnerability exists in the first place because of a blunder on Apple’s part. While researching potential vulnerabilities in the MacBook Pro’s power management system, Miller inadvertently discovered that Apple used default passwords described in publicly available documentation on the Smart Battery System, which allows rewriting the firmware itself.<br /><br />Miller began by trying to determine if it was possible to manipulate or control the battery charging system. He downloaded a battery firmware update that Apple released a couple years ago, and dug through its code to see how the system communicates with the Smart Battery System. Inside the firmware updater, he found a password and a command to “unseal” the microcontroller, which allowed the firmware updater to change some of the battery’s parameters.<br /><br />This particular updater, according to Miller, merely told the battery to always keep a slightly higher minimum charge in order to keep the battery from becoming unable to hold a charge after being unused for an extended period of time. But searching for the unseal command led Miller to the Smart Battery Charger Specifications. Digging through the documentation, Miller learned that the password Apple used to unseal the microcontroller was the default used in the specifications.<br /><br />On a whim, Miller tried the default password to switch the microcontroller into “full access mode,” sort of like an administrator account on your Mac. “Unlike the unsealed mode, in full access mode, I could change anything: recalibrate the battery, access the controller at a really low level, including getting the firmware or changing it,” Miller said.<br /><br />Miller downloaded the firmware and reverse engineered the microcontroller’s machine code, bricking several batteries in the process. Eventually he was able to change the firmware to “always lie, like to say it wasn’t fully charged even when it was.”<br /><br />The fact that Apple never bothered to change the default password is disconcerting, especially considering the effort Apple has made to beef up security in Mac OS X Lion. Lion’s implementation of address space layout randomization (ASLR) is now “complete,” according to Miller, making it impossible to know where the OS has loaded system functions into memory. Furthermore, Safari—Miller’s preferred exploit vector—is now divided into two sandboxed processes, one for the GUI and one for rendering Web content.<br /><br />“That second process is sandboxed; it can’t access your files and other stuff,” Miller explained. “Even if you have browser exploits, the only way to do anything [useful] is to get out of the sandbox.” Miller said that would mean finding a bug in the kernel itself. “That’s not impossible… but it’s definitely much harder with a sandbox than without.<br /><br />“It’s certainly going to be a lot harder to own a Mac at Pwn2Own next year,” Miller admitted.<br /><br />Miller speculated that Apple assumed that the battery would never be a target for hackers, and so kept the default passwords described in the documentation as a convenience. Unfortunately, that convenience has resulted in a potential headache for Apple laptop users.<br /><br />Miller handed his research over to Apple a few weeks ago to give the company time to come up with its own workaround before he presents his findings at the Black Hat conference on August 4. Miller has also written a Mac OS X tool that will generate a random password and store it in a battery’s firmware, preventing future hacks—but also preventing future firmware updates, which will be released when he gives his talk at Black Hat.

Apple Battery Hack, Detected by a Security Researcher

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Anonymous, LulzSec Urges Paypal BoyCott, Condemns FBi Raids

Anonymous is <a href="http://pastebin.com/LAykd1es">seriously lashing</a> out today at the FBI and especially at PayPal, urging users of the electronic payments site to empty their accounts.<br /><br /><blockquote>We encourage anyone using PayPal to immediately close their accounts and consider an alternative. The first step to being truly free is not putting one's trust into a company that freezes accounts when it feels like, or when it is pressured by the U.S. government. PayPal's willingness to fold to legislation should be proof enough that they don't deserve the customers they get. They do not deserve your business, and they do not deserve your respect.<br /><br />Join us in our latest operation against PayPal - tweet pictures of your account closure, tell us on IRC, spread the word. Anonymous has become a powerful channel of information, and unlike the governments of the world, we are here to fight for you. Always.</blockquote><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="antisec" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxXObJAdqHyhVqro0RzroQuVyz2eOhV0h1i8EIUiD9O-NEl1K3tnW1ojy2Lh1AlDcvjea6QYJUgYhkUEtE4n-TSofusZv04mwTtftbMl5xMawUKKAfC37VenX6GwWJ0r0TNZnLe0yRuM/s200/antisec.jpg" width="200" /></div>The group wants supporters to empty their accounts and avoid using the payment service in protest against the prosecution of a university student who allegedly participated in denial of service attacks against PayPal last year. Mercedes Haefer, a 20-year-old journalism student at the university of Nevada, is among around 14 people facing hacking charges punishable by a sentence of up to 15 years imprisonment and a fine of $500,000. It has been alleged that Haefer had used her home PC to attack PayPal's systems.<br /><br />In response, Anonymous and LulzSec put out a statement calling for a boycott of PayPal, as the first phase of #OpPayPal.<br /><br /><blockquote>In recent weeks, we've found ourselves outraged at the FBI's willingness to arrest and threaten those who are involved in ethical, modern cyber operations. Law enforcement continues to push its ridiculous rules upon us - Anonymous "suspects" may face a fine of up to 500,000 USD with the addition of 15 years' jailtime, all for taking part in a historical activist movement. Many of the already-apprehended Anons are being charged with taking part in DDoS attacks against corrupt and greedy organizations, such as PayPal.<br /><br />What the FBI needs to learn is that there is a vast difference between adding one's voice to a chorus and digital sit-in with Low Orbit Ion Cannon, and controlling a large botnet of infected computers. And yet both of these are punishable with exactly the same fine and sentence.<br /><br />In addition to this horrific law enforcement incompetence, PayPal continues to withhold funds from WikiLeaks, a beacon of truth in these dark times. By simply standing up for ourselves and uniting the people, PayPal still sees it fit to wash its hands of any blame, and instead encourages and assists law enforcement to hunt down participants in the AntiSec movement.<br /><br />Quite simply, we, the people, are disgusted with these injustices. We will not sit down and let ourselves be trampled upon by any corporation or government. We are not scared of you, and that is something for you to be scared of. We are not the terrorists here: you are.</blockquote>Anonymous is now claiming through its <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC">Twitter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC"> account</a> that PayPal has lost more than 9,000 account in just a couple of hours. The group also claimed that PayPal had taken down its Web page where people can cancel their accounts, though the site seemed to be up and running normally.<br /><br />WikiLeaks was quick to crow that Anonymous' campaign dealt a "<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/wikileaks/status/96224382980079616">$933M stock crash</a>" this morning for PayPal parent eBay. Shares in eBay did drop about 3 percent at the market open, but have since recovered somewhat.<br /><br />PayPal was not immediately available for comment, according to CNET's reporter.<br /><br />Last December, PayPal released to WikiLeaks all existing funds in its account up to that time but cut off the ability of the whistleblowing site to receive future funds from supporters via its PayPal account.<br /><br />By caving into the law enforcement establishment in freezing the WikiLeaks account, PayPal doesn't deserve the business or respect of its customers, says Anonymous.<br /><br />In recent weeks Anonymous and LulzSec have rarely stayed with the same target for more than a day at a time, so it will be interesting to see how long #OpPayPal lasts or how it evolves. Security firm Panda has already <a href="http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/anonymous-meets-real-activism-oppaypal">spotted</a> chatter suggesting a move towards illegal tactics is already being discussed, at least.

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Phishers Targeting Google AdWords account

Cybercrooks have launched a "Google AdWords" phishing campaign in an attempt to trick marks into handing over sensitive login credentials to a bogus, newly registered, website.<br /><br />Spam messages promoting the ruse falsely claim that a recipient's campaign has been stopped and they need to login to their "Adwords account" in order to reactivate it. The widely distributed spam messages link to a realistic replica of the Google AdWords page, net security firm Sophos <a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/26/google-adwords-phishing-attack-strikes-inboxes">warns</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uWGvEfwG49-Ax-ZOYP0jXb4t5va5wAHUgFitKLkeRnDSKfizguStouuEAIOcjk_JamiDgLh-G9muICkaGRrwWjBbW6aguGN-w5-rB0pd_jEo86uyyt1GKKBQs-nvn3fuwRbgdTCLyEM/s1600/google-phish-site.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="phishers-attack-googleadwords" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uWGvEfwG49-Ax-ZOYP0jXb4t5va5wAHUgFitKLkeRnDSKfizguStouuEAIOcjk_JamiDgLh-G9muICkaGRrwWjBbW6aguGN-w5-rB0pd_jEo86uyyt1GKKBQs-nvn3fuwRbgdTCLyEM/s1600/google-phish-site.jpg" /></a></div>The dodgy site – google-oa.net – was only registered this week.<br /><br />Google AdWords accounts normally use the same login credentials as other associated Google accounts (Gmail, Google Docs etc). It could be that the fraudsters behind the scam are just as interested in these accounts as in compromised access to Google AdWords accounts, though this much remains unclear.<br /><br />The whole scheme further illustrates that phishing fraudsters are going after a wider range of targets outside of old favourites such as PayPal and online banking accounts. Phishing fraudsters in Brazil, for example, have begun targeting air miles accounts, trading stolen vouchers as a form of currency in exchange for renting access to botnets via underground markets.<br /><br />Intended victims of the air miles or Google AdWords scams might be less aware of the risk and therefore more likely to respond to fraudulent emails, perhaps.

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How to install Mac OS X Lion's high-quality speech voices

One of the <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/feature-mac-os-x-107-lion-complete.html">features of OS X Lion</a> that was discussed early on in its development was the updated text-to-speech technology that not only brings much more natural-sounding voices, but also has options for dialect and accent support for various regions of the world. Since early in the Classic Mac OS, Apple has supported text-to-speech technology, with very basic and robotic output that has improved over the years, but with <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-available-today-via-mac.html">Lion</a> the technology takes a relatively major leap forward.<br /><br />The system ships with some default voices, including the long-standing novelty ones such as laughing, whispering, bells, and alien voices, but now includes the option to enable high-quality male and female voices that mimic accents from numerous areas of the world. These include numerous European languages, Eastern European, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, other Asian languages, world variations of English (Indian, Australian, U.K., U.S., and more), and Middle Eastern languages like Arabic and Turkish.<br /><br />The enhanced languages are a bit large at between 300MB and 1GB each. Like other aspects of the OS such as Java, Apple has made them available for download through the OS. To do this, follow these steps:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8niTMqm3Aa9uwfPJGQY4V2ii92vM8k5uwlZOOPYjXLn_EOJ_ouY1Oh_syjM12mQxsM6jbQlqk8yXVnfl_L4x98v0APm05WrjFxhVqNaH7v6iIp4m39Mi7ckQ_TUCjhq2gC15HqRuiQ0/s1600/TextToSpeechVoices_540x416.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lion Speech" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8niTMqm3Aa9uwfPJGQY4V2ii92vM8k5uwlZOOPYjXLn_EOJ_ouY1Oh_syjM12mQxsM6jbQlqk8yXVnfl_L4x98v0APm05WrjFxhVqNaH7v6iIp4m39Mi7ckQ_TUCjhq2gC15HqRuiQ0/s1600/TextToSpeechVoices_540x416.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Apple's new voices are available along with all the older voices</i></div><br /><ol><li>Go to the Speech system preferences</li><li>Select the "Text to Speech" tab</li><li>Click the "System Voices" menu and choose Customize</li><li>Check the boxes of voices you would like (you can preview them by selecting them and clicking "Play")</li>If the voice is high-quality then there will be a yellow triangle warning next to it, indicating the voice will need to be automatically downloaded. <li>Click OK when you have your desired voices</li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wE5bwc-JR2mYkecSbZpkdJCQ-u5ArALdD29AdywqqQNhMIojlmlpcYjWM2dBgyXyuNdMTvhIEqypdgu2vW3RlYWazIiAWPZ_jBy3Ye0tf1na4B2zioA41XXlOK0eAqMwL5p3H3SpNw8/s1600/VoiceDownload_540x225.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="lion-download-voice" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wE5bwc-JR2mYkecSbZpkdJCQ-u5ArALdD29AdywqqQNhMIojlmlpcYjWM2dBgyXyuNdMTvhIEqypdgu2vW3RlYWazIiAWPZ_jBy3Ye0tf1na4B2zioA41XXlOK0eAqMwL5p3H3SpNw8/s1600/VoiceDownload_540x225.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Voices will download through Software Update.</i></div><br />The system will automatically launch Software Update and install the desired voices when you click OK, after which you will be ready to use your new voices. Now just go to an application that supports Apple's Text to Speech (such as TextEdit, Safari, or Mail), select some text, and then right-click it and choose "Start Speaking" from the Speech submenu. This option should also be available in one of the application's menus, such as the Edit menu.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Now Available

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcnl-X3KQDaEoZVzQS3rSoWwlSAzSU_yJCd-FENcDdD1FpXWlKbYYdu0456yVfE2laTrAUqdBhqJxGmbI_-hE7bY7T1cnmu89P6ihbsrRkggAHJRAYq4Txnwu79ks_siSw9bByRHirX8/s1600/redhat.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="redhat.jpeg" border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcnl-X3KQDaEoZVzQS3rSoWwlSAzSU_yJCd-FENcDdD1FpXWlKbYYdu0456yVfE2laTrAUqdBhqJxGmbI_-hE7bY7T1cnmu89P6ihbsrRkggAHJRAYq4Txnwu79ks_siSw9bByRHirX8/s320/redhat.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div>Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 <a href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Release_Notes/">last week</a>. Its update adds features that enhance the flexibility, security, and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 environments, and includes a number of features incorporated from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Application interface consistency is maintained between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and prior updates, allowing systems to be updated easily without application re-certification.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include:</b></span><br /><br /><b>Hardware enablement</b><br /><br />Support for new hardware from Red Hat partners encompassing processors, chipsets and new drivers for storage, networking, and graphics allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 deployments to benefit from new hardware platforms delivered in 2011, including Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z.<br /><br /><b>Virtualization improvements</b><br /><br />Several virtualization enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include improved migration performance for KVM, as well as several performance and scalability improvements for the Xen hypervisor.<br /><br /><b>SCAP support</b><br /><br />OpenSCAP introduces support for the Security Content Automation Protocol, including a library and set of utilities, giving a standardized approach to validating Red Hat Enterprise Linux security.<br /><br /><b>Introducing Subscription Manager in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5</b><br /><br />First introduced to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 customers and now to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 customers, the new X.509 certificate-based Subscription Manager feature delivers Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions and software services in a flexible, scalable, and secure way. The Subscription Manager tracks subscriptions assigned to a system and configures software updates for better availability and faster update speeds.<br /><br /><b>Networking and storage enhancements</b><br /><br />Added features for network bridging and LDAP features for autofs improve centralized management of user filesystems in an enterprise environment.<br /><br /><b>Availability Fencing</b><br /><br />New fencing features boost cluster reliability in Cisco UCS system and VMware environments.<br /><br />For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visit <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">here</a>. To access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 release notes, visit <a href="https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Release_Notes/index.html">here</a>. Detailed technical notes are available <a href="https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Technical_Notes/index.html">here.</a>

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5 Cool Mac Os X Lion features You Might Not Know

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqZzKmkBIXZLupZWy4HOqFXWH-Xq09Os7pRiiRw9J0Pp6KeVBxEkwDTNMCX1dGLWQpEmWpt9p6Uw_qAm5qm2cS4C71YYVgLMRqm2AOAuL61iWUmxk-QmXJk7e9lX8rlIN9ayZkzoiPyvB/s1600/4ScreenSaver.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633279776074567922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqZzKmkBIXZLupZWy4HOqFXWH-Xq09Os7pRiiRw9J0Pp6KeVBxEkwDTNMCX1dGLWQpEmWpt9p6Uw_qAm5qm2cS4C71YYVgLMRqm2AOAuL61iWUmxk-QmXJk7e9lX8rlIN9ayZkzoiPyvB/s320/4ScreenSaver.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 169px;" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Spotlight is sexier</span></span><br /><br />If a search box could be attractive, Spotlight would be it. You can now drag and drop directly from search results to another program (like Mail) or another place on your desktop.<br /><br />Previews are new, too--just search for a doc and hover over a result to get an image preview. And finally, you can search the Web within Spotlight and launch a Google search result in your default browser.<br /><br />Tip: Hit CMD-SPACE to quickly launch Spotlight.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. More Photo Booth fun</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-available-today-via-mac.html">Lion</a> gives you nine new Photobooth effects including Space Alien, Blockhead, Dizzy (blue birds fly above your head!), and my favorite: Lovestruck (pink hearts float above your head). Hit the arrows in the upper-right corner and enjoy these silly, new effects in Photobooth's beautiful full-screen mode.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Files and folders are smarter</span></span><br /><br />You'll immediately notice that the Finder is much more organized and intuitive. There's a new All My Files view, which (obviously) displays all your files organized by type in a pretty interface. Apple also added a smarter search box, and the ability to swipe though files in the icon view.<br /><br />Folders are more intelligent, too. When you try to combine two folders with the same name, <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-available-today-via-mac.html">Lion</a> will ask you if you want to merge them. Also new is a feature that lets you create a new folder from a selection of files.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Your screensaver is a jukebox</span></span><br /><br />When your iTunes' library artwork is your screensaver, clicking on any album will immediately launch its music. Go to<span style="font-family:courier new;"> System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > </span>and set is as "<span style="font-family:courier new;">iTunes Artwork.</span>" Hit "<span style="font-family:courier new;">Test,</span>" click on any album cover, and jam out with this awesome feature.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >5. Add a login message</span><br /><br />What happens if you lose your laptop? With Lion, you can add a message to the login screen, so make it useful by adding some personal information (like your phone number or e-mail address). Go to <span style="font-family:courier new;">System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General. Check</span> "Show a message when the screen is locked" and add your info in the box below.

5 Cool Mac Os X Lion features You Might Not Know

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Learning JavaScript From Beginner to Advanced Level

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAzasZQr_DCMw-ihM1p5ENndiH_l26dXVIRFOeRD_aK0NMXPB31tvwiMfyVNy2TQje497YTTR7FB6h3k-Y6TbfJPBdVQxLyp3DfnDoDrksWU_hjGK-78ikipDwlpOCO1bYaFsIT671kc/s1600/JavaScript-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Javascript" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAzasZQr_DCMw-ihM1p5ENndiH_l26dXVIRFOeRD_aK0NMXPB31tvwiMfyVNy2TQje497YTTR7FB6h3k-Y6TbfJPBdVQxLyp3DfnDoDrksWU_hjGK-78ikipDwlpOCO1bYaFsIT671kc/s200/JavaScript-icon.png" width="200" /></a></div><b><a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/search/label/JavaScript">JavaScript</a> </b>(JS for short) is the programming language that enables web pages to respond to user interaction beyond the basic level provided by HTML links and forms and it is used in billions of Web pages to add functionality, validate forms, communicate with the server, and much more.<br /><br />The links on this page lead to a variety of <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/coffeescript-beautiful-way-to-write.html">JavaScript tutorial</a>s and JavaScript training materials. Whether you are just starting out, wanting to learn JS basics, or are an old hand, wanting to sharpen your skills, you can find helpful resources here for JS best practices.<br /><br />JavaScript is easy to learn and am sure you will enjoy it.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>INTRODUCTION LEVEL</b></span><br /><br /><b><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Getting_Started">Getting Started with JavaScript</a></b><br /><div style="color: #999999;">MDN</div>What is JavaScript and how can it help you?<br /><br /><b><a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Web_Design/An_Introduction_to_Programming_with_Javascript">An Introduction to Programming with JavaScript</a></b><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Wikiversity</div>Learn the basics of programming with JavaScript<br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><a href="http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/programming-the-real-basics/">Programming – The Real Basics</a></b><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Dev.Opera Web</div>Basic fundamentals of programming. Following articles introduce what you can do with JavaScript, best practices for using it, and more.<br /><br /><a href="http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/#javascript"><b>JavaScript From the Ground Up</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Google Code University</div>Video tutorial on making pages interactive with JavaScript<br /><br /><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide"><b>JavaScript Guide</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">MDN</div>A comprehensive, regularly updated guide to JavaScript for all levels of learning from beginner to advanced.<br /><br /><a href="http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/javascript-best-practices/"><b>JavaScript Best Practices</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Dev.Opera</div>Learn about some of the obvious and (not so) obvious best practices when writing JavaScript.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>INTERMEDIATE LEVEL</b></span><br /><br /><b><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript">A Re-introduction to JavaScript</a></b><br /><div style="color: #999999;">MDN</div>A recap of the JavaScript programming language aimed at intermediate-level developers.<br /><br /><a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html"><b>Eloquent JavaScript</b></a><br />A comprehensive guide to intermediate and advanced JavaScript methodologies.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/"><b>Essential JavaScript Design Patterns</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Addy Osmani</div>An introduction to essential JavaScript design patterns.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/24/video-crockford-tjpl/"><b>The JavaScript Programming Language</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">YUI Blog</div>Douglas Crockford explores the language as it is today, and how it came to be.<br /><br /><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction_to_Object-Oriented_JavaScript"><b>Introduction to Object-oriented JavaScript</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">MDN</div>Learn about the JavaScript object model.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">ADVANCED LEVEL</span></b><br /><br /><a href="http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/"><b>Learning Advanced JavaScript</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">John Resig</div>John Resig's guide to advanced JavaScript.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elated.com/articles/javascript-dom-intro/"><b>Introducing the JavaScript DOM</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">Elated</div>What is the Document Object Model, and why is it useful? This article gives you a gentle introduction to this powerful JavaScript feature.<br /><br /><a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/10/20/video-crockford-domtheory/"><b>An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">YUI Blog</div>Douglas Crockford explains the Document Object Model.<br /><br /><a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/27/video-crockford-advjs/"><b>Advanced JavaScript</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">YUI Blog</div>Douglas Crockford looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications.<br /><br /><a href="http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/"><b>JavaScript Garden</b></a><br />Documentation of the most quirky parts of JavaScript.<br /><br /><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/394601/which-javascript-framework-jquery-vs-dojo-vs"><b>Which JavaScript Framework?</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">StackOverflow</div>Advice on choosing a JavaScript framework.<br /><br /><a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/07/22/non-blocking-scripts/"><b>Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads</b></a><br /><div style="color: #999999;">YUI Blog</div>Tips on improving the download performance of pages containing JavaScript.<br /><br />These resources are created by web developers who have embraced open standards and best practices for web development. If you think we've omitted a great resource, please tell us using the comment box.

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Linux 3.0 Out...No Significant Changes

Linux 3.0 is out and the big changes are nothing to worry about.<br /><br />Linus Torvalds, its creator and lead developer had warned us that this would be the case: “<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415">So what are the big changes?</a>”<br /><br /><blockquote>"NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is <b>*just*</b> about renumbering, we are very much <b>*not* </b>doing a KDE-4 or a Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at all like that. <br /><br />We’ve been doing time-based releases for many years now; this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years") instead. So no ABI [application binary interface] changes, no API [application programming interface] changes, no magical new features - just steady plodding progress."</blockquote>In case you didn’t get the message first time, when Torvalds finally released <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1170070">Linux 3.0</a> on July 22nd, he wrote,<br /><br /><blockquote>"As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number change, it’s simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor of twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge window was calmer than most, and apart from some excitement from <a href="http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/whatisRCU.html">RCU [Ready, Copy, Update]</a> I’d have called it really smooth. Which is not to say that there may not be bugs, but if anything, there are hopefully fewer than usual, rather than the normal ‘.0′ problems."</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdyG1ugaZ7EYjCQpzyF7rHV2JMR9Zr_JvSLVQDvnOcQ-KxsmUIEpta-296eXuUpVudFw4bmPy3H61JvegJ-uYAauM2PQTJYZSqc2M5n8RoAemSoq6yygQQ_jClVwLv_W1uguOwVSqo1Cg/s1600/linux-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="linux-3.jpg" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdyG1ugaZ7EYjCQpzyF7rHV2JMR9Zr_JvSLVQDvnOcQ-KxsmUIEpta-296eXuUpVudFw4bmPy3H61JvegJ-uYAauM2PQTJYZSqc2M5n8RoAemSoq6yygQQ_jClVwLv_W1uguOwVSqo1Cg/s200/linux-3.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>OK, but surely some things were changed right? Well, yes, there were. The not so big, but significant changes were, in no particular order:<br /><br />The <a href="http://xen.org/">Xen hypervisor</a> now can run natively with Dom0 (Domain 0) privileges. This gives it, like <a href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page">Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)</a>, the ability to work at the lowest possible level of the Linux kernel. In practical terms this means Xen virtual machines should run faster.<br /><br />There have also been improvements with how the kernel works with the still experimental <a href="https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Pageext4">Btrfs (B-tree file system)</a> and the now standard <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4">ext4 file system</a>. This, in turn, should lead to faster and, in the case of Btrfs, more reliable, file systems.<br /><br />The Linux 3.0 kernel also improves its interoperability with <a href="http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/The-30-year-long-Reign-of-BIOS-is-Over-Why-UEFI-Will-Rock-Your/ba-p/198">UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)</a>, a replacement for PC’s BIOS. While UEFI has been slow to catch on, it’s beginning to be picked up by major PC and server companies like HP. Since UEFI lends itself well for business desktop and server deployments, you can expect to see more and more UEFI computers entering the market in the next year or two.<br /><br />3.0 is also bringing in a new implementation of the <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/437981/">Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF)</a> The net effect of this improvement will be speed up any application that calls on network services. While this won’t matter that much if you’re just trying to get the most from your Web browser, it can save significant time for Web servers and other network service software.<br /><br />So, all-in-all, there is good stuff here. Radical? No. Revolutionary? I don’t think so! But, still good, solid improvements.

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Feature: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: The Complete Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72d4W0IGp3uvXuCaCwlonW6MJhn3X-O5aUKQj8fA8oUtDK1uiU-1H2QjHH3kJD5PY0yVrjpuHh22yiKV0AFSiJOvEPorDciTpIhbFeJxox2DaMS6AjpJyWaUWP8n3rXTw6RLbGs3pa9g/s1600/screen-shot-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72d4W0IGp3uvXuCaCwlonW6MJhn3X-O5aUKQj8fA8oUtDK1uiU-1H2QjHH3kJD5PY0yVrjpuHh22yiKV0AFSiJOvEPorDciTpIhbFeJxox2DaMS6AjpJyWaUWP8n3rXTw6RLbGs3pa9g/s320/screen-shot-2.png" width="300" /></a></div>Mac OS X Lion <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-available-today-via-mac.html">arrived Wednesday morning</a>, available through the Mac App Store as a downloadable upgrade for users of Snow Leopard. Lion is version 10.7 of Apple’s desktop operating system, and it brings some significant changes to Mac computing. But will users welcome those changes?<br /><br />This review is meant purely to convey what living with Lion as your primary operating system is really like. I’m not going into exhaustive detail about all the new features, but that’s info you can easily find elsewhere anyway. What I will do is review in broad strokes how OS X 10.7 could change the way you use your computer.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Giving the boot to booting</b></span><br /><br />Something that’s long been a feature of desktop computing is the boot process. You start your computer, the OS slowly loads, and then you re-open your documents, applications and services on an as-needed basis. At the end of the day, or session, or week, depending on your practice, you shut everything down and power off, and then get ready to start all over again.<br /><br />OS X Lion aims to change that. By default, it re-opens all your applications to their state at power down. This means that with enough RAM and, if even better, an SSD, you can power on and off without really missing a beat. It’s amazing how well this feature works, especially with built-in Apple apps that are already designed to work seamlessly with Lion’s Auto Resume capabilities. At first, this felt like I was missing out on a key ritual, but after extended use, it’s something I definitely wouldn’t trade.<br /><br />Combined with Auto Save and Version features which preserver your documents and document history as you work, which will likely gradually make their way into third-party Mac apps as Lion’s user base grows, Lion’s dramatically different boot process will definitely alter how you use your computer. It makes it easier to both pick up and leave desktop computing, which should be a welcome shift for most people who may feel tied to a computer once they endure the lengthy boot process.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Everything in its place</b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfze_hb-47gXkuW3KUCTwtSCwI2b6-srW8KqIaptQfHw-1ACfB3cWHt3eC3BTxTIcEk2pFdNfEQKUirdaexmREhru7XzMOMKS80w8zKRE349T5BhDxwdzv9u_wxhGOl8gRs7itton__NE/s1600/screen-shot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfze_hb-47gXkuW3KUCTwtSCwI2b6-srW8KqIaptQfHw-1ACfB3cWHt3eC3BTxTIcEk2pFdNfEQKUirdaexmREhru7XzMOMKS80w8zKRE349T5BhDxwdzv9u_wxhGOl8gRs7itton__NE/s200/screen-shot.png" width="200" /></a></div>Some aren’t happy that Apple’s Exposé windows management system has given way to Mission Control, which, admittedly, offers a little more visual clutter. But I’m not really bothered by the new way of doing things, and it hasn’t really affected how I use my computer in any dramatic way. What has changed my habits are Launchpad and Full-Screen apps, both also new in Lion.<br /><br />Full-screen apps, and the multi-touch gestures you use to navigate between them, actually achieve what Spaces sought to, which is the the compartmentalization of distinct work and leisure activities. Rather than keeping Facebook in a separate tab and trying to pretend its not there, I can actually make Facebook into its own Fluid app and keep it out of my browser. Plus, I can house Mail in its own full-screen implementation, which makes it easier to keep email out of my hair when I need it gone, and helps me plow through email backlog when I actually want to focus on it. Full-screen apps are so useful, they might actually be my favorite new feature of 10.7. Try them out for a little while, and I’m sure you’ll agree.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mail</b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NtZT26i419BKM-h56q_Eg4foCHKJPR23516jlbglm1waER3eFAoQyMORLl_w5JlWOI5D56Ge5fvSXooYWjLj2FoXPlaV1mSvWgpmMOqGm4HX_VIi-I5t0UfP8rlUF7S3YseqYNPv1XA/s1600/screen-shot-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NtZT26i419BKM-h56q_Eg4foCHKJPR23516jlbglm1waER3eFAoQyMORLl_w5JlWOI5D56Ge5fvSXooYWjLj2FoXPlaV1mSvWgpmMOqGm4HX_VIi-I5t0UfP8rlUF7S3YseqYNPv1XA/s200/screen-shot-3.png" width="200" /></a></div> I’ve done a lot of searching around to try to find a better email client for OS X, since Mail is not without its quirks. That’s why the changes to the app in Lion merit their own subsection. Lion’s Mail overhaul brings to OS X email what others have tried to: style and substance. It achieves this primarily by copying a proven model, since it borrows a ton from the iPad Mail app.<br /><br />It has full-screen support, as I mentioned, and a horizontal three-column design that provides you with tons of information at-a-glance. It also boasts threaded conversations, much smarter search and compact list previews that provide you with information for quick-hit overviews without even so much as a mouse-over. If, like me, you use email a lot, this may be the biggest change Lion brings.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A noble beast</b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztrZZ_yYtd_KXnd-lGv5qOX34GUNkYoC9hOLIR8fd5yUQnDOf5fIkzyBKcNwlq-3Vq62ZduPXzeHLM_hnqzmaauytsPaF3rzoQl58yCNhAS5i1ABYsBKSFXW-Ek8SguZtgsUYC5GDswE/s1600/screen-shot-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztrZZ_yYtd_KXnd-lGv5qOX34GUNkYoC9hOLIR8fd5yUQnDOf5fIkzyBKcNwlq-3Vq62ZduPXzeHLM_hnqzmaauytsPaF3rzoQl58yCNhAS5i1ABYsBKSFXW-Ek8SguZtgsUYC5GDswE/s200/screen-shot-4.png" width="200" /></a></div>Lion isn’t without its faults. I’m still not crazy about the Finder redesign for example, and I think Apple missed the opportunity to make some changes to that component of OS X that would’ve really resonated with longtime users. Some also seem to think that the some of the redesigned core apps are actually steps backward. But those apps actually aren’t all that important to the core experience, and overall, there’s no question in my mind that Lion represents a significant improvement to the Mac platform. At $29<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://gigaom.com/">Gigaom</a>

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AnonPlus Social Network Hacked by Hackers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0G9q616fk7ItJtlkYBqik79NfBG-ZVrBdVND4dhdYl8Xol6HttnXA8CCX1T-vPX220LBU5Z3TLXYYEE8uUT7_caSsvPsq_3fnwK6S9csLW4Wg2toCZq4tOYOKYMDdIuhoB7XnANrT3s/s1600/anonp_hacked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0G9q616fk7ItJtlkYBqik79NfBG-ZVrBdVND4dhdYl8Xol6HttnXA8CCX1T-vPX220LBU5Z3TLXYYEE8uUT7_caSsvPsq_3fnwK6S9csLW4Wg2toCZq4tOYOKYMDdIuhoB7XnANrT3s/s320/anonp_hacked.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Disclaimer:</b> The content of This News (AnonPlus Social Network Hacked by Hackers) and Other Information is provided by Various Sources for Educational Purpose & Security Awareness only. If any Law Enforcement Agency or Related Company needs Information, Please Feel free to Contact Us.<br /><br />After they were kicked out of Google+, the Hacking Group decided to launch its own social media site "<a href="http://anonplus.com/">Anonplus</a>" which has just been hacked by a group calling themselves "AKINCILAR"<br /><br />Anonplus.com got defaced by AKINCILAR with page title "The Seal to Anonymous from AKINCILAR".<br /><br />The message posted on site <br /><br /><blockquote>"We Are TURKIYE. We Are AKINCILAR.<br /><br />This logo suits you more..How dare you rise against to the World..Do you really think that you are Ottoman Empire? We thought you before that you cannot challenge with the world and we teach you cannot be social<br />Now all of you go to your doghouse.."</blockquote>The garbled English and mentions of Turkiye and Akincilar suggest whoever hacked Anonymous' site originates from Turkey, perhaps even the town of Akincilar, which lies in Turkey's Sivas Province. Considering Akincilar has a population of just 4,779, that should narrow the suspects down somewhat—and I'm sure of all people, the Anonymous crew has the means to hunt down whoever wronged them.<br /><br />While the AnonPlus website has been re-directed back to its messageboard, the users seem angry, with someone passing themselves off (legitimately or otherwise) as the creator of AnonPlus writing that:<br /><br /><blockquote>"It seems the hacker group AKINCILAR decided we were offering too much freedom for the average person and needed us stopped. This is the most ignorant thing i have ever seen. I knew having anon anywhere in our social networks name might cause confusion but this recent defacement just shows how OUT OF CONTROL the anon sheep actually are."</blockquote><b>Update:</b> Akincilar is a Turkish town, it is also "a term in [the] Ottoman army which means raiders or something like that. The reason behind their action is actually <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/06/10/anonymous-turkey/">Anonymous' past attack on [the] Turkish government's websites</a>...This "Ottoman raider" guys considered it as an attack on our country and with their most nationalistic feelings they attacked back."

AnonPlus Social Network Hacked by Hackers

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Mac OS X Lion Available Today Via Mac App Store

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqClEp8CtNvhJ62HSlwnXqHTkbeWTOWjoIO48U-sF1-XBjBig91_bFghNWlJNaSvLg7gq9AgfeuHOV9_u1w8VVFdg1PwRlc8O34mI-LhOjDeQqW22D0_e1jf0aFBPUz1h_O86eKv-d3hE/s1600/mac_osx_hero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="mac_osx_hero" border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqClEp8CtNvhJ62HSlwnXqHTkbeWTOWjoIO48U-sF1-XBjBig91_bFghNWlJNaSvLg7gq9AgfeuHOV9_u1w8VVFdg1PwRlc8O34mI-LhOjDeQqW22D0_e1jf0aFBPUz1h_O86eKv-d3hE/s320/mac_osx_hero.jpg" width="296" /></a></div>Apple announced during its <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html">Q3 2011 earnings conference call</a> yesterday that it would begin shipping <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS 10.7</a> (a.k.a. Lion) today via the <b>Mac App Store</b>. True to its word, Lion is available today in Mac App Store for $29.<br /><br />Lion contains over <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/">250 new features</a> including multi-touch gestures, Mission Control, LaunchPad, full-screen apps and a completely redesigned Mail app. Additional new features include:<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Resume,</b> which conveniently brings your apps back exactly how you left them when you restart your Mac or quit and relaunch an app;</li><li><b>Auto Save,</b> which automatically and continuously saves your documents as you work;</li><li><b>Versions,</b> which automatically records the history of your document as you create it, and gives you an easy way to browse, revert and even copy and paste from previous versions; and</li><li><b>AirDrop,</b> which finds nearby Macs and automatically sets up a peer-to-peer wireless connection to make transferring files quick and easy.</li></ul>Lion marks the first time that Apple has distributed a whole number OS upgrade exclusively online. That’s right, Lion isn’t available on optical media, you can only get it from the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12">Mac App Store</a> as a 4GB digital download — at least today.<br /><br />If you don’t have broadband access you can download Lion at Apple retail stores. If you administer a lot of Macs Apple will offer Lion on a USB thumb drive through the Apple Store for $69 (US) in August. The third-generation <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/">MacBook Air</a> and new <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">Mac mini</a> will both ship with Lion pre-installed and on a USB flash drive.<br /><br />If you plan on upgrading to Lion, stop. Take a deep breath and do a little preparation before making the move. If you’re using custom, vertical or other special software to make a living, be sure to check that all of your apps are Lion compatible with their developers. And definitely make a full, bootable backup of your Mac to an external drive and verify that it boots and that all your data is there.<br /><br />Mashable’s <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/07/10/prepare-mac-os-x-lion/">Lion prep guide</a> has some other useful tips for preparing for the big cat, including tips on how to clear off disk space (I’ve been using <a href="http://diskradar.com/">Disk Radar</a>) and how to find PowerPC apps that are no longer compatible with Lion since Apple officially <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/160497/2011/06/lions_nixrosetta.html">dropped support for Rosetta</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://roaringapps.com/">RoaringApps.com</a> is maintaining a list of Lion compatible apps that is extremely helpful for those planning on upgrading. For example, Verizon’s <a href="http://vzam.net/download/supported.aspx">VZAccess Manager software</a> for its USB modems isn’t Lion compatible.

Mac OS X Lion Available Today Via Mac App Store

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Google + App Ready for iPhone Users

<b>Google+ </b>is expanding its mobile reach with today’s debut of an<b> iPhone app</b> dedicated to the new social networking site.<br /><br />Up until now, clever iPhone users could have added a link to their home screens, but that still would have gone straight to the browser window. (Anyone who did this was also likely already a diehard Google+ addict.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhla9P_UbGd_n-f2Kqk85TTp02TTgtqdeEcgLmeeZxfIU4yfVnu4_L1zf3XgH1TbqDq89ccK5_fYaJmby6gnhu00Eeo0InZ2pBo8IRp4TxxsBV4WSvEoQxmXe5dzdX4M0mt2AbYyFYiiGc/s1600/google-plus-iphone-app.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google-plus-iphone-app" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhla9P_UbGd_n-f2Kqk85TTp02TTgtqdeEcgLmeeZxfIU4yfVnu4_L1zf3XgH1TbqDq89ccK5_fYaJmby6gnhu00Eeo0InZ2pBo8IRp4TxxsBV4WSvEoQxmXe5dzdX4M0mt2AbYyFYiiGc/s1600/google-plus-iphone-app.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />But that isn’t the case anymore. Google has released, as expected, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?ls=1&mt=8">a free app that is available immediately</a> for iOS 3.1 and higher. The technical requirements are that this app only works for the following devices:<b> iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4</b>.<br /><br />The mobile interface isn’t much different from the ultra-simple and clean desktop version. The app features focus on Circles for sharing particular items with the “right people,” the Huddle for group messaging, and the Stream, which is basically a news feed from all of a user’s Circles.<br /><br />Naturally, there has already been a dedicated Android app for some time now, <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus">downloadable for free</a> from the Android Market.<br /><br />The Goog’s foray into social networking debuted a few weeks ago, and it is still in invite-only mode. Nevertheless, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company asserted that Google+ already retains <a href="https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts">10 million active users</a>.<br /><br /><b>UPDATE: </b>There are already issues with the Google+ for the iPhone app. Apparently <a href="https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/dESepcDjBZi">iTunes picked up a test version of the app first</a>, which was available to consumers to download for at least one hour and 40 minutes.<br /><br />The correct version is listed as 1.0.1.1809. So if you don’t have that one installed, you’ll have to uninstall the first copy and then download this new copy.

Google + App Ready for iPhone Users

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Skype Promises to Fix Cross Site Scripting Bug

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyNjjtnfPY0EYNjjlcXXtAGBmrJJoiqDSIRVCEylFwYGiXxp7QhAGEDhEA40soKOTo0jlvHmWVg-FtoUyIzTiXUxql03f1vQZYdjn0qnQ6XLwGX99tw5SSd1Wka9JBjQRaVH6nXyOESw/s1600/skype-bug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="skype-bug" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyNjjtnfPY0EYNjjlcXXtAGBmrJJoiqDSIRVCEylFwYGiXxp7QhAGEDhEA40soKOTo0jlvHmWVg-FtoUyIzTiXUxql03f1vQZYdjn0qnQ6XLwGX99tw5SSd1Wka9JBjQRaVH6nXyOESw/s200/skype-bug.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/search/label/Skype">Skype</a> has promised to fix a cross-site scripting flaw that exposes Windows users of VoIP technology to potential attack.<br /><br />The flaw was discovered by independent security researcher Levent Kayan, who warned that a hacker might be able to enter a string of JavaScript code into the "mobile phone" field. This would enable a hacker – provided he or she could trick a victim into adding them as a contact – to either compromise the user's Skype account or to load malware onto the user's PC. Skype said that the bug is not very serious, but nonetheless promised an update by the end of the week.<br /><br />The server-side bug created a possible mechanism for miscreants to redirect Skype users to potentially malicious websites, providing they successfully tricked users into adding them as a contact, as the VoIP outfit explains in an <a href="http://blogs.skype.com/security/2011/07/explaining_the_cross_site_scri.html">update</a> to its official security blog.<br /><br /><blockquote>Skype for Windows is not correctly validating some fields of your contacts' profiles. What this means is if one of your Skype contacts has put some specific strings into their profile, it could result in your Skype Home area being redirected to another web page or a message being displayed.<br /><br />In order for someone to cause these messages to be popped up or to redirect you to a website, they would first have to be one of your accepted Skype contacts. However, this vulnerability should not be there and there is a fix, which we are finalising testing of, that is due to be pushed out early next week.</blockquote>Cross Site Scripting (XSS) flaws, in general, can be used to present content or pop-ups from potentially hostile websites as if the content had originated from other domains. The class of vulnerability is sometimes used as an adjunct to more highly evolved and subtle phishing scams.<br /><br />Skype said the necessary fix will be applied without troubling its users with software updates, indicating the bug can be resolved by an update to backend systems alone.

Skype Promises to Fix Cross Site Scripting Bug

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How LulzSec Exploited on the Security Mistakes of The Sun

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpWJCMOnOLY6LRcfdjvLqp8e90BgCyiXDee26MJPNP7eu3yDGsrVy5HF_TL96ppCa8m3BgHE_JW5TqyByiK_QkJbZAwPnuIZ7X0VRV0ibS1nxCKmvHNi2fpMUyaexM4rrHw0RFy93F3U/s1600/lulzsec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpWJCMOnOLY6LRcfdjvLqp8e90BgCyiXDee26MJPNP7eu3yDGsrVy5HF_TL96ppCa8m3BgHE_JW5TqyByiK_QkJbZAwPnuIZ7X0VRV0ibS1nxCKmvHNi2fpMUyaexM4rrHw0RFy93F3U/s200/lulzsec.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Infamous pranktivist hackers LulzSec exploited basic security mistakes on a News International website to redirect users towards a <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/lulzsec-redirects-homepage-murdoch.html">fake story on the supposed death</a> of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, it has emerged.<br /><br />The bogus <a href="http://twitpic.com/5sa5l5/full">story</a> claimed that Murdoch had died after ingesting a "large quantity of palladium" (a rare metal*) before stumbling into his "famous topiary garden" (an in-joke reference to Topiary, the most famous member of LulzSec).<br /><br />Later the same trick was used to redirect visitors of The Sun's website to LulzSec's Twitter feed.<br /><br />Both hacks relied on exploiting security weaknesses on a site called new-times.co.uk/sun, which had been set up by News International while it was building a paywall for The Times. Hackers used an exploit, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/19/how-lulzsec-hacked-sun-website?intcmp=239">identified</a> by The Guardian as likely to be a "local file inclusion" program, to exploit vulnerabilities in order to gain administrative control of this site. The site, although retired, was still linked to NI's Content Management System.<br /><br />Hackers then used compromised access to the CMS behind The Sun's site to add their own redirection script to the "breaking news" element of the site. The rogue JavaScript was programmed to redirect surfers to locations under the control of hackers once the page reloaded. First it was pointed towards the spoofed story at new-times.co.uk/sun and later towards LulzSec's Twitter feed.<br /><br />The level of compromised access may have allowed LulzSec access to NI's email database, but this remains unclear.<br /><br />LulzSec famously <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/lulzsec-hacking-group-just-announced.html">disbanded last month</a> after 50 days of mayhem that saw it attack numerous targets including <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/fbi-site-hacked-nato-challenged.html">FBI-affiliated security consultancies</a>, UK police agency SOCA, numerous <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/sega-falls-victim-129-million-customer.html">games publishers</a> and <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/playstation-network-hackers-access-data.html">Sony</a>. In an update to its <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/lulzsec">Twitter feed</a> the group said it couldn't resist returning for one last gig. "Thank you for the love tonight. I know we quit, but we couldn't sit by with our wine watching this walnut-faced Murdoch clowning around."<br /><br />The websites of The Sun and The Times were pulled down on Monday following the hack. Both have been restored. The server behind new-times.co.uk has been taken offline, probably permanently.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the very-much-alive Rupert Murdoch is due to face a grilling from Parliament later today, when he will be expected to answer questions on the News of the World voicemail hacking scandal.

How LulzSec Exploited on the Security Mistakes of The Sun

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Lulzsec Redirects Homepage Murdoch-Owned 'The Sun' To @LulzSec Twitter Account

Hackers breached the security of Rupert Murdoch's Sun website and briefly redirected many visitors to a hoax article falsely claiming the tabloid media tycoon had been found dead in his garden.<br /><br />The hack caused many people visiting <a href="http://thesun.co.uk/">thesun.co.uk</a> to instead reach <a href="http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun/">www.new-times.co.uk/sun/</a>, which contained a story headlined "Media moguls [sic] body discovered". The breach came as several other Murdoch-owned sites, including The Times,The Sunday Times, newsinternational.co.uk, and rupertmurdoch.co.uk suffered outages that made them inaccessible. The domain name system servers used to revolve many of those sites weren't responding to queries at time of writing.<br /><br />"Murdoch, aged 80, has said [sic] to have ingested a large quantity of palladium before stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night, passing out in the early hours of the morning,” the bogus article claimed.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJhtklyabVAX6Tf0vgydldrCY2Dl6K_joW943QWLbbKRAXWjVVKVOGjQvSoI5TX4TH5G4pfpjeUN9kY7YKV9nyJaOF9L93_mAPRGje8R6YjrjsM3bbU4s506myAAAi3GCYo_nRSuEMc0/s1600/hack_murdoch_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="hack_murdoch_small" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJhtklyabVAX6Tf0vgydldrCY2Dl6K_joW943QWLbbKRAXWjVVKVOGjQvSoI5TX4TH5G4pfpjeUN9kY7YKV9nyJaOF9L93_mAPRGje8R6YjrjsM3bbU4s506myAAAi3GCYo_nRSuEMc0/s1600/hack_murdoch_small.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Murdoch-Owned 'The Sun' hacked by Lulzsec</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgctjU1yrnm28xmKJeklH5eUO47agr3EvFk8iYtaJmuTZ3ImrT7OgxnJOUo70nZ_jJ4RBTH11nca1uL60cVz_qI7bRqMkFg6rUSMG0Z9MZTNqdgpmmHmMo14bCkFDsYAfVDggki_5hl_rE/s1600/hack_twitter_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="hack_twitter" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgctjU1yrnm28xmKJeklH5eUO47agr3EvFk8iYtaJmuTZ3ImrT7OgxnJOUo70nZ_jJ4RBTH11nca1uL60cVz_qI7bRqMkFg6rUSMG0Z9MZTNqdgpmmHmMo14bCkFDsYAfVDggki_5hl_rE/s1600/hack_twitter_small.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">LulzSec Twitter-page bragging</span></b></div><br />The redirections didn't work consistently, making it possible for many Sun visitors to reach the real site as intended. At time of writing, many attempts to reach the site caused redirects to the <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/LulzSec">Twitter account of LulzSec</a>, the prankster hacker collective that has made sport of attacking sites belonging to Sony, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other high-profile targets. LulzSec took responsibility for the Sun hack as well.<br /><br />“It's not an easy thing to do,” Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of security firm WhiteHat Security, said of the redirection of The Sun's site. “If you can do that, you would classify it as being hacked.” It wasn't clear if the attackers had targeted the site's content management system, upstream provider, or another component.<br /><br />DNS servers ns1.newsint.co.uk and ns0.newsint.co.uk, upon which the Murdoch-owned sites rely, did not respond to pings at time of writing. Trace routes to the servers' underlying IP addresses also failed.

Lulzsec Redirects Homepage Murdoch-Owned 'The Sun' To @LulzSec Twitter Account

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How to Repair the Safe Mode on Windows

<b>Windows’ Safe Mode</b> is a bare-bone version of the operating system that is often used for troubleshooting PC issues. It is available under all versions of Windows and can be started by tapping on the F8 key during startup of the operating system. It is for instance handy to uninstall software in Safe Mode that you cannot uninstall under the regular OS. Another area where<b> </b>Safe Mode<b> </b>shines is the removal of viruses and malware that has infested the OS.<br /><br />Malicious software sometimes disables Safe Mode among other things to prevent an easy recovery of the system. That’s a problem if you do not want to reinstall or restore the operating system, or do not have the means to do that.<br /><br /><b>Windows Safe Mode Fixer </b>is a straightforward application that can be used to repair the Safe Mode, so that it becomes accessible again.<br /><br />The troubleshooting software needs to be run from within the operating system, which may be the program’s biggest downside. If you still have access to Windows you can run the program to repair the Safe Mode. If you do not have access anymore, the program won’t do you any good.<br /><br />A short explanation and three buttons are displayed on startup. The program requires no installation and can be started directly after downloading it from the developer website.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFiTow03clx7483pryYmz6OWAiUrCSEG5sODHqGS8r4X_Vls92LEQUva_JRUaws0_QQGkaS1Kx3RM-IBSJmLrF1x0DerCwxidGeT6tQe68uGGBcHeofGb4WGISsBXVy2ciXIKAvjBjiA/s1600/windows-safe-mode-fixer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="safe-mode-fixer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFiTow03clx7483pryYmz6OWAiUrCSEG5sODHqGS8r4X_Vls92LEQUva_JRUaws0_QQGkaS1Kx3RM-IBSJmLrF1x0DerCwxidGeT6tQe68uGGBcHeofGb4WGISsBXVy2ciXIKAvjBjiA/s1600/windows-safe-mode-fixer.png" /></a></div><br />The tool does not explain what it does to repair the Safe Mode, only that it does repair the troubleshooting mode. A click on the Fix button applies the repairs to the operating system and restarts the system automatically afterwards. It is recommended to safe all work and open windows before you click on that button.<br /><br />The developer recommends to disable all antivirus and firewall solutions prior to pressing it. I personally would not recommend that, and would use it as a last resort if pressing the button without doing so did not fix the broken Safe Mode.<br /><br />You should try to boot into Safe Mode during that restart to find out if the issue was fixed by the program. I recommend to press F8 repeatedly after BIOS until you see the selection menu with Safe Mode as an option.<br /><br />Safe Mode Fixer can be downloaded <a href="http://www.sergiwa.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=26">from the</a> official program website at Sergiwa. The program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://ghacks.net/">Ghacks</a>

How to Repair the Safe Mode on Windows

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Find Friends on Google Plus Using "Find People On Plus"

Am sure you might have tried looking for friends on Googleplus to no avail. Unlike Facebook that has the search feature at the top of the page. Google is yet to implement one for <b>Googleplus users</b> and it's really pissing me off.<br /><br />Its just recently I came across this third party site "<b>Find People on Plus</b>" that enabled me search for people on Google plus. Though am not sure on how long its going to survive when Google adds the features to Google Plus, but its worth giving a shot.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/">Find People On Plus</a></b> is more than a basic people search engine. When you open the site you see a list of the most popular <b>Google Plus users </b>currently indexed. About 1 million users of the confirmed ten million are currently indexed, that’s not bad but not super impressive either.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC3rHkS4s8zNCHjFv0l81AlNop7ze-oSHR8JLOI8S1x9-FWqJW_M_x8NLMhzmrHV_EndFaGhl_u1p7FJ5sgi6csDqmh1btCIBRUxPM3TYuIe2svuxM9MxxPRxbr-8DteP4QvjrpeTT7E/s1600/find-people-on-plus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Googleplus" border="0" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC3rHkS4s8zNCHjFv0l81AlNop7ze-oSHR8JLOI8S1x9-FWqJW_M_x8NLMhzmrHV_EndFaGhl_u1p7FJ5sgi6csDqmh1btCIBRUxPM3TYuIe2svuxM9MxxPRxbr-8DteP4QvjrpeTT7E/s320/find-people-on-plus.png" width="540" /></a></div><br />What I like about the site are the filtering options on the left sidebar of the web page. Here it is possible to filter by parameters like relationship, occupation, following and follower numbers, country, state or even city.<br /><br />Even better, the search can filter those parameters as well. Unlike Google Plus’ original search, it can not only search by name, but also by location, profession or any other data that users add to their accounts.<br /><br />You could enter a city like Lagos, Ahmedabad or Agra and get users from that city, and a few others that list Ahmedabad in their profile.<br /><br />Each name has a plus icon next to it which users can click on to open that user’s profile on Google Plus. There it is then possible to look at the profile and follow that user.<br /><br /><b>Find People On Plus</b> is not the only way to find people on Google’s social networking site. A simpler way would be to search on a search engine like Google. You can use the<b> site:plus.google.com</b> parameter followed by a search term, a location, profession or anything else that you want to find on Google Plus.<br /><br />But I would still prefer a much better way of doing this i.e. Google should integrate this feature into Google+ as quick as possible. I'll also like to hear your opinion on this site and if you've got a better ways to search for friends, please share it.

Find Friends on Google Plus Using "Find People On Plus"

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Mantra 0.6.1 Security Framework: A Browser Based Hacking Toolbox

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYj3_AFAs6_YmJB0m2jypN6Oc2YXvgPOH0uxhbS0CKjWjXhmz5M3YZRUaeorGWycFwEzczd9hmVtKJXzfIy0325btZSCuvfl5hqr8v4H6j7mKjg9YtbIt1ZIGfmoU5UmOHFLCtpov3G4/s1600/Mantra_Security_Framework.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mantra_Security_Framework" border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYj3_AFAs6_YmJB0m2jypN6Oc2YXvgPOH0uxhbS0CKjWjXhmz5M3YZRUaeorGWycFwEzczd9hmVtKJXzfIy0325btZSCuvfl5hqr8v4H6j7mKjg9YtbIt1ZIGfmoU5UmOHFLCtpov3G4/s320/Mantra_Security_Framework.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>Mantra </b>is a collection of <b>free and open source tools</b> integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, <b>penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals </b>etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source software. <br /><br />It's a security framework that can be very helpful in performing all the five phases of attacks including reconnaissance,<b> scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, and covering tracks</b>. Apart from that it also contains a set of tools targeted for web developers and code debuggers which makes it handy for both offensive security and defensive security related tasks. <br /><br /><b>Mantra </b>is design to be lite, flexible, portable and user friendly with a nice graphical user interface. You can carry it in memory cards, flash drives, CD/DVDs, etc. It can be run natively on Linux, Windows and Mac platforms. It can also be installed on to your system within minutes. Mantra is absolutely free of cost and takes no time for you to set up.<br /><br />You can download <b>Mantra 0.6.1</b> here:<br /><br />Windows – <a href="http://getmantra.googlecode.com/files/Mantra%20Security%20Toolkit%20-%20Gandiva.tar.bz2">OWASP Mantra Security Toolkit – Gandiva.exe</a><br />Linux 32-bit – <a href="http://getmantra.googlecode.com/files/OWASP%20Mantra%20Security%20Toolkit%20-%20Gandiva.exe">Mantra Security Toolkit – Gandiva.tar.bz2</a><br /><br />Or read more <a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Mantra_-_Security_Framework">here</a>.

Mantra 0.6.1 Security Framework: A Browser Based Hacking Toolbox

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Google + Cheat Sheet........Check it Out

Am really a big fan of Google+ and for that i've been looking for ways to understand every bit of it. I just discovered some awesome cheats I'll be sharing with you, and for those still clamoring for invite, it's now open to everyone. So lets go straight to G+ and explore some of this tricks.<br /><br />Before we go on, my big thanks goes to <a href="https://plus.google.com/108443027359212340995/posts">Simon Lausten</a> a Google+ users for sharing it. This sheet includes cheats you need to know to use Google+ like a pro. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIrBe_lXlOub35wFGcnVu32xwEQhOHZGMrYYEfJVssAlsrrWfeSShXqTgiVGaMth_RBv_LEzmbZNDjvNUmJg4COPr8mTLpFerqvq_4d1eN-drEWHcnC3WcmU23cQRC_HMwo0_ymm11gSg/s1600/google-plus-cheat-sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="googleplus-sheet" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIrBe_lXlOub35wFGcnVu32xwEQhOHZGMrYYEfJVssAlsrrWfeSShXqTgiVGaMth_RBv_LEzmbZNDjvNUmJg4COPr8mTLpFerqvq_4d1eN-drEWHcnC3WcmU23cQRC_HMwo0_ymm11gSg/s1600/google-plus-cheat-sheet.jpg" /></a></div>Another good thing is that this cheat has <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108443027359212340995/albums/5625655838907702241">translated versions</a> as well for International readers. <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108443027359212340995/albums/5625655838907702241">Check them out</a> and if you've not <a href="https://plus.google.com/107180632164161306024">added me</a> to your circle yet, <a href="https://plus.google.com/107180632164161306024">please do</a>..... <img src="http://emoticons4u.com/happy/045.gif" />

Google + Cheat Sheet........Check it Out

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Window Server 8: Preview by Microsoft

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXmGwHOoxXuHiUqfFvIAMncPVwgCDbPY9ZyqKTu-5fB8JlxRwoFLwDH8kg_kVzfNpuFQDx_QLpg3Tjxq91oSyc5YNXIZ2TVv7PXYx7kp-nTKNSd3ZjPDeLR9Rwzg8HFemPT50WBYONws/s1600/microsoft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="microsoft" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXmGwHOoxXuHiUqfFvIAMncPVwgCDbPY9ZyqKTu-5fB8JlxRwoFLwDH8kg_kVzfNpuFQDx_QLpg3Tjxq91oSyc5YNXIZ2TVv7PXYx7kp-nTKNSd3ZjPDeLR9Rwzg8HFemPT50WBYONws/s200/microsoft.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Microsoft has given a peek into Windows 8 Server, the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2 and companion to the tablet-tastic Windows 8 client.<br /><br />The company is reported Tuesday to have boasted Windows 8 Server will pack more than 100 new features.<br /><br />Speaking at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), however, Microsoft seems to have zeroed in on just one: the new Hyper-V it's positioning as an enabler of cloud computing when used to virtualize server <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>operating systems and applications in your data center.<br /><br />Microsoft's teaser came in the shadow of virtualization giant VMware's vSphere 5 launch in San Francisco, California, on the same day.<br /><br />There, VMware chief executive Paul Maritz – a former Microsoft exec with 14 years at the company – boasted that according to various industry analysts VMware virtual machines are about six months away from running 50 per cent of the world's server workloads.<br /><br />Microsoft is coming from behind in virtualization, and claimed at WPC in Los Angeles, California, that HyperV is the fastest growing virtualization stack.<br /><br />Cutting to the features at WPC, Microsoft unveiled Hyper-V Replica that will let you replicate virtual machines either immediately or according to a schedule. This will, Mary-Jo Foley <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shows-off-early-peek-at-windows-server-8/10002">reports</a>, let you do something like replicate a mission-critical database to an offsite data vendor.<br /><br />Microsoft claimed it will be vendor-agnostic and support different storage, data center and software and service providers. In keeping with Microsoft's goal of getting customers to put more of their data in its cloud by not charging for imports, Microsoft will also give Windows Server 8 users unlimited replication without an additional fee per virtual machine.<br /><br />Hyper-V, meanwhile, will also support more than 16 virtual processors per machine.<br /><br />Microsoft called Windows 8 Server "the next step in private cloud computing".<br /><br />Microsoft backed the cloud play by talking planned software that'll unify management of apps running on virtualized Windows servers and on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud.<br /><br />It announced Systems Center 2012, which will feature an account controller that gives single sign-in to all your apps on different servers, and that provides a tiled view of apps. You will be able to deploy apps using a set of best practices. Systems Center 2012 is due to ship this year.<br /><br />On the apps front, Microsoft dressed an announcement about a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/SQLDCTP3CTA/enus/default.aspx">third test build</a> for the next version of SQL Server, codenamed Denali, with a demo of the ability to suck in data from the Windows Azure Data Market to the new database. It did this while showing off what it called "PowerPoint for data" that lets you customize and re-size data fields and turn them into charts and graphs by simply clicking and tugging at them using your mouse.<br /><br />The <a href="https://datamarket.azure.com/">Data Market</a> is an online data store with pre-built integration for SQL Server, Office and Bing.<br /><br />Microsoft, meanwhile, said that finished applications are now available for sale on the Windows Azure Marketplace - there are 578 offerings. Announced in November, the Marketplace, which includes the data Market, was <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dallas/archive/2010/10/27/announcing-windows-azure-marketplace-datamarket.aspx">originally a place for sharing data</a>.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.theregister.com/">The Register</a>

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.XXX Set to Launch Search Engine Devoted

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Google + Estimated to Attain 10 Million Users

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWc94ZjSBmIrxdG7FM99RXzFk7pdAVValzYsCekE6vCmZhNbRmH5fK3zIpdk-sVHdjJv0GPcGfpt-NRNruZEygALrc26J5Um1m49abK-NeCrBLbsbxkgfAvYKRzG6n_hieuE2eCJekMmE/s1600/google-plus.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="google-plus.png" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWc94ZjSBmIrxdG7FM99RXzFk7pdAVValzYsCekE6vCmZhNbRmH5fK3zIpdk-sVHdjJv0GPcGfpt-NRNruZEygALrc26J5Um1m49abK-NeCrBLbsbxkgfAvYKRzG6n_hieuE2eCJekMmE/s320/google-plus.png" width="261" /></a></div>The new <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/google-project-finally-arrives.html">Google Social Network</a> has been the hot discussion of tech bloggers around the world of which majority are taking side with <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-some-fundamentals-tips-you-need.html">Google+</a> to be the best alternative to Facebook and just now an analyst estimated Google+ to likely reach 10 million users.<br /><br /><b>Note:</b> the figures did not come from Google, but from <a href="http://www.paulallen.net/my-companies/">Paul</a> of Ancestry.com, not Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. He came up with an <a href="https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/bGJPTALDkDe">interesting tactics</a> to calculate the number of Google+ members. Trust me it's fascinating.... just read on.<br /><br /><blockquote>According to Paul.....,  I project that Google will easily pass 10 million users tomorrow and could reach 20 million user by this coming weekend if they keep the Invite Button available. As one G+ user put it, it is easy to underestimate the power of exponential growth.<br /><br />My model is simple. I start with US Census Bureau data about surname popularity in the U.S., and compare it to the number of Google+ users with each surname. I split the U.S. users from the non-U.S. users. By using a sample of 100-200 surnames, I am able to accurately estimate the total percentage of the U.S. population that has signed up for Google+. Then I use that number and a calculated ratio of U.S. to non-U.S. users to generate my worldwide estimates. My ratio is 1 US user for every 2.12 non-U.S. users. That ratio was calculated on July 4th through a laborious effort, and I haven't updated it since. That is definitely a weakness in my model that I hope to address soon. The ratio will likely change over time.<br /><br />Since I have been tracking this same cohort of surnames from my first day, I am able to accurately measure growth over time.<br /><br />I am not claiming perfect accuracy, but I do think the model is sound. A quant has suggested a mathematical formula that I can use to calculate a range of Google users with a 99% level of accuracy, and one of my employees is working on that math now. I hope to include that in future models.<br /><br />Here is one way to look at my model. Imagine the U.S. government in 2020 has no money left. I know that's hard to imagine, but stay with me. Imagine they wanted to conduct a 2020 census and subsequent decennial censuses with a degree of accuracy (let's say 95%) and to do it on a shoestring budget.<br /><br />They had complete data for 2010 - the population and growth rates for every city and town in the country. To do 2020, they could just take a random sampling of 100 cities and towns across the U.S. that were representative and conduct the census JUST for those cities every 10 years. If those 100 cities averaged the same growth rates as the rest of the country, then their decennial censuses would be fairly accurate but very inexpensive. (Obviously the US example won't work and shouldn't be tried, since the purpose of the U.S. census is in part to determine Congressional representation - so a complete census must be done in the entire country.)<br /><br />But my project is like that - a low-budget sampling. I have randomly selected 100 uncommon U.S. surnames and I am tracking the number of Google+ users with those names - updating my counts every 2-3 days. I am assuming that the growth in G+ users with those surnames is similar to the growth in G+ users with the other 150,000 or so surnames in the U.S. If I had resources to include 500 or 1,000 surnames in my sample, then I believe my model would be more accurate. But my time and budget available for this project are small, so it is what it is. And then I take the 2.12 - 1 non-US to US ratio to complete the calculations.</blockquote>Honestly I can't remember any social network site climbing to such height at a very short period of time although we can't rule out the fact that they already have existing products which has solid user base and they will be leveraging from those angle as well.<br /><br />Although there have been no response from Google to confirm this estimates, but if perchance they are true, then its only the creator that know the future of Facebook.

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Vega: An Open Source Platform to Test the Security of Web Application

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt-="" border="0" height="460px" injection="" sql="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjlVC2WIPcwmRIylUt3Vmtfq8JtHEFJusFLzYj79ddgUZJfVxVEJs-xARDkywvOxx5uemnzz-FjIz6UUFgjdbnKwn9ZoWd60Aftc5wxDhhsS1ZJ3eXRGYYdQoEw1H_hng_zK1KlPKfjY/s1600/screenshot_1.png" width="550px" /></div><br /><b>Vega </b>is an open source platform to test the <b>security of</b> <b>web applications</b>. <b>Vega </b>can help you find and validate <b>SQL Injections</b>,<b> Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)</b>, inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities. It is written in <b>Java</b>,<b> GUI based</b>, and runs on <b><a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/search/label/Linux">Linux</a>, OS X, </b>and <b><a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/search/label/Windows">Windows</a></b>.<br /><br />It includes an automated scanner for quick tests and an intercepting proxy for tactical inspection. Vega can be extended using a powerful API in the language of the web: <b>Javascript</b>.<br /><br />Vega was developed by <b>Subgraph </b>in Montreal. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Core Features:</b></span><br /><ul><li>Website Crawler</li><li>Content Analysis</li><li>Intercepting Proxy</li><li>SSL MITM</li><li>Automated Crawler and Vulnerability Scanner</li><li>Consistent UI</li><li>Extensibility through a Powerful Javascript Module API</li><li>Customizable alerts</li><li>Database and Shared Data Model</li></ul><b><span style="font-size: large;">Modules Available:</span></b><br /><ul><li>Cross Site Scripting (XSS)</li><li>SQL Injection</li><li>Directory Traversal</li><li>URL Injection</li><li>Error Detection</li><li>File Uploads</li><li>Sensitive Data Discovery</li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Download Vega</b></span><br /><br />Links for binary packages built for various platforms are listed below: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/Vega.dmg">Mac OS X 32-bit Intel</a><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/Vega64.dmg">Mac OS X 64-bit Intel </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/VegaBuild-linux.gtk.x86.zip">Linux GTK 32-bit Intel </a><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/VegaBuild-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip">Linux GTK 64-bit Intel</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/VegaSetup32.exe">Microsoft Windows 32-bit Intel</a><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/downloads/VegaSetup64.exe">Microsoft Windows 64-bit Intel</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.subgraph.com/products.html">Read More</a> About <b>Vega</b>

Vega: An Open Source Platform to Test the Security of Web Application

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3 Best Social Network Sites Manager

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHK1KQaupY3l_xcJYV3TDhPPWlbO2_69A1HamF9klYSuHVQOHu5fYYXGJ1vUmOMdOoXzfVMLFEulGWh_YfQqH6ZOXDe9H_dUV267cBjPay549e_AI-ASDe1r87omAQk_0wOegAwD1Ga3o/s1600/social-media22.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628090264230678722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHK1KQaupY3l_xcJYV3TDhPPWlbO2_69A1HamF9klYSuHVQOHu5fYYXGJ1vUmOMdOoXzfVMLFEulGWh_YfQqH6ZOXDe9H_dUV267cBjPay549e_AI-ASDe1r87omAQk_0wOegAwD1Ga3o/s320/social-media22.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 294px;" /></a>Not until yesterday, I discovered few of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">social network sites </span>were half dead.... I know you might be surprised by what i said "half dead". I have received some friend request and few people have sent me messages which i have not replied for long. It was really annoying because i almost lost some vital stuff if i had not checked it yesterday.<br /><br />So i had to search for an <span style="font-weight: bold;">effective </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">manager</span> that i can use to access all my <span style="font-weight: bold;">social network sites </span>all at once, instead of signing into their individual accounts. Fortunately there were so many of them, i then decided to try 5 known ones and i came to conclusion that three out of the five were perfect at least for me and i'll be sharing them here with you so you wont have the hassle of searching for them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: </span>This list are randomly selected, so you can choose the last if you feel like.<br /><br /><a href="http://seesmic.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Seesmic</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/BlackBerry/iOS/Web, Free)</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8EbUMrGp501Pya5F2ItmvrXewBX402CxkHj8XliEUZ3Ock84THuPbLezbtBIzfv4bGyJtD9GYN0FhsU0Wa50xMipViGenuJ1dyeGJLI3zerk8aQ-tjofvbTODcea5pAzIFFZulbR2Ik/s1600/seesmic-logo.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628090265614810386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8EbUMrGp501Pya5F2ItmvrXewBX402CxkHj8XliEUZ3Ock84THuPbLezbtBIzfv4bGyJtD9GYN0FhsU0Wa50xMipViGenuJ1dyeGJLI3zerk8aQ-tjofvbTODcea5pAzIFFZulbR2Ik/s320/seesmic-logo.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 135px;" /></a><br />Seesmic started life as a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> social video aggregator</span> and transformed into a social media management powerhouse. Available for nearly every operating system and mobile device under the sun, Seesmic makes it easy to keep tabs on your favorite services. All the versions of Seesmic support a core of social networking sites like<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn</span>, but the desktop versions really shine with support for plugins that expand the support to over 50 services. Check out the <a href="http://marketplace.seesmic.com/">plugin marketplace</a> to see all the different add-on services.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.digsby.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Digsby</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpzJzg808qwgAwCy88W4rlKRaqMmcseYR6SVgHie0kMxFd06dm-suFJKpQzXONDpMvchKwKdudETA1b4NjZjfWubSDjPLTOub-K7zgiqlzQrIOn-GNMp_R565dUASziZHPDCLQEoAt1w/s1600/DigsbyLogo.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628090266411376146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpzJzg808qwgAwCy88W4rlKRaqMmcseYR6SVgHie0kMxFd06dm-suFJKpQzXONDpMvchKwKdudETA1b4NjZjfWubSDjPLTOub-K7zgiqlzQrIOn-GNMp_R565dUASziZHPDCLQEoAt1w/s320/DigsbyLogo.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 157px;" /></a><br />Originally a <span style="font-weight: bold;">multi-protocol chat client</span>, Digsby has expanded to include additional features such as email and social network support. You can now check status updates and send your own status updates on popular social networks like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn</span>. The InfoBox gives you updates on your friends as well as access to any invitations or announcements they send out. It's not quite the expansive dashboard provided by some of the other options in this week's Hive Five but it's more than powerful enough for many readers and it helps wrap up instant messaging, email, and social networking in one application.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">TweetDeck</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS/Chrome, Free)</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbj4wK1mloSHCJo35E9T2Mw-zKNebYSd1Q_0AkvK4OT3ahYei6PNRGVI4Ucubifbhr4PGXD0MTYOV8D_FpGplcWA35k5-RukgAcQkonBFMrwMQz7ZcWPWW8A74orcqh-NfkXGaRa2RnVE/s1600/tweetdeck-logo.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628090273290943794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbj4wK1mloSHCJo35E9T2Mw-zKNebYSd1Q_0AkvK4OT3ahYei6PNRGVI4Ucubifbhr4PGXD0MTYOV8D_FpGplcWA35k5-RukgAcQkonBFMrwMQz7ZcWPWW8A74orcqh-NfkXGaRa2RnVE/s320/tweetdeck-logo.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 124px;" /></a><br />TweetDeck is another<span style="font-weight: bold;"> social media application </span>that makes good use of a multi-column layout. You can easily customize TweetDeck to display just what you want to see including wall updates, Twitter mentions, and more. If you sign up for a free TweetDeck account you can also synchronize your settings and layout across computers. TweetDeck supports <span style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google Buzz, and more</span>. In addition to easy cross-network updates and monitoring, TweetDeck also supports schedules updates.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Do you have your own list? share with us through the comment box below.</span>

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Anonymous Releases Highly Classified Goverment Documents

In the days following the <a href="http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/06/lulzsec-hacking-group-just-announced.html">dispersal of LulzSec</a>, Operation Anti-Security continues on with the rogue hacker group Anonymous <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Anon_Central/status/89383541439340544">releasing a considerable amount of information</a> from IRC Federal, a government contractor with FBI, Army, and DOJ partnerships, to name a few. To quote Anonymous’s release notes:<br /><br /><blockquote>Today we release the ownage of another government-contracted IT company, IRC Federal. They brag about their multi-million dollar partnership with the FBI, Army, Navy, NASA, and the Department of Justice, selling out their “skills” to the US empire. So we laid nuclear waste to their systems, owning their pathetic windows box, dropping their databases and private emails, and defaced their professional looking website.<br /><br />In their emails we found various contracts, development schematics, and internal documents for various government institutions including a proposal for the FBI to develop a “Special Identities Modernization (SIM) Project” to “reduce terrorist and criminal activity by protecting all records associated with trusted individuals and revealing the identities of those individuals who may pose serious risk to the United States and its allies”. We also found fingerprinting contracts for the DOJ, biometrics development for the military, and strategy contracts for the “National Nuclear Security Administration Nuclear Weapons Complex”.<br /><br />Additionally we found login info to various VPNs and several Department of Energy login access panels that we are dumping *live* complete with some URLs to live ASP file browser and upload backdoors - let’s see how long it takes for them to remove it (don’t worry we’ll keep putting it back up until they pull the box.</blockquote>This is an embarrassing situation for a company dealing with such sensitive information and yet another lesson learned through exploitation that security needs to be much more than what it currently is for many such high-profile/significant sites.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxXObJAdqHyhVqro0RzroQuVyz2eOhV0h1i8EIUiD9O-NEl1K3tnW1ojy2Lh1AlDcvjea6QYJUgYhkUEtE4n-TSofusZv04mwTtftbMl5xMawUKKAfC37VenX6GwWJ0r0TNZnLe0yRuM/s1600/antisec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="anonymous" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxXObJAdqHyhVqro0RzroQuVyz2eOhV0h1i8EIUiD9O-NEl1K3tnW1ojy2Lh1AlDcvjea6QYJUgYhkUEtE4n-TSofusZv04mwTtftbMl5xMawUKKAfC37VenX6GwWJ0r0TNZnLe0yRuM/s200/antisec.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>And though the information leaked sounds important at first-glance, the coming days will reveal whether or not this is just another forgetful “hacktivist” release that merely reiterates the flaws of current security measures, or if something significant will come of it all.<br /><br />Rest assured that either way, the continued hammering of governments and government contractors is sure to yield significant changes in approaches to security. But that’s only in the short term. The larger concern of many is how these actions might provoke new legislation that seeks to prohibit certain facets of Internet access/usage. Never mind if these “hacktivists” manage to get a hold of something truly significant that gives some sort of disastrous advantage/insight to feared terrorist/criminal/anti-government organizations.<br /><br /><b>Source: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/">Zdnet</a></b>

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