Archive for August 3rd, 2007


Aug 3

Black Hat 2007: Joanna Rutkowska Detail Exploit And Attack For Microsoft Windows Vista

Once again security researcher Joanna Rutkowska took the stage at Black Hat, and once again she set out to prove in glorious detail how to exploit and attack Microsoft Windows Vista. Rutkowska blew the lid off last year's Black Hat event with her landmark presentation ahead of the official Vista release where she demonstrated a virtualized
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Aug 3

Include Me In That (html) Plugin

This is a embedded file plugin that will include any file into the body of any Wordpress Post or Page. Be careful what you place into any included file as its content will be transferred directly into the html of your Wordpress Blog Site. Installation & usage Download the plugin, and extract to a local folder. Upload extracted
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Aug 3

Black Hat 2007: Don’t overlook other antiforensic malware techniques

Rootkits may be getting most of the attention within the security community. But it's important not to overlook other, equally effective antiforensic techniques that malware writers have at their disposal for hiding their code from detection, according to a security researcher at the Black Hat 2007 conference. Nick Harbour, a senior consultant at Alexandria, Va.-based security vendor
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Aug 3

Those Were The Days / Featured Posts Widget

This is a featured posts plugin that provides configurable links to posts that you want to highlight on your blog. The output from the plugin can be displayed as a widget in the sidebar of your Wordpress 2.2+ blog. Features: Configure the number of posts to be displayed and the method of selecting the posts (alphabetically, newest, oldest
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Aug 3

Google Search Results “Sticky Query Box”

Mike Grehan noticed an interesting option at the bottom of a search results page: "Know a better page for [your query]? Suggest one!". After you add a page, it will appear at the top of search results for that query. Obviously, only for you. "Yes, you get to input the
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Aug 3

Get To Know If Your Xbox 360 Will Survive?

GAMER.BLORGE has instructions on how you can tell if your Xbox 360 has the new heatsink that should allow it to last a lot longer than the heatsink-less 360, which has been known to melt under extreme conditions. Or non-extreme conditions. Or in Alaska. Anyway, the instructions are to
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Aug 3

JAlbum for Windows 7.2.1

JAlbum makes web albums of your digital images. No extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, the albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM. JAlbum has the following other editions available: JAlbum for
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Aug 3

Mask your images with unobtrusive JavaScript “Edge.js”

Christian Effenberger is back with some more Canvas goodness, this time Edge.js 1.1, which allows you to add individual masks (inc. inbuilt mask) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari
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Aug 3

Movable Type 4.0 RC2

Movable Type is the platform that invented professional-grade blogging, powering the biggest and most successful blogs for pro bloggers, publishers, organizations, enterprises and businesses of any size. As blogging continues to evolve, Movable Type leads the way with reliable service, outstanding performance and continuous innovation. Website | Download Movable Type, Blog, Blogging, Blogger, Blogging
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Aug 3

Black Hat 2007: Browser DNS Handling Can Exploit Resources Behind Corporate Firewall

A 10-year-old security problem has come back to haunt corporate IT, a security researcher told an audience at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas Wednesday. Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IO Active Inc., showed how problems in the way browser software works with the Internet's domain name system could be exploited to give attackers
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Aug 3

Microsoft drops Windows Vista price by $66 in China

As reported couple of days ago, Microsoft has now officially dramatically cut the price of Windows Vista in China in a bid to boost sales of its new operating system. Microsoft cut the retail price of Windows Vista Home Basic in China to 499 renminbi ($65.80), from 1,521 renminbi -- a 67 percent reduction. The Home Premium
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Aug 3

Wikisearch Plugin

Wikisearch is a modest plugin that allows you to quickly link any word to wikipedia without having to look for the page url.
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Aug 3

Fadtastic Theme

Fadtastic is a 3-column, SEO-optimal theme designed for fluid width flexibility.
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Aug 3

Windows Vista Shutdown

The shutdown process is one of the aspects of the Windows operating system that evolved from XP to Vista. In this context, Microsoft emphasized even before the consumer launch of Vista that the power management sub-system of the operating system had been extensively overhauled. The immediate results are faster
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Aug 3

Nvidia acknowledges GeForce 8800 slowdown

We reported a couple of weeks ago about a problem with seemingly random drops in performance from GeForce 8800 cards, especially the 320MB version of the GeForce 8800 GTS. At that time, Nvidia acknowledged the problem and said it expected to have a fix some time in July. The month ended without a fix, but Nvidia
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