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RetiredTripleHelixGold VIP

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Heart of Blue Gold – Announcing New Bounty Programs

Today is an inflection point for Microsoft, as well as the security industry. For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange for reporting certain types of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques. We are making this shift in order to learn about these issues earlier and to increase the win-win between Microsoft’s customers and the security researcher community. Full details for the new bounty programs and a fantastic technical deep-dive by our esteemed panel of judges (headed by Matt Miller and David Ross) can be found on SRD's blog. In short, we are offering cash payouts for the following programs: •Mitigation Bypass Bounty – Microsoft will pay up to $100,000 USD for truly novel exploitation techniques against protections built into the latest version of our operating system (Windows 8.1 Preview). Learning about new exploitation techniques earlier helps Microsoft improve security by leaps, instead of one vulnerability at a time. This is an ongoing

10 years ago

CatRetired Webrooter

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Yes, we saw the John McAfee video

No, we're not posting the YouTube link or video here - and we ask that you refrain from posting it as well.   Sorry, folks.   That one video, while amusing, breaks just about everything in the Community Guidelines.   In the meantime, if you truly just want to know how to uninstall McAfee, you can find that [url=https://community.webroot.com/t5/Techie/Software-Removal-Tools/m-p/27608#M455]here[/url]. :)   

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Huawei Ascend P6: Meet Huawei's new, super-skinny smartphone

Earlier this year, Huawei impressed us with its super-skinny [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/huawei-ascend-p2/4505-6452_7-35619073.html]Ascend P2[/url], but now the up-and-coming Chinese firm is looking to wow us a second time with the Ascend P6, a similar Android smartphone with a few hardware tweaks.   Huawei is fond of crafting creepily thin phones, and the P6 is no exception, measuring a slender 6.18 millimeters (0.24-inch) thick. The aluminium edges are very reminiscent of the iPhone, but the bottom of the phone is rounded, giving the P6 a tiny bit of original flair.   Like the P2, the P6 sports a 4.7-inch 720p display, and plays host to a quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. There's an 8-megapixel camera glued to its rump, while unusually, the front-facing snapper is a 5-megapixel affair, making the P6 ideal for Skype calls or carefully-posed sexy selfies.   Inside you'll find a 1.5GHz quad-core chip powering the P6, backed up by a hearty 2GB of RAM. The

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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HTC finally shows off 3.5-inch Desire 200

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4192iF19A0190F0341666.png[/img]   HTC has unveiled the long-rumored Desire 200. [url=http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-desire-200/#overview]The device[/url], which is designed for customers on a budget, comes with a 3.5-inch display and runs on 3G networks. The inside is similarly budget-friendly, boasting a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor and 4GB of onboard memory. The device has just 512MB of memory. [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57585707-251/early-details-emerge-for-what-could-be-new-htc-desire-models/]Rumors had been swirling for some time[/url] that HTC would launch an update to its Desire line. As expected, the device features rounded corners, a simple black finish, and Beats audio. Users can also monitor their data usage on the device. HTC has yet to announce pricing and details on the Desire 200.   Source: [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57589781-94/htc-finally-shows-off-3.5-

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Fast fiber: Apps coming at 70 percent the speed of light

In the movie "Iron Man 3," the titular hero struggles in what appears to be a rinky-dink backwater town to find an Internet connection fast enough and big enough to crunch data to find the terrorist villain. The town looks to be Nowhere, U.S.A., but we're told, it is actually Chattanooga, Tenn. Known to some as "[url=http://www.thegigcity.com/]Gig City[/url]," the real Chattanooga would have posed less of a problem for Tony Stark's heroic data-analyzing needs. The modest city of half a million has more than 150,000 homes wired for affordable [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet]Gigabit Ethernet[/url].   But the coming world of extremely fast Internet connections is driving more than summer movie plot points. Widespread Gigabit Ethernet of the kind that [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57589353-93/is-cable-holding-back-superfast-broadband-adoption-on-purpose/]Google Fiber, Verizon FiOS, and others companies are investing in[/url], and is in varying stages of imp

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Yahoo reportedly eyeing two more acquisitions

Yahoo may be looking to continue its spending spree with the acquisitions of a couple of app makers. Yahoo has [url=http://allthingsd.com/20130617/yahoo-offer-to-buy-contact-startup-xobni-is-at-a-price-of-30m-to-40m/]reportedly offered to pay $30 million to $40 million to buy Xobni[/url], AllThingsD reported Monday, citing "numerous sources" close to the company. [url=https://www.xobni.com/]Xobni[/url], which is "inbox" spelled backwards, offers desktop and mobile apps that can automatically create an address book based on your e-mails. As such, Yahoo may be eyeing the Xobni as a natural fit for its own online mail service.   And there's a common thread between the two companies, AllThingsD noted. Xobni's CEO Jeff Bonforte was previously the vice president of social search and real-time communications at Yahoo.   [b]Read [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57589787-93/yahoo-reportedly-eyeing-two-more-acquisitions/]here[/url][/b].

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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BlackBerry Z10 incurs 'critical' security warning

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4188iA334D1B3E14655CB.jpg[/img] The BlackBerry Z10 in white.   BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone -- the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company's bid for revival, back in February. The advisory, which was [url=http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/viewdocument.do;jsessionid=6B7F13C785207134705EC044CF85A874?externalId=KB34458&sliceId=1&cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&noCount=true&ViewedDocsListHelper=com.kanisa.apps.common.BaseViewedDocsListHelperImpl]issued last week[/url], notes a bug that relates to BlackBerry Protect, its security and backup utility, rather than the phone's operating system itself.   According to the advisory, an escalation of privilege vulnerability exists in the software of some Z10 phones that could allow a malicious app to "take advantage" of weak permissions in the

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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AMD to launch its first ARM chip

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4186iDDEA79DAE5A9AC73.jpg[/img]   Advanced Micro Devices is dipping into the ARM world.   The chipmaker announced Tuesday that it [url=http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unveils-2013june18.aspx]plans to develop its first ARM chip[/url] starting next year. Codenamed "Seattle," the chip is being touted by AMD as the industry's first 64-bit ARM processor from a major chipmaker. AMD said that the chip will offer [url=http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/2100seriesplatform/Pages/x2150seriesprocessors.aspx]two to four times the performance of its Opteron X-Series processor[/url] with improved compute per watt. Based on the [url=http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a50/cortex-a57-processor.php]ARM Cortex-A57 processor[/url], Seattle is expected to run at speeds of 2 gigahertz or higher and will support up to 128GB of DRAM.   Aimed at the server market, Seattle will be the first pro

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Is cable holding back superfast broadband adoption on purpose?

The cable industry insists that it's ready and able to compete with Google Fiber when it comes to delivering ultra high-speed broadband. Indeed, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts last week showed off a 3Gbps cable broadband connection at the industry's annual trade show in Washington, D.C. That's three times faster than Google Fiber, which itself is nearly 150 times faster than the current average broadband connection in the U.S. Armed with that capability, he confidently welcomed Google's challenge to deliver ultra high-speed broadband to consumers.   "I hope there's a demand for (Google Fiber)," he said during a keynote session at the Cable Show. "The more customers crave speed, the more the kids in the garage and the geniuses around the world can invent applications that require speed. That's the best thing that can happen to our industry. We have to embrace that competition."   But Roberts' words and one demo don't match up with the actions of his industry. The cable providers ha

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Chinese supercomputer tops the charts -- two years early

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4140i2EB1CB29391BBBA0.png[/img] The performance of the systems on the Top500 list continues to improve exponentially. (Note that it's a logarithmic scale on the vertical axis, with each line marking a tenfold improvement.) The three series of dots here represent the total performance of the top 500 systems at the top, the performance of the No. 1 system in the middle, and the performance of the 500th system at the bottom.     Performing more than 33 quadrillion calculations per second, a new Chinese supercomputer called Tianhe-2 arrived two years earlier than expected to claim the top spot in a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The [url=http://top500.org/]Top500 list[/url], updated twice a year at the [url=http://www.isc-events.com/isc13/]International Supercomputing Conference[/url], measures performance for mammoth systems typically used for jobs like modeling nuclear weapons explosion

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Google plans to wipe child porn from the Web

Photos and videos of child pornography on the Web have multiplied at an alarming rate over the past few years. In 2011, the [url=http://www.missingkids.com/CVIP]National Center for Missing and Exploited Children[/url] said it received 17.3 million images and videos of suspected child abuse, which is four times more than 2007.   Google has announced that it wants to help curb this proliferation of child pornography. In fact, the Web giant plans to take it even a step further -- it wants to completely eradicate child porn from the Internet. "Behind these images are real, vulnerable kids who are sexually victimized and victimized further through the distribution of their images," Google Giving director Jacquelline Fuller wrote in a [url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/our-continued-commitment-to-combating.html]blog post[/url]on Saturday. "It is critical that we take action as a community -- as concerned parents, guardians, teachers and companies -- to help combat this problem.

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Purdue students charged with switching prof's keyboard to improve grades

Who understands the importance of performance better than an engineer?   Yet the pressures that come with performing to perfect levels can cause some engineers to cut corners, even obfuscate.   How tragic, then, that three apparently bright (or not quite so bright) young things studying engineering at Purdue University have been charged with using their skills to artificially jack up their grades.   I am not sure how sophisticated this alleged scheme was.   It all began to allegedly unravel at the end of 2012 when an engineering professor was suddenly struck by suspicion that the password on his computer kept changing. He knew he hadn't changed it.   So, [url=http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013306130019&nclick_check=1]as the Indiana Journal and Courier reports[/url], the university's IT security team went into action. It discovered that the professor's computer had been accessed to allegedly make students seem a touch more clever than the

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Linksys PLEK500 Powerline AV2 Gigabit Network Adapter Kit review

With the Linksys PLEK500 Powerline Adapter Kit, the speed of home powerline networking has been turned up a significant notch. This is the first adapter kit that supports the latest HomePlug AV2 standard. This standard, in theory, offers the speed cap of up to 1.5Gbps. The kit, however, doesn't quite support the top speed of the standard; rather, just 500Mbps at most, which is the speed at which certain HomePlug AV-based devices are capable. Nonetheless, in my testing, it has indeed offered the fastest sustained real-world speed among all powerline adapters I've seen. Whether this performance is going to be just the new normal for powerline adapters, we'll have to wait and see when more HomePlug AV2-based adapters become available. In the meantime, the Linksys PLEK500 is the fastest powerline adapter kit you can get, enough to justify its relatively high price of $120. For more choices, check out the alternatives on this list. [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/at

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Star Trek in your sitting room! Ultimate home office... which will set you back £30,000

Is this the office of the future?  It may look like a prop from the latest Star Trek movie but they it is in fact a state-of-the-art home-office work station.   [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4132i4721E9A71A9650F4.jpg[/img] Office of the future: Right now this home office from MWE Labs will set you back £30,000 but Microsoft has already started using them so one day our offices may be full of them     But it doesn't come cheap and at £30,000 costs more than the average brand new BMW.   The home office's manufacturer claims the Emperor 200 is the most advanced home office and comes equipped with a touchscreen control centre, three 27-in LED screens and air-filtering system to control heat.   The office comes equipped with a touchscreen for the left-hand, mouse pad for the right and three adjustable screens to easily reach eye-level.   IDesigners, MWE Lab, based in Canada, describe it as the 'ultimate computer worksta

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Yahoo FOUGHT against NSA's PRISM but lost and was forced by secret court to join

Yahoo's top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data, it was revealed today. Court documents obtained by the [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ruling-put-tech-companies-in-data-bind.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0]New York Times[/url]show that the Internet company had initially refused to join the PRISM spying program, insisting that the broad national security requests seeking users' personal information were unconstitutional. However, the secret court operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) sided with the NSA and forced Yahoo's hand.   Read [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342200/Revealed-Yahoo-FOUGHT-NSAs-warrantless-spying-program-lost-forced-secret-court-join-PRISM.html]here[/url].

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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How to tighten up Win FW?

Hi, I'm on Win7. How do I tighten up my firewall to enhance security?   Best Wishes, Amit

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Win7 Standard user account?!

Hi,   I'm looking into Standard User Account in Win7. What are the pros and cons of using the standard user account instead of an administrator account for daily use, both security wise & comfort wise? Will apps like WSA and browser update in a standard user account as the account restricts to what the user can do?   Best Wishes, Amit

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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CNET Reviews: Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

We've still got about five months before the new [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/microsoft-xbox-one/]Xbox One[/url] and [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/ps4/]PlayStation 4[/url] launch in North America, and already blood has been spilled. From Microsoft gathering an arguably more impressive stable of exclusive games, to Sony revealing the lack of restrictions on PS4 games and a $100 lower price -- effectively, not only kicking the Microsoft brand when its down, but also knocking out a few teeth. This next console launch may be one of the most exciting and brutal yet, and I can't wait to comfortably watch from the sidelines, praising Thor I'm not in either of their shoes.   [b]Hardware[/b] The [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/microsoft-xbox-one/]Xbox One[/url] and PlayStation 4 house very similar silicon inside their respective bodies, with a few key differences. According to an [url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one]exhaustive analysis[/url] by Digital F

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4124i909B8AEDBF7D58FF.jpg[/img] Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot, in this file photo.   Facebook and Microsoft today became the first Internet companies to disclose the total number of legal orders they receive for user data, including ones from the National Security Agency and from state, local, and federal police performing criminal investigations. The total for Facebook: About 18,000 accounts over a six month period, or one-thousandth of one percent of user accounts. Microsoft's total was about 31,000 accounts over the same six month period ending December 31, 2012. A Google spokesman told CNET this evening that the search company is working on disclosing the same type of statistics, and plans to be more detailed than Microsoft and Facebook. Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, [url=https://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-Including-All-Nationa

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Insignificant bug keeps encrypted disks unlocked after ejecting in OS X

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4118iC5DD502E892E54F8.png[/img] Apple's CoreStorage disk encryption technology [url=https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4937813]has a small bug[/url] that will keep a disk unlocked, even after it has been unmounted from the system. In OS X Lion, Apple introduced a drive management technology called CoreStorage. When enabled, CoreStorage will create a "logical volume group" out of one or more physical drive partitions, and then create usable "logical volumes" from this group to serve as storage for your system. This setup allows the logical volume to span multiple physical partitions (as is seen with Apple's Fusion Drive), and support features like encryption for Apple's FileVault 2.   According to the [url=http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/diskutil.8]manual page for the OS X disk management command "diskutil"[/url] (the Terminal approach to disk management), when an

10 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Meet Google's 'Project Loon:' Balloon-powered 'net access

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4116iCB09BBE369A2BA02.png[/img] Project Loon's network of balloon communicate with special ground stations.   Google has officially announced "[url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/introducing-project-loon.html]Project Loon[/url]," its plan to connect the entire world to the Internet that uses a decidedly 19th century technology: Balloons. According to a post on the official company blog: [quote]We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It's very early days, but we've built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, to beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today's 3G networks or faster.[/quote]Google says it hopes the floating network could be used to connect remote, rural and underserved areas, something I

10 years ago

tsrPopular Voice

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Creating an iPad experience -- on four wheels

The largest, most expensive mobile device in most people's lives is not a smartphone or a tablet. It's their car. As microprocessors, GPS, and wireless have invaded the automobile, carmakers have begun to obsess about apps and interfaces that make such gadgetry work. Here's a closer look at the design process.   [img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130611112132-aut01-620xa.jpg[/img]

10 years ago

tsrPopular Voice

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Microsoft Office comes to the iPhone

) -- Microsoft Office, the suite of productivity tools used by millions, has finally come to the iPhone. The move is a significant one for Microsoft and its users. Before, the popular set of tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, was available only on Windows phones, which have captured a sliver of the smartphone market. The feature is available free in Apple's App Store for subscribers to Office 365, the cloud-based version of Office's business-like tools for home users. Subscribers pay a monthly fee. [url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/office-mobile-for-office-365/id541164041?mt=8]Office for iPhone[/url] is intended for people who need to edit PowerPoints or Excel spreadsheets on the go, not create them from their phones. The company said users can work with documents on their phones, and the updates will be transferred to those documents on PC versions. They'll also be able to share documents from their phones. "When we launched Office 365 earlier this year, we commi

10 years ago

MikeRRetired Webrooter

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The Reason Microsoft's Always-Online is the Future of Gaming

Microsoft is placing the Xbox One beyond the reach of people without a stable and reliable internet connection. The reason for the move to always-online is to take console gaming to the next level. This will create a new world of hybrid multiplayer development and games that would not be possible on an unconnected console.   The perfect example of this new frontier of multiplayer gaming is Bungie's online first-person shooter (FPS), [b][url=http://www.techhive.com/article/2028589/destiny-bungies-next-big-thing.html]Destiny[/url][/b]. The multiplayer advancements will incorporate many of the appealing aspects from Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) into a console.    [b][url=http://www.techhive.com/article/2041667/why-always-online-consoles-are-good-for-gamers.html#tk.twt_techive]Full Article[/url][/b] [b] [/b] [b][img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4080i8679703619E98396.jpg[/img](Source: Techhive) [/b]

10 years ago

tsrPopular Voice

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After the Cloud, What Next?

I found this to be a interesting read as to what is in the future after cloud technology. This should wet the pallet for our savy tech's here. Here is the URL for your reading:[url=http://resource.onlinetech.com/after-the-cloud-what-next-mobile-technology-in-data-centers/]http://resource.onlinetech.com/after-the-cloud-what-next-mobile-technology-in-data-centers/[/url]

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